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The cast of ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ has zapped into EW to break down the hit sitcom’s most iconic scenes. To celebrate their 30th anniversary reunion tour, Melissa Joan Hart, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nate Richert, Jenna Leigh Green, Elisa Donovan and David Lascher revisit favorite episodes and share the behind-the-scenes stories that still have them laughing decades later.
Filmed at The Cabot in Beverly, MA for the 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' 30 Year Anniversary Live Reunion Tour.
Filmed at The Cabot in Beverly, MA for the 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' 30 Year Anniversary Live Reunion Tour.
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00:00Lately, I call her Melissa, but she will.
00:03She just appears to be a child.
00:05You're always like, hi, Niecy.
00:06I know.
00:06I have to remind you guys often that I'm not 20 anymore.
00:08I'm not 30.
00:09I'm not even 40.
00:11All right.
00:11That's enough.
00:12Stop it right there.
00:13Hi.
00:13We are the cast of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
00:15It's been 30 years since we zapped into your screens.
00:19And today, we're going to revisit some of the show's
00:21most iconic scenes.
00:27Something smells...
00:28handsome?
00:29Sabrina, you're going to love it.
00:30We're making you a dream date at a man, though.
00:33He'll be tall, dark, and yeasty.
00:35Now he lasts about four hours, which is perfect for your dance.
00:38This was season one.
00:40Caroline and I, Hilda and Zelda, decide to make Sabrina a dream date,
00:44and we make him out of dough.
00:45It comes in a box, and we knead it and shape it and turn it into a man.
00:50Give a personality.
00:51But we got something wrong.
00:53It was probably me that added it, but we had too much enthusiasm in it or something.
00:57Oh, that's the one you made for me.
00:58Yeah, we made, we made, yeah.
01:00I think, yeah, of course I got the recipe wrong.
01:02Man, am I happy to be here.
01:04Played by Brian Austin Green, who, funny enough, before I moved to L.A. to do Sabrina,
01:08Brian Austin Green was like the first friend I made in L.A.
01:11He was?
01:11And so I was like, I have to have him on the show.
01:13Was he ever, did you ever have a love interest with him in real life?
01:16No.
01:16No, we did not.
01:17He's adorable.
01:18Once we got a made for a Sabrina, then we made one for ourselves.
01:21Because we had extra dough left over.
01:22We had extra dough.
01:24Yeah.
01:24And Beth made the most gorgeous man, Eddie Cibrian, and I made the most lovable human being
01:30in the world, Tom Wilson, who was a jerk.
01:32Not Tom.
01:33My, I made a bad man out of dough.
01:36Hi, I'm Hilda.
01:38Would you get off my back?
01:40I've been looking for work.
01:42Stop rioting me.
01:43He just wanted to watch football and he was like, leave me alone.
01:46I love Tom Wilson.
01:47He later played my husband in another show.
01:48But anyway.
01:49Sabrina was raised by our two aunts, and because her parents were, like, non-existent.
01:55No, our dad's a witch, and I don't even know where he is.
01:57And mom became a ball of wax because she found out I was a witch or something like that.
02:01Something like that.
02:01I can't remember the lore, but I was being raised by my aunts.
02:04And, you know, they, they're basically like big sisters to me, I think, in the most part.
02:09I mean, you may be a little bit more motherly and you're more a big sister.
02:12I always, I always played it like, you know, Hilda was like 600 years old and she finally
02:16had a playmate and she was so excited to have somebody to play with.
02:21I was your pet.
02:21You were, you were my little baby pet.
02:22But I have to say, everyone comes up to me on the street and says, you're Sabrina's mom.
02:28Like, they all think of, think of me that way.
02:30And they always say, you're Sabrina's much younger sister.
02:32They do.
02:33I've never said that, but give it a shot.
02:35She's an older sister in real life and I'm a younger sister, so that was about it.
02:39She, like, shoved me and she's like, don't do this, don't, and I'm so used to it.
02:43I'm like, okay.
02:45She's like, that's not your mark, push, whatever.
02:47Yeah, we really are an entirely typecast in the show.
02:53So, yeah, we are our characters.
02:54But they have better hair and makeup, that's it, really.
02:57So what am I supposed to do?
02:58I mean, I can't tell my dad I want to go back home.
03:00Why not?
