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If The Shoe Fits
Approximate shooting date: December 1998
Production number: V0619
Guest Stars:
Ted Raimi
Alexandra Tydings
Cast:
Olivia Tennet
Chris Ryan
Ted Clarke
Alistair Browning
Douglas Kamo
Sally Spencer-Harris
Hilary Cleary
Credits:
Written by Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster
Edited by Jim Prior
Directed by Josh Becker
First line:
Xena: "Uh. Oh, I hate that. It's late. Gabrielle? Gabrielle? Oh, the one morning I ask you to wake me up for a change. Just when I get Zantar right where I want him-- I go and oversleep. Well, thank you very much! Rope. Rope."
Last line:
Joxer: "Or he could be a monkey-- and his tail gets smaller."
Disclaimer:
*No Fractured Fables were harmed in the production of this motion picture.
Things to know about the episode:
- In the camp scene when Joxer is telling his story and Xena is sitting on her *ss, look at Gabrielle in the background as she rummages around looking for the oil. She's got the STUNT DOUBLE HAIR! It's not there before that and it goes away in the very next scene! - according to Josh Becker, that bit was filmed after ROC got her haircut.
-- Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor appeared at the The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras of February 1999, and Lawless wore the gown Miss Amphipolis wore in HERE SHE COMES, and O'Connor wore the gown she wore as Tyrella in IF THE SHOE FITS, including tiara!
Things to look out for:
- King, Melos, played by Alistair Browning... if you only watch XWP, you wouldn't know him at all, but if you watch HTLJ as well you were probably remembering him as Bronagh, the Irish chieftain, in Resurrection, Render Unto Caesar, and Darkness Rising. He also played Meniskos in Two Men And A Baby (remembering my high-school physics vaguely - isn't Meniskos the skin on the surface of water of something?)
- Chris Ryan, who played Zantar, doubling as the Evil (cross-dressing) Stepfather, probably looked familiar too. He should have, if you know all your XWP eps - he played Virgilius, the biggest and hairiest of the warlords, in Ten Little Warlords. As a point of curiosity, Marshall, the spaced out ex-husband on Absolutely Fabulous (love that show) is played by Chris Ryan - but that is an entirely different Chris Ryan.
- ... the two sons of the Evil Stepfather were played by Ted Clarke, who has previously been seen as Thoracles in Warrior...Priestess...Tramp and as a "Young Man" in the HTLJ ep Reunions, and Douglas Kamo, who should be particularly recognisable from his role as Dorian, the "Spartan" in One Against An Army, and who also played Sullus in The Execution.
-Hilary Cleary, who played the Old Woman (Dite in disguise... now why does that make me think of an *old* song?) has never been credited on X:WP before, but she appeared in Hercules in the Underworld as the Gryphon Elder.
- Watch as the whole party is on the road back to Alesia's castle; Gab and Joxer are playing rock-scissors-paper in the background. And at least ONE thing does go Gab's way today - she gets to give Joxer a whack.
- The disco scene is the same place as the dance contest in HTLJ's "...And Fancy Free" episode with the Widow Twanky. You might also recognize the organ that shoots out steam.
-Xena steals Gabrielle's top because she has no rope (which was fun because Gabrielle altered it to make it more "sexy". We can see that she only has about a foot of rope left. Later, however, she attacks Zantar and his brothers by coming down and up a tree (with Zantar in tow) using a rope.