Angel
Angel

Episode Report Card
Strega: A+ | 2489 USERS: B
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Angel's A Puppet.

Wesley and Fred enter the "Don't" room, and Wesley hands Fred his messenger bag before he starts chanting in Latin. The egg starts to slide open, and Wesley gets all Indiana Jones as he orders Fred not to look at it. Then Ratio grabs Wesley around the neck and yanks him back. Wesley tells Fred to keep reading as he struggles to get away from the giant, fuzzy blue, uh....Is Ratio a puppet or a costume? Because he does have feet, but he doesn't have an articulated mouth.

Back on the set, mayhem is ensuing. Gunn is about to axe Polo when the girl-puppet launches herself at Gunn. Johanna thinks that the puppet broke Gunn's neck, because there is a snapping sound when the girl lands, and she twists his head, and then he does a super-cool midair spin before he crashes to the ground. Maybe his brain implant lets you snap his neck without hurting him anymore. I don't know. Anyway, he lands, and he's fine, except then the girl races back to him and stretches her hands out, hissing, "Gimme those pretty eyes!"

The girl watching TV at home starts to sway, dazed, as Gunn pulls the puppet off of himself and tosses her right into the camera. I think we should have seen more of how this looked at home. I guess the idea is that the kids didn't see what was happening because they were zoned out. That's no fun.

Fred reads Latin from the scrolls, and starts to develop romantic feelings for herself. Ratio keeps beating Wesley up. Wesley is tossed across the room, and then Ratio grabs a fire extinguisher and gets ready to club Wesley with it. Fire extinguishers are a popular weapon on this show, have you noticed? Ratio is interrupted when Fred suddenly fires a gun, hitting him in the arm. The next shot smashes his plastic eyeball, and then Fred and Wesley trade significant looks like, "You killed a robot simulcrum of your father for me, so I'll kill a giant demonic puppet and/or costume for you." Ain't love grand?

Polo tells Angel, "I'm gonna tear you a new puppet-hole, bitch!" Angel does a "kick" that consists of the puppet turning over almost completely, but the ridiculousness is what makes it funny. Angel crouches over Polo -- whose pupils are all small to indicate surprise or fear or both -- and starts strangling him. Polo says, "So, you got a little demon in you?" Angel says, "I got a lot of demon in me," and vamps out. A+! Hooray! Amusingly enough, the vamped version of the puppet probably has smaller eyebrows. Angel picks Polo up and throws him into a tree house on the set, which, I guess, kills him. I'm not entirely clear on how you kill a puppet, but I don't really care.

Angel

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