Trivia / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S5E1 "Buffy vs. Dracula"

• Deleted Scene: Dracula was trying to convince Buffy in this exchange cut due to length:
  Dracula: I know intimately what it is to be different. Human, but not quite... Of the world but still an outsider... You see? We understand each other. Both of us are born of darkness, masters in the art of death—
  Buffy: No. Hold it. Enough with the darkness. I’m born of Joyce, pal.
• First Appearance: Dawn Summers.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally Buffy should have "defeated" Dracula this way:
    Buffy arms herself with a lit torch, when Giles and Riley burst into the room.
    Dracula: (sends Buffy one final look full of pain and fury) What a shame. You could have been great, you know. (He jumps out of the window, changes himself into a wolf and lopes into the dark woods).
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar’s husband Freddie Prinze Jr. was originally going to play Dracula.
• You Look Familiar: Jennifer Slimko, who played one of the vampire girls who toyed with Giles, also played a Romanian woman in "Five By Five".

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