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STTW: ``A Girl and Her Cat'' (#011)

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Airing Info

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Original Air Date

13 Dec 96, 9:00pm ET / 8:00pm CT (11th aired episode; 12th week)

Production Date

unknown

Running Time

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Repeated

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Also Shown

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Episode Content

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Story

After getting into a huge fight with Salem on Christmas Eve, Sabrina is more than happy when he decides to spend the holiday away from home. However, Sabrina's indifference turns to panic when she discovers that Salem's disappearance involves kitty-napping. (from ABC's AOL folder)

Opening Scene

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Closing Scene

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Fourth Outfit

• Outfit: full cowboy getup (hat, chaps, boots, etc.)
• Line: ``Smile when you say that, pardner!''

Character Names

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Credits

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Starring

same as ``Pilot'' (#001)

Guest-Starring

• Coolio as himself
• Dave Allen as the manager
• Dana Gould as Monty
• Billy West as Newt
• Kery Norton (Kerry Norton?) as LuLu
• Seth Adkins as Rex
• Joe O'Connor as Joe
• Karla DeVito as Mary

Opening Titles

same as ``Pilot'' (#001)

Opening Credits

Based on Characters Appearing in Archie Comics

Developed By           Johnathan Schmock
Co-Producer            Joh Sherman
Produced By            Kenneth R. Koch
Consulting Producers   Carrie Honigblum
                       Renee Phillips
Co-Executive Producer  Norma Safford Vela
Executive Producer     Nell Scovell
Executive Producer     Paula Hart
Written By             Frank Conniff
Directed By            Brian K. Roberts

Closing Credits

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Other Info

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Ratings

Tied four-ways for 27th (with Cosby, Dateline NBC and Something So Right), 9.9 rating, 9.6 million homes. 8th highest-rated ABC show. 2nd highest-rated new ABC series, after Spin City (16th, 10.9 rating). For more info, see Friday night Nielsen ratings.

Commercials

(as shown in College Station, TX, on Waco affiliate KXXV)

• First Break
  • Sears
  • Cool Whip
  • Sudafed Non-Drying Sinus medicine
  • Wendy's
  • Eggo (frozen) fruit waffles
  • promos: Doug's Secret Christmas and Edith Ann's Christmas

• Second Break
  • 101 Dalmatians toys at McDonald's
  • Hewlett-Packard printers
  • ``Cheese to the Rescue'' (American Dairy Farmers)
  • Target (Tweety and Sylvester)
  • promo: Mighty Ducks
  • promo: 'Twas the Night Before Bumpy
  • local: Cash 5 (Texas Lottery)
  • local: Homestore Furniture
  • local: Lawrence Marshall auto dealership

• Third Break
  • Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli
  • Walmart
  • M&M's
  • Halls cough drops
  • Domino's Pizza
  • promo: Lois and Clark

Opinions

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Favorite Lines

• ``Fa-la-la-la-la la-la la feh!'' - Salem

• Harvey: ``Wow! A scarf! It's great!''
  Sabrina: ``I made it myself.''
  Harvey: ``You knit?''
  Sabrina: ``I made it myself.''

• ``You know how hard it is to get that far-away stare going?'' - Salem

• ``Man, I'm glad I didn't invite Harvey in!'' - Sabrina

• Sabrina: ``You seem like you're really in love.''
  Monty: ``Well, she's just so darn flexible!''

• Sabrina: ``He's also wearing a nightgown.''
  Hilda: ``Interesting... but irrelevant.''

• Rex: ``Hey, Dad, can we put on `Sweet Caroline' again?''
  Mom & Dad: ``No!''

Favorite Scenes

Sabrina visits Rex as Santa Claus.

Other Good Stuff

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Weak Points and Mistakes

After Sabrina found out Salem had been kitty-napped, Melissa was shaking her hands so much, I thought for sure that they would make some sort of joke about it. But they didn't. So why was she shaking her hands so much??

DYNs

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• Harvey and his dad go to church. (He was glad to have the opportunity to read Sports Illustrated so they would have something to talk about.)
• Harvey has a sister who has a neck like a linebacker.
• Sabrina and Harvey's gifts to each other:
  • Harvey gave Sabrina: a necklace
  • Sabrina gave Harvey: a scarf
  (Sabrina notes that they both gave each other ``neck stuff''.)
• Monty is Hilda and Zelda's cousin.
• Monty's familiar, Newt, was deep into Salem's world domination scheme -- Salem promised him Denmark.
• Rex's name for Salem: Stinky.
• Coolio is appearing at Westbridge Arena?? Seems unlikely to me, but... whatever.
• The people in the door-to-door search-for-Salem montage:
  • little girl (this is Melissa's sister, Alexandra)
  • man and woman
  • man with screwdriver in mouth and tricycle parts in arms
  • guy dressed like a Christmas tree
  • man with mistletoe (this is Nick Bakay, who does the voice of Salem)
  • boy shooting ray gun and his father
  • another man and woman
• Rex's line, ``Tough luck!'' is, I believe, exactly the same as a line delivered by Elsie Soaperstein (Michelle Trachtenberg) in the Clarissa Explains It All episode, ``Babysitting'' (#151). (I need to check this, though.)
• Christmas carols in the episode:
  • Salem sings ``God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen''
  • The music during the door-to-door search montage: ``Jingle Bell Rock'' (okay, technically not a carol)
  • Everyone sings ``Deck the Halls'' around the piano

  (Note: Consider that these are witches singing Christmas carols...)

• Apparently, the spatula thing is a reference to Weird Al Yankovick. Phil Salomon says:

  It's a reference to ``Spatula City'' by ``Weird Al'' Yankovic from his ``UHF'' album. The sketch itself is lifted from the movie of the same name.

  (Thanks, Phil!)

• Notice how Joe O'Connor (Rex's father in this episode and Marshall in Clarissa Explains It All) and Melissa never have a scene together? Cruel move by the writers. Very cruel.

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