Something Witchy: A Sabrina the Teenage Witch Rewatch

Break out your reading glasses, it's time to recap Season 3 Episode 24 "Silent Movie." A lot of seemingly random moments come together beautifully in this fantastic episode, although the weird chicken costume in the opening credits is NOT one. Sabrina is also kind of a bad friend to Valerie again but we get some amazing acting by Martin Mull as a silent movie villain. But why do we never find out...

Sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight. Exit light, enter Sabrina, the Sandman! In season 3 Episode 23, Sabrina gets a job as a Sandman, helping her neighbors fall asleep each night....and then spying on their dreams. She meddles in people's lives (again), resulting in some disastrous consequences while her aunts get harassed by a man in a giant orange cone costume. They have to get S...

This episode is brought to you by the letter "B" for Big Lebowski, Bee Movie, Burritos, Bananas, and Beverages. We're rewatching Season 3 Episode 22, "The Long and Winding Shortcut," and actually get some clues to the family secret solved! Sabrina also gets punished for trying to take a shortcut on solving said clues which leads to the bigger question - isn't all magic use a shortcut? Hilda and Ze...

This is the true story...of two friends...who love Sabrina the Teenage Witch...and have their conversations recorded...as they figure out what happens...in Season 3 Episode 21...Sabrina's Real World. (Pls don't sue us, MTV.) Salem sells the rights to Sabrina's life to a skeezy producer and now she's the star of her very own reality show. She tries being boring to get the show cancelled but the pro...

This week we're rewatching Season 3 Episode 20 "Sabrina's Pen Pal." Sabrina finds out her Other Realm pen pal, Martha, is a pal in the penitentiary...and Sabrina helped her escape custody. Not only does Martha continue her thieving ways in Westbrook, she hits on Mr. Kraft and isn't that truly the bigger crime? Sabrina and the aunts team up to try to stop Martha from stealing the most powerful gem...

What use would an Other Realm sheep-witch have with an oven? Who knows! We definitely don't find out in Season 3 Episode 19, "The Big Sleep." But BOY do we learn plenty of other trivia!  Sabrina tries to be proactive in solving the family secret and reaches out to a hidden family relative to ask for a clue. But this relative is highly offended at having her decade-long nap interrupted and fills th...

It was a dark and stormy night when Skye and Laura recapped Season 3 Episode 18, "Sabrina, the Teenage Writer." Not really but we did record at night. Sabrina is finally not perfect at something when she gets a C- on her short story. This sends her into a tail spin and she is determined to channel her inner William Faulkner to bring her grade up. We also learn more about William Faulkner than we c...

It's the inaugural episode of "Cauldron Talk" featuring everyone's favorite nerd, Curtis Andersen aka Gordie! We talk to him about his experience on the Sabrina set as well as other hit teen shows of the 90s and how special it was to be part of that cultural moment. We also talk about the two other things we have in common (a disdain for Ronald Reagan and asbestos exposures?) and he weighs in on t...

Season 3 Episode 17 is a bittersweet one for us. In "Salem, the Boy" we get some of Curtis Andersen's best work, but we also say goodbye to Gordie. This episode is a wild ride and brings up a lot of tangents, especially about how to explain the sudden house cat "soul" that inhabits Salem's cat body when Salem takes over Gordie's. Is it a cat version of man dough? Is it aliens? Is it a weird immort...

Would you rather date a genie, a Martian, or an enchanted tree? This is just one of the questions raised in our rewatch of Season 3 Episode 16 "Sabrina, the Matchmaker." Cousin Marigold comes for a visit, bringing along the "delightful" Amanda and a new addition named "Aly." Sabrina decides to do her Cupid-ordered matchmaking service by getting Marigold together with a mortal plumber that Sabrina...

Break out the rum and let the pirates out of your basement! It's time to recap Season 3 Episode 15 "Sabrina and the Pirates." We start off strong with a discussion about catnip alcohol and it only gets more nonsensical from there. Sabrina gets fake IDs for her and Valerie so they can sneak into an *NSYNC concert (we don't blame them) but that causes Sabrina's magic to become fake. Hilda and Zelda...

[Mariah Carey voice] It's TIIIIIIIIME! Skye finally finds out why they have a sticky note that says "Mr. Kraft. Wife. Has one." And BOY does Mr. Kraft have a whopper of an ex-wife. In Season 3 Episode 14 "Mrs. Kraft," Mr. Kraft moves in with the Spellmans which is the worst thing that has ever happened to Sabrina, or so it seems to her. Somehow Hilda manages to actually be mature about the whole t...

Do you love Sheryl Lee Ralph? Then have we got an episode for you! In Season 3 Episode 13, "What Price Harvey?," she guest stars as cousin Zsa Zsa and helps Sabrina give Harvey a little extra ambition. This leads Harvey to becoming the ultimate supervillain billionaire who just discovered "THE" internet and Sabrina has to find a way to give him some perspective. While Sabrina's boyfriend is tearin...

