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Episode: 01x03
Title: The Witch
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 4V03
First Aired: Mar. 17, 1997

Season 1 » Episode #03 - The Witch

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 01x03 The Witch

Summary: Buffy, wanting a normal high school experience, decides to try out for the Sunnydale High cheerleading squad. However, when her fellow competitors are being mysteriously eliminated one by one in freak accidents, Buffy soon discovers that this is the doing of another girl who desperately wants to make the squad and isn't willing to let anything or anyone stand in her way.

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01x03 The Witch (45:02) (Full Episode)

Cheerleader Versus Witch (03:36)

Cheerleader Fight (04:38)

Casting a Spell (03:26)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Amy Madison	played by Elizabeth Anne Allen
Catherine Madison	played by Robin Riker
Mr. Pole	played by Jim Doughan
Lishanne	played by Nicole Prescott
Senior Cheerleader	played by Amanda Wilmshurst
Dr. Gregory	played by William Monaghan
Lishanne	played by Anja Godenschweger
Cordelia	played by Schaukje K�nning
Mr. Giles	played by Thomas Nero Wolff

Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 3: - The Witch

Buffy: You guys don't have to get involved.
Xander Harris: What do you mean? We're a team. Aren't we a team?
Willow Rosenberg: Yeah, you're the Slayer, and we're, like, the Slayerettes.

Season 1 / Episode 3: - The Witch

Rupert Giles: Your daughter is meddling with something very dangerous. Are you aware of that?
Catherine Madison: [as Amy] N- I don't know what you're talking about.
Rupert Giles: Oh, I think you know only too well.
Catherine Madison: [as Amy] You've got to go. She's gonna be home soon and yo...
Rupert Giles: This girl is very sick. Now you will shut up and you will listen to me. Your daughter has access to some very powerful magics. And, somehow, your obsession with cheerleading has made...
Catherine Madison: [as Amy] I don't care about cheerleading. It's not my fault she's doing stuff.
Rupert Giles: As her mother you should assume some responsibility for her actions.
Catherine Madison: [as Amy; laughing] Well, you know, these kids today. [serious] She's out of her mind. Ever since dad - her dad left, I can't control her.
Rupert Giles: You're afraid of her.
Buffy: Amy? Are you Amy?
Rupert Giles: I don't understand.
Buffy: She switched. She switched your bodies, didn't she?
Rupert Giles: Good lord.
Buffy: She wanted to relive her glory days.
Catherine Madison: [as Amy] She said I was wasting my youth... so she took it.

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: Cordelia gets out of the Driver's Ed car and shuts the door. In the next scene, the door is open, and when the truck hits it, it slams the door shut, although the door was, as far as we have seen, already shut.
CONT: While Buffy, Willow and Xander are in the lab making the witch revealing potion, Willow pours the finalized mixture into a test tube and fills the tube to the top. When Buffy takes the tube, it is barely a 1/4 full.

TRIVIA

Joss planned his episodes seasons in advance and there is a possible allusion to Spike in this episode. Xander says "drive it through my head like a railroad spike" which is how Spike killed the people who mocked his poetry
Cordelia mentions another Cheerleader-wannabe, Amber, in the episode. Amy comments that Amber was trained by Benson. Amber Benson (I) will later star in the show as Tara.

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