Sometimes Buffy writers leave little jokes of their own in their scripts. The following is a stage direction for Innocence, a little nod to the fact that it costs more for extras to speak:
“A couple of soldiers pass. Xander suavely nods to them. They nod back and pass without …

The network was unhappy with D’Hoffryn’s Abercrombie and Fitch line in Selfless (”It looks like someone slaughtered an Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue”), not because they may lose a sponsor, but because D’Hoffryn didn’t care about the deaths of the frat boys. Drew Goddard explained that D’Hoffryn is in fact evil …

Adam Busch, who played Warren, talked to Entertainment Geekly about playing a nerd:
“I had to do a lot of research and find out how to play Dungeons and Dragons. The first scene we ever shot together - me, Danny and Tom - was that first shot, when we sat …

This speech of Adam’s was deleted from Who Are You?:
“You are here to be my first. To let them know I’m coming. I am the end of all life, of all magic. I’m the war between man and demon, the war that no one can win. You’re a part of …

Joss Whedon mentions in his DVD commentary for Hush the use of the ‘extra characters’ in the scene where people’s voices are being stolen by the Gentlemen. He points out that it takes a lot to film a three-second piece like that - you have to cast someone, then build …

Various scenes were added in to The Harvest as the episode was too short. These include the scene where Willow and Xander talk in the halls, the scene where the Master pokes out the vampire’s eye, the scene where Cordelia talks about seniors in the Bronze and the scene where …

When a writer has finished their version of an episode, it is often changed by the other writers slightly, in order to flesh out varoius scenes. In Real Me, Marti Noxon wrote the scene in which Riley and Buffy talk in the graveyard because David Fury (who wrote the episode) …

Kristine Sutherland revealed Joss’s initial plans for the Summers family, at the beginning of season four:
“I knew that Joyce was going to die suddenly. Initially when we talked, before I went to Italy, Joss’s idea was that Joyce adopted a five or six year old girl. It was interesting how …

Having filmed all twelve episodes of season one before any were transmitted, the Buffy cast and crew had no idea how popular the show would turn out to be, or if they would be called back to film more episodes. Anthony Stewart Head even returned to the UK to play …

Surprise was the last episode to air on a Monday in the U.S. It aired on Tuesdays from the next episode on, so the second part (Innocence) was shown the day after Surprise.

In Superstar, Buffy interrupts Anya reading Jonathan’s autobiography. Anya complains that she was just getting to the part where he “invents the internet”. This is a deliberate prod at Al Gore, who was getting a lot of flack at the time for allegedly making the very same claim. …

The speech that Angel gives in the episode Passion is completely different from the one that was in the original script. The cheerful original version was as follows:
“Passion, it is born, and though uninvited, unwelcome, unwanted like a cancer, it takes root. It festers. It bleeds. It scabs only to …

Buffy’s mother bought her daughter a long white dress for the dance in Prophecy Girl (a sacrificial garment, if I ever saw one - what was Joyce thinking?!) Everyone comments on it. At the end of the episode, when the gang are walking away, Angel says “I like your…”, and …

When Danny Strong performed the scene in the Bronze in Superstar where Jonathan sings, he was apparently very sick with the flu.

Both Nicholas Brendon (Xander), and Ara Celi (Ampata), had to eat up to ten twinkies each for the scene in when they are eating lunch in Inca Mummy Girl.