Hush

"Hush" is the 10th episode of season 4 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The Gentlemen steal the voices of the population of Sunnydale, rendering everyone in the town (including the Scooby Gang) unable to speak. Sunnydale is under a quarantine caused by the "mysterious" lost voices. The Gentlemen, accompanied by The Footmen, wearing un-tied straitjackets, are trying to gather together seven human hearts from the residents of Sunnydale, who, of course, cannot scream or alert anyone to their being attacked and can't leave the city. Using an overhead projector, music, and drawings, Giles reveals that the only thing that can defeat The Gentleman is a real human scream, so the focus turns to how Buffy can regain her voice.

Quotes and trivia

 * The electro/shoegaze group, The Very Hush Hush, has alluded in interviews to receiving inspiration for their name from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, rather than the more obvious reference of the tag-line for L.A. Confidential ("Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush").


 * Joss Whedon created this episode after hearing repeatedly that the crucial part of his series was the dialogue.


 * Joss Whedon wanted "The Gentleman" to be very nightmarish, hoping that they would be a monster children would remember being scared of later in their lives.


 * The original rating of "Hush" received 6.6 million viewers, the highest rated episode of the season.


 * For Halloween Horror Nights 15, Universal Orlando created a haunted maze based off the episode titled "The Body Collectors". The Gentlemen's masks and costumes along with the Footmen (or Workers, as they were titled) were all practical copies of the Buffy episode, however the storyline revolved around the men collecting bodies instead of voices and dismembering them.