History Fridge / BuffytheVampireSlayer

* In [[BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween "Halloween"]], Willow gets turned into a ghost by the costume she bought from Ethan's shop, but who would ''buy'' a BedsheetGhost costume when they're the easiest possible costume to make at home? If Willow had just cut a couple holes in an old white sheet from the linen closet, she would have gotten her costume for free ''and'' unintentionally saved herself from becoming a real ghost.

* In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween "Halloween"]], Willow gets turned into a ghost by the costume she bought from Ethan's shop, but who would''buy'' a BedsheetGhost costume when they're the easiest possible costume to make at home? If Willow had just cut a couple holes in an old white sheet from the linen closet, she would have gotten her costume for free ''and'' unintentionally saved herself from becoming a real ghost.

* During Buffy's stay in LA in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]", someone tells her this about LA - "This isn't a good place for a kid to be. You get old fast here. The thing that does it, that drains the life out of them: despair. Kids come here, they got nothing to go home to and this is the last stop for a lot of them. Shouldn't have to be that way." A description which perfectly matches and foreshadows....Cordelia Chase. Barring the despair, a lot of this is true for her journey in LA. She has no home in Sunnydale after her parents lose all their money, she's living in a horrible apartment as her last stop, she is forced to grow up because of the trauma of life in Angel Investigations, her brain starts to deteriorate because of her visions, literally getting old fast and even becoming a demon doesnt help because she still dies regardless.

* [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E17Superstar "Superstar"]] is the first time the audience gets a RealityWarper scenario where the audience is aware something is wrong with their reality while the characters are not until later. In this case, the RetCon turns out to be the result of someone else's selfish manipulations. So when Dawn comes on the scene in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E1BuffyVsDracula "Buffy vs. Dracula"]], with everyone acting as if she's been there the whole time, the audience is already primed not to trust her, leading to the later twist that Dawn is an unaware innocent.

* The running gag of Spike being a fan of ''{{Series/Passions}}'': Firstly, if you were a single vampire who tended to work alone and had access to electricity and a television set, you probably would end up watching daytime TV at least occasionally, just to kill time before you could safely go outside. Secondly, ''Passions'' probably appeals to him more than other soaps that were airing at the time because of the supernatural themes: the very same things that make the show seem outlandish to most viewers would probably make it more relatable to Spike... After all, he's a vampire who has personally met witches, demons, cyborgs etc.

* Season 6 was, by far, DarkerAndEdgier than any that came before it. The season opened with Buffy at the weakest she'd ever been, and the BigBad wasn't a vampire, a demon, or a god, but a trio of all-too-human nerds who shouldn't have been able to do so much damage to the Scooby Gang. And by the end, Willow had completely lost her shit as a result of their actions, threatening to do far more damage than the Trio ever could have done. Now when did season 6 air? From October 2001 to May 2002... in other words, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, just as America was brought low not by the Great Power enemy it was expecting, but by nineteen guys with box-cutters, and was well on the road to UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and all that came with it. Even if the season premiere was written beforehand, Season 6 of ''Buffy'' wound up becoming a [[PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie Post 9/11 Terrorism Show]].

* The trio are some of the weakest enemies in the series, that Buffy would usually whup without a sweat. Three things: one they are human and Buffy is really hung up on killing humans, two she has so much on her plate there's scarce little time to focus on anything else, three she begins the season by being ''ripped out of heaven by her friends, clawing her way out of her own grave, seeing the Buffybot decimated, running for her life, wondering if she had somehow ended up in hell, and attempts to commit suicide.'' It takes her all season to get over this, had the threat been Angelus for example she wouldn't have lasted long.

* Season 7. Buffy is acting like a bitch, up to eleven. One would think she had gotten over the dying and resurrection by now, and for a time it looked like she had. She is so bad that the potential slayers want the newly arrived, reformed AxCrazy PsychoForHire Faith to lead them. The brilliance comes in that they are over the Hellmouth, Faith had been gone for three years, the cops are trying to kill the good guys, and Buffy had, aside from brief excursions, been over the Hellmouth for seven years, which would be working overtime to make her evil, crazy or dead. All her attitude, all of how much like First Evil! Buffy she is becoming, is because she had been on the Hellmouth too long and it is affecting her.

** Also why does Willow has less singing time than anyone? Or more specifically, why Willow doesn't have any ''relevant or meaningful'' verses? When you think about it, even the little song that Dawn was going to have before being kidnapped was going to be about her feeling neglected by everyone. Sweet explained that the song was the outburst of deep and strong emotions (Buffy's depressive state, Giles' dilemma about leaving town, Tara's love for Willow and then how betrayed she felt, Xander and Anya having doubts about their future marriage, Spike getting frustrated by his unrequited love). The whole arc Willow gets is about her ego inflating because of her use of Black Magic. She is not going through any deep emotions because by that moment she thinks everything can be resolved with magic, even her personal ones. This reason why she is not concerned about anything.

** Why wasn't Sweet able to break the contract associated with his talisman (that whoever summons him has to become his Queen), given the prevalence of MagicAIsMagicA in the Buffy-verse? Because the one who summoned him ([[spoiler: Xander]]) was male and therefore was unable to be a "queen" by the common definition of the word. It wasn't that Sweet could freely break the contract, it was that the contract couldn't be fulfilled. (At the time the talisman was created, "queen" would have meant "female".)