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As mentioned before, this show created TV tropes.
Nicholas Brendon (the guy who played Xander) used to have a webcomic.

Ability Over Appearance: Producers were reluctant to cast Amber Benson as Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer because she was too voluptuous for the supposedly plain girl but she won them over with her awkwardness.
Actor Allusion: Giles piping in "Dance Macabre" during his slideshow presentation in "Hush". Anthony Stewart Head appeared in the pilot of Jonathan Creek, which used this song as its theme.
Actor Shared Background:
- James Marsters based his accent on Anthony Stewart Head's. Giles uses an RP English accent on-camera, but his actor sounds like a working-class "tough guy" in real life, using an accent close to Estuary English. Head uses it for Giles' adolescent persona in "Band Candy".
- In "Nightmares", Buffy's personal nightmare is being buried alive by the Master. Sarah Michelle Gellar is terrified of graveyards for this same reason, which is ironic seeing as her character was buried alive twice in the show ("Nightmares" and "Bargaining Pt. 1"), and spends most of her evenings in graveyards.
- Alyson Hannigan maintains that she cannot sing or dance (which hasn't stopped multiple writers from shoehorning her into splashy musical numbers, but oh well), mirroring Willow's nightmare of being forced to sing Madame Butterfly ("Nightmares").
- Baby Buffy went through a phase during which she idolized ice skater Dorothy Hamill. Sarah Michelle Gellar enjoys figure skating in real life, a skill which was put to good use in "What's My Line Pt. 1".
- The scene in "Lover's Walk" where Cordelia gets impaled is based on a real incident. At five years old, playing around a swimming pool that was still under construction, Charisma Carpenter fell onto a piece of rebar. Only in real life she fell off a horse and not through stairs.
- "Buffy vs. Dracula" was not the first time Rudolph Martin acted opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar. Both were part of the cast of All My Children, their characters being a married couple.
Breakthrough Hit: For Joss Whedon.
The Danza: Larry Bagby III as Larry Blaisdell. DB Woodside as Robin Wood.
Dawson Casting: Some actors were a full decade older than their characters. In an extreme example, Charisma Carpenter was 26 when she played 16-year-old Cordelia.
- Averted by Dawn and Faith, who are both the same age as the actresses playing them (Eliza Dushku was even legally emancipated from her parents so she wouldn't be limited by child labor laws). Michelle Trachtenberg started playing the 14-year-old at 14. Probably done to ensure that she would look younger than her sister.
  - Ironically, she became taller than her by Season 7.
Fake Brit:
- Spike, played by American James Marsters.
- Wesley, played by Seattle native Alexis Denisof.
Fake Irish: Boreanaz's accent leaves much to be desired.
Hey, It's That Guy!:
- Quark moved to Sunnydale!^[1]
- Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calendar) was “Pearl” of Prince’s backup dancers Diamond and Pearl.
- Anya was Jason Priestly's love interest on Beverly Hills, 90210.
- Buffy's dad is Almanzo Wilder.
- Melanie MacQueen plays the creepy mother of the Epps boys ("Some Assembly Required"). She's best known as snarky "Lady Luck" from the Virginia Lotto commercials.
Hey, It's That Place!: The external (and some internal) shots of Sunnydale High School are of Torrance High, the same school used for the Beverly Hills, 90210.
- The exterior of Angel's mansion is of Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, a popular shooting location.
- Buffy's old school, Hemery High, is the clock tower made famous in Back to The Future.
- "Fear Itself" took place in what would become better known as the Murder House house in the first season of American Horror Story.
- The battle between the Slayers and Kakistos ("Faith, Hope, and Trick") takes place inside L.A. Firestation 23, also used as HQ for the Ghostbusters.
Jossed: In Season Seven, it looks like Faith slept with Spike. When Harmony introduces herself in the comics however Faith offers these words.

"I love that I'm supposed to be the slutty one when everyone but me has nailed Spike."

