The Salem puppets from here on were produced by Chiodo Brothers.
Beginning with this episode, a new Salem the Cat puppet design debuts, due to the company that made the older Salem animatronic puppets, Animal Makers, being fired from the show. Debbie Harry made an appearance in the pilot episode portraying Witches Council member Cassandra. Sabrina sings "One Way or Another" a well known hit originally sang by Debbie Harry (aka Blondie). The episode title is a play on the two homophones "band" and banned". This episode was apparantly modeled after a Sabrina comic issue in which Sabrina conjures up Josie and the Pussycats to beat a rival's band. Ducey later becomes a recurring character in Season 7, portraying Leonard. Kraft's nephew, Dwayne Kraft, who determines which band wins. John Ducey makes a guest apperence as Mr. The plot for this episode was rehashed in the Season 7 episode "" Ping, Ping A Song" with Sabrina conjuring magic lozenges for herself, Morgan, and Roxie. Additionaly, in " Dream Date" when Sabrina asks him if he can play an instrument, Harvey says he can play the bassoon. Harvey says that he cannot play an instrument but in the Season 1 episode " Mars Attracts," as Harvey waits for Sabrina to call him, he plays the guitar. Hilda flings her violin into the kitchen and stabs it with the bow. Meanwhile, Zelda has to ask an arrogant scientist from the Other Realm to borrow his formula to use in an experiment and Hilda finds work as fiddle player in a steakhouse but because they are classless hillbillies who only want her to play square dance type of music, she casts a spell on them, turning them into pretentious, high class, classical music lovers. To remedy the problem, Salem tells Sabrina that she has to take the fizz out of their soda and drink it flat, ruining their chances of performing on television. Needless to say, once they're under the spell of the drink, Sabrina, Valerie and Harvey win the contest and the trio soon become extremely egotistical and their friendship begins to suffer. When Libby starts rubbing it in that the cheerleaders will be winning the contest, Sabrina brews bottled talent for her band to drink. Meanwhile, Zelda tries to find a miracle cure for disease but winds up inventing a miracle cleaning fluid which Salem and Hilda promptly steal and market in the Other Realm, oblivious to the unfortunate side effects.After Harvey finds out that the school is having a battle of the bands, he signs himself up with Sabrina and Valerie as a band, despite never having played a note of music before. 
This necessitates a visit to Libby's home, where her cold, controlling mother makes Sabrina understand her nemesis a little better - as does the discovery that Libby has an ailing grandmother to whom she is devoted. When a desperate Sabrina struggles free, the spell has disastrous consequences: Libby is transformed into an incomplete jigsaw puzzle, and Sabrina has only a few hours to locate the missing pieces and put Libby together again. The Quizmaster intervenes, blowing the whistle on an illegal use of magic to solve problems, and reverses the spell so that Sabrina must stick to Libby like unwanted glue.
Quick assigns Sabrina and Libby to decorate the "Democracy Day" float together, but Libby's obnoxiousness causes Sabrina to cast a spell keeping her a safe distance from Sabrina.
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