It's Halloween and instead of celebrating the holiday with her aunts, Sabrina gets a job at a nearby coffee shop and spends it working. Her aunts warn her that, because she is a witch, she can't run from Halloween, but Sabrina doesn't listen. At the coffee shop, Sabrina learns that her boss, Josh, isn't staying with her to help, as he has to finish a paper for college, and Sabrina is left alone in the shop. She is freaked out because she starts hearing voices and Dreama comes along and scares her to death with her costume. To makes things worse, a bunch of zombies appear to freak the girls.
The undead arrive at Sabrina's job.
Meanwhile, Hilda and Zelda anticipate dinner with the famous writer, Edgar Allen Poe, but the dinner isn't all that they expected.
This is the last episode in which Sabrina tries to run from Halloween. She decides to embrace it in Seasons 5 and 6 (Season 7 has no Halloween episode), and tries to convince her friends of the importance of the holiday.
This episode title is a reference to the movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
David Lascher joins the cast as Josh Blackhart. Lascher co-starred in the teen comedy series Clueless on which Melissa Joan Hart crossed over to as Sabrina. He is the third Clueless cast member to become a Sabrina character.
The Roman numerals in the title mean 81, as this is the eighty-first episode of the series.
The man whose face that Sabrina hallucinated as a monster resembles vampires as seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel. Both shows aired on The WB network, which Sabrina moves to following this season.
Josh and Sabrina mention their "special pumpkin-flavored coffee" has not been popular. This episode predates Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte test In fall of 2003 by four years, and its sale across all U.S. Starbucks stores in 2004 by five years. Pumpkin Spice Latte ultimately became Starbucks' most popular seasonal beverage. [1]