Mean Character, Nice Actor: Charisma Carpenter is noted for her many outreaches to fans, most prominent of which is that, unlike most of her co-stars, she absolutely refuses to charge for an autograph any conventions she attends.
The Other Darrin: Nikki Wood, the second slayer Spike, is played by a stuntwoman in "Fool For Love". When The First assumes her shape in Season 7, she was recast as a more vulnerable-looking actress.
- Buffy's old mentor Merrick looks different in a Season 2 flashback.
The Other Marty: Riff Regan played Willow in the unaired Proof of Concept to sell the show but never intended to play her in the series.
Playing Against Type: So Seth Green isn't the Plucky Comic Relief?
- The comic relief is his unruffled reaction to pretty much everything.
- Nathan Fillion as the sadistic, satanic serial killer working for the Big Bad (if you take the First Evil to be Satan and that Caleb had killed people For the Evulz before meeting it).
Promoted Fangirl:
- Michelle Trachtenberg was a huge fan of Buffy before being signed onto the show, and once told Joss "There was never a Buffy episode that sucked. I love you!"
- When "Lover's Walk episode originally aired in the US, it was followed by an advert for the phone service 1800-COLLECT, in which Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz offered a prize of a walk-on part in "The Prom".
Recycled: the Series: Although not so much recycled as "remade properly" according to Joss Whedon's vision.
Romance on the Set:
- Here's an odd one: Amber Benson and Adam Busch... known as Tara and Warren respectively.
- Alyson Hannigan (Willow) is married to Alexis Denisof (Wesley).
Schedule Slip: The last Spike issue.
Throw It In:
- The famous Mutant Enemy title card was reportedly scribbled by Whedon with only seconds to go until broadcast.
- In "Innocence", the scene where Angel dumps Buffy in his apartment was originally supposed to take place on Buffy's lawn. Halfway through shooting the scene, SMG and David Boreanaz told Joss that the scene wasn't working, so he moved it to the bedroom. Buffy can still heard saying she saw him "at the house".
- The gag in "Earshot" with Giles walking into a tree was ad-libbed by Anthony Stewart Head. He never dreamed Joss would keep in the cut.
- In the Season Three finale, Cordelia cowers behind the diminutive Jonathan. According to Danny Strong, this scene was an idea of Charisma's, because she was leaving for Angel and never got much screen time with him.
Trope Namer: For...
- Big Bad: And, by extension, its snowclones:
  - Big Bad Duumvirate: The Trio.
  - Big Bad Ensemble
  - Big Bad Wannabe: Poor Spike fits the bill. And he's the trope namer for "Big Bad", too! Life is so unfair.
  - Big Good: This being a Whedon show, though, even the Big Goods (Quentin Travers, Sineya, the Shadow Men) aren't very good.
  - Bigger Bad: The First Evil.
- Breakaway Pop Hit: "Once More With Feeling"
- Buffy-Speak
- Butt Monkey: Xander used it to refer to himself in "Buffy vs. Dracula."
- Came Back Wrong: "Smashed"
  - Came Back Strong: "Prophecy Girl"
- Funny Aneurysm Moment: "The Freshman" (In-Universe version)
- Game Face: "Prophecy Girl"
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Holden Webster's expert opinion on Buffy. ("Conversations with Dead People")
- Insane Troll Logic: "Triangle"
- Use Your Head: Spike's helpful suggestion to one of his mooks ("School Hard")
And the former Trope Namer for:
- Badass Decay: Formerly known as Spikeification.
- Chekhov's Boomerang: Formerly known as Olaf's Hammer.
- Fang Thpeak: Formerly known as Whedon Thyndrome.
- Weirdness Censor: Formerly known as Sunnydale Syndrome.
What Could Have Been: Whedon wanted to put Eric Balfour in the opening credits for the first two episodes so that his death would be a surprise, but literally didn't have the money for two sets of credits. He got to do it with Tara six years later.
- Darla was originally supposed to be killed in the end of "The Harvest" when Willow hurled holy water at her, but a more interesting plot for episode seven ("Angel") was needed so they kept her in the show.
