11 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Buffy The Vampire Slayer

As if you needed another excuse to rewatch Buffy - how many of these did you catch?

[FiercelyGold]

"Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday, " 

Is a line I especially loved, that newer fans won't get. Back when Buffy was pumping out new episodes it would air on Tuesday nights (at the time) so this was breaking the fourth wall, and almost joked that through out the week they're still grinding away but the most dire stuff happens on Tuesdays.

[videovoidtv]

Buffy is the most underrated show in history. When I hear someone say “we need female heroes. It’s about time.” I ask if you watched Buffy. The greatest female heroine in history. Flawed. Vulnerable. Strong. Determined. Powerful and liked a good lip gloss. Her and Xena deserve statues.

[tmhouckable]

Giles in his apartment after Joyce dies listening to the same song that he and Joyce listened to in Band Candy. 😭

[angelboik]

Buffy to Xander in "Dead Man's Party", "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye."

[radhiadeedou]

The relationship between Spike and Cecily is kinda confirmed when they recognize each other in that season 6 episode where they're all stuck in the Summers home

[kbwolfe]

There's one you missed. In the episode where Willow kills Warren just before she does it she tilts her head and says "bored now". The same thing vampire Willow says in a previous episode. It shows how far gone Willow really is in that moment, reaching a point of evil similar to her vampire self.

It took me a few watch throughs to pick up on it

[ryanlemay]

I have always loved the whole "world with nothing but shrimp." It really holds little to no weight on either show, but the idea that Anya mentions it as a hypothetical reality, only to have its existence confirmed by Ilyria on Angel is awesome!

[meredithchandler]

I would argue that #10 - Tara sabotaging the spell she and Willow were trying - is not "a small detail you may have missed." I think it's pretty big and important. I don't know anyone who missed this.

[fryan_get]

One of principal snyder's first lines is 'That's how you get eaten." which is ironic/foreshadowing considering how he dies at the end of season 3

[LizRealGirlBeauty]

Yes, the fact that Halfrek-Cecily connection was in the show. She sees Spike and is surprised and says "William?!" And he says "wait a minute..." It was pretty clear.

[puffin-onehandedgamer]

what I loved about Buffy was the evolution of Spike, from worthless bad guy to the ultimate hero, his evolution was fantastic

[PapaphobiaPictures]

The best callback, IMO, is the seasom 7 episode where Xander and Willow are trying to talk Buffy out of killing Anya and Buffy recalls their words about Angel at the end of s2 and references Willow saying "get him" and Willow replies under her breath "I never said that?" Because Xander lied about what Willow said when she asked him to tell Buffy she had a plan

[datickywickygurl]

People always overlook the foreshadowing in s 7 ep 4 “Same Time Same Place.” When Buffy kills that creepy af Gnarl demon by gouging out its eyes with her thumbs, Xander says, “Ew! Thumbs?!!!” And that’s exactly what Caleb does to him later.

[timmooney]

Tara’s special insight is also foreshadowed when upon meeting Buffy for the first time (while B’s body was being taken over by Faith) knew instantly that there was something wrong. Something even Buffy’s mother and best friends didn’t notice.

[SuperBC]

OK. Why not rewatch Buffy again. I certaintly have the time now.

[pooapr]

Im always surprised when prople dont notice that the seasons 7 villian was introduced in season 3. Years is a long time for us but only minutes for The First.

[Fayanora]

Another one: In the scene where Buffy meets Riley, she says something like "My mom is gonna have an anyeurism." And the mom later dies of that very thing.

[ggamesgarner]

Buffy might possibly be one of the most underrated shows to ever exist.

[coreym]

In season 6 when Spike is “the doctor” and selling eggs I believe he was doing it to give Buffy money. In the episode beforehand he tells her to stop working at the double meat palace because he can get money. When he gets caught with the eggs he said he was holding them for a friend. At least that’s what I always thought in case people thought he was going back to his old ways.

[ShadowsGathered]

I always thought Caleb's reference to Xander being the one "who sees everything" hailed back to when Dawn told Xander that seeing and knowing was his power.