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STTW: ``Dream Date'' (#007)

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Airing Info

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Original Air Date

1 Nov 96, 9:00pm ET / 8:00pm CT (6th aired episode; 6th 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

While Sabrina waits patiently for Harvey to ask her to the school dance, Libby steps in and asks him herself. Hoping to raise Sabrina's disappointed spirits, Hilda and Zelda, with the help of some magical ``man dough,'' create her very own dream date. (from ABC's AOL folder)

Opening Scene

Sabrina has to clear the kitchen in order to talk to Harvey on the phone, then complains that she doesn't have any privacy. [Sabrina, Zelda and Salem (and portrait on wall) in kitchen]

Closing Scene

Libby tries to file a missing-person report on Chad Corey Dillan. [Libby in school hallway]

Fourth Outfit

• Outfit: red, white and blue patriotic-themed outfit complete with tophat, tails, hotpants (!) and red boots
• Line: ``I want you (points at camera) to vote on Tuesday!'' (episode aired the week before U.S. national elections)

Character Names

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Credits

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Starring

same as ``Pilot'' (#001)

Guest-Starring

• Brian Austin Green as Chad Corey Dylan
• Tom Wilson as Simon
• Eddie Cibrian as Darryl
• Darin Singleton as Raphael
• Nicole Bilderback as Sasha

Opening Titles

same as ``Pilot'' (#001)

Opening Credits

Based on Characters Appearing in Archie Comics

Developed By           Johnathan Schmock
Co-Producer            Jon Sherman
Produced By            Kenneth R. Koch
Supervising Producers  Carrie Honigblum
                       Renee Phillips
Co-Executive Producer  Norma Safford Vela
Executive Producer     Nell Scovell
Executive Producer     Paula Hart
Written By             Rachel Lipman
Directed By            Gail Mancuso

Closing Credits

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Other Info

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Ratings

41st, 9.7 rating, 9.4 million homes. 13th highest-rated ABC show. 3rd highest-rated new ABC series, after Spin City (9th, 14.9 rating) and Life's Work (34th, 10.4). For more info, see Friday night Nielsen ratings.

24 Jan 97 repeat: 33rd, 9.5 rating, 9.2 million homes. For more info, see Friday night Nielsen ratings.

Commercials

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

• First Break
  • Ocean Friends Barbie and Keiko (sp?) (killer whale)
  • Kellogg's Honey Crunch Corn Flakes
  • Pillsbury Grands! blueberry biscuits / Grands! Ideas (recipe idea)
  • promo: U.S. Pro Figure Skating Championships
  • Disney 101 Dalmatians and The Lion King airing on ABC cross-promotion deal

• Second Break
  • Frosted Cheerios (Wayne Knight)
  • Dimetapp Elixir
  • Tiger Lite3 hand-held game
  • McDonald's Looney Tunes stuffed characters from Space Jam
  • promo: 20/20
  • local: Hughes-Doonan Chevrolet-Pontiac-Geo
  • local: Culligan Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water System
  • local: Ford Taurus

• Third Break
  • Pizza Hut (stuffed-crust pizza)
  • Extra-Strength Tylenol Geltabs
  • Children's Tylenol Cold Plus Cough
  • Construx Action Building System
  • Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli
  • ABC in Concert (Tina Turner)

Opinions

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Favorite Lines

• ``Yeah, perfect. Except for the fact that I wanted to go with Harvey, not Pop-n-Fresh!'' - Sabrina

• ``This is too weird, even for me.'' - Jenny

• Sabrina: ``Wow, the bassoon! I think that's really sexy!''
  Libby: ``Maybe to another bassoon.''

• ``Foos it or lose it!'' - Sabrina

Favorite Scenes

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Other Good Stuff

• Harvey's reaction when Libby said he worked out.
• The look on Sabrina's face when Hilda and Zelda leave her room after talking about how there's no love spell.
• The look on Hilda's face when she got caught eating man-dough.
• Nice delivery on the line: ``We rode in on his motor-cy-cle!''
• Look on Sabrina's face when she sees Harvey sitting alone at the dance.
• The storyline about Hilda's ``dream date gone bad'' and how she thought she could change him. A big target, perhaps, but I thought they hit it. (The date was well-played, too, by Tom Wilson.)
• I love the way they had Sabrina tell Harvey how she feels about him without really telling him. That's gotta be one of the most clever things in the whole first season.

Weak Points and Mistakes

• I don't like the way Jenny is coming off in the series. She was much better-written, IMO, in the movie.
• I hated Melissa's makeup in this episode. The area around her eyes was too light compared to the rest of her face. This combined with the lighting in certain scenes made her look way too made-up.
• I could've done without the scene where the aunts are dancing around while making Sabrina's date.
• Sabrina's hair after she changes to go to the dance. (I guess I have something against hair-clips.)
• Chad didn't know the word ``cafeteria'' but he knew the word ``bunting''? ``Bunting''?! [There's a joke in here somewhere about the second episode, but I don't know what it is. ;-)]
• Big-time awkward moment: Harvey dancing.

DYNs

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• They brought back the ``Harvey and Sabrina!'' taunt from ``Bundt Friday'' (#002).
• The talking picture is back. (See the first episode.)
• In the connections-to-the-movie department: they finally used the thing about how there's no love spell. (But this probably came up in the comics first, right?)
• There's a lot of dancing in this episode. Both Melissa and Nate (Harvey) have studied dancing in real life. Melissa has even taught dance to little kids.
• The ``Got milk?'' line by Zelda's date (and associated running gag with the milk) is an amazing example of ``product placement''. (``Got Milk?'' is one of their regular commercials.)
• When he is introduced to Chad Corey Dylan, Harvey gives his full name: Harvey Dwight Kinkle.
• Lars H. says:

  What is Harvey about to have for lunch as he sits down at the table in the school cafeteria with Sabrina and Jenny? Orange juice and pizza, which, as we learn in the opening monologue of CEIA Episode #101, are the two taste components of barf!

• The little song they play while Hilda and Zelda are making the dream date out of man dough is ``Amor'', composed by Sklar, Ruiz and Mendez. (I have no idea whose performance of it they used, though.)
• The song at the dance that goes ``I never met a girl like you before...'' is ``A Girl Like You'' by Edwyn Collins, available on his album Gorgeous George. A live version from Late Night with Conan O'Brien is on the album Live From 6A.

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