- James Marsters originally auditioned for the role of Spike using a Texan accent for the character. He and the writers eventually decided that this was not a good fit, and so instead of a cowboy, Spike became a limey (Marsters based his accent on Anthony Stewart Head's).
- Spike actually uses this Texan accent in Season 4 when he's attempting to convince people that he's an old friend of Xander's. It's hilarious.
- "Normal Again" was originally more of a Rage Against the Author episode, with the world of Sunnydale crumbling due to Joss Whedon suffering writers block.
- Bianca Lawson (Kendra) originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia Chase and won it, but she was opted to take a role in the sitcom Goode Behavior instead. Producers liked her so much that she was introduced on the second season as Kendra.
- Buffy's bazooka in "Innocence" was originally a tank in the script.
- Oz was originally supposed to be killed by Angelus in "Passion", but his character had a lot of potential, so the decision was made to bump off Jenny instead. Jenny Calendar was supposed to have died in an earlier episode, "Innocence", presumably in place of Uncle Enyos.
- Warren was only intended to be a lackey on par with Jonathan during Season 6, working under Tucker Wells (from the episode "The Prom"), who would have been the real villain of the season. However, actor Brad Kane was unavailable to reprise the role, so Andrew Wells was created to be Tucker's brother as a substitute. Warren was likely promoted to main villain because he ended up being the most unpleasant of the three — Andrew was an amusing Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and Jonathan was generally well-liked by the audience by that point.
- Word of Joss says the door was left open for either Xander or Willow to come out of the closet. Willow's backdoor was set up in "Doppelgangland" (see Wishverse Willow), and let's not forget Xander and Larry ("Your secret's safe with me!"). Seth Green left the show to pursue other projects, and this sealed Willow's fate.
- Lavinia and Sophie Fairweather were originally intended to appear in the BBC's cancelled Buffy spinoff Ripper, played by Anthony Head's daughters Daisy and Emily.
X Meets Y: Joss Whedon himself refers to Buffy the Vampire Slayer as My So-Called Life meets The X Files.

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 * As mentioned before, this show created TV tropes.
-* Nicholas Brendon (the guy who played Xander) [http://verybadkoalas.com/2010/09/29/episode-1/ has a webcomic].
+* Nicholas Brendon (the guy who played Xander) [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113044913/http://verybadkoalas.com/2010/09/29/episode-1/ used to have a webcomic].
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 * [[Ability Over Appearance]]: Producers were reluctant to cast Amber Benson as Tara in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' because she was too voluptuous for the supposedly plain girl but she won them over with her awkwardness.
+* [[Actor Allusion]]: Giles piping in "Dance Macabre" during his slideshow presentation in "Hush". Anthony Stewart Head appeared in the pilot of ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'', which used this song as its theme.
-* [[Actor Shared Background]]: In "Nightmares", Buffy's personal nightmare is being buried alive by the Master. Sarah Michelle Gellar is terrified of graveyards for this same reason, which is ironic seeing as her character was buried alive ''twice'' in the show ("Nightmares" and "Bargaining Pt. 1"), and [[Ironic Fear|spends most of her evenings in graveyards]].
+* [[Actor Shared Background]]:
-** Alyson Hannigan maintains that she [[Performance Anxiety|cannot sing or dance]] (which hasn't stopped multiple writers from shoehorning her into [[How I Met Your Mother|splashy musical numbers]], but oh well), mirroring Willow's nightmare of being forced to sing ''[[Madame Butterfly]]''. ("Nightmares")
+** [[James Marsters]] based his accent on Anthony Stewart Head's. Giles uses an RP English accent on-camera, but his actor sounds like a working-class "tough guy" in real life, using an accent close to Estuary English. Head uses it for Giles' adolescent persona in "Band Candy".
-** Baby Buffy went through a phase during which she idolized ice skater Dorothy Hamill. Sarah Michelle Gellar enjoys figure skating in real life, a skill which was put to good use in "What's My Line Pt 1".
