Superstar

"Superstar" is the 17th episode of season four of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In "Superstar", Jonathan Levinson casts a spell to cause all of Sunnydale to believe that he is the titular "Superstar": he created the Internet, writes best-sellers, leads the basketball team into victory after victory, stars in The Matrix - and even fights vampires better than anyone. True to the show's theme that there are always consequences, Jonathan's spell comes with a price. It conjures up a monster which endangers the town. As Jonathan reluctantly joins Buffy as she fights this monster, he loses more and more of his superstardom, until he has thrown the monster over the abyss, and has returned to his mundane, unpopular geek, self.

Quotes and trivia

 * The immediate prequel to this episode is Jane Espenson's Buffy comic, Jonathan.
 * The opening credits have been modified to incorporate Jonathan into the scenes so as if he always was part of the gang in this alternate reality.
 * When Jonathan is playing the trumpet in the Bronze, he is actually synching the notes, fingering it as instructed by a family member of his.