Trivia / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S3E14 "Bad Girls"

• Completely Different Title:
  • French: El Eliminati (El Eliminati)
  • German: Der neue Wächter (The new Watcher)
• Deleted Scene: Buffy says a little more to Faith in the last scene:
  I know you think you can handle this. And you've gotten used to being on your own. You've got your tough loner act down pretty well.
• Enforced Method Acting: At the end of the scene where we meet Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, he and Giles both take off their glasses and clean them with their handkerchiefs. That was stage direction given in the script; neither knew they were going to be mirroring each other and their slight surprise is genuine.
• First Appearance: Of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, though he'd become more prominent on Angel.
• Romance on the Set: Alyson Hannigan first met future-husband Alexis Denisof on the set of this episode. While Alyson was immediately attracted to Alexis and asked him out, he declined saying that he didn't date coworkers. The two remained friends for over a year before they started dating. They married in September 2003. Charisma Carpenter also fell hard for the clean cut good boy, and she joked that she and Hannigan had a bet going over who would win him... Carpenter eventually conceded that bet.
• Spared by the Cut: At the end of the episode, when Buffy goes to talk to Faith, she was supposed to have discovered Faith dead, having hanged herself, this was planned until they decided to further Faith's character on the show.
• What Could Have Been: An early draft of this episode gave Willow's middle name as Danielle.
• Write What You Know: Faith comes to the school, breathes on the window and draws a heart shape. Doug Petrie, who wrote the episode, remembers a similar incident when he was in High School and a girl who was cutting class drew on the glass. He thought it was cool. Faith's "want, take, have" philosophy was based on something Petrie's friend's sister used to say.

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