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 …

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.

The BBC cut the scene in After Life where a possessed Anya cuts herself with a knife.

The gruesome scene of Buffy being resurrected was cut when Sky One and the BBC showed Bargaining (Part 1) in the UK. Other edited scenes included Willow killing the deer; Willow choking up the snake; Tara’s comment about the vampire taking pescription medication; everything at Dawn’s school before they are …

The BBC almost got it right - they planned to show the episode Pangs on Thanksgiving day but a last minute football match was thought to be more important so it was rescheduled.

Joss Whedon said at “Behind the Scenes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer” at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in June 2002 that Doublemeat Palace was unpopular with Buffy sponsors who felt it was making fun of their businesses. Some sponsors even pulled out of the show because of …

Angel discovers that Buffy is alive during an off-screen phone call from Willow in the Angel episode ‘Carpe Noctem‘. Angel calls the Slayer in the Buffy episode Flooded, and she goes off to meet him - not in Sunnydale, not in L.A., but somewhere in the middle. This is a …

The Gift was the last original Buffy episode to air on the WB, and it was promoted as the “series finale” and not the “season finale”. The final two seasons of Buffy aired on UPN.

The actress cast to originally play Willow was Riff Regan, though she only played the part in the original pilot episode. She didn’t work out and Joss started looking for a new actress. He says the network wanted a “supermodel in horn rims” to play Willow.
Marcia Schulman (the casting …

Buffy used a cymbal as a Frisbee to behead a vampire in The Harvest. This scene was edited out when first shown on the BBC.

The scene where Warren is skinned alive by Willow was edited out when shown in most places. Marti Noxon said of the scene, “The skinning of Warren was something Joss wanted. We pitched it to the network, and the network said, ‘As long as you only see it for 2.5 …

The WB promoted the Angel episode Disharmony, starring Harmony Kendall, with the tagline “Evil has never been so blond”.

Network UPN let the episode Once More, With Feeling run almost eight minutes longer than a regular episode for its first run. The Buffy musical has two versions, the longer, uncut one and another version that runs on time. The following parts of the musical were cut from the original …

The WB was originally unsure about the show’s “schizophrenic” combination of horror, drama, and comedy, not because they were opposed to it but because they were uncertain how to market it.

Joss Whedon admits that computers came to function as a “shameless” plot mechanism on Buffy. Willow is able to hack into just about any website or database and acquire any information the narrative might require. To sell the show to the WB, Joss came up with the idea of the …