Muffin Buffalo

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“Muffin Buffalo”
Wonderfalls episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 6
Written by Gretchen J. Berg
Aaron Harberts
Directed by Craig Zisk
Guest stars Scotch Ellis Loring (Dr. Ron)
Eddie Kaye Thomas (Pat)
Neil Grayston (The Mouthbreather)
Beth Hurt (Marianne Marie Beetle)
Production no. 1AHM05
Original airdate July 23, 2004
Episode chronology
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"Crime Dog" "Barrel Bear"
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"Muffin Buffalo" is the sixth episode of the television show Wonderfalls.

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[edit] Plot Synopsis

Jaye is finally listening to the voices and hates that her actions are causing people to see her as a hero. Without any prodding from the animals, Jaye befriends a shut-in from the trailer park after she inadvertently hurts his feelings.

[edit] Arc Significance

  • Aaron continues to investigate Jaye talking to the cow creamer in "Crime Dog," coming to believe that perhaps Jaye might be talking to God during this episode.
  • Mahandra mentions in this episode that she is three percent Seneca Indian. In "Totem Mole" she applies for tribal membership, though in that later episode she is Satsuma rather than Seneca.

[edit] Guest stars

  • Beth Grant as Mary Ann Marie Beetle
  • Scotch Ellis Loring as Dr. Ron Campbell

[edit] Music

[edit] Quotes

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Jaye: I’m not nice! I’m just . . . highly susceptible to guilt.
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Jaye: He says I’m his only friend.
Mahandra: You have to move.
Jaye: I can’t do that. It’s like I took a baby bird out of the nest. If I ditch him now, he’ll die of neglect.
Mahandra: [pause] You have to move.
Jaye: When did I become the nice one?
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Marianne Marie: What is wrong with you? You stole an old woman’s disability checks? That violates the High and Dry Trailer Park code of residential conduct, not to mention the basic tenets of Christianity!
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Jaye: All the Seneca Indians who read this paper will think I’m a baby-saver. I can’t have them running around thinking I save babies!
Mahandra: I’m three percent Seneca.
Jaye: Tell your people I won’t be saving any other babies!
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Jaye: I don’t call him Chupacabra anymore, he might be of Mexican descent – I don’t wanna seem insensitive.
Aaron: What do you call him?
Jaye: Fat Pat.
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Marianne Marie: [to Fat Pat] And who are you? Oh my lord, didn’t you use to be a real big, fat person?
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Fat Pat: I needed to call the police – someone broke into my trailer.
Jaye: Oh, that was me.
Fat Pat: What were you doing in there? Harvesting hair from my shower drain for your pillows?
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Aaron: I was fine when existence had no meaning. Meaninglessness in a universe without meaning- that I get! But meaninglessness in a universe that has meaning- what does it mean?
Darrin: Do you really think your that sister's special lunch is the appropriate place for an existenial crisis?
Aaron: It's not an existential crisis.
Karen: You're studying religion for God's sake, you're bound to have one sooner or later.

[edit] Trivia

  • Jeffrey R. Smith, who had been working on the show as a production assistant and who would later guest star in "Totem Mole" and "Caged Bird," auditioned for the part of Pat.
  • Pat tosses some adjectives at Jaye, "evil" and "vile," which Vivian Cauldwell echoes in her description of Millie Markus in "Barrel Bear."
  • Mrs. Beetle's secret ingredient in her muffins is Lil' Ivey's fruit cocktail. In "Cocktail Bunny," the bunny that talks to Jaye is on a Lil' Ivey's box.

[edit] Cultural references

  • Aaron says to Dr. Ron that he can't be suggesting that Jaye is like "that Margaret chick who talked to God about her period," referencing Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
  • Mrs. Beetle sings "The Muffin Man" in Jaye's imagined scenario of Pat breaking into her trailer to eat her.
  • Jaye calls to Mrs. Beetle, asking if she took her allergy pills with Gallo.
  • Jaye calls Pat "Patsquatch" in an obvious reference to sasquatch.
  • Marianne Marie's question to Pat "Didn't you used to be a real, big fat person?" could be a reference to The Silence of the Lambs in which Buffalo Bill says, "Was she a great, big fat person?"
  • Pat mentions checking chubby chaser websites for pictures of himself.
  • Aaron asks Jaye if she is like Dr. Doolittle.
  • Jaye asks Mrs. Beetle if she has Stockholm syndrome and if she is Patty Hearst.
  • When Jaye tells Pat that he shouldn't eat all the muffins, Mrs. Beetle gives Jaye a Nazi salute and calls her Jenny Craig.

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