1x04 Teacher's Pet - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode Guide

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

- Episode 01x04

Episode: 01x04
Title: Teacher's Pet
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 4V04
First Aired: Mar. 25, 1997

Season 1 » Episode #04 - Teacher's Pet

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 01x04 Teacher's Pet

Summary: Buffy's new substitute Biology teacher, Miss French, seems to be catching the eyes of all the male students, including Xander. Buffy soon learns that Miss French isn't what she appears to be, and that Xander is in horrible danger.

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01x04 Teacher's Pet (45:05) (Full Episode)

The Substitute (04:01)

Lunch Surprise (03:30)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Principal Bob Flutie	played by Ken Lerner
Natalie French	played by Musetta Vander
Blayne Moll	played by Price Jackson
Real Natalie French	played by Jean Speegle Howard
Dr. Gregory	played by William Monaghan
Homeless Guy	played by Jack Knight (II)
Teacher	played by Michael Ross Verona
Bud #1	played by Karim Oliver
Band Member	played by Kevin Keller (V)

Season 1 / Episode 4: - Teacher's Pet

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: It being...
Giles: Uh, he calls her a She-Mantis. This type of creature, the Kleptes-Virgo, 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: Giles, while we're young!

Season 1 / Episode 4: - Teacher's Pet

Buffy: Factoid three: Her fashion sense screams predator.
Willow Rosenberg: It's the shoulder pads.
Buffy: Exactly.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: Buffy 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, and then in the close-up, the legs are folded in.
CHAR: During class, Doctor Gregory is giving a lecture about ants, but behind him he projects an image of a beetle onto the wall.
SYNC: When Cordelia opens the refrigerator in the cafeteria and sees the teacher, she screams "His head! Where's his head?" however, when they show her face right before she finishes speaking, her mouth isn't moving.

TRIVIA

During the dream sequence at the beginning of this episode we see Xander playing a guitar, the significance being that this happens to be a "Warlock" model guitar made by B.C. Rich guitars.
The praying mantis puppet is actually a re-use of the Na'Grath prop from the first season of Babylon 5, which used the same make-up company.