+** In "Nightmares", Buffy's personal nightmare is being buried alive by the Master. Sarah Michelle Gellar is terrified of graveyards for this same reason, which is ironic seeing as her character was buried alive ''twice'' in the show ("Nightmares" and "Bargaining Pt. 1"), and [[Ironic Fear|spends most of her evenings in graveyards]].
-** The scene in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S3 E8 Lovers Walk|Lover's Walk]]" where Cordelia gets impaled is based on a real incident. At five years old, playing around a swimming pool that was still under construction, [[Charisma Carpenter]] fell onto a piece of rebar. Only in real life she fell off a horse and not through stairs.
+** Alyson Hannigan maintains that she [[Performance Anxiety|cannot sing or dance]] (which hasn't stopped multiple writers from shoehorning her into [[How I Met Your Mother|splashy musical numbers]], but oh well), mirroring Willow's nightmare of being forced to sing ''[[Madame Butterfly]]'' ("Nightmares").
-* [[Fake Brit]]: Spike, played by American [[James Marsters]].
+** Baby Buffy went through a phase during which she idolized ice skater Dorothy Hamill. Sarah Michelle Gellar enjoys figure skating in real life, a skill which was put to good use in "What's My Line Pt. 1".
-* [[Hey It's That Guy]]:
+** The scene in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E08 Lovers Walk|Lover's Walk]]" where Cordelia gets impaled is based on a real incident. At five years old, playing around a swimming pool that was still under construction, [[Charisma Carpenter]] fell onto a piece of rebar. Only in real life she fell off a horse and not through stairs.
-** [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine|Quark]] moved to Sunnydale!<ref>Armin Shimerman actually played both roles between 1997-99</ref>
+** "Buffy vs. Dracula" was not the first time Rudolph Martin acted opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar. Both were part of the cast of ''[[All My Children]]'', their characters being a married couple.
+* [[Breakthrough Hit]]: For [[Joss Whedon]].
+* [[The Danza]]: Larry Bagby III as Larry Blaisdell. DB Woodside as Robin Wood.
+* [[Dawson Casting]]: Some actors were a full decade older than their characters. In an extreme example, [[Charisma Carpenter]] was 26 when she played 16-year-old Cordelia.
+** Averted by Dawn and Faith, who are both the same age as the actresses playing them ([[Eliza Dushku]] was even legally emancipated from her parents so she wouldn't be limited by child labor laws). Michelle Trachtenberg started playing the 14-year-old at 14. Probably done to ensure that she would look younger than her sister.
+*** Ironically, she became taller than her by Season 7.
+* [[Fake Brit]]:
+** Spike, played by American [[James Marsters]].
+** Wesley, played by Seattle native Alexis Denisof.
+* [[Fake Irish]]: Boreanaz's accent leaves much to be desired.
+* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
+** [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Quark]] moved to Sunnydale!<ref>Armin Shimerman actually played both roles between 1997-99</ref>
 ** Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calendar) was “Pearl” of [[Prince]]’s backup dancers Diamond and Pearl.
-** Anya was Jason Priestly's love interest on ''[[Beverly Hills 90210]]''.
+** Anya was Jason Priestly's love interest on ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]''.
-** Buffy's dad is [[Little House On the Prairie (TV)|Almanzo Wilder]].
+** Buffy's dad is [[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Almanzo Wilder]].
 ** Melanie MacQueen plays the creepy mother of the Epps boys ("Some Assembly Required"). She's best known as snarky "[[Fairy Godmother|Lady Luck]]" from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbCLvqoZno4 Virginia Lotto commercials].
+* [[Hey, It's That Place!]]: The external (and some internal) shots of Sunnydale High School are of Torrance High, the same school used for the ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]''.
+** The exterior of Angel's mansion is of Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, a popular shooting location.
+** Buffy's old school, Hemery High, is the clock tower made famous in ''[[Back to The Future]]''.
