Buffy the Vampire Slayer Turns 2. Trivia for Show's Anniversary. Get ready to feel as old, ’9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered 2.

The beloved series, which cemented Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s place in pop culture history, continues to serve as a favorite among fans with an affinity for high school dramas and regular vampire showdowns. It’s hard to imagine a TV landscape without the benefit of the show’s landmark run — creator Joss Whedon and Gellar pushed a strong female lead into a world of supernatural creatures, which proved to be successful for ratings and a groundbreaking precedent for future shows. In honor of the show’s milestone anniversary, we’re taking a trip back to the smoldering crater of Sunnydale to check in with the Scooby Gang for some facts you may not know about Buffy. Whedon deliberately set out to subvert horror film tropes with Buffy“I had seen a lot of horror movies, which I love very much, with blonde girls getting killed in dark alleys, and I just germinated this idea about how much I would like to see a blonde girl go into a dark alley, get attacked by a monster and then kill it,” he said. And that was sorta the genesis for the movie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”2. Ryan Reynolds turned down a role in the series.

I love that show and I loved Joss Whedon, the creator of the show, but my biggest concern was that I didn’t want to play a guy in high school,” Reynolds told the Toronto Star in 2. I had just come out of high school and it was f—— awful.”3. Watch Maverick Online (2017). Whedon and Gellar didn’t always get along At one point, Gellar said she would quit Buffy if it ever left the WB.

It eventually did, moving to UPN.) “The fact is, she knew perfectly well that if we moved, she was going to move with us,” Whedon told EW in 2. There’ve been times that we didn’t get along,” he elaborated in 2.

There have been times when we’ve palled around. But no matter what, she was the other half of Buffy. In seven years, she never let me down.”4. Gellar was originally brought in for the role of Cordelia“It took us a while to come around to Sarah being Buffy,” casting director Marcia Shulman said. Anthony Stewart Head was the first person cast, period“[Head] was the first person that got cast on the first day we started casting. He was just it,” Shulman said. Alyson Hannigan recommended the band who wrote the show’s theme.

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Hannigan was listening to a Nerf Herder (their name is a Star Wars reference) CD on the set one day, when Whedon heard it and wound up approaching the band. It seemed very far- fetched that we got it,” frontman Parry Gripp said in 2.

Buffy studies’ is its own field of academia. Slayage: The Online Journal of Buffy Studies is a quarterly journal that’s published essays on the themes of sociology, psychology, philosophy, theology and women’s studies w/r/t Buffy. Watch Bad Boys Online Fandango more. Brunel University in London, even offers it as part of a Master’s degree in Cult Film & TV.

The show built its own cemetery“We do go to another cemetery for much wider shots,” production designer Carey Meyer told the BBC in 2. David Boreanaz and Gellar didn’t make love scenes with each other easy“We would do horrible things to each other,” she said once. Like eat tuna fish and pickle before we kissed. If he had to unbutton my shirt or my trousers I would pin them or sew them together to make it as hard as I could.”1.

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Spike didn’t always have his English accent. Originally, Spike was envisioned as “kind of a Western character,” but once James Marsters nailed the English accent, he stuck with it, and fooled a lot of people, including producer- director David Solomon. I was sure that he was from England, the whole time I was talking to him,” Solomon said. And in the great Spike/Angel debate, Gellar says…“ANGEL.” (In a 2. Reddit AMA.)1. 2. Whedon and Gellar share the same favorite episode of the show. They both have other faves, but they agree that “The Body,” from the show’s fifth season, is one of its finest hours.

A big piece of the show’s emotional impact comes from its complete lack of a background score, and it also provides us with one of Anya’s finest moments. Elvis Costello name dropped the show in concert at one point.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2012 American dark fantasy action horror film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, based on the 2010 mashup novel of the same name. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; or simply Nosferatu) is a 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. · Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on March 10, 1997; here are 22 things you may not have known about its seven-season run.

When the WB preempted the May 2. Buffy over concerns of its portrayal of high school violence, fans went nuts. Costello, apparently either a fan or connected to one, spoke to the controversy at a June 1. L. A., mentioning that God was searching in vain for “the lost Buffy.”1.

Whedon had an unusual nickname for Gellar“We used to call [her] ‘Jimmy Stewart,’ ” he told EW in 2. Buffy through seriously painful emotional situations. We realized every time we turned the screws on Buffy, the show got better.”1.

Once More with Feeling’ was a huge challenge for everyone. Despite becoming one of the show’s high points and a huge fan- favorite, Whedon called the episode “the hardest work I’ve ever done.” Gellar referred to it as “daunting” and “intimidating,” saying: “If I had my druthers, we would have gotten it about two years ago and been in classes for a year and a half, maybe six weeks of rehearsals? It’s not too much to ask, instead of four days.”1.

Whedon’s L. A. slang confused Gellar. Coming from New York, Gellar struggled with the occasional bits of Valley Girl slang Whedon wrote for Buffy. In fact, in her audition, she had to ask for clarification on the shorthand “sitch” for “situation.” “Talk about blowing a job instantly,” she said in 1. The Simpsons provided a bit of inspiration for one of the show’s most memorable monsters. Whedon and Gellar have also talked about their love for season four’s “Hush,” a largely dialogue- free episode featuring the spectacularly creepy “Gentlemen,” characters Whedon says came to him in a dream.

When it came time to visualize them, “I was drawing on everything that had ever frightened me, basically,” he said in the DVD commentary for the episode. Including the fellow from my dream, Nosferatu, Pinhead, Mr. Burns [from The Simpsons]. Anything that gave that creepy feel.”1. He also had a literal recipe for Buffy“Take one cup Sarah Connor from the first Terminator movie; one cup Ripley [from Alien]; three tablespoons of the younger sister in [the 1. Night of the Comet; a few sprigs of A Little Princess — the book, not the movies; and a pinch of Jimmy Stewart for pain, because nobody does better pain,” he told EW in 2. Bake those up. Once it’s cool, add a little Rosalind Russell from His Girl Friday.

All of this must be in a P. J.- Soles- in- Halloween crust. That’s very important.”1.

WB got a parting shot at the show’s switch to UPN in the final episode. Over a shot of Buffy’s tombstone — she had been killed in the show’s finale on the WB — the network superimposed the phrase: “Five great years.

We thank you.” Whedon told the New York Times in 2. The WB decided to pretend the series was ending,” a move he called “cheesy.” A WB spokesman plead ignorance, calling the move “a sincere expression of thanks.”2. Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland watched Buffy while in prison. The late rocker apparently became a fan of the show while incarcerated for drug offenses, and when he got out, persuaded Gellar to star in the group’s video for “Sour Girl.”2. The rest of the cast didn’t know the show was cancelled until Entertainment Weekly’s cover story on it“The day that the Entertainment Weekly cover came out [“Buffy Quits,” March 7, 2. Buffy was over,” Hannigan told the magazine in 2.

I was devastated. I was just very shocked.”2. The show was basically shunned at the Emmys.