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Demon tails

Jane Espenson said that Joss Whedon normally hates having demons with tails on the show, as the tails almost never look realistic. The demons in Earshot have tails, though, as Jane had written a joke about Buffy checking to see if she had one.

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Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson was born in Iowa and studied linguistics at UC Berkeley. She won the Disney Writing Fellowship for 1992-93 for a Seinfeld script she had written. From that, Jane wrote for Dinosaurs for a couple of months, and then worked as a writer on Ellen for a year. Jane …

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Bye Bye Love

The 1995 movie Bye Bye Love starred Buffy actors Eliza Dushku and Amber Benson as best friends. It also featured Lindsay Crouse (Professor Walsh), Donald Bishop (the Butcher in Never Leave Me) and Caroline Lagerfelt (who played Spike’s mother in Lies My Parents Told Me).

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Tru Doug

Doug Petrie is co-executive producer for Eliza Dushku’s show Tru Calling. He has also written for the show.

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Mad skills

Faith’s line in Chosen, “Dude, I’ve got mad skills” came from a conversation between Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku. She told him she once served ice cream at a Dairy Queen and joked to him, “Dude, I’ve got mad skills”.

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Marc’s movies

Marc’s favourite movies are A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects, When Harry Met Sally and Top Gun. (Very suspect choice - Jess.)

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Marc and Riley comparisons

Marc Blucas has spoken about his character Riley, and how they compare:
“I think we’re alike in a lot of ways. While we definitely have our differences, we’re both very dedicated and disciplined people, very intense people, and we always know what we wanted. … You’re going to ask me now …

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Bye, Marc

Marc Blucas’s name was taken out of the opening credits from the episode Triangle.

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Marc Blucas (Riley Finn)

Marc played Riley Finn. Marc was born in Pennsylvania on January 11th, 1972. His full name is Marcus Paul Blucas. He played basketball during high school, and at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Marc also played for the Manchester Giants in England for a year. Marc later got a …

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Blink 182

The band Blink 182 thanked Seth in the sleevenotes for their album ‘Enema Of The State’. Their song ‘All the Small Things’ is playing at the Bronze in Something Blue, when Willow’s doing her “brave little toaster” dance.

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Choosing Oz

Seth Green was given a copy of the script for Phases by Joss Whedon, to persuade him to take the role of the character of Oz. He had already played Oz a couple of times in the show, but this was for the role of recurring character. Seth said, “It …

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Werewolf Seth

Seth plays a werewolf on the show. He has also played a computer hacker whose on-line name was “Wolfman” in an episode of Seaquest DSV called ‘Photon Bullet’. Seth also co-starred in Stephen King’s mini-series It (1990) in which he portrayed the younger version of the character Richie Tozier, whose …

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Seth’s non-cameo

Some fans believe that Seth Green (Oz) made a small cameo appearance in the season five episode No Place Like Home, when Giles is in the Magic Box, talking to Buffy on the phone. After a closer look, the guy definitely isn’t Seth.

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Sweet J

Oz’s guitar is inscribed ‘Sweet J’. Seth Green starred as Scott Evil in the Austin Powers movies. His best friend in the movies is called Sweet Jay.

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Can’t Hardly Wait

The 1998 movie Can’t Hardly Wait starred many Buffy actors, including Seth Green, Amber Benson, Channon Roe (Jack O’Toole), Clea DuVall (Marcie Ross), Paige Moss (Veruca), Eric Balfour (Jesse), Nicole Bilderback (a Cordette), Christopher Wiehl (Owen) and John Patrick White (Pete).

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