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the zeppo

Season 3 Episode 13

Episode aired january 26, 1999

Plot

xander experiences an adventure of his own when he encounters a group of reanimated corpses out to construct a bomb. meanwhile, buffy and her friends battle the forces of evil when the hellmouth reopens.

Behind the Scenes

the structure and concept of this script (which for the most part follows xander on what--in a more usual episode--would be a subplot, while the series' more conventionally main characters are relegated to the background) is an homage to tom stoppard's 1967 existentialist play rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, which follows the action of two relatively minor characters from william shakespeare's 'hamlet' while using the actual main plot and characters from 'hamlet' as occasional background and diversion.