Sam's Spooky Chair

One of my all-time faves from that magical third year. For starters, we get a DIFFERENT
actor playing the client (always refreshing), and a cute story.

As for special effects, I still cannot - to this day - figure out how that chair was manipulated!!!
It certainly wasn't wires. My guess is it was some sort of remote control. But seriously, the
way it kicks, bows, and quivers (!) is still astonishing, even in 2017!

This episode was clearly the "inspiration" (that's a nice way of wording it) for the bedwarmer
two-parter. But this episode is much cleaner, wittier, and fresh, especially with
Montgomery's bouncy and pert performance. True, Serena is a joy in part two of the
bedwarmer ep, but I still think this one wins. And anyway, the bedwarmer just floats on
strings. Not particularly imaginative.

Incidentally, hardcore fans will recall that the chair was (effectively) used again in the
season four opener, "Long Live the Queen." Glad the producers got more use out of it.

Sidenote: In the first "Bewitched" book, Liz recalled that everyone was terrified that
some innocent bystander would accidentally sit in that chair (actually, there were two
chairs - the other that you COULD sit in). She recalled a prop man named Fairchild, who
loved to take naps on the set. She said everyone envisioned him sitting on the
(collapsable) chair.

P.S.: My spell-check went red when I wrote "collapsable". Sam uses the word in the tag
of this episode. Isn't it a real word???