Gone

[Happy57]

In this episode and in Smashed , Dawn is always playing with her food pretending to eat something or not eating at all .Buffy telling here breakfast is good for here, but I never see Dawn eating anything. Did you ?
They are not big eaters in this (wonderfull) serie.
If they start diner there is always something happening :lmao:
Are they all afraid getting over weight?
I remember Xander having peanutbuttersandwiches,Buffy making thanksgiving diner but did they eat it?etc. Once they had chicken and Tarra had some.
In what episode are they really having diner? or breakfast or anything else?

[Keanoite]

They were eating the meals its just that watching people eat is not so entertaining. Unless it is pivotal to the story there is really no need for the audience to see it.

[Kemy]

We do see them eat occasionally, Giles eats biscuits in several episodes, Xander stuffing himself with chips in a few others, Dawn eating the Pizza in season 7, Buffy eats onscreen a few times.

Its like all TV, there are just some things you don't show the characters doing because its either A) boring or B) something you don't wanna see them do.

[Rebecca]

You see Giles eat quite a lot :p I think it was on one of the commentaries that the directors joked he had a disorder cause he kept eating food to make his performance look 'natural' :p

[white avenger]

We do see them eat occasionally, Giles eats biscuits in several episodes, Xander stuffing himself with chips in a few others, Dawn eating the Pizza in season 7, Buffy eats onscreen a few times.

Its like all TV, there are just some things you don't show the characters doing because its either A) boring or B) something you don't wanna see them do.


Also, if there are several takes while shooting the scene, the actor winds up eating a tremendous amount of food or getting rid of it between takes in a most unpleasent way. I did read a story once about the late Jackie Gleason, where he was required to eat an entire plate of spagetti during a scene. Supposedly, they shot it fiev times, then broke for lunch. The man must really have liked spagetti!

[palabravampiress]

I never really noticed.

I do think that, like a lot of young 20-somethings, they had a lot more on their minds than what kind of foods they ate. I think they were busy rushing about trying to figure out life, so eating kind of became a secondary priority. I think that's why Buffy made such a big deal about Thanksgiving dinner. They so seldom got the chance to sit down for a group meal that I think it seemed important to her to make an effort at it once in awhile.

I do think they ate. Basically, I agree with Kemy. I think they did a lot of ordering in or eating on the run so that it didn't seem important enough for them to show. Similarly, I think they bathed and used bathroom facilities and brushed their hair and did any number of other maintaining-the-body sort of activities, but that those were never important enough (or pleasant enough) to show. I mean, the only time we ever saw Buffy look like she might shower was in that infamous near-rape scene, but we aren't meant to think that she never showered in all those years. The only time we saw Fred shower was when they needed steam so that Spike could write on something. Same thing. I don't think we need to conjecture that Fred never showered until there was a plot-driven need for her to do so. I look at eating the same way: they ate, but we only saw it when there was a reason for us to see it.

EDIT:
By the way, why is Spike always around for the shower scenes? That IS kind of weird.

[LittleMissLikesToFight]

yeah i dont think it was a matter of if they ate or not but rather, is it necessary in the scene or not. But im sure they ate!

And hey, good use of food in a scene, Twinkies with Xander and mummy chick! (i read somewhere they had to eat about 11 twinkies before they got the scene right).

[Randy Giles]

I personally like to see characters do small little things like eat, or even mention they have to go pee, on TV. When they throw small things like that in there it just adds realism, IMO.

[Blondie Bear]

I personally like to see characters do small little things like eat, or even mention they have to go pee, on TV. When they throw small things like that in there it just adds realism, IMO.

Apparently you're the last person I gave karma to, so here's my agreement with you. :)

[Buffy obsessed fan]

Yeahh, I just think it's not really something you need to see. Though Dawn eating pizza is cool 'Anchovies, Anchovies, you're so delcious, I love you more, than all the other fishes- :p Priceless xD

[Fake Shemp]

You see Giles eat quite a lot :p I think it was on one of the commentaries that the directors joked he had a disorder cause he kept eating food to make his performance look 'natural' :p

lol i remember hearing that, he had a problem with just standing around and now i laugh when i watch him in the background always drinking and eating and faffing on with things, cause ya know that real life! LOL!

[caitaintdead]

Well we all know Faith loves eating (maybe just other peoples food though!) Popping into my head is her getting along well with Buffys fries and eating "Andrews" pizza pocket thing. She must shed all her weight fighting vampires! Maybe that will be the next exercise fad!

[Lily]

and they ate chocolate in Band Candy and all those hideous nutrition bars that Xander was selling, oh and all the food that came home 'free' from Doublemeat Palace, actually now that I think about it, there's lots of food in Buffy, or at least it's talked about being eaten even if we don't always see them actually eat it.

[Joyce Summers]

Yeah...what Lily said. Haha.

There are lots of times when they eat- heck in The Body at the Christmas scene we see Xander saying he's ate so much he's just about ready for barf.
And Band Candy featured a lot of candy-munching (How much do you think those actors had to eat for each scene given how many times it's taken. I'm thinking quite a lot but not as many as the infamous Twinkie Scene in Inca Mummy Girl)
Speaking of...there was also the Twinkie Eating.

But generally in TV, Film and even on Stage the action of eating is minimalized because usually it's not important to the story. It doesn't move it along, but would only take up unnessecary time that could be used to tell more of the tale.

Plus, I really don't want to watch people eating. Strange, kinda icky and also boring. haha

[InsaneMystic]

I never noticed before either, but I guess it really is for the actors' comfort... never know how many times the shot must be redone, and come on, 11 twinkies? I hope NB got paid extra that day. *yuck*
What I did notice was that on Star Trek, no one ever finishes their drinks... and I guess it's pretty much the same thing there - reduction of pee breaks.


Similarly, I think they bathed and used bathroom facilities and brushed their hair and did any number of other maintaining-the-body sort of activities, but that those were never important enough (or pleasant enough) to show. I mean, the only time we ever saw Buffy look like she might shower was in that infamous near-rape scene, but we aren't meant to think that she never showered in all those years. The only time we saw Fred shower was when they needed steam so that Spike could write on something. Same thing. I don't think we need to conjecture that Fred never showered until there was a plot-driven need for her to do so. I look at eating the same way: they ate, but we only saw it when there was a reason for us to see it.

EDIT:
By the way, why is Spike always around for the shower scenes? That IS kind of weird.
Aside from the fact that I remember a shower scene without Spike (Willow in "Wrecked")... Well, it's definitely not a gentleman thing to do, but I guess I couldn't resist risking an eye if I were invisible and in the same building where Fred was taking a shower *cough*.
I guess it's my pervy little mind that doesn't allow for a meaningful combination of the words "woman", "shower" and "not interesting enough". :evilgrin1