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* As mentioned before, this show created TV tropes.
* Nicholas Brendon (the guy who played Xander) [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113044913/http://verybadkoalas.com/2010/09/29/episode-1/
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** Baby Buffy went through a phase during which she idolized ice skater Dorothy Hamill. Sarah Michelle Gellar enjoys figure skating in real life, a skill which was put to good use in "What's My Line Pt. 1".
** The scene in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E08 Lovers Walk|Lover's Walk]]" where Cordelia gets impaled is based on a real incident. At five years old, playing around a swimming pool that was still under construction, [[Charisma Carpenter]] fell onto a piece of rebar. Only in real life she fell off a horse and not through stairs.
** "Buffy vs. Dracula" was not the first time Rudolph Martin acted opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar. Both were part of the cast of ''[[All My Children]]'', their characters being a married couple.
* [[Breakthrough Hit]]: For [[Joss Whedon]].
* [[The Danza]]: Larry Bagby III as Larry Blaisdell. DB Woodside as Robin Wood.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Some actors were a full decade older than their characters. In an extreme example, [[Charisma Carpenter]] was 26 when she played 16-year-old Cordelia.
** Averted by Dawn and Faith, who are both the same age as the actresses playing them ([[Eliza Dushku]] was even legally emancipated from her parents so she wouldn't be limited by child labor laws). Michelle Trachtenberg started playing the 14-year-old at 14. Probably done to ensure that she would look younger than her sister.
*** Ironically, she became taller than her by Season 7.
* [[Fake Brit]]:
** Spike, played by American [[James Marsters]].
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* [[Jossed]]: In Season Seven, it looks like Faith slept with Spike. When Harmony introduces herself in the comics however Faith offers these words.
{{quote|"I love that '''I'm''' supposed to be the slutty one when everyone '''but''' me has nailed Spike."}}
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Charisma Carpenter is noted for her many outreaches to fans, most prominent of which is that, unlike most of her co-stars, she absolutely refuses to charge for an autograph any conventions she attends.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Nikki Wood, the second slayer Spike, is played by a stuntwoman in "Fool For Love". When The First assumes her shape in Season 7, she was recast as a more vulnerable-looking actress.
** Buffy's old mentor Merrick looks different in a Season 2 flashback.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: Whedon wanted to put Eric Balfour [[Dead Star Walking|in the opening credits]] for the first two episodes so that his death would be a surprise, but literally didn't have the money for two sets of credits. {{spoiler|He got to do it with Tara six years later}}.
** Darla was originally supposed to be killed in the end of "The Harvest" when Willow hurled holy water at her, but a more interesting plot for episode seven ("Angel") was needed so they kept her in the show.
** [[James Marsters]] originally auditioned for the role of Spike using a [[Corrupt Hick|Texan accent]] for the character. He and the writers eventually decided that this was not a good fit, and so instead of a cowboy, Spike became a limey
** Spike actually uses this Texan accent in Season 4 when he's attempting to convince people that he's an old friend of Xander's. It's hilarious.
** "Normal Again" was originally more of a [[Rage Against the Author]] episode, with the world of Sunnydale crumbling due to Joss Whedon suffering writers block.
** Bianca Lawson (Kendra) originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia Chase and won it, but she was opted to take a role in the sitcom ''Goode Behavior'' instead. Producers liked her so much that she was introduced on the second season as Kendra.
** Buffy's bazooka in "Innocence" was originally a tank in the script.
** Oz was originally supposed to be killed by Angelus in "Passion", but his character had a lot of potential, so the decision was made to bump off {{spoiler|Jenny}} instead. {{spoiler|Jenny Calendar}} was supposed to have died in an earlier episode, "Innocence", presumably in place of Uncle Enyos.
** Warren was only intended to be a lackey on par with Jonathan during Season 6, working under Tucker Wells (from the episode "The Prom"), who would have been the real villain of the season. However, actor Brad Kane was unavailable to reprise the role, so Andrew Wells was created to be Tucker's brother as a substitute. Warren was likely promoted to main villain because he ended up being the most unpleasant of the three — Andrew was an amusing Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and Jonathan was generally well-liked by the audience by that point.
** Word of Joss says the door was left open for either Xander or Willow to come out of the closet. Willow's backdoor was set up in "Doppelgangland" (see Wishverse Willow), and let's not forget Xander and Larry ("[[Mistaken for Gay|Your secret's safe with me!]]"). Seth Green left the show to pursue other projects, and this sealed Willow's fate.
** Lavinia and Sophie Fairweather were originally intended to appear in the BBC's cancelled ''Buffy'' spinoff ''Ripper'', played by Anthony Head's daughters Daisy and Emily.
* [[X Meets Y]]: Joss Whedon himself refers to Buffy the Vampire Slayer as ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' meets ''[[The X-Files|The X Files]]''.
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