Witch

This Witch is a false door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman in the episode "Judy, You're Not Yourself Today".

Early Life

During a absence of her husband Donald, Judy was visited by a old door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman. Notifying her beautiful pendentifs, the old woman lend her one. While Judy admires herself in the mirror, the old woman with another similar pendant provokes a strange and short green light. A few hours later, Donald, returned to the house, looking for Judy, falls on the lady claiming him to be Judy saying that she was attacked by a witch. In spite of she tells sincere facts on their marriage, he does not believe her and locks her into a cupboard. He is contacted by a friend, telling him that Judy, apparently become an aggressive woman, is at the airport. Picking her up, he notes her personality's change and her new look, deducting that she is bewitched. He succeeds in drawing her attention, by persuading her that she had a cancer. She provokes a strange green flash with the pendant, apparently redeemed herself. On returning to their house, he shoots the witch and buries her in the cellar. Three months later, not succeeding in destroying the pendant, he locks it into a safe, not noticing that Judy is strangely attracted by the jewel. In night, coming down in the kitchen, he finds in front of the living-dead witch, still claiming to be Judy. His wife intervenes. Not knowing who is the witch, he succeeds in making her to reveal him by misleading her on a car which the couple does not still have to buy, then shoots the young woman. However, she provokes a new exchange of body, then the old lady teleports, letting Judy, returned in her original body, die in the arms of her saddened husband.

Behind the Scenes

• She was portrayed by Frances Bay and Carol Kane.
• She was plausibly inspired by the witches depicted in Brothers Grimm's tales, notably the evil queen in "Snow White".
• Frances Bay portrayed the Mother Superior in the movie Jumeaux with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Frances Bay portrayed Mrs. Tremond in Twink Peaks with Kyle MacLachlan (Earl Raymond Digs), Grace Zabriskie (Mrs. Colbert), Miguel Ferrer (Mitch Bruckner), Eve Brent (Female Judge), Mark Lowenthal (Unidentified lawyer), Troy Evans (Al), Ian Abercrombie (Fulton), Gavan O'Herlihy (Richard) and Lance Davis (Art Goldstein).