How did you discover BtVS?

[Bangelxx]

How did you discover BtVS? How long ago? What did you like about it? What kept you hooked on it?

I discovered BtVS because my parents had bought all the seasons on DVD and I figured I'd start watching them! I started april 2007. At first, I thought Buffy was just some show that was...entertaining but then.....I was hooked. I watched at least one episode every day and now i only have 4 eps to go!!!! ahhhhhh! (then I'll start all over again!)

[TrueVengeance]

Hmm....maybe about three years ago? I was bored one summer afternoon and flipping through channels, and found a rerun of Bargaining Pt1! I was hooked!! Then the next day I tuned in for the next episode, but then I missed Afterlife :p I soon discovered that they were showing season five episodes later that night and went from there hehe. But yep, first episode Buffy really wasn't in!

[Keanoite]

Once apon a time there was a channel called Sky One!.. thank God for you!!! It was ten years ago (God I feel old), a fine May evening, I happened to fall upon a fight scene. There were swords, a big rock and possibly the saddest tv scene I had ever witnessed up until that point. So while Buffy sent Angel to hell I became a Buffyite and a Bangel shipper for life. And the rest my dears is history...

[Joyce Summers]

I discovered it back in 1997 when I was 16-Oh yes, the 90s. God they rocked, haha, but now like Keanoite said I feel old, haha-when it first aired on TV. On the new WB network. Well, fairly new anyway. I just saw the commercials and promos and thought that looks unbelievably cool! Mom also agreed so the two of us sat down to watch it and were hooked by the end of Welcome to the Hellmouth.
I think my Mom immediately crushed on Giles, bless her. I knew by the fact she asked 'Isn't he the guy from the coffee ads....' in this raisey-eyebrow way.

And what I liked about it/kept me hooked was the supernatural theme at first. I've always loved anything fantasy or supernaturally so this just completely drew me in. Plus a blonde girl that kicked monster/vampire butt? Hell yeah. I also remember loving the fact that on top of Buffy being blonde like me, she was also 16 like me, an only child with a single Mom. I was like 'Oh my god...no freakin' way! That is so cool!'

[Edmund Blackadder]

I was working at Blockbuster Video and season 2.2 came out as a video Boxset. I was intrigued by it so I 'borrowed' it and went home. It was a Thursday evening and as luck would have it there was an episode on that night which from season 3. The episode was 'Doppelgangland' and it was brilliant.

I was hooked from the moment I saw Alyson in a corset - guys and ladies who love ladies, you know why!!!

That was way back in 99.

Interestingly, Buffy/Angel/Sky One also got me to love Scrubs because I remember Thursday nights from like 2002 it was Buffy 8pm, Angel 9pm and Scrubs 10pm - good times!!

[Keanoite]

I don't have a night to really look forward to now - except the 13 nights a year for Dr Who, but even then I can watch it later - Thursdays way back when I would not miss it for the world

I used Thursday as my own personal reference to the days of the week..Monday was known as ' 3 days till Buffy Thursday' and so on...I lived for those few hours on a thursday evening...there hasn't been another show on tv that has hooked me liked that...I miss it:(

[Edmund Blackadder]

I used Thursday as my own personal reference to the days of the week..Monday was known as ' 3 days till Buffy Thursday' and so on...I lived for those few hours on a thursday evening...there hasn't been another show on tv that has hooked me liked that...I miss it:(

Thursday night was the absolute best and worst night of the week.

It had Buffy/Angel BUT 21.58, when Angel finished, it was the longest possible time until the next new episode of my favourite show.

Yeah, sure I get excited over Dr Who and 24 but not in the same way.

I frequently tape these shows because I have other things where as Buffy/Angel, I would NEVER have other plans.

[VisionGuy]

I discovered Buffy when the movie first came out in the early nineties.

[Wiccaness]

I first discovered about five or six years ago on FX. I was just surfing the channels looking for something to watch, and then i stop on one channel that caught my eye, a blond girl kicking some guys butt. i think it might have been a rerun of early season three or four, Well i watched what was left of that episode, about 15 minutes, i thought it was an awesome show and was bummed when it ended, but then it say *up next: Buffy the Vampire Slayer on FX* with a clip of the blond girl....fighting some more....and i was all sorts of giddy, i prepared my self for some more action and was hooked from then on into watching 2 episodes a day.