03:00You know, he needs to realize you're not fitting in.
03:02And besides, you came here for all the wrong reasons.
03:05So this is the first episode of season four where I get dance lessons from Britney Spears
03:08because my dad feels bad, lives in Paris or something, flies me in, I'm bored.
03:12So he just, you know, pings in Britney magically to give me dance lessons.
03:16Okay, we'll do it your way.
03:17Might go first.
03:18Easier, huh?
03:19Not really.
03:20All the stuff with Britney from Drive Me Crazy and, I mean, we hosted award shows or stuff
03:25together.
03:26Like, we were always together.
03:27We did, I think, what's it, TRL for MTV.
03:30We hosted that together.
03:32We did a bunch of, we were in Utah together doing something.
03:34Did you know her in Florida when you were in Nickelodeon?
03:36No, I didn't.
03:36She was a bit younger than me.
03:38But yeah, she ended up coming on the show.
03:40I was in her video.
03:40That was because of the movie.
03:42We were buddies.
03:43Like, we hung out whenever we could.
03:45She kind of had a very, very, very busy schedule.
03:48And I was sort of always on set.
03:50So we met up in the wildest places.
03:52Usually just different cities all around.
03:55So, of course we had to have her on the show.
03:57I actually think you're the most adorable dancer.
03:59You're like 90% dancer, 10% deaf nerd.
04:03Goofball?
04:03Yeah.
04:04I can't do it.
04:06We had a lot of people do the show because their kids loved it.
04:09And so a lot of big stars came on just because they thought it would be cool for their kids.
04:14I remember seeing Usher singing, teaching you some love songs.
04:19And I didn't know who he was at the time, but I was like, this guy is really good.
04:23You're like, this guy's good.
04:24Oh, sweet, sweet love.
04:28She's got some.
04:29He's going to make it.
04:30In sync for me.
04:31Oh, really?
04:32Well, they did perform, right?
04:34They ended up singing, I think, at the end.
04:36Yeah.
04:36We had Johnny Mathis for a Christmas show.
04:39He was amazing.
04:43Johnny Mathis?
04:44Cool.
04:44I think for me it would be Blondie.
04:46She played one of the witches in the witch panel or witch court.
04:48I would have loved him to see that.
04:50I loved Avril Lavigne.
04:51I didn't even talk to her.
04:52We had Avril Lavigne.
04:53Oh, that's right.
04:54We had Avril Lavigne.
04:54Avril Lavigne was on the show?
04:56I know, I was like, this is very cool.
04:57Everyone's like, she won't touch you.
04:58Did you say hi?
05:00Yeah, she was a little low-key.
05:02Not how they say low-key right now.
05:04I didn't tell the kids who's low-key now.
05:06She was really low-key.
05:08I'm going to ask her to sign my napkin.
05:09I'll tell you when I was not low-key, when we had the Violent Femmes on.
05:13Yeah, that was my favorite boy band we had.
05:15I was real, like what you saw was actual real me being.
05:20Those boys were my first concert and I was like, I have to have them on the show.
05:24And they actually did it.
05:26See like the other guy.
05:29Why are we at a volcano?
05:31I thought I just couldn't live in the mortal realm.
05:33Well, actually dear, you can't live in the mortal realm or the other realm.
05:36We didn't want to worry you.
05:37And besides, I never thought you'd turn out to be the evil one.
05:41Especially when you turned out to be the good one.
05:44This is the end of season three.
05:45This is when we find out what the Spellman family secret is.
05:48And my evil twin pushes me, that just gives it away, but she pushes me into the volcano.
05:53What was your evil twin's name again?
05:55Katrina.
05:56That's right.
05:57Oh.
05:58At this time the good twin shall push the evil twin into the volcano.
06:04Okie dokie.
06:06Oh no!
06:08She didn't!
06:09Why did you push Sabrina into the volcano?
06:13Because you told me to.
06:14Duh!
06:15It's interesting.
06:16I always say that Sabrina was kind of a tough character to play in a way for me because
06:21she wasn't daring and adventurous.
06:24She was trying to disappear and fade into the woodwork.
06:29But she luckily got to do these wild, crazy, weird things which kept it really, really interesting
06:34for me.
06:35So I think that the fact that Sabrina got to be an evil twin or got to be Alice in
06:39Wonderland
06:40or got to be a trapeze artist kept it really interesting.
