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* VisibleBoomMic: When Buffy is in the living room with Joyce's body in the zoom up, the boom mike up in visible in the right hand corner.
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* DuelingWorks: Comparing this with an episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'', [[Recap/TheXFilesS08E14ThisIsNotHappening "This is Not Happening"]], both episodes aired in 2001, one on The WB and the other on Fox, and featured a sad plot (Joyce's death in this episode, Mulder's death in that episode), with {{TitleDrop}}s said by main characters (Buffy and Anya, Scully).
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Several interviews he says car crash when he was 27
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** Creator/JossWhedon's mother, a teacher, also died of a cerebral aneurysm and he drew on his own experiences, and those of friends and other writers, in constructing the episode. He tried to achieve an "unlovely physicality" to portray the upsetting minutiae involved in attempting to comprehend what is incomprehensible.
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** Creator/JossWhedon's mother, a teacher, also died of very suddenly (in a cerebral aneurysm car crash) and he drew on his own experiences, and those of friends and other writers, in constructing the episode. He tried to achieve an "unlovely physicality" to portray the upsetting minutiae involved in attempting to comprehend what is incomprehensible.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Creator/JossWhedon informed the network that the kiss between Willow and Tara was "not negotiable" and was allowed to air it. He was even surprised that they didn't advertise it as a SweepsWeekLesbianKiss.
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** German: Tod einer Mutter ''(Death of a Mother)''
** French: Orphelines ''(Orphan Girls)''
** German: Tod einer Mutter ''(Death of a Mother)''
** French: Orphelines ''(Orphan Girls)''
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* ThrowItIn: The Christmas flashback that plays after the theme song was put there purely so the opening credits wouldn't play over Buffy trying to revive Joyce.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Kristine Sutherland had wanted to leave the show after Season 3 but Joss Whedon told her he wanted to kill Joyce off eventually. So she featured in only a few Season 4 episodes and came back for Season 5 specifically for the arc that would result in her death.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Kristine Sutherland Creator/KristineSutherland had wanted to leave the show after Season 3 but Joss Whedon told her he wanted to kill Joyce off eventually. So she featured in only a few Season 4 episodes and came back for Season 5 specifically for the arc that would result in her death.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, Creator/AlysonHannigan and Nicholas Brendon all named this as one of their favourite episodes. (So did Creator/JamesMarsters, although he didn't get any screen time in it.)
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, Creator/AlysonHannigan and Nicholas Brendon Creator/NicholasBrendon all named this as one of their favourite episodes. (So did Creator/JamesMarsters, although he didn't get any screen time in it.)
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, Creator/AlysonHannigan and Nicholas Brendon all named this as one of their favourite episodes.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, Creator/AlysonHannigan and Nicholas Brendon all named this as one of their favourite episodes. (So did Creator/JamesMarsters, although he didn't get any screen time in it.)
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In interviews, when people asked Creator/EmmaCaufield what was going through her mind, artistically while filming the scene where she asks why Joyce died, her reply was, "I just wanted to get through the scene because I had to pee!"
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In interviews, when people Creator/EmmaCaulfield was asked Creator/EmmaCaufield what emotions she was going through feeling when she filmed her mind, artistically while monologue on why she doesn't understand death in Willow's dorm room, and admitted that they had been filming all day without a break and the scene where only thing she asks why Joyce died, her reply was, "I just wanted to get through the scene because I was thinking was that she really had to pee!"go to the bathroom.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In interviews, when people asked Creator/EmmaCaufield what was going through her mind, artistically while filming the scene where she asks why Joyce died, her reply was, "I just wanted to get through the scene because I had to pee!"
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* RealitySubtext: Both Creator/SarahMichelleGellar and Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg were raised by single women, and Gellar later spoke about the experience of acting something that was very real and close to her, stating, "you try to separate it as best you can and at the same time it adds that extra layer". As soon as the scene was finished with Gellar "at a fever pitch", they restarted it where she comes in the door happily, which Creator/JossWhedon regretted for the emotional range Gellar was required to endure.
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** Creator/JossWhedon's own mother died of an aneurysm.
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* WrittenInInfirmity: You don't see much of Creator/AlysonHannigan's face during the sequence of everyone helping Xander get his hand out of the wall, because the drywall dust caused her eyes to swell painfully.
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* WrittenInInfirmity: You don't see much of Creator/AlysonHannigan's face during In the sequence of everyone helping scene where Xander get punched his hand out of through the wall, only a shot of Willow's left eye is shown. This is because Creator/AlysonHannigan had experienced an allergic reaction to the drywall dust caused from the plaster on the wall - a reaction that resulted in her eyes right eye swelling badly. Because of this, she had to swell painfully.go to the hospital the next day to get her eye treated.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Joss Whedon informed the network that the kiss between Willow and Tara was "not negotiable" and was allowed to air it. He was even surprised that they didn't advertise it as a SweepsWeekLesbianKiss.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, Creator/AlysonHannigan and Nicholas Brendon all named this as one of their favourite episodes.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted.Joss Whedon Creator/JossWhedon informed the network that the kiss between Willow and Tara was "not negotiable" and was allowed to air it. He was even surprised that they didn't advertise it as a SweepsWeekLesbianKiss.
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** Joss Whedon's Creator/JossWhedon's own mother died of an aneurysm.
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* WrittenInInfirmity: You don't see much of Alyson Hannigan's Creator/AlysonHannigan's face during the sequence of everyone helping Xander get his hand out of the wall, because the drywall dust caused her eyes to swell painfully.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Kristine Sutherland had wanted to leave the show after Season 3 but Joss Whedon told her he wanted to kill Joyce off eventually. So she featured in only a few Season 4 episodes and came back for Season 5 specifically for the arc that would result in her death.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Joss Whedon informed the network that the kiss between Willow and Tara was "not negotiable" and was allowed to air it. He was even surprised that they didn't advertise it as a SweepsWeekLesbianKiss.
* ThrowItIn: The Christmas flashback that plays after the theme song was put there purely so the opening credits wouldn't play over Buffy trying to revive Joyce.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The conversation where Buffy tells Dawn was at first shot with typical over-the-shoulder and reaction shots, before deciding to shoot it from a distance.
* WriteWhatYouKnow:
** Joss Whedon's own mother died of an aneurysm.
** The scene between Willow and Tara was based off a real experience he'd had not sure what to wear to a friend's funeral.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Joss Whedon informed the network that the kiss between Willow and Tara was "not negotiable" and was allowed to air it. He was even surprised that they didn't advertise it as a SweepsWeekLesbianKiss.
* ThrowItIn: The Christmas flashback that plays after the theme song was put there purely so the opening credits wouldn't play over Buffy trying to revive Joyce.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The conversation where Buffy tells Dawn was at first shot with typical over-the-shoulder and reaction shots, before deciding to shoot it from a distance.
* WriteWhatYouKnow:
** Joss Whedon's own mother died of an aneurysm.
** The scene between Willow and Tara was based off a real experience he'd had not sure what to wear to a friend's funeral.
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* WrittenInInfirmity: You don't see much of Alyson Hannigan's face during the sequence of everyone helping Xander get his hand out of the wall, because the drywall dust caused her eyes to swell painfully.
