They were kept in little boxes which they sprinkled onto the bread. When I eat that bug sandwich they actually had real bugs – little crickets, or something they use for fishing, I believe. I play a teacher who can turn into a praying mantis, and there's that horrible moment when my head turns all the way around and another time when my hands turn into claws. As far as special effects go, at the time Buffy – and 'Teacher's Pet' in particular – was doing some pretty cool and unusual things.
EDDIE JEMISON WHICH TV SHOWS BUFFY TV
"I loved the movie, so I was very happy to do the TV show. We gotta do what we gotta do, and we're very polite and happy about it so we nod into each other when we're about to cut some college kid's heart out. I don't remember how often we showed up to do this, but it was just a necessity, like going on a hunting trip for food so our species didn't die off. "I think the Gentlemen weren't trying to be evil they need seven hearts to collect and there's a reason for that, and the whole folklore behind them is exposed in that episode. When you saw us floating down the middle of the street or a hallway they would have us in a hip harness with wires that came up from our hips to our back and up to a T-bar that was then being drawn along a track. We didn't walk, we hovered, about six inches off the ground. My face started to ache and get twitchy because our muscles are sore every day of our seven-day shoot. Then they put those metallic-looking dentures over our own teeth so that we could have, like, a gross smile.
"Camden Toy and I were the only two of The Gentlemen who had facial appliances – the prosthetics redesigned to actually be glued down to our own mouths so that we would manipulate our own smiles. We were like, 'This is boring! Where's the music!' God, it was a letdown after the musical." "The next episode was Tabula Rasa, where we all wake up and forget who we are. We thought Joss was a genius we just didn't realise how much. We're not doing that.' Of course, the episode as a whole didn't suck – that was the greatest icing on the cake. We were standing below, looking up at him, like, 'Holy shit. The last day was his scene at The Bronze, and he just killed it in one or two takes. "We were having a blast and thinking we were really wonderful, until Hinton Battle – a Tony award-winning musical actor from Broadway, who played the villain, Sweet – turned up. After that we knew it was going to be brilliant we went from the depth of depression to the height of fun during that episode. He actually rolled out a television on the soundstage because he needed to do a quick edit on the first scene that he shot, which was the Xander and Anya dance. I think the only one that thought it wasn't was Joss, because he knew he could pull it off. As a company we decided, in the face of certain failure, guaranteed doom, we were going to go out swinging and try our best. As a company we stopped complaining and got to work hiring our own vocal coaches and dance instructors. "It became apparent very quickly that Joss was not going to be deterred at all and that we were gonna do this whether we liked it or not.
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