Setup:

Quentin: I'll never forget the day I shaved off my muttonchops.  It gave me such a feeling of...

....rudely interrupt him with an off-key and off-color rendition of “What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor?”

The skeleton shows up twice in episode 966 – or anyway, it may show up twice.  The first time, it's sitting in a chair, and you can clearly see the shiny little what’s-it’s at the the top of the head that's used to hang it up.  The second time, it's lying on the ground.  We see it as if we were standing at its head, rather than at its side, and its ribcage looked quite fake to me.  I was wondering if they'd brought in an auxiliary skeleton, especially since the second appearance came rather soon after the first appearance.  But it may just have been that the angle from which we were looking at the ribcage was not one with which I'm familiar.

Setup:

Megan had learned that if she pressed the lefthand button on Barnabas’s jacket, he would bite her, but if she pressed the righthand button, he would...

Today's Quote is from this episode: the hangman saying to Vicky, "May God have mercy on your unrepentant soul."  I see that I didn't comment on it before, so I'm commenting now.  How does the hangman know that Vicky's soul is unrepentant?  Yes, I know, it's a silly question, because it's that whole mindset of "We know whether or not you're repentant" that leads to Vicky being tried as a witch in the first place - but it still bugs me.  He could have simply said, "May God have mercy on your soul," but he just had to be mean.  Oh, well, maybe it was a job requirement.

Zombie Role:
Did you have any luck finding work today, Jim?
Why, yes. I got a part playing a one-eyed zombie at ABC. Put away the Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, darling. We are eating out in style tonight.

The guy threw in a limp as well, out of gratitude I guess.  That kept distracting me.

Maggie is psychic.  Oh, it was the Ang spell.  Alright, I'll give them that one.

You're more charitable than I.  Angelique's spell didn't make Josette psychic, so why should it make Maggie psychic?

I was thinking most of the way through the episode that the whole Quentin-buried-alive business was terribly lame - he was dug up again before you could say Jack Robinson - but then when we had the ceremony at the Leviathan altar it became clear that they just were looking for a reason to disable Quentin temporarily so that Barnabas could play the hero.  I'm sure that when the Leviathan storyline was planned, Barnabas was to have played the part that Nicholas Blair played today, and once the altar collapsed, we would have seen him sitting on the ground rubbing his head saying he had to go to the Old House because Josette was waiting for him.  I wish we could have seen Julia giving the box a good whack with the sceptre, but I suppose that was never in anybody's plans.

Back to the lameness of the Quentin-buried alive business - yesterday there was a headstone where Quentin was buried.  I tried to read it, but couldn't.  Today it was gone, and Maggie noted that there was no headstone for the freshly dug grave.  And wasn't it convenient that the zombies left their shovel by the grave for Barnabas to use?  It sort of bugs me that the guy is always expected to do the digging.  Back in 1966, I'll bet Maggie was pretty good at physical labor.  But now she's the ingenue, so Barnabas has to do it.  Where was Willie? 

Hey, there wasn't any dry ice when Julia was experimenting in Jeb's room!  Bunch of cheapskates.

Setup:

Bruno: You'll be pleased to hear that I'm planning to make you into my next fur coat, Mr. Jennings.  I've got to get rid of the one that I'm wearing because...