Once More, With Feeling

In which dark secrets are revealed in retro-pastiche and breakaway pop tunes.

Official back-of-box synopsis:

In this musical extravaganza, people throughout Sunnydale find themselves bursting into song - and flame - when a demon summoned from beyond attempts to make Dawn his bride.

Links:

This episode's page at http://www.restlessbtvs.com/, the Restless BTVS Trivia Guide

This episode's page at http://www.vrya.net/bdb/, the Buffyverse Dialog Database

Cross-reference:

episodes featuring dairy products:

• Never Kill A Boy On The First Date
  String Cheese is served in the cafeteria.
• Enemies
  The mayor pours Faith a glass of milk. She doesn't drink it.
• Living Conditions
  Kathy and Buffy argue over milk. Sid The Wiley Dairy Gnome is accused.
• Superstar
  Anya needs help opening a milk carton. Xander's not man enough.
• Restless
  The Cheese Man wears the cheese, it does not wear him.
• Wrecked
  Willow mentions keeping "stinky yak cheese in my bra"
• Storyteller
  The Cheese Man makes a brief flashback appearance.
• this episode
  Anya's accused of eating skeezy cheeses

episodes in which Giles sings:

• Where The Wild Things Are
  "Behind Blue Eyes"
• The Yoko Factor
  "Freebird"
• Restless
  "The Exposition Song"
• this episode
  well, duh

episodes in which there's dancing:

• When She Was Bad
  Bad!Buffy has Xander all hot and bothered
• Faith, Hope And Trick
  Faith is first seen dancing
• Bad Girls
  Buffy and Faith dance subtextily together
• The Prom
  Buffy and Angel 4 EVA!!!
• Who Are You?
  Faith takes Buffy's body onto the dancefloor
• The Replacement
  The Snoopy Dance
• Him
  Daddy like! Oh my god that's Dawn!
• this episode
  Again with the "well duh!"

episodes where the Mutant Enemy guy is different:

• Becoming (part 2)
  he "needs a hug"
• Amends
  wears a Christmas hat
• Graduation Day (part 2)
  he wears a mortar-board hat
• Storyteller
  The "we are as gods" one.
• Chosen
  He turns to the camera for a moment
• this episode
  he sings "grr-arrgh" (it's Joss' voice)

episodes with major moments in Willow and Tara's relationship:

• Hush
  Willow and Tara meet
• Who Are You?
  "I am, you know" - Willow and Tara get together for the first time
• The Yoko Factor
  Willow says for the first time that Tara's her girlfriend - "bloody hell!"
• The Body
  their first public kiss
• Seeing Red
  losing Tara, Willow will never be the same again
• this episode
  Tara realises Willow's using magic to influence her

episodes with one-off credit sequences:

• Superstar
  Jonathan-centric credits
• The Gift
  images from all 99 previous shows
• this episode
  Musical-style "overture" credits

Cast:

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander
  

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• Anthony Stewart Head as Giles
• James Marsters as Spike
• Emma Caulfield as Anya
• Amber Benson as Tara
• David Fury as Mustard Man
• Marti Noxon as Parking Ticket Woman
• Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn
• Hinton Battle as Sweet
• Daniel Weaver as Handsome Young Man
• Scott Zeller as Henchman #1
• Zachary Woodlee as Demon/Henchman
• Timothy Anderson as Henchman #2
• Alex Estronei as Henchman #3
• Matt Sims as College Guy #1
• Hunter Cochran as College Guy #2