The Big Sleep
Original airing
March 12, 1999
Directed by
Kenneth R. Koch
The Big Sleep is the nineteenth episode of the third season of Sabrina the Teenage Witch , and the sixty-ninth episode overall.
Summary [ ]
While trying to discover more clues to the family secret , Sabrina accidentally wakes up her Aunt Dorma , the "black sheep" of the family, during her ten-year long nap. Unfortunately, this enrages her, and for revenge, she fills the Spellman house with poppies, which cause Hilda and Zelda fall asleep instantaneously. Since Sabrina is half-mortal, she remains awake but gets drowsy as she tries to handle the incident, gradually getting sleepy until she is as out cold as her aunts. To complicate things, Valerie , Harvey , and Libby come to Sabrina's house to study for a brain buster competition at school. It is up to Sabrina to juggle between studying and helping her aunts who begin acting out their dreams.
Meanwhile, Salem goes to war with their neighbor Mr. Tobias, after he continually runs over their trash cans and mailbox.
Cast [ ]
Starring [ ]
Guest Starring [ ]
Hap Lawrence as Shepherd
Rosalind Ayres as Aunt Dorma
Quotes [ ]
Magic Notes [ ]
Uses of Magic [ ]
Spells [ ]
To Call Aunt Dorma on the Crystal Ball [ ]
(Cast by Sabrina Spellman )
Aunt Dorma pick up this call,
Or reverse the charges on this crystal ball.
To Make Hilda and Zelda act out their dreams [ ]
(Cast by Sabrina Spellman )
To keep my aunts from spending eternity in bed,
Make them act out what's currently going through their heads.
To Make it Snow in the Spellman House [ ]
(Cast by Sabrina Spellman )
To wake my aunts from terrible rot,
Send snow to my house, make sure it's a lot.
Trivia [ ]
The plot of this episode is a reference to The Wizard of Oz , in which the Wicked Witch of the West uses poppies to make the protagonists sleep.
This is the second and last time that Valerie's cheerleading status is mentioned after she made second-string in an earlier episode of the season, "The Pom Pom Incident ."
Aunt Dorma's clue to the family secret is a cage full of birds, also known as an aviary.
The Big Sleep is also the title of a novel by Raymond Chandler.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch episodes
SEASON 1
Pilot • Bundt Friday • The True Adventures of Rudy Kazootie • Terrible Things • A Halloween Story • Dream Date • Third Aunt From the Sun • Magic Joel • Geek Like Me • Sweet and Sour Victory • A Girl and Her Cat • Trial by Fury • Jenny's Non-Dream • Sabrina Through the Looking Glass • Hilda and Zelda: the Teenage Years • Mars Attracts • First Kiss • Sweet Charity • Cat Showdown • Meeting Dad's Girlfriend • As Westbridge Turns • The Great Mistake • The Crucible • Troll Bride
SEASON 2
Sabrina Gets Her License (Part 1) • Sabrina Gets Her License (Part 2) • Dummy For Love • Dante's Inferno • A Doll's Story • Sabrina, the Teenage Boy • A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It • Inna Gadda Sabrina • Witch Trash • To Tell a Mortal • Oh What A Tangled Spell She Weaves • Sabrina Clause • Little Big Kraft • Five Easy Pieces of Libby • Finger Lickin' Flu • Sabrina and The Beanstalk • The Equalizer • The Band Episode • When Teens Collide • My Nightmare, the Car • Fear Strikes Up a Conversation • Quiz Show • Disneyworld • Sabrina's Choice • Rumor Mill • Mom vs. Magic
SEASON 3
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Season Opener • Boy Was My Face Red • Suspicious Minds • The Pom Pom Incident • Pancake Madness • Good Will Haunting • You Bet Your Family • And The Sabrina Goes To... • Nobody Nose Libby Like Sabrina Knows Libby • Sabrina and the Beast • Christmas Amnesia • Whose So-Called Life Is It Anyway? • What Price Harvey? • Mrs. Kraft • Sabrina and the Pirates • Sabrina, the Matchmaker • Salem, the Boy • Sabrina, the Teenage Writer • The Big Sleep • Sabrina's Pen Pal • Sabrina's Real World • The Long and Winding Shortcut • Sabrina, the Sandman • Silent Movie • The Good, the Bad and the Luau
SEASON 4
No Place Like Home • Dream a Little Dreama Me • Jealousy • Little Orphan Hilda • Spoiled Rotten • Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace • Prelude to a Kiss • Aging, Not So Gracefully • Love Means Having to Say You're Sorry • Ice Station Sabrina • Salem and Juliette • Sabrina, Nipping at Your Nose • Now You See Her, Now You Don't • Super Hero • Love in Bloom • Welcome Back, Duke • Salem's Daughter • Dreama, the Mouse • The Wild, Wild Witch • She's Baaack! • The Four Faces of Sabrina • The End of an Era
SEASON 5
Every Witch Way but Loose • Double Time • Heart of the Matter • You Can't Twin • House of Pi's • The Halloween Scene • Welcome, Traveler • Some of My Best Friends Are Half-Mortals • Lost at 'C' • Sabrina's Perfect Christmas • My Best Shot • Tick-Tock Hilda's Clock • Sabrina's New Roommate • Making the Grade • Love is a Many Complicated Thing • Sabrina, the Muse • Beach Blanket Bizarro • Witchright Hall • Sabrina, the Activist • Do You See What I See? • Sabrina's Got Spirit • Finally!
SEASON 6
Really Big Season Opener • Sabrina's Date with Destiny • What's News • Murder on the Halloween Express • The Gift of Gab • Thin Ice • Hex, Lies & No Videotape • Humble Pie • A Birthday Witch • Deliver Us from E-mail • Cloud Ten • Sabrina and the Candidate • I Think I Love You • The Arrangement • Time After Time • Sabrina and the Kiss • The Competition • I, Busybody • Guilty! • The Whole Ball of Wax • Driving Mr. Goodman • I Fall to Pieces
SEASON 7
Total Sabrina Live! • The Big Head • Call Me Crazy • Shift Happens • Free Sabrina • Sabrina Unplugged • Witch Way Out • Bada-Ping! • It's a Hot, Hot, Hot, Hot Christmas • Ping, Ping A Song • The Lyin', the Witch and the Wardrobe • In Sabrina We Trust • Sabrina in Wonderland • Present Perfect • Cirque du Sabrina • Getting To Nose You • Romance Looming • Spellmanian Slip • You Slay Me • A Fish Tale • What a Witch Wants • Soul Mates