The Witches Are Out

Season 1, Episode 7, Aired

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    • While having a heated discussion with about societal prejudice against witches, Darrin argues, "If I were prejudiced, I wouldn't've married you would I?" Samantha replies, "Oh so that's it. You think you did me a big favour. Took the little witch in. Quite a sacrifice. Must make you feel very self-righteous." Neither acknowledges that Darrin did not know Samantha was a witch when he married her and only learned the truth on their wedding night. This matter is later addressed in season two's "What Every Young Man Should Know."
    • One of the very few times a witch's name doesn't end in the letter "a" happens in this episode with the character "Mary."
    • This episode contains several pieces of information about witches that would be contradicted in subsequent seasons. 1. Samantha says that her mother, Endora, gets so upset over Halloween each year that she flies to the South of France "til it all blows over." In a later episode, however, Samantha (and Darrin, by proxy) gets invited to her mother's "annual" Halloween bash. 2. Bertha makes the comment that, if the mortals ever did find out that they were witches, they'd better take out lots of fire insurance. Samantha comments, "Oh Bertha, they stopped burning us years ago." In a subsequent episode, Samantha and Darrin find themselves in old Salem, and Samantha makes a speech about how the people they've put on trial couldn't possibly be witches because no mere ropes or binds could hold one; she then causes her own binds to disappear.
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    • This is an episode of a few Bewitched. This is the first Halloween episode, the first show to explore stereotypes and prejudices, and Marion Lorne's first appearance as Aunt Clara.
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    • Allusion to The Wizard of Oz 1939 film: When Brinkman is confronted with a French firing squad as part of Samantha's ploy to convince him that witches are real, he finally breaks and desperately recites, "I do believe in witches. I do. I do. I do believe in witches." His delivery is reminiscent of Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, who recited "I do believe in spooks. I do. I do. I do believe in spooks," out of fear of the sounds in the Haunted Forest.
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