+** "Fear Itself" took place in what would become better known as the Murder House house in the first season of ''[[American Horror Story]]''.
+** The battle between the Slayers and Kakistos ("Faith, Hope, and Trick") takes place inside L.A. Firestation 23, also used as HQ for the ''[[Ghostbusters]]''.
+* [[Jossed]]: In Season Seven, it looks like Faith slept with Spike. When Harmony introduces herself in the comics however Faith offers these words.
+{{quote|"I love that '''I'm''' supposed to be the slutty one when everyone '''but''' me has nailed Spike."}}
+* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Charisma Carpenter is noted for her many outreaches to fans, most prominent of which is that, unlike most of her co-stars, she absolutely refuses to charge for an autograph any conventions she attends.
+* [[The Other Darrin]]: Nikki Wood, the second slayer Spike, is played by a stuntwoman in "Fool For Love". When The First assumes her shape in Season 7, she was recast as a more vulnerable-looking actress.
+** Buffy's old mentor Merrick looks different in a Season 2 flashback.
 * [[The Other Marty]]: Riff Regan played Willow in the unaired Proof of Concept to sell the show but never intended to play her in the series.
+* [[Playing Against Type]]: So [[Seth Green]] isn't the [[Plucky Comic Relief]]?
-* [[Promoted Fangirl]]: Michelle Trachtenberg was a huge fan of ''Buffy'' before being signed onto the show, and once told Joss "There was never a Buffy episode that sucked. I love you!"
+** The comic relief is his unruffled reaction to pretty much everything.
-** When "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S3 E8 Lovers Walk|Lover's Walk]] episode originally aired in the US, it was followed by an advert for the phone service 1800-COLLECT, in which Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz offered a prize of a walk-on part in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S3 E20 The Prom|The Prom]]."
+** Nathan Fillion as the sadistic, satanic serial killer working for the [[Big Bad]] (if you take the First Evil to be Satan and that Caleb had killed people [[For the Evulz]] before meeting it).
-* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: [[Amy Adams]] appears as Tara's bitchy cousin Beth.
+* [[Promoted Fangirl]]:
-** [[CSI: NY|Danny Messer]] being bitten by Darla in the pilot.
+** Michelle Trachtenberg was a huge fan of ''Buffy'' before being signed onto the show, and once told Joss "There was never a Buffy episode that sucked. I love you!"
-** Agent Seeley Booth ([[Bones]]) got his own spinoff (''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'')
+** When "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E08 Lovers Walk|Lover's Walk]] episode originally aired in the US, it was followed by an advert for the phone service 1800-COLLECT, in which Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz offered a prize of a walk-on part in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E20 The Prom|The Prom]]".
-** Billy "Ford" Fordham ("Lie to Me") is best known as [[Roswell|Max Evans]].
+* [[Recycled: the Series]]: Although not so much recycled as "remade properly" according to [[Joss Whedon]]'s vision.
-** In "Reptile Boy", Machida, underneath the scales, is actually [[Babylon 5 (TV)|Byron]].
+* [[Romance on the Set]]:
-** One of the members of the school swim team in "Go Fish" is [[Prison Break|Michael Scofield]].
-** Saverio Guerra, who played Willy the Snitch, is best known as Bob from ''[[Becker]]''.
+** Here's an odd one: Amber Benson and Adam Busch... known as Tara and Warren respectively.
+** [[Alyson Hannigan]] (Willow) is married to Alexis Denisof (Wesley).
-** Billy Fordham from "Lie to Me". [[Roswell]] fans know him as Max, but seven years later, Jason Behr & SMG would be reunited for ''[[The Grudge]]''.
+* [[Schedule Slip]]: The last ''Spike'' issue.
-** Scott Hope is played by Fab Fillipo, who went on to star in ''[[Queer As Folk]]''. It should as no surprise, then, that Scott [[Reality Subtext|came out of the closet]] in passing.
+* [[Throw It In]]:
-** [[Austin Powers|Scott Evil]] flies the ''[[Mass Effect|Normandy]]''.
