Trivia / Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 6 E 14 Older And Far Away

• Completely Different Title:
  • Portuguese: Feliz Aniversário, Buffy (Happy Birthday, Buffy)
  • German: Ein verfluchter Geburtstag (A cursed Birthday)
  • French: Sans issue (With no way out)
• Deleted Scene:
  • Buffy's line was cut due to length:
  All the good ones got picked off by that lady with the wig. Lay off.
  • Willow and Anya's exchange was cut due to length:
  Willow: I'll be fine.
  Anya: This isn't some weird definition of 'fine' that means hiding in your room and crying?
  Willow: No.
  Anya: Because we're tired of the crying.
• You Look Familiar: Kali Rocha first appeared on the show in a flashback in "Fool For Love" playing Cecily, Spike's hopeless crush from his time as a human. Later on she was re-hired in a completely different role as Halfrek, Anya's fellow vengeance demon. Keen-eyed fans, of course, immediately spotted that they were the same actor, and a lot of Fanon built up over how Cecily could have become Halfrek in the intervening century —- so much so that Joss Whedon finally decided to acknowledge it and establish Cecily = Halfrek as canon. (When Halfrek meets Spike it becomes obvious that the two of them know each other and have a history, with Halfrek addressing Spike by his original name, "William".)
  • Retcon: Cecily = Halfrek created some issues with timing — Halfrek's offhand references to her own age establish her as having been a demon long before the time period when William met Cecily. A non-canon comic, Spike: Old Times, reinterprets the flashback episode from Cecily's perspective, revealing that she was already a demon at that time and "Cecily" was a long-term undercover identity.

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