[LittleMissLikesToFight]

i have been with buffy since day 1, since way before when they were showing teasers for the show, and being amped, and fell in love with the airing of Welcome to the Hellmouth when i was 11.

And the rest is history.

[Clem Rocks]

One afternoon a few years ago, i was eating my dinner and there was nothing on tv, so i just left it on Sky One and Buffy was on, and it turns out, Buffy was good! XD

[white avenger]

I saw the movie and I must have been one of the even dozen people in the world who liked it, though I really thought Rutger Hauer was badly miscast as the Dracula rip off. Donald Sutherland was great as he always is, and Kristy Swanson did a good job as Buffy. The first I heard about it being made into a series, though, was when a friend asked me to tape "Once More With Feeling" for him because he was going to be out of town Tuesday night. I didn't know who anybody was, and had only a very basic idea of what was going on, but I knew that I was hooked. The rest is history.

[Entiel]

It was some years ago...I was about eleven years old and I was in some friend's house and watched French tv channels..he told me his favorite show was about to start..it was the first time I watched Buffy...the episode was Amends from season 3...I really loved the show but here in Greece it was never aired..some years passed and two years ago while I was in my cousin's house I realized that she Had seasons 1,2 and 6 on dvd..until that moment I didn't even know that she was a fan..I saw the first two seasons and then I waited until I bought the other seasons(and Angel) and started watching endlessly since last summer...good days..I remember I watched one season in 2-3 days:)

[DarklyDreamingDrusilla]

I had seen Buffy on television before and I never really got too into it. I just watched it when it was on and I thought it was a good show. Then this past August my Aunt took me to the Buffy sing-a-long because I asked if I could go when she mentioned going because I am a huge Rocky Horror Fan and when I heard audience participation I was all over it! Then I was hooked I loved the episode and the next day I went out and bought the first three season ... the rest was history. =)

[The Chosen]

I'd seen the movie a whole bunch of times as a kid and I'd enjoyed it. I pretended that my plastic alligator was a stake lol! And then one day I was going through the digital TV guide and saw that Buffy was on. I'm like, "Hmm...I'll watch this!" and voila, the Buffy nut you have grown to know is here!

[Lyri]

I've been tagging along with the Scoobs since day 1. Some friends and I were walking down the hallway at school and someone mentioned something about a new TV show that was starting that night. They were making fun of the name 'Buffy, the Vampire Slayer'. They thought it sounded lame. But I thought it sounded interesting. So, that night, I set the VCR and taped 'Welcome to the Hellmouth', 'cause I think it was on too late for me to watch it, 'cause I was 12, lol. I watched it when I got home from school the next day and I was hooked. I think I watched that ep about 5 times while I waited the whole week for the next ep. And here I am, ten years later, and still as addicted as I was that night! lmao

[Hello Cutie]

Oh god it was when they were airing Season 4 (for the first time) on BBC in England... so would have been before Season 5 on sky, i think??? I was maybe 14, so 7years ago??

But I've always been mad-keen on sci-fi and fantasy, in particular vampires (im not a goth or anything btw, although i have done the whole scene in my teens, people always expect me to be some sort of goth girl just cuz i say i love vampires.... im always drawn towards the darker side in any fantasy/sci-fi thing... i think i was the only person that wanted Sauron to win in LOTR :P) so i've always watched vampire movies and the such, always had posters of them in my room, read books on them (stories and proper 'factual' accounts of vampires and the occult).

I'd heard about Buffy before then, and I'd watched an episode or two before (actually it was Reptile Boy and I'd seen the same episode twice... not one of my favourites) which hadn't endeared me to the whole thing... then i was bored so i sat and watched it, and got totally addicted... and considering i think season 4 is the weakest of the lot, its pretty impressive!!

