Julie Benz’s first speaking movie part was in 1990 in a small role in the Dario Argento/George Romero co-directed horror movie, Due occhi diabolici playing alongside Harvey Kietel. Julie had a role playing a receptionist in the movie As Good As It Gets. She auditioned for a role in Eyes …

Julie Benz’s mother was an ice skater. Julie started ice skating when she was three. She competed in the 1988 U.S. Championships in junior ice dancing with her partner David Schilling, and came 13th. Her older brother and sister, Jeffrey and Jennifer, were the 1987 U.S. Junior Champions in ice …

Buffy’s mother Joyce met Hank Summers in her freshman year of college, when Joyce didn’t have a date and Hank did. She told this story to Buffy in Prophecy Girl.

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 …

Some of Cordelia’s (many) boyfriends have included Mitch (Out of Mind, Out of Sight), Kevin (Prophecy Girl), Daryl Epps (Some Assembly Required), Devon (Inca Mummy Girl and Halloween), and Xander (various episodes).

In Out of Mind, Out of Sight, Angel saves Giles, Xander and Willow by turning off a leaky gas valve. He tells them, “It’s not like I need the oxygen.” This ties in with Prophecy Girl, where Xander saves Buffy’s life using CPR as Angel is unable to because he …

The conversation between Buffy and Giles in Out of Mind, Out of Sight where he suggests she learn to listen to people wasn’t in the original script and was added during post-production.

Willow gets stage fright, which was first hinted at in The Puppet Show when she ran terrified from the stage during a talent contest. In Nightmares, Willow was forced to sing a piece from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly on stage but when she opened her mouth, no sound came out. Her …

Some graveyard scenes were shot at the Angelus Rosedale cemetery (yes, really!) in Los Angeles, which can be found at 1831 W. Washington Blvd. In season two, the crew built their own fake graveyard in the parking lot of the Buffy studios, which made filming easier.

When Sarah Michelle Gellar started filming Buffy, she had a fear of graveyards and being buried alive, which is ironic seeing as her character was buried alive twice in the show (Nightmares and Bargaining (Part 1)), and spends most of her evenings in graveyards. The crew built their own mock …

Seth Green said in an Ultimate TV chat that the line, “I mock you with my monkey pants” in What’s My Line? (Part 2) was an idea of Alyson Hannigan’s. She had dreamt that Seth said that, and Joss Whedon decided to include it in the episode. In her commentary …

In the episode The Body, Xander punches his hand through the wall after Joyce’s death. Joss Whedon mentions in his DVD commentary for the episode that Alyson Hannigan was allergic to the plaster dust and her right eye and face swelled up. She had to be taken to hospital, but …

Alyson Hannigan has a tattoo of tribal dolphins on her ankle, and a Japanese kanji character, for luck and happiness, on her back.

Alyson Hannigan met Alexis Denisof in season three of Buffy when he played Watcher Wesley Wyndham-Pryce. The two became good friends and eventually started dating. They married in 2003.

Bruce Seth Green directed several episodes in seasons one and two. He also directed the Angel episodes ‘In the Dark‘, ‘The Prodigal‘ and ‘The Trial‘. Bruce is not a relation to Seth Green, despite their very similar names. Bruce has worked on Airwolf, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: …