Writers/producers Marti Noxon and David Fury both had cameos in the musical episode Once More, With Feeling. Marti played the woman arguing over a parking ticket and Fury was the man singing about his dry cleaning - “They got the mustard out!”. David Fury actually started his career in musical …

Amber Benson on filming Tara’s death scene:
“They had trouble because the fake blood was so thin. It didn’t have body to it; it was just water. It would hit Willow’s shirt, and the shirt would just suck the whole thing up. It would be like a big stain. So they …

Amber Benson on her on-set activities during Hell’s Bells:
“I’m the biggest klutz on the set. Remember Emma in that wedding dress? I got that dress off of her at least four times, because I’d be following her and I’d step on the dress and she’d be pulling it back up. …

The episode Wrecked was dedicated “In Loving Memory Of J.D. Peralta”. She was Marti Noxon’s assistant, who died of cancer in November 2001 (the month in which the episode aired). She was only 30. J.D. played ‘Woman in Bar’ in Amber Benson’s movie Chance. In an interview, Amber Benson revealed …

Doug Petrie initially called the Knights of Byzantium ‘The Order of the Cruciform Sword’. Marti Noxon jokingly turned the name into the ‘Order of the Cruciform Ducks’, then the ‘Crucified Ducks’. This became the writers’ name for the Knights from then on. They had to be renamed as the writers …

Marti Noxon, a native Californian, has been writing for Buffy since season two. She was made a co-producer for season three, and later a co- executive producer. She was also a consulting producer on the spin-off Angel. Marti became known for her ability to write emotional and sad scenes: she …

Joss Whedon says of Oz:
“The only character that was really ever based on somebody I knew is Oz. There was a guy in college I knew, who was short, played guitar, very quiet, incredibly cool, named Oz, and somehow I sort of extrapolated from that and worked him in as …

Joss Whedon admits that the final, low-key moment of Innocence, in which Buffy and her mother watch an old movie on TV and celebrate her birthday with cupcakes and a single candle, made him just as happy as “his big man toy” (the rocket launcher, seen previously in the episode). …

In the flashback scenes of Buffy and Angel making love in Innocence, the heavy breathing wasn’t voiced by David and Sarah, but by series creator Joss Whedon and supervising sound editor Cindy Rabideau. Joss was too embarrassed to ask the stars to record 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 …

Giles listens to the radio in I Robot, You Jane. The announcer’s voice on the radio was that of Joss Whedon.

Joss Whedon (a third-generation screenwriter) spent three, presumably formative, years, attending (the super-posh) Winchester College in Hampshire, England where he took his ‘A’ levels. He received his degree in film studies from Wesleyan University, before moving to Los Angeles and getting a job as a staff writer on Roseanne (his …

The demon Gnarl in the episode Same Time, Same Place, is very similar to the Lord of the Rings character Gollum. Jane Espenson confirmed that this was intentional in a post at the Bronze Beta: “Collect the money on the bet. There was some Gollum in the history of Gnarl.”
In …

Jane Espenson told the BBC in an interview about her experience writing the episode After Life:
“After Life was pretty much the first episode I’ve written that wasn’t really a comedy; that wasn’t at heart a comedy. It was quite dark. [There were] few opportunities for humour, and I was …

The Sunnydale High jock in Earshot was named after a gymnast Jane Espenson went to school with. She used his name, Hogan Martin, as she felt it was very memorable for building up the cast for the ‘whodunnit’ at the end of the episode. Hogan and Oz also had one …