+** The famous [[Mutant Enemy]] title card was reportedly scribbled by Whedon with only seconds to go until broadcast.
-** Gwendolyn Post is [[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|Dr. Molly Warmflash]].
+** In "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2/E14 Innocence|Innocence]]", the scene where Angel dumps Buffy in his apartment was originally supposed to take place on Buffy's lawn. Halfway through shooting the scene, SMG and David Boreanaz told Joss that the scene wasn't working, so he moved it to the bedroom. Buffy can still heard saying she saw him "at the house".
-** [[Nathan Fillion]] was fresh from ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]''. Whatever fan glee existed surrounding his arrival was crushed after Caleb's true colors were revealed five minutes in. People watching the show for the first time now, will likely recognise him as ''[[Castle]]''.
+** The gag in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E19 Earshot|Earshot]]" with Giles walking into a tree was ad-libbed by [[Anthony Stewart Head]]. He never dreamed Joss would keep in the cut.
-** Cordette #1 (the girl who is drained by The Master's blood machine in "The Wish"), Nicole Bilderback, played opposite [[Seth Green]] in the 1998 movie ''[[Can't Hardly Wait]]''. She also appeared in ''[[Bring It On]]'' with Clare Kramer (Glory) and [[Eliza Dushku]].
+** In the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E22 Graduation Day Part 2|Season Three finale]], Cordelia [[Security Cling|cowers behind]] the diminutive Jonathan. According to Danny Strong, this scene was an idea of Charisma's, because she was leaving for ''Angel'' and never got much screen time with him.
-** [[Kal Penn]], more well known as [[Harold and Kumar|Kumar]] and [[House|Kutner]] shows up as a random college student in "Beer Bad".
-* [[Romance On the Set]]: Here's an odd one: Amber Benson and Adam Busch... known as Tara and Warren respectively.
-** Oh, and [[Alyson Hannigan]] (Willow) is married to Alexis Denisof (Wesley).
-* [[Throw It In]]: The famous Mutant Enemy title card was reportedly scribbled by Whedon with only seconds to go until broadcast.
-** It has several variants through the series.
-*** Graduation Day: Wearing a graduation hat
-*** Amends: Wearing a Santa hat
-*** Becoming 2: Says "I need a hug"
-*** Hush: Silent
-*** Once More With Feeling: Sings the "grr, argh" line in falsetto
-*** Storytellers: Sings "We are gods!"
-*** Chosen: Looking right at the viewer
-** In "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S2 E14 Innocence|Innocence]]," The scene where Angel dumps Buffy in his apartment was originally supposed to take place on Buffy's lawn. Halfway through shooting the scene, SMG and David Boreanaz told Joss that the scene wasn't working, so he moved it to the bedroom. Buffy can still heard saying she saw him "at the house".
-** The gag in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S3 E19 Earshot|Earshot]]" with Giles walking into a tree was ad-libbed by [[Anthony Stewart Head]]. He never dreamed Joss would keep in the cut.
-** In the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S3 E22 Graduation Day Part 2|Season Three finale]], Cordelia [[Security Cling|cowers behind]] the diminutive Jonathan. According to Danny Strong, this scene was an idea of Charisma's, because she was leaving for ''Angel'' and never got much screen time with him.
 * [[Trope Namer]]: For...
 ** [[Big Bad]]: And, by extension, its [[Snowclone|snowclones]]:
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 *** [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: Poor Spike fits the bill. And he's the trope namer for "Big Bad", too! Life is so unfair.
 *** [[Big Good]]: This being a Whedon show, though, even the Big Goods (Quentin Travers, Sineya, the Shadow Men) [[Knight Templar|aren't very good]].
-*** [[Bigger Bad]]: The [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|First Evil]].
+*** [[Bigger Bad]]: The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|First Evil]].
