I just watched this episode of Buffy the Vampire slayer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_More,_with_Feeling_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)

I had no warning of what was about to happen until the cheesy 50s opening credits.  There followed an extraordinary monstrous rollicking work of artful joy.   It difficult to believe that someone actually wrote it, and that it didn't come down from heaven, fully formed.  There is a hole in the space-time continuum, and out came a musical.  It was a musical astonished that musicals exist, a sly, laughing splashing burst of happy satire, mixed with real soul.  Thank you Mr Whedon.  I don't know what happened to you the day you thought this up, but it was not an ordinary day.

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