06:42Sometimes when you're on a show and you're playing the same character for year after year
06:45after year and seven seasons worth, you get really bored and tired of the character.
06:50And I think that it being a magical show helped us all kind of stay in it a little bit
06:54more.
06:54But I do remember with this episode in particular on that volcano, I was vomiting my brains out
06:59and I asked our key grip to stand behind me in case I passed out and fell off.
07:04Because we were out in the sun, I'm puking off camera and I'm standing there trying to play two of
07:08me.
07:09So when I see that I'm like, oh god, are you okay?
07:12Like I think of little me like, are you alright?
07:14I always ask kids at any Comic Con, I say, do you know the Spelman Family Secret?
07:18Like I test people by how well they know the show if they know the Spelman Family Secret.
07:23Eat! Eat! Eat! Eat!
07:26Pancake Madness is my favorite episode and I think it's because I really got to do a lot of physical
07:31comedy.
07:32A lot of running around, I think I jumped in some trash cans, I was just shoving food in my
07:36mouth.
07:36Like it felt very vaudeville, like big Lucy-esque.
07:41Yeah, so I love this episode for that reason because I feel like I really got to be physical and
07:46do all the stuff.
07:48Shove pancakes in my mouth.
07:50That's a good effect, man.
07:51That's on a green screen and I'm literally standing there with my hand up and I just had to keep
07:55my mouth open
07:55and they were like, no wider, no way tilt your head down, no way tilt it this way.
07:59We have a fantastic special effects guy, Steve Kolbeck, who went on to do Game of Thrones.
08:03So only the best for us.
08:06I remember we had to stay very still because the fast motion thing was happening around us.
08:10So I was just focused on not moving at all.
08:15I was usually the one getting things, you know, shoved in my face or falling into things and stuff like
08:19that.
08:19So it was awesome to sit back and watch someone else do it.
08:22Somebody else do it.
08:24I love your hair.
08:25I love all your looks.
08:27But I always thought that haircut was so cute on season one.
08:29Well, I did the bob cut for season one because that's the way she was in the Archie comic.
08:33That's right.
08:34Yeah, so I guess this is a big meme or gif or jif or whatever the kids are saying these
08:38days.
08:39But I have not used this one myself.
08:42I use more nasty ones than the pancake one.
08:44But apparently this has taken off in the interweb.
08:48Oh, I get to light up my Christmas wreath every year.
08:51With magic.
08:52That's my meme.
08:58And that is...
09:00Cool.
09:01It was season two, River of Candy Corn.
09:04Sabrina, how did you rig all this Halloween stuff up?
09:06It's awesome.
09:07Oh, a little imagination and some yarn.
09:09I swear to God, I ate so much candy corn on this.
09:12I didn't eat candy corn for about 10 years after this.
09:15I don't remember filming this.
09:16I don't know how we did it.
09:17But a lot of fans talked to me about this episode and loved this.
09:20I think because it was so amazing that so much dumped on the set.
09:23I mean, we must have done it in one take because there's no way you could do that again.
09:26Yeah, and I remember everybody had to be clear of it because it was a lot of weight coming down.
09:30Yeah.
09:31And it was dangerous.
09:32Oh, right. It was actually heavy.
09:33Attention, kids. I urge you to accept me as your ruler.
09:38Wow.
09:39The cat talks.
09:41Say, ah, sure.
09:42Ah, sure.
09:44Loser.
09:46Loser.
09:47So you're looking at the cat, right?
09:50And they trained the real cat to move its lips by putting a long spoon with cat food on it.
09:56And Kathy Pittman, the world's greatest, would be over here clicking.
10:00And so she'd get the cat's attention.
10:03And then the cat would go, right?
10:05So it looked like it was talking.
10:07But every time it clicked, I spoke the first couple of episodes.
10:11I was fully trained.
10:13And Nick was over there.
10:14And it took forever to not turn.
10:16Remember?
10:16Yeah.
10:17We would turn and look at Nick.
10:18And then we're like, no.
10:19You're with the cat.
10:19Yeah, so the first few seasons, Nick was on set.
10:22He was one of our writers.
10:22And he just ended up reading it in like a table read.
10:25And he got the part of Salem.
10:27You're kidding.
10:27That's how he got it?
10:28Yeah, he just read it.
