Dusting vampires

When vampires are killed (via wooden stakes, sunlight or beheading), they turn to dust. The Scoobies use the word as a verb to describe killing a vampire (i.e. “We dusted him”). The first person to use the word in this way on the show was Buffy in The Harvest, “So, I dust anyone sporting that symbol, and no Harvest”.
‘Dusting’ a vampire using computer graphics cost $5,000 per vampire.

   
Source:› The Watcher's Guide by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
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    Added: › 29th September 2004
    Updated: › 14th March, 2005
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    3 Comments about “Dusting vampires”

    1. hannah_wish01 says:
      December 28th, 2005 at 10:05 pm

      :O $5,000, wow they must have had a considerable budget for those episodes then. i would never have thought that iw ould be that much to make that effect. although i am unfarmiliar with television show budgets

    2. AnyaRocks says:
      December 29th, 2005 at 12:07 am

      I never thought it would be trhat much either! I just thought it’d be a computer graphic that would cost…well…nothing. I though if you had the technology, then you could just do it all anyway.

    3. Mysteryend says:
      August 9th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

      just thought it’d be a computer graphic that would cost…well…nothing. I though if you had the technology, then you could just do it all anyway.

      Does anyone know why it costs money?

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