Teacher's Pet
- Episode aired Mar 24, 1997
- TV-PG
- 43m
Buffy's biology teacher is killed by a giant praying mantis that assumes the form of a beautiful substitute teacher.Buffy's biology teacher is killed by a giant praying mantis that assumes the form of a beautiful substitute teacher.Buffy's biology teacher is killed by a giant praying mantis that assumes the form of a beautiful substitute teacher.
- Rupert Giles
- (as Anthony Stewart Head)
- Blayne Moll
- (as Jackson Price)
- Band Member
- (uncredited)
- Band Member
- (uncredited)
- Band Member
- (uncredited)
- Vampire #1
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIt is revealed that Xander's middle name is LaVelle (which he apparently hates, as he told Miss French to "guard that secret with your life").
- GoofsBuffy finds the science teachers glasses on the floor, and she puts them on the table. In one shot she places them with the legs folded out right side up, and then in the close-up, the legs are folded in. In the next shot, the glasses are upside down on the table.
- Quotes
Rupert Giles: Dr. Ferris Carlyle spent years transcribing a lost, Pre-Germanic language. What he discovered he kept to himself until several teenage boys were murdered in the Cotswolds. Then he went hunting for it.
Buffy Summers: It being...
Rupert Giles: Uh, he calls her a She-Mantis. This type of creature, the kleptes-virgo, or-or-or virgin-thief, appears in-in many cultures... the Greek sirens, the Celtic sea-maidens, who-who tore the living flesh from the bones of, um...
Buffy Summers: Giles, while we're young.
- Crazy creditsMisspelling: "Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is the aurthor of this motion picture for purposes of copyright and other laws."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift (2001)
- SoundtracksAlready Met You
Performed by Superfine
At first, the far-fetched tale seemed to leave an obvious concern about the villain unaddressed, but in a twist, the baddie's subterfuge was actually reasonably planned out. A credit to the writing there, certainly the full cast sell this weird idea while viewing. Granted our monster looks like the creature walked off of a 1950's B-movie set, but with adequate directing and low lighting, reasonably compensated for the budget costume. I actually found the human substitute teacher more terrifying with deception.
- Aegelis
- Feb 16, 2024