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5.14: Smile Time.

Oh, I flipped from  the moment I saw the first conceptual drawing. When I went on set, the first day, and really saw the puppet working and the puppeteers, I lost it. The first scene shot was the one where everyone discovers that he’s a puppet. We couldn’t get through rehearsal without laughing when David was doing it, before we even brought the puppet in. It just made us laugh. And then the puppet came and it was hard to shoot. It was like making the musical on Buffy. Everyone was just so happy to work because there was a puppet. We talked about doing an all marionette Buffy one time, but we never really followed through on that. I don’t remember how I thought of it this time. It just occured to me that if Angel were a Muppet, it would make me very happy and that in my universe that’s something that could happen.

~ Joss Whedon on his initial reaction to the Angel puppet