I hope my spelling didn't give you nightmares. It's Miracle-Gro.

turn Maggie's picture towards the wall.

Golly, what beautiful gravity John Karlen pulls together as he says, "Fortunately, you're not a man who keeps his promises."  This is this first time I've watched this storyline after having watched the pre-Barnabas episodes, and I'm thinking about how Willie has changed.  There's an interview on one of the DVDs in which Karlen is talking about how everything changed for Willie once Barnabas bit him, and Karlen says that it turned out that what Willie had was compassion.  And I see it now - but I looked for it before the biting, and saw a total lack of it.  So where did it come from?

I'm going to have to watch this episode again, Lydia, because your review is truly insightful. The only note I made last night was that it was a shame to see Jason and Willie's friendship disolve.

the Miracle Grow Monster!

I've never quite understood about the dogs howling when a vampire is agitated.  Is it that they're sensing something we humans cannot?

I had the same question. I remember a friend telling me unpteen years ago that dogs will howl when somebody dies. I think that's just a myth, but it unnerved me at the time. One thing's for sure. The howling dogs and the spooky cemetary add plenty to the atmosphere.

There's a fence outside Maggie's French doors and a bush, and then... Infinity.

What kind of public relations would a cannery be in need of? I mean, how much advertising can you do for sardines? I say start Jason on the sardine line, chopping off heads. Let him get to know the business from the ground up.

... they found him passed out squeezed between the jukebox and the wall, upside down!!

Yeah, and the reason being that he used Canadian quarters. Jerk.