 ** [[Breakaway Pop Hit]]: "Once More With Feeling"
 ** [[Buffy-Speak]]
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 ** [[Came Back Wrong]]: "Smashed"
 *** [[Came Back Strong]]: "Prophecy Girl"
-** [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: "The Freshman" ([[In Universe]] version)
+** [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: "The Freshman" ([[In-Universe]] version)
 ** [[Game Face]]: "Prophecy Girl"
 ** [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: Holden Webster's expert opinion on Buffy. ("Conversations with Dead People")
 ** [[Insane Troll Logic]]: "Triangle"
-** [[Use Your Head]]: Spike's [[Bad Boss|helpful suggestion]] to one of his mooks ("[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S2 E3 School Hard|School Hard]]")
+** [[Use Your Head]]: Spike's [[Bad Boss|helpful suggestion]] to one of his mooks ("[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2/E03 School Hard|School Hard]]")
 * And the ''[[Renamed Tropes|former]]'' Trope Namer for:
 ** [[Badass Decay]]: Formerly known as Spikeification.
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 * [[What Could Have Been]]: Whedon wanted to put Eric Balfour [[Dead Star Walking|in the opening credits]] for the first two episodes so that his death would be a surprise, but literally didn't have the money for two sets of credits. {{spoiler|He got to do it with Tara six years later}}.
 ** Darla was originally supposed to be killed in the end of "The Harvest" when Willow hurled holy water at her, but a more interesting plot for episode seven ("Angel") was needed so they kept her in the show.
-** [[James Marsters]] originally auditioned for the role of Spike using a [[Corrupt Hick|Texan accent]] for the character. He and the writers eventually decided that this was not a good fit, and so instead of a cowboy, Spike became a limey. (Marsters based his accent on Anthony Stewart Head's.)
+** [[James Marsters]] originally auditioned for the role of Spike using a [[Corrupt Hick|Texan accent]] for the character. He and the writers eventually decided that this was not a good fit, and so instead of a cowboy, Spike became a limey (Marsters based his accent on Anthony Stewart Head's).
+** Spike actually uses this Texan accent in Season 4 when he's attempting to convince people that he's an old friend of Xander's. It's hilarious.
+** "Normal Again" was originally more of a [[Rage Against the Author]] episode, with the world of Sunnydale crumbling due to Joss Whedon suffering writers block.
 ** Bianca Lawson (Kendra) originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia Chase and won it, but she was opted to take a role in the sitcom ''Goode Behavior'' instead. Producers liked her so much that she was introduced on the second season as Kendra.
 ** Buffy's bazooka in "Innocence" was originally a tank in the script.
 ** Oz was originally supposed to be killed by Angelus in "Passion", but his character had a lot of potential, so the decision was made to bump off {{spoiler|Jenny}} instead. {{spoiler|Jenny Calendar}} was supposed to have died in an earlier episode, "Innocence", presumably in place of Uncle Enyos.
 ** Warren was only intended to be a lackey on par with Jonathan during Season 6, working under Tucker Wells (from the episode "The Prom"), who would have been the real villain of the season. However, actor Brad Kane was unavailable to reprise the role, so Andrew Wells was created to be Tucker's brother as a substitute. Warren was likely promoted to main villain because he ended up being the most unpleasant of the three — Andrew was an amusing Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and Jonathan was generally well-liked by the audience by that point.
+** Word of Joss says the door was left open for either Xander or Willow to come out of the closet. Willow's backdoor was set up in "Doppelgangland" (see Wishverse Willow), and let's not forget Xander and Larry ("[[Mistaken for Gay|Your secret's safe with me!]]"). Seth Green left the show to pursue other projects, and this sealed Willow's fate.
+** Lavinia and Sophie Fairweather were originally intended to appear in the BBC's cancelled ''Buffy'' spinoff ''Ripper'', played by Anthony Head's daughters Daisy and Emily.
+* [[X Meets Y]]: Joss Whedon himself refers to Buffy the Vampire Slayer as ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' meets ''[[The X-Files|The X Files]]''.
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+[[Category:Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]
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