Reception
- Kristine Sutherland told BBC that this is her favorite episode as a fan. She had the most fun shooting "Band Candy".
- Joss Whedon has often listed this as his favorite episode of the series.
- This episode was the highest rated episode of Buffy ever, scoring a 5.2 Nielsens rating and a 6.7 overnight rating, with each ratings point representing 980,000 households. In millions this episode scored the biggest of the series which was 8.2 million.
- This episode, along with part 1 ("Surprise"), won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Series, one of only two Emmys the series would win.
- The scene with Buffy destroying The Judge with a rocket launcher has drawn critical comparison to a similar action performed by Gwen Cooper in Torchwood: Miracle Day.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)