Sabrina ignores her aunts' warning not to cast charitable magic spells. She does so anyway. Chaos ensues, as per usual. This time her target is Valerie. Valerie's mom makes a wish on a wishbone that Valerie would be like Sabrina (harsh!). The wish is granted and pretty soon Valerie has magical powers! Meanwhile, Salem ropes Hilda into a moneymaking scheme involving art that predictably goes awry....

Sabrina erases Christmas. Laura is a reindeer. Skye is a lizard. It's just a normal week here at Something Witchy when we recap Season 3 Episode 11 "Christmas Amnesia." Sabrina is being a Grinch (again?) and this time actually makes Christmas disappear. She has to find a way to bring back the Christmas spirit to those around her or risk losing it forever, just as we've lost Bobunk. Eventually Sabr...

We're watching a teen sitcom that takes place in 1998 so OF COURSE it's time for an episode about how true beauty is on the inside. Cousin Susie comes to visit in Season 3 Episode 10 "Sabrina and the Beast" and decides Sabrina is too obsessed with appearances. Sabrina has to learn to look deeper as Harvey slowly becomes more beast than man. While this is happening, Salem and Hilda are being attack...

It's time to figure out what goes on inside Libby's head...literally. It's an episode reminiscent of everyone's favorite Magic School Bus adventure when Sabrina and Salem take a trip up Libby's nose and into her brain in Season 3 Episode 9 "Nobody Nose Libby Like Sabrina Knows Libby." The best way to describe this episode is with the phrase "drippy snot dangle." But we're not just talking about Li...

Wow, this is such an honor. We'd like to thank the Academy for recognizing our hard work. We'd like to thank all the little people who helped us reach this milestone of recapping 3.8: "And the Sabrina Goes To..." We couldn't have made it here without each and everyone of you. We'd also like to thank our families, friends, and cats who have supported us throughout this journey (maybe not so much th...

It's a bonus episode! Join us as we review the Sabrina soundtrack that was released in 1998 by Geffen Records (Laura got it for Christmas '98!). This CD is packed with hits from big names like Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, and...Pure Sugar? Maybe all the songs aren't complete hits but it's a perfect time capsule of late 90s pop music. Plus we get a bonus clue to the family secret!

Salem’s latest bad habit spirals out of control in You Bet Your Family when his gambling streak results in Sabrina, Hilda, and Zelda being lost in a poker game to the very shady Diamond Dave. As the Spellman family faces magical servitude, Sabrina races to fix Salem’s mistake before it’s too late. We unpack the episode’s chaos while also sharing our own gambling experiences, diving into medieval i...

It’s Halloween in Season 3, Episode 6, “Good Will Haunting,” and Sabrina’s creepy gift from Aunt Beulah (a porcelain Molly Dolly) turns movie night into full monster mayhem. While Harvey, Valerie, and Justin assume it’s just another prank, Sabrina battles a possessed doll unleashing Frankenstein, mummies, and total chaos. Meanwhile, Hilda and Zelda finally attend Aunt Beulah’s 500-year-running Hal...

This week we’re flipping out over Season 3, Episode 5: “Pancake Madness.” When Sabrina ignores her aunts’ very dramatic warning about the Spellman family’s dark pancake secret, she quickly discovers they weren’t kidding. What starts as “just one bite” spirals into full-blown breakfast addiction chaos, complete with cafeteria meltdowns, syrup hallucinations, and one extremely unhinged Melissa Joan...

This week on Something Witchy, we’re diving into Season 3, Episode 4: “The Pom Pom Incident,” an episode that firmly earns Sabrina a new title: terrible friend. When Valerie decides she wants to try out for the cheerleading squad, Sabrina’s “helpful” instincts take a sharp left turn into mind manipulation, questionable ethics, and a whole lot of pom poms. We unpack Sabrina’s control issues, Valeri...

This week on Something Witchy, Laura and Skye revisit Season 3, Episode 3: “Suspicious Minds,” an episode fueled entirely by jealousy, bad decisions, and one extremely questionable detective hire. When a school assignment pairs Harvey with Libby as a “married couple,” Sabrina insists she’s fine… right up until she hires Roland to spy on them and absolutely spirals. We break down the episode’s noir...

Embarrassment is contagious in Season 3, Episode 2, “Boy Was My Face Red.” When Valerie suffers a mortifying moment in the cafeteria, Sabrina tries to help by casting a spell to erase embarrassment altogether—but, as usual, magic comes with unintended consequences. What starts as a well-meaning attempt to save a friend quickly backfires, transferring the humiliation straight to Sabrina herself. We...