10:29And they were like, well, I think we found our Salem.
10:31And so then he's half writer, but he's also nearby because he's writing.
10:36But then he would come to set to do the voice of the cat whenever we were filming.
10:40Not rehearsals and stuff, but for filming.
10:41And then he got a job on King of Queens, full-time showrunner.
10:44And he left us.
10:45And so then the puppeteers that would stand on the side,
10:48they started doing the voice of Salem.
10:50Is there any way I can talk you out of going off to save the world?
10:53This is season four, Harvey the Superhero.
10:56But I already saved it.
10:57You're my world.
11:03So many actual disappointed women in my life who thought they were getting Harvey.
11:10This is the first episode I ever directed.
11:12I just remember because I still have the front of that airplane.
11:16Oh, really?
11:17What?
11:17The whole crew.
11:18You have the airplane?
11:19Well, it was breakaway.
11:21What do you call it?
11:22The things.
11:22The thingies that spin.
11:24They were breakaway.
11:25Yeah, the propeller was breakaway.
11:26And the whole crew signed it for me.
11:28And I still have it hanging up in my house.
11:29A daredevil like Lindy would settle for a straight line.
11:33Let's make this interesting.
11:34Martin Mull was someone we all adored.
11:36He was, rest his soul, one of the best co-stars you could ever ask for.
11:40He was funny, smart, witty, kind, all those things.
11:45But Nate had the closest relationship with him.
11:46Yeah, we had the double-sided trailers.
11:49So when we had downtime, we would sit and play guitars.
11:53Jam out.
11:54Hang out.
11:55Talk about it.
11:56We built some dining room chairs in his garage.
12:00They were super uncomfortable, but they looked pretty cool.
12:03And so funny, he would ad-lib and crack us up.
12:07Yeah.
12:07So witty, so quick.
12:08So amazing and so talented.
12:11And so, and really very kind.
12:13Yeah.
12:13Really generous to work with.
12:15Yeah.
12:15And I'm so grateful I have two of his paintings, because he was such a talented painter, too.
12:20Yeah.
12:20We all have this.
12:21I really, I have to say, of all the people that were on the show before I came on, I
12:26felt like,
12:27gosh, I can't believe Martin Mull's gone.
12:30I was so, such a fan of his, too.
12:32Like, and he was just so great.
12:34I was once hosting the Writers Guild Awards, and Martin was helping me with my, like, lines.
12:39And sometimes this line gets credited to Steve Martin.
12:43But this is a Martin Mull quote about writers.
12:47Some people have a way with words.
12:50Some people not have way.
12:53That's great.
12:54Hey, guys.
12:54Libby, can I sign you up for the Adopt-A-Grandparent program?
12:58This is from season one, and it was a favorite episode called Sweet Charity.
13:03Actually, I came over here to tell you guys about my new community service.
13:06It's the Adopt-A-Life program.
13:08May I sign you up?
13:09Don't answer.
13:10For a question.
13:11Is he a freak?
13:13Frizzy freak?
13:14Frizzy?
13:15These happen to be curls.
13:16Let it go, Jenny.
13:17This is Michelle Boudouin, who played Marnie in the original movie, but she played Jenny in
13:21the first season of Sabrina as my best friend.
13:23She's the only one that came with me from the movie into the series.
13:29What's going on?
13:31Some foreign exchange students are sitting at our table.
13:34Deport them.
13:35Deport them.
13:36Oh my...
13:37Did you get dressed in the dark this morning?
13:39No.
13:41How did this happen?
13:43Quick, switch socks with each other.
13:44You are the original.
13:45You're the OG mean girl.
13:46Libby made fetch happen.
13:48Mm-hmm.
13:48You did?
13:50Oh, oh, oh.
13:50Good.
13:52Really, Chloe.
13:53Oh!
13:54There you go.
13:54Oh, fine.
13:55I'm always so honored when people say, you know, Libby was the OG mean girl, because we
14:01have had some pretty iconic films and TV shows since then with the typical mean girl.
14:05But I like to say that Libby always did it with a smile, which just twisted that knife
14:10a tiny bit more.
14:11Especially at that time, I was such a sponge.
14:13I took inspiration from everyone, every woman on set with me, every director we had.
14:21I just wanted to learn, but I remember specifically when I was really young watching the I Love
14:28Lucy episode with the grapes.
