S4.E17

Superstar

Episode aired Feb 22, 2001
TV-PG
1h

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Danny Strong in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Horror Romance

Buffy senses that something is amiss when Jonathan becomes a hero to everyone in Sunnydale.Buffy senses that something is amiss when Jonathan becomes a hero to everyone in Sunnydale.Buffy senses that something is amiss when Jonathan becomes a hero to everyone in Sunnydale.

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7.2/10

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Sarah Michelle Gellar

Buffy Summers

Nicholas Brendon

Xander Harris

Alyson Hannigan

Willow Rosenberg

Marc Blucas

Riley Finn

James Marsters

Spike

Anthony Head

Rupert Giles
(as Anthony Stewart Head)

Danny Strong

Jonathan Levinson

Amber Benson

Tara Maclay

Bailey Chase

Graham Miller

Rob Benedict

Jape
(as Robert Patrick Benedict)

John Saint Ryan

Colonel George Haviland

George Hertzberg

Adam

Emma Caulfield Ford

Anya
(as Emma Caulfield)

Erica Luttrell

Karen

Adam Clark

Shawnie Costello

Inga
(as Chanie Costello)

Julie Costello

Ilsa

Neil Daly

Mason
(uncredited)

User reviews12

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1/10

I want to rate this a zero

Worst episode ever. The show is of course total fiction of slayer, vampires and other demons. This show is not about one guys delusions of grander. This was far too unrealistic and doesn't follow regular flow of the rest of the show. I was so bored...

moov_e_c_er
Mar 30, 2022
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Trivia
Julie Costello and Shawnie Costello, who play the Swedish twin sisters Ilsa and Inga, bedmates for Jonathan, are from Kentucky, and according to Jane Espenson, their Swedish accents were dubbed in.

Goofs
At 26:47, when Buffy is talking to Anya about Jonathan, Anya is supposedly reading Jonathan's book "Oh Jonathan." But if you look at the pages of the book, they're blank - there's no writing there. In the next scene, when Buffy takes the book, there's writing on the pages.

Quotes
[Giles and company are researching old magic books]
Riley Finn: These spells. These really work? I mean, can you really turn your enemies inside out, or learn to excrete gold coins?
Anya: That one's not so much fun.
Willow Rosenberg: They work, Riley, but they take concentration, being attuned with the forces of the universe.
Xander Harris: Right, you can't just go
[reading]
Xander Harris: "librum incendere" and expect...
[Xander's book bursts into flames and he slams it shut, extinguishing it]
Giles: Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.

Crazy credits
Bit player (Danny Strong) changes reality to make himself a superhero, shots of the regular cast in the opening credits are replaced by shots of Strong in superhero spoofs (disarming a bomb, walking away from a camera in a trenchcoat, etc.).