First Aired: Feb. 23, 1999 on The WB

Rate Episode: 4.67/5 (3 votes)
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Season 3 » Episode #16 - Doppelgangland

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 03x16 Doppelgangland

Summary: Due to a failed spell, an evil Willow from an alternate dimension falls into Buffy's world and tries to make this world more like hers.

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Guest Stars:

Oz played by Seth Green
Percy West played by Ethan Erickson
Devon MacLeish played by Jason Hall
Alfonse played by Michael Nagy
D'Hoffryn played by Andy Umberger
Sandy played by Megan Gray
Older Woman played by Norma Michaels
Waiter played by Corey Michael Blake

Episode Quotes

Anya: Uh, Willow?
Willow: Uh, hi.
Anya: Anya. I'm sort of new here. Um, I know Cordelia.
Willow: Oh, fun.
Anya: Yeah, uh, listen, I have this little project I'm working on, and I heard you were the person to ask if...
Willow: Yeah, that's me. Reliable dog-geyser-person.
Cordelia: [discussing the ethics of boyfriend stealing] Okay, it isn't even like I was that attracted to Xander, it was more just that we kept being put in these life or death situations and that's always all sexy and stuff. I mean, I more or less knew he was a loser but that doesn't make it okay for you to come around and...

Cordelia: What? Do I have something on my neck?
Vamp Willow: Not yet.
Willow: Ok, let's get to the killing. Why don't we start with her?
Anya: Why don't we start with you? If she's a vampire, then I'm the creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (continuity error): At 15:25, as Vampire Willow is entering the Bronze, behind her you can see a guy reach out and pull the door closed behind her. The view then cuts to a wider shot and the door is suddenly open again, with the same guy pulling it closed in the same way a second time.
  • Goof (crew or equipment visible): At 14:40, as Vampire Willow is walking down Main Street, in the sky behind her you can see light reflecting off the platform of the mobile lighting tower that is illuminating the scene.
  • Goof (continuity error): At 14:40 we see a couple, in red sleeveless jackets, leaving the movie theater behind Vampire Willow. They take several steps into the street before the view cuts to a closer view of Willow. We then see them emerging from the theater again.
  • Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Anya tells Willow "I heard you were a powerful Wicca," the first of numerous times in which the term is misused. Wicca is a religion, and someone who practices the religious is Wiccan.
  • Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): At 19:31, as Vampire Willow says, "Get your friends..." the view cuts from a wide shot to a close-up of her face during the word "friends." In the wide shot, however, her lips are not moving. (Her voice in the wide shot is lapped back from the close-up; she was not speaking the line in the wide shot.)

Trivia

  • The top worn by Alyson Hannigan as Vampire Willow was reused as a costume for Lindsey Stoddart, who played Katie Ney (the Mayor's wife) in the Bones episode "Bones" (2005) {The Man with the Bone (#1.18)}. Both shows starred David Boreanaz.
  • The term from the title "doppelgänger' refers to a duplicate or double of a person or their mirror image or reflection.