Gingerbread

Episode aired Jan 12, 1999
TV-PG
1h

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

3.7K

YOUR RATING

Kristine Sutherland in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Romance

After discovering the corpses of two young children bearing a symbol linked to the occult, Joyce spearheads a campaign to rid Sunnydale of witches.After discovering the corpses of two young children bearing a symbol linked to the occult, Joyce spearheads a campaign to rid Sunnydale of witches.After discovering the corpses of two young children bearing a symbol linked to the occult, Joyce spearheads a campaign to rid Sunnydale of witches.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

3.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The only appearance of Willow's mother Sheila Rosenberg.

Goofs
When the team looks up old newspaper articles about murdered children, a German text from 1649 briefly flashes on the screen. The text does not make any sense, and looks like an electronic word-by-word translation of an English original.

Quotes
Willow Rosenberg: A doodle. I do doodle. You too. You do doodle, too.

Connections
Featured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift (2001)

Soundtracks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Theme
Written by Nerf Herder
Performed by Brandon K. Verrett

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Review

Featured review

9/10

I rarely rewatch this episode

This episode is truly hard to watch. Witch hunts and Satanic panic have always been a truly sensitive topic, and how a TV show goes about covering it is always indicative of the show's overall quality. Without spoiling, Buffy the Vampire Slayer covers the topic damn well and works it into the lore of the show seamlessly. Is it the best episode of the show? No. It is one of the better ones, though. Makes it hard to like some characters.

This is an episode I usually skip because the characters that are made hard to like are truly intolerable here. Which works REALLY well for the episode, but doesn't make for an enjoyable experience.