[FeastOnScraps]

It would have been when they where showing season 5 after the Simpson’s on BBC2. I actually accidentally caught the first 5 minuets of “The Body” but I was just mesmerised by that first act, the performance my SMG scared the hell out of me I loved the drama of it. After that I caught the rest of that season and they showed season 2 late nights on BBC. Soon after I bought all the VSH box sets to catch up then I caught season 6 on sky one not to long after.

[Aussie]

I saw Buffy when it first aired over here, I was 11 or 12, I think it was '97. But the opening credits used to scare me! Then after the first season it got moved to a later timeslot so I wasnt allowed to stay up and watch it. I sneaked a few eps here and there until about 01 when my friend had it on DVD and I nicked it from him! I eventually brought my own set (and angel and firefly and scrubs and the office and pretty much every other show I "borrowed") when I finished school and got money from working :p So yeah I can safely say that I am hooked :D

[eponinethen]

I hated BtVS, I thought it was pretty much the silliest most pointless show ever. Then again, I had never given i a chance, of course. So one day I accidentally watched an episode on TV after school (I was lazy and avoided studying). This was about four years ago and the show was already canceled and over (but I didn't know that at this point). And well, it was alright, actually. It was funny, and after a while I fell in love with Willow/Tara.. etc. etc. etc. etc.

[Hello Cutie]

It would have been when they where showing season 5 after the Simpson’s on BBC2.

Thats the same timeslot I used to watch it in, and then we got cable so I could watch it on Sky! God bless BBC2!! :lmao:

[disco biscuit]

My friend said it was good, and so I bought the first season, and I was completely hooked. Yeah, I don't have a whole big life-changing story about how I got into it. xP

[UlaGan]

Oh, now I feel sooo ancient: for I first seen the movie way back in 92, liked it, then there was tv show way back in 1997, when they first aired some new series based on my favorte vampire flick (always was a vampire movie fan), so I decided to give it a try and ended up completely hooked.

[Legate Damar]

I heard that the musical episode was really good, so when I was flipping channels during summer, and it was in reruns (remember summer reruns? So, so long ago...) and I saw SMG singing, I tuned in. Hooked ever since.

[crabby patty]

it must of been 1999 as it was the year the Blair Witch Project came out, I was working in a mobile phone shop (very boring) and I was interested in the film, there was a documentry on Sky 1 one about the Blair Witch Legend and I asked my boss to tape it for me as I didnt have Satelite. So the next day he brought in the tape and said there was also an episode of the Simpons and Buffy on the tape. So I went home and watched the tape. The buffy episode was The Zeppo season 3, I was hooked, I had heard of buffy before but not seen it. My boss contuined to tape season 3 for me each week. And at the same time I found Season 2 was showing on BBC2 here in the UK.

6.45pm Thursdays - the best day !

[palabravampiress]

I don't have a great story or anything. I never watched it when I was in high school or college (when it was on for real). I saw a couple of snippets here and there, but those turned me off from the show. In one, Oz turned into a werewolf and tried to kill Willow. In the other, Spike tried to rape Buffy. I came away with the impression that the show was a formulaic cautionary tale about the dangers of women getting involved with monstrous men. Also, my ex showed me the Spike/Buffy knock-down-the-walls scene. He, apparently, thought this was all kinds of cool and would entice me to... watch the show, I'm hoping. lol. I was creeped out more because of the person who was showing me the video than the content, but that creepfest didn't exactly make me want to watch the show, either. I didn't know who the characters were or what their stories were, so I thought it was just a dumb excuse for a sex scene... and I thought the house falling down around them, while vaguely metaphorical, was overkill. So, yeah. I was introduced to Buffy at the wrong times and during the wrong scenes.

Finally, though, after the fabulousness that was Firefly opened my eyes to the wonderfulness that is Joss Whedon, my friend sat me down and made me watch Buffy. I fell in love. The rest is history. I am glad that my first impressions were proven wrong. When viewed in context, the three scenes that I watched prior to my proper introduction to the show were some of my favorite scenes ever. It appears as though they just require a bit of context. :-)

[nerd4hire]

I was into Angel from day 1. I heard someone, somewhere say it had something to do with that silly sounding thing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I didn't get the Faith thing on Angel, so I decided to check out this Buffy show, thinking it was most likely foolish, but maybe it would give me some Angel scuttlebutt. The first episode I tried was Tabula Rasa, and the first thing I saw was that silly shark demon with the rubber head. I turned the sound down, and went back about my business, all pleased with myself for feeling above this obviously cartoony crap.

