Anthony Stewart Head told the BBC why he decided to take the part as Giles:
“When you’re an English actor in Los Angeles, most of what you see is fairly caricature, two-dimensional. Mostly villains or idiots. We’re always the token buffoon colonialist who is responsible for everything going wrong. When …

From the original script of The Puppet Show this line was cut for length:
Buffy: “And I don’t think we’ll be featuring Xander’s special gift…”
Xander: “Okay, some people are jealous that they can’t burp the alphabet.”
Buffy: “…so we’re back to drama. We’ll just do it quickly. get in, get …

Anya has a fear of bunnies, first referenced in Fear, Itself when she wore a bunny costume to a Halloween party, with the simple explanation: “bunnies frighten me”. This fear is shown in Shadow, The Gift, Once More, With Feeling, Tabula Rasa, Smashed, Selfless and in Chosen. In Bargaining, Part …

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme tune was written and performed by the band Nerf Herder. The band took their name from a line in The Empire Strikes Back where Princess Leia called Han Solo a “stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy looking nerf herder”. Joss Whedon said in his DVD commentary for …

Sunnydale High School exteriors were shot at Torrance High School, previously used for the series Beverly Hills 90210. When the movie She’s All That (starring Sarah’s future husband Freddie Prinze Jr.) filmed there, Sarah Michelle Gellar filmed a brief cameo during a break in her Buffy schedule.
Every Buffy episode …

When Joss Whedon first envisioned the Sunnydale High School Library, he wanted something dark and crowded. The idea was abandoned as lighting a place would have been difficult, and the library become more modern and bright. The Sunnydale High School Library was known as the “Bat Cave” by the Buffy …

Joss Whedon supplied for the voice for the Mutant Enemy monster who says “Grrr….Argh” at the end of each episode. Mutant Enemy is Joss Whedon’s production company. He took the name from a Yes song called “And You, And I”. Mutant Enemy was also the name he gave to his …

Anthony Stewart Head was cast on the first day of auditions, and was the first person to be cast on the show. He said:
“When I went to audition, it felt very good. I remember going to the Fox [screen] test and seeing Joss there, and I knew that I was …