Angel/Recap/S05/E14 Smile Time

Angel auditions for Sesame Street in a bid to win back Buffy.

Angel is turned into a puppet while investigating a cursed children's show. Hilarity Ensues.

This Recap page does not have a recap. (This page might or might not have a summary, which is much shorter than a recap.)

You can help this wiki by writing a recap of this work or installment.

Recap pages that do not have recaps are subject to speedy deletion without warning or debate.

Tropes used in Angel/Recap/S05/E14 Smile Time include:

• And I Must Scream: The human creator of Smile Time.
• Bait and Switch Comment

Fred: Angel! You're...you're...cute!
Puppet!Angel: You're fired.

• Battle Discretion Shot: Puppet!Angel fighting Spike in the elevator.
• Berserker Rage: Angel is not happy about being a puppet. When Spike addresses this Angel flies into an absolute rage.
• Breather Episode: The second Angel is revealed to be a puppet the reviewers of Television Without Pity gave it an A. For the next thirty minutes they treated it as the funniest thing in the series, then give it an A+ when Puppet!Angel vamps out.
• Bridal Carry: Lorne carrying his injured puppet prince.
• Chair Reveal: Angel showing the gang what he's turned into.
• Credits Gag: The "self esteem" song plays over the credits.
• Deal with the Devil
• The Doll Episode
• Game Face / Cute Little Fangs
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: Nina wakes up with white Angel-stuffing in her mouth and cries, "I ate him!"
• Happy Fun Ball
• Hugo Award: Nominated 2005.
• Humiliation Conga
• Hypocritical Humor: Angel saying he's paying more attention to what goes on around him, just before he's clawed by a just-morphed Nina.
• Life Energy
• Muppet
• Moral Myopia: The demons trying to put on quality kids entertainment which sucks out their energy.
• Oblivious to Love: Angel and Wesley.
• Power Walk: Parodies when the doors to Angel's office open and Wesley, Gunn, and Fred walk out in slow-mo... and then the camera pans downward, revealing a sword-wielding Puppet!Angel walking in front of them.
• Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: Plenty from all puppets.

"I'm going to rip you a new puppet-hole, bitch!"

• • Don't forget Angel's reply to having a little demon in him.

"I have a lot of demon in me." Puppet!Angel vamps out.

• Puppet Permutation
• Puppet Master
• Running Gag: Angel cannot control his anger when turned into a puppet. He first fails to work a remote and reacts with, "Stupid plastic piece of crap!" Then when fighting Spike in an elevator he goes, "Stupid...grimy...piece of crap!"
• Sealed with a Kiss: Fred and Wesley.
• Smash Cut: "YOU'RE A BLOODY PUPPET!" Cut to Spike being hurled through the doors of Angel's office.
• Subverted Kids Show
• Tastes Like Diabetes (In-Universe)
• This Means War: After hearing the Self-Esteem Song, Angel demands the Wolfram & Hart Spec Ops team take out Smile Time.
• The Voiceless
• You Need to Get Laid

---

Back to Angel