How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans

Episode aired Apr 6, 2000
TV-PG
42m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

824

YOUR RATING

Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs, and Shannen Doherty in Charmed (1998)

Drama Fantasy Mystery

An old family friend (Anne Haney) appeals to Piper, Phoebe and Prue to stop a demon (Cameron Bancroft) who peels the skin from corpses; Piper doesn't want to be a witch anymore.An old family friend (Anne Haney) appeals to Piper, Phoebe and Prue to stop a demon (Cameron Bancroft) who peels the skin from corpses; Piper doesn't want to be a witch anymore.An old family friend (Anne Haney) appeals to Piper, Phoebe and Prue to stop a demon (Cameron Bancroft) who peels the skin from corpses; Piper doesn't want to be a witch anymore.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

824

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Goofs
Other times the "call a witch's power" potion was used, the potion called for a fresh human heart for each witch's powers a person wanted - for example, earlier in the season when Tawatha did it. "Aunt Gail" didn't have 3 fresh human hearts. Also, when Tawatha used the spell, the Charmed one didn't have to drink a potion. When Aunt Gail did it, she put a potion in iced tea for the girls to drink and lose their powers. In addition to this, Aunt Gail gives the page from the book of shadows to Phoebe for them to reverse the magic and get their powers back from the demon. The sisters didn't have a fresh human heart to include in the potion either. Yet the girls have a potion to give to Cryto.

Quotes
Piper Halliwell: All right, I'm only doing this for you guys. But if I get killed, I'm gonna haunt both of you forever.
Prue Halliwell: Yeah. Yeah.

Connections
Referenced in The House of Halliwell: How to Make a Quilt out of Americans - S2/E17 (2023)

Soundtracks
17 Again
Written by David A. Stewart and Annie Lennox
Performed by Eurythmics

User reviews4

Featured review

6/10

The Price of the Lost Youth

Three old ladies summon the demon of vanity Kryto and promise to resurrect him, exchanging for health, beauty and youth for the senior trio. Kryto makes a further demand of magical powers, and one of the ladies, Aunt Gail, offers the abilities of the charmed ones. Aunt Gail visits the Halliwell sisters, steals one spell from the Book of Shadows to transfer the powers of witches and betrayals the naive sisters. Piper finally tells Dan her choice for Leo.

"How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans" is a reasonable episode of "Charmed", where Prue, Piper and Phoebe are easily deceived by an old friend of their grandmother. The argument of the old sick woman trying to be young again and finding the price of the lost youth is weak and even silly. This is the second consecutive episode with shootings outside the studio. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Colcha de Retalhos Humanos" ("Human Crazy Quilt")