| Dingoes Ate My Baby | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Inca Mummy Girl |
| Last appearance | The Initiative |
| Statistics | |
| Name | Dingoes Ate My Baby |
| Purpose | Music |
| Membership | Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne Devon MacLeish unnamed members |
Dingoes Ate My Baby is a fictional rock band on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[1] The name was derived from the widespread news coverage of the disappearance of 9 week old Azaria Chamberlain in Australia in 1980.[2] The first incidence of the name "The Dingoes Ate My Baby" as a fictional rock band was in Jennifer Ball's novel Catalyst, page 239, published in April 1997 by Faber and Faber.
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The name of the band refers to the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance. The incident occurred in Australia in 1980 - a baby disappeared under mysterious circumstances near Uluru (Ayers Rock). The mother, Lindy Chamberlain, camping with her family, claimed to have seen a dingo carrying her baby from their tent, and immortalized the phrase, "The dingo's got my baby!". She was convicted of murdering her baby but later acquitted when new evidence suggested that the baby was, in fact, killed by a dingo.[3]
The band is first mentioned in the unaired Buffy pilot. Xander says, “They don’t know any actual chords yet, but they have really big amps”. They did not appear on the show until the second season, in "Inca Mummy Girl," October 6, 1997. Dingoes continued to appear throughout Seasons 3 and 4 until Oz left Sunnydale. A poster of theirs is seen once afterward, in the episode Superstar. Most of their performances took place at The Bronze, Sunnydale's local nightclub.
| Episode | Location | Songs |
|---|---|---|
| "Inca Mummy Girl" | The Bronze | "Fate" & "Shadows" |
| "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" | The Bronze | "Pain" |
| "Dead Man's Party" | Buffy's House | "Never mind", "Pain" & "Sway" |
| "Homecoming" | The Bronze | "She knows" |
| "Band Candy" | The Bronze | "Violent" |
| "Revelations" | The Bronze | "Run" |
| "Living Conditions" | Buffy's dorm room | "Pain" (on stereo) |
| "The Harsh Light of Day" | The Bronze | "Dilate" |
| "The Initiative" | Frat House | "Fate" (on stereo) |
The music of Dingoes Ate My Baby was actually composed and performed by Four Star Mary. Most of the songs that were used on the show featured on their 1998 album, Thrown to the Wolves, the title of which may have been inspired by Oz's lycanthropy. The band is featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album. They also made a one-time appearance as themselves in "Restless". They provided the music along with Christophe Beck to the Joss Whedon-written song, "Giles' Epiphany".