14:33And I watched it over and over and over and over again.
14:38And I just thought it would be so cool one day to get to do something where you can be
14:45an actress, but also do really, really ridiculous things.
14:47And on this show, I got to do that.
14:49Stop complaining.
14:50Harvey's playing through an injury and we're here to support him.
14:53Yeah, anything for your ex-boyfriend.
14:55Who happens to be my current boyfriend.
14:58I'm dating number 10.
15:00He's the star.
15:01This is season six where Josh is dating Sabrina and Morgan is dating Harvey.
15:08And Sabrina helps Harvey in his hockey game and Morgan gets very excited.
15:14You get very jealous.
15:15I get very jealous.
15:16Josh gets very jealous.
15:18I knew I could count on you.
15:20You are the greatest.
15:25I thought you were somebody else.
15:27I'm really sorry.
15:27He did rivalry prelude right there.
15:30They also stole this from Sabrina.
15:32Yeah.
15:33He's stealing him for the kiss.
15:35You know, he never played like this before I was his girlfriend.
15:39Yeah, well, if you're his girlfriend, why is he waving at mine?
15:42Oh, he's not waving at me.
15:44He's just trying to get the vendor.
15:47Get that guy some nuts!
15:49Get that guy some nuts!
15:50The love thing went round and round again.
15:52I love that you've got like a Steve Jobs thing going on.
15:55With your turtleneck.
15:56I had like a full beard.
15:58And I don't remember.
15:59I honestly don't remember saying those words.
16:01I do not remember this at all.
16:04I don't remember the scene at all.
16:04That is all brand new to me.
16:06I just watched that for the first time.
16:07You're like, wow!
16:08You're like, I'm funny.
16:09Me too.
16:09I do.
16:10I'll take guy some nuts.
16:12And the only part I remember is you going, that's my boyfriend.
16:15You do?
16:15I remember that, but I don't remember this.
16:17I really like, I don't think a hat has ever looked better on me.
16:20That is a great hat.
16:21I have such a big head.
16:22I can never wear hats.
16:23That's so funny.
16:25David came into it earlier than the girls did, than you and Soleil and Trevor.
16:30He came in in five, right?
16:32Yeah, they came in when we switched from ABC to Warner Brothers.
16:35And we went to what we call the college years.
16:37And so Roxy and Morgan and Trevor's character became my roommates in college, but in like a house.
16:46But before that, you opened a coffee shop.
16:49Caroline opened a coffee shop.
16:51Caroline opened a coffee shop.
16:51And you were working there.
16:52That's right.
16:52And that's how I felt for you.
16:53We had some fun stuff.
16:55Josh never knew that she was a witch.
16:57Ever.
16:58No, I don't think so.
16:58And Harvey did.
17:00And Harvey did.
17:01Can we talk about the fact that you're a witch?
17:05I was never four, Josh.
17:07I always thought you should be with Harvey.
17:08Ouch.
17:09Ouch.
17:10Ouch.
17:10But I love you.
17:11I do.
17:11I mean, that's the debate.
17:13I felt like you were 35 and she was 20.
17:15That's all I'm saying.
17:17I needed a more mature man.
17:18They had me in a beard.
17:19They weren't playing against that.
17:21You do.
17:21Yeah, you were a coffee house guy.
17:24You had to have a little.
17:25I think it was hard for us to think of her growing up.
17:28You know, cause she was like ours in the house with us.
17:32And it was just, it was just hard for us to think of her as like growing up.
17:36You have like certain dynamics.
17:38Like she's like, lately I've, I've, I call her Melissa, but she will.
17:43She just appears to be a child to me.
17:46You're always like, hi Niecy.
17:47I know.
17:47I have to remind you guys often that I'm not 20 anymore.
17:49Yeah.
17:49I'm not 30.
17:50I'm not even 40.
17:51All right.
17:51That's enough.
17:52Stop it right there.
17:53You're 41 and that's just as much as you can do.
17:56Okay.
17:57Sorry.
17:58Hey guys, thanks for watching.
17:59And if you want even more Sabrina, catch us.
18:01We are on our live reunion tour right now.
18:03We're going to be hitting 11 cities.
18:05So check it out on our website.
18:06It's SabrinaCastReunionLive.com.
18:09See you there.