There is also a link in that article to a playboy interview with Alyson, done before season six started. I had never read it before. It made me blush. A lot.

LilaBramble | November 20, 07:48 CET

The moment in The Puppet Show where Willow calculates the square root of 841 without thinking about the deeper meaning of the question, always reminds me that I didn't mind being used as a "walking calculator" in school. People could ask me a sum like this and in a sort of paralel process I calculated it and gave the answer almost before I consciously had understood the question. In the meanwhile I could just continu doing what I was doing. (OT: This is a great way to practice calculating by head).

This was the first time I saw a geek on TV, where I felt I could identify with the geekness of the character. (And as the story above attests to, in some respects I was pretty much a geek myself).

Celebithil | November 20, 13:42 CET

Yeah, the Playboy interview.... Wow, Alyson, I never knew.

Celluloid Novelist | November 20, 15:57 CET

I remember reading that Playboy interview before a little while back. Who would of thought that our little Aly would be so ... naughty! You always have to watch the quiet ones, hehe.

The Watcher | November 20, 17:23 CET

She's number three in the Slashdot poll. Not that it's a legitimate poll in any way, since they left out David Nabbit.

David Nabbit | November 22, 02:45 CET