Trivia / Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 6 E 5 Life Serial

• Actor-Inspired Element: Danny Strong revealed on Twitter that when Jonathan drops his "magic bone", he made a rattlesnake gesture that Lily Tomlin did to him on Big Business (1988). Tom Lenk would make the gesture to him and Adam Busch onset as an inside-joke, so Strong decided to use it
• Corpsing: After Jonathan (in demon guise) sets off the smoke bomb to escape, we can clearly see that James Marsters can’t help but laugh at the situation.
• Never Work with Children or Animals: James C. Leary (Clem) talked to The BBC about the kittens:
  Actually having to deal with about twelve kittens on a table, when for some of the scene we were raised above the floor to get proper eye lines so the table was about two feet off the ground and the kittens kept trying to crawl off the table, [was difficult]. You don’t want to let them fall, so you’re in the middle of this dialogue scene trying to remember your lines and not look at the camera and you’re like "Oh, there goes a kitten, there we go".
  So it was an effort trying to wrangle the kittens and keep them on the table. It was so crazy because there were twelve to fourteen of them that they would just keep interchanging all day long on the set. "Meow, meow, meow..."Cut, we have kittens mewing".
  "...They were from the SPCA (Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals) so everybody on set wanted to take one home. I can't - my wife’s allergic to cats - so that solved that problem.

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