In an alternate universe, Sabrina Morningstar meets a cast of familiar faces — and investigates the thin line between fact and fiction.
Tropes in this episode:
- Author Powers: As the Head Writer, Salem can supposedly make things happen by speaking it. In reality, the cast and crew are found out to be the servants of the Void (and not Salem, the Endless) when Sabrina utters a surprise line that, with the Void coming, she’s going to the store to buy some candles and Zelda and Hilda say that is not the correct line.
- Although, when both Salem and Sabrina escape to where the magic mirror is, Salem is able to stop Hilda and Zelda run after them writing in a twist of Hilda's ankle and Zelda have a sneezing fit.
- Crapsaccharine World: This universe is seemingly just a sitcom where everyone is nice and taken care of, Hilda and Zelda look different, and Salem is a talking cat and the Head Writer. It all crumbles down once Sabrina discovers the rejected cast and crew are turned into canned food, Salem is the Endless, the Void is trying (almost successfully) to destroy everything including the Endless (supposedly indestructible by the Void, and vice-versa), and the cast and crew are actually servants of the Void.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Salem turns out to be the avatar of the Endless, one of the Eldritch Terrors.
- Don't Call Me "Sir": Blackwood tells Sabrina to call him "Augustus" and avoid formalities when she treats him as "Father Blackwood". (Even though he's a Director and not a priest in this universe, he doesn't point that out to her.)
- Evil Versus Oblivion: Sabrina gets the Endless on her side by convincing him that the Void will destroy everything including him.
- Faux Affably Evil: The Sitcom actors (and talking cat) initially come off like the characters in that other show, with Salem being an endearing megalomaniac Deadpan Snarker, and the aunts cheerily trying to help their dear niece out. Turns out Salem is The Endless and using Ambrose to kill people, and the aunts are serving The Void.
- Forbidden Zone: Sitcom!Hilda and Zelda tell Sabrina there is a door she is forbidden to enter, which is where the cast and crew go to when they are rejected. Of course, Sabrina goes there only to discover that Ambrose was a) himself a rejectee and b) forced by Salem to kill (other) rejectees and turn them to canned food (with the leftovers reserved for him) or be himself killed (and someone else taking his place), as well as that c) Salem is the Endless.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The canned food the people eat - and that Sitcom!Hilda and Zelda find so delicious - is actually the rejected cast and crew that Ambrose was forced to kill and turn to food by Salem.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Sabrina learns quickly that the real star of the sitcom world is Salem, a big old nod to the 90s character being so popular,
- Red Herring: Sabrina suspects that Blackwood was the evil guy in this universe because a) he was already the evil guy in her home universe and b) he's the Director. However, she didn't realize she was on a television show, which is Writer-centerednote , as opposed to films, which are Director-centerednote .
- Remake Cameo: Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick appear as the sitcom versions of Hilda and Zelda, who are clearly based on the original Sabrina the Teenage Witch series. The actual Hilda and Zelda of the other universe also appear as their stand-ins.
- Sequel Episode: Starts with the scene from two episodes ago when Sabrina Morningstar has to flee to another universe (in order to avoid both Morningstar and Sabrina Spellman attracting two parallel universes which would mutually collide) and finds herself in a sitcom world where her aunts look very different and Salem talks.
- Stylistic Suck: Bordering on Take That!, Salem is a clear parody of the original series' version of him, being played by an obviously fake-looking puppet that looks much worse than the one the original series used.
- Take That!: Given that Ambrose took over most of Sitcom!Salem's role and backstory, no wonder that, when the latter could, he would demote the former to extra with such a degrading job as killing people and turning them to canned food.
- Talking Animal: In-Universe, Sabrina is surprised when Salem just talks to her like any person would. For the viewers, this is the return of Talking!Salem just like in the sitcom. This time, however, he's voiced by Luke Cook (who also played Lucifer) and not by Nick Bakay.
- Trapped in Another World: A universe where Salem is Head Writer of the sitcom version of Sabrina's universe when her magic mirror that served as a gateway between universes was hidden away in a prop storage on the other side of the sound stage (which can be accessed through a fake wall on the main stage).
- Written by Cast Member: Salem Saberhagen is the Head Writer in the alternate universe.
- Yin-Yang Clash: Salem claims that the Endless (that is, himself) and the Void have co-existed since forever and that, unlike the other terrors, they're opposites and equals. Sabrina claims that, no, the Void is coming for everything including the Endless, that the former is the end of the latter, and proves this by looking at the script, which ceases having written words on page 29 (it's just a bunch of blank pages after that). Later they discover that the cast and crew are servants of the Void.
