Trivia / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S1E1 "Welcome to the Hellmouth"

• Completely Different Title:
  • French: "Bienvenue à Sunnydale, partie 1" (Welcome to Sunnydale, part 1)
  • Finnish: "Ystäviä ja paholaisia osa 1" (Friends and demons part 1)
  • Spanish (Spain and Latin America): "La Cosecha, Parte 1" (The Harvest, Part 1)
  • Italian: "Benvenuti al college" (Welcome to college)
  • German: "Das Zentrum des Bösen" (The Center of Evil)
• Deleted Scene: This exchange was cut because of the length:
  Mr. Flutie: Oh! Buffy! Uh, what do you want?
  Buffy: Um, is there a guy in there that's dead?
  Mr. Flutie': Where did you hear that? Okay. Yes. But he's not a student! Not currently.
  Buffy: Do you know how he died?
  Mr. Flutie: What?
  Buffy: I mean - how could this have happened?
  Mr. Flutie: Well, that's for the police to determine when they get here. But this structure is safe, we have inspectors, and I think there's no grounds for a lawsuit.
  Buffy: Was there a lot of blood? Was there any blood?
  Mr. Flutie: I would think you wouldn't want to involve yourself in this kind of thing.
  Buffy: I don't. Could I just take a peek?
  Mr. Flutie: Unless you already are involved...
  Buffy: Never mind.
  Mr. Flutie: Buffy, I understand this is confusing. You're probably feeling a lot right now. You should share those feelings. With someone else.
• Executive Meddling: Whilst dressing for the Bronze, Buffy holds up a black dress and says "Hi! I’m an enormous slut!" The network executives didn’t approve of the use of the word ’slut’. They allowed it only after Joss Whedon explained that Buffy didn't want to look like a slut.
• First Appearance: Of Buffy (duh), Willow, Xander, Giles, Cordelia, Angel and Joyce.
• The Other Marty: In the unaired pilot, Riff Regan played Willow, but she was never meant to play her in the series, just to stand in for "proof of concept". Also, Stephen Tobolowsky as Principal Flutie.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The Master was originally supposed to rise from a pool of blood and be covered with it for the entire episode; this was abandoned due to difficulty.
  • The shooting script included an alternate exchange in the scene when Xander chases after Buffy after she leaves the Bronze:
  Xander: Why, you know something about Mr. Goodbar that she doesn’t? Oh! Hey. I hope he's not a vampire. ‘Cause then you’d have to slay him.
  She turns back to him, surprised and miffed.
  Buffy: Was there a school bulletin? Was it in the news? Is there anybody in this town who doesn't know I'm a Slayer?
  Xander: I only know you think you’re a Slayer, and I only know that ‘cause I was in the library today.
  • The shooting script shows additional dialogue for Buffy and Principal Flutie’s conversation in his office. These lines take place after he looks at her transcript and before she begins taping it together.
  Principal Flutie: At Sunnydale we nurture the whole student. The inner student … Other schools might look at the incredible decline in grade point average — we look at the struggling young woman with the incredible decline in grade point average. Other schools might look at the reports of gang fights–
• Write What You Know: In the commentary, Joss Whedon says that much of his high school experience is recreated as the hell that is Sunnydale High. Xander's awkwardness is an Expy of his own at that age, as is Jesse's. The scene where Jesse asks Cordelia to dance is taken directly from Whedon's school days. Unlike Jesse, after the girl's reaction, he said nothing and left.
  Jesse: You wanna dance?
  Cordelia: [sneer] With you?

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