Voyeur tree #2: "I caught the old man _putting the dress on his head and walking around like an Egyptian_!  Can you believe it?!"

...her breasts to move onto her back every time she readied to make love!!"

The video quality for this episode is very good. It must be stunning on the DVD. We hear coughing off-camera. The main title theme sounds distorted on the VHS tape. Vicki's hair bow doesn't match her dress. Grayson's eyeliner -- fabulous. Re: Barnabas- along with less eye makeup as DarkLady notes, the Barnabangs look more "natural" also.

Barn once again proves he is in no short supply of hot air (his discussion with Vicki -- dear lord, spare me). Grayson gives one of her more infamous performances by the fountain, lol. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed watching most of Grayson's scenes.

This episode has some awesome writing (a lot of it poorly delivered by Frid) and I can see what MB talked about in ep's 342 discussion about Barn's accent to antihero superstardom becoming evident. I can't wait, tolerating Barn is an insufferable task.

Yeah, DarkLady, Julia's really putting it all out there. Nothing like a murder to make you lay your cards out on the table...

Julia: "You could be wrong, for the first and last time."

Barnabas: " I'm willing to take my chances."

I am eager to watch the Barn/Jules relationship develop from this point.

I don't think we're meant to feel sorry for Barnabas and his pain. I think his mentioning it shows us the big reason that Julia is in love with him and why she's trying to cure him: She somehow sees the humanity that is hidden far, far beneath his vampirism.

Wow, that's deep. I'm very shallow re: Barn right now. I can barely look at him without feeling disgust. Just about everything he does and says makes me sick to my stomach. Still "too fresh" for me I guess. Not in "big picture" mode yet, lol.

Maggie's quilted maxi is atrocious but I love the vibrant splash of color it affords us, like a breath of fresh air, especially after the previous B&W kinescope and all the hot (dead) air contained therein.

There's a seven second video glitch on my VHS MPI tape (vol. 23) during the first scene. I wonder if this is in the DVD version of this episode?

Maggie & Sam discuss Woodard's death and all it's implications. Adequate scene - no complaints, no compliments.

Julia's red notebook (I so want to call it a diary) becomes the latest new character on DS soon to take on a storyline of it's own. Envision it on the cover of 16 Magazine or in the Adonis Gallery.

Burke brings up the supernatural in relation to Woodard's death. Sam's new favorite word is unearthly. Where oh where can the best sheriff Patterson be? Oh where, oh where can he be?

Nobody hears the obnoxious Barnabat outside Woodard's office window. All that frantic cork-rubbing against the wine bottle is in vain. I'd love to know what Barn the smarm is saying in bat-form. Even then he can't keep his trap shut! No doubt something along the lines of "Woe is me! Woe is me! "Don't mock my pain! Don't mock my pain!"

Vicki looks gorgeous in her (baby?) blue outfit. Was '67 the year of pastels? She brings up Burke's South American trip again as in the form of a "Thursday departure" - which in soap opera time could be three months from now. I'm over it. I'm ready for Burke to take that long trip south.

Burke's telling of Woodard's death shocks Vicki. Enter Julia and what follows is an interesting scene. It's fascinating & fun watching Julia try to deal with all the levels of complexity the situation produces. There's one essence of the scene I was especially fascinated with; Julia has her back to Burke and Vicki as she deals with the "shock" of it all. I am thinking that as long as she keeps her back to them she should be able to pull it off, but Burke positions himself in front of her -- I know, so what? I thought it was brilliant stage direction, taking the character's "safety net" away so to speak, and it happens three times I believe. And each time Julia is literally forced to face the whole ugly truth. It was like mini-climaxes within a climatic and highly suspenseful scene. I ate it up. No one's acting was particularly brilliant but overall it was a fun and totally engrossing scene. I eagerly anticipated seeing how the Julia character was going to pull off "first" hearing the news and 'I got my money's worth'. (Look that phrase up in the urban dictionary and you may never use that phrase again.)

Unfortunately, Vicki's continued discussion (minus Burke) with Julia is horribly written, and comes across as contrived. I like it nonetheless, because of how it represents Julia's frame of mind.

The best moment in this episode IMO is a portion of the last scene between Sam & Maggie. Maggie gets frantic about the still-present threat from a supernatural source (though she doesn't state it as such).

Maggie: "You know we never come right out and say it but we know that something terrible is threatening our lives. It could be in this room right this minute! Dr. Woodard knew it was true and that's why he's dead! I'll never be safe, because it's not something we can touch or find or reach...” OMGoodness, I love it! Great writing and great acting by KLS. I'll take this over the self-aggrandizing Shakespeareanesque psychobabble BS they write for the Barnabas character any day. (But I'm not bitter, lol.)

Sam gets the 'death by natural causes' phone call. Maggie wants/needs to believe the coroner's conclusion; Sam unconvincingly agrees. They, we, us, you, he, she, it and I all know better.

...Sha La Bandit from Westchester County!!"

...Frito Bandito!

the Singing Nun!!"