Nevertheless, I continued to let Buffy play in the background thinking I'd pick up the odd nugget informing me about Angel. Then one day a rerun was playing, and the dialogue went suddenly silent. I turned to the screen thinking maybe there was something wrong with the television. About 10 seconds into Hush I was wired on Buffy for life.

[Canon]

I first saw Buffy about 7 or 8 years ago, when I was at my gran's house (she's a Buffy fan =P), and I remember I really enjoyed it. I think it was Killed By Death that was on, and of course being only 9 or so, I found it really scary, but I found that I liked being scared (which is strange for me). Every time I was at my gran's house I used to always ask if Buffy was coming on. I never managed to see many episodes when it aired on tv. It was only in January 2007 when I got the boxset for xmas that I finally saw the complete series, and I have no idea how I could have held back from watching the show for so long!

[Rebecca]

I think I was 16 when I first watched Buffy, we’d just moved to Manchester anyway. At the time my brother was a big TV addict and he’d spend his evenings in front of the TV in the lounge. One evening I went downstairs and my brother was watching some strange show about vampires. I remember the first ever scene I saw was in Dead Man’s Party when Cordy and Xander were kissing in front of the stairs at the party. I decided to watch the rest of the episode with him and thought it was crazy. I’d never heard of this show before, coming from a tiny village in Wales where no one had satellite a show like this was otherworldly! Any-who, I was enticed! My brother told me he had season 1 on video upstairs so that evening I started watching and needless to say I was ‘hooked’! After I’d finished watching all my brother’s videos I kinda just forgot about Buffy. It was only a couple of years later when I was in uni that I discovered Buffy once again. One Christmas my brother was being VERY secretive about my present (I’d got him a £10 Woolworths voucher so the secret-ness made me kinda worried, I didn’t wanna be show up by getting something really expensive!) so Christmas came and I had a HUGE box. I opened the box and in it was seasons 1-4 of Buffy on video (yep, I was shown up, he didn’t mind though ;)) So, jumping with joy I spent all Christmas break watching my new videos and yup I was hooked. This time for real though. Whenever a new box set came out I’d run down to Woolworths and have watched it by the end of the week! I never watched the show on TV though, I’ve never been one for timing and even to this day I don’t watch much TV, I like to watch what I want when I want, and Buffy let me.

So ever since then I’ve been a mad Buffy addict. I may have taken breaks from my addict-ness but I can never stay away for too long ;)

[Crazy Flakes]

Not too interesting. I saw it, heard it was good, bought it, and was hooked. Took me about three weeks to watch every episode, which is a bit sad, but there was nothing better I could have been doing for all those hours.

EDIT:

Oh, wait! I have to end it with this:

And the rest was history...

[Tranquillity]

I saw the movie on video just after it had bombed at the box office, mainly because i was quite into 90210 at the time and luke perry was in the movie. We thought it was funny but were glad we hadn't paid for addmission to see it.
Fast Forward a few years and i was flicking through the tv guide and saw that they was a tv show based on that 'lame' movie. We tuned in and were hooked.

[SpikedBuffy]

I had watched a few eps in season one but never really stuck with it (I was channel surfing and that's where I stopped). It became a 'catch it if you remember' show. Then during season two, I think it was "Reptile Boy" where it became a 'I have to make a better effort to watch this' show. A few weeks later, seeing the previews and promos for Surprise and Innocence, I left myself notes to remember to watch it that week. After that, I was totally hooked. I became "I cannot wait until Tuesday night so I can watch Buffy".

Then when season four started, our cable station stopped carrying the WB, so I had my grandma tape it, but that was difficult to remember to always call her and bother her. I stopped watching up until the last ten minutes of "The Gift", which I watched while baby-sitting one night. After that, I was able to get UPN in my college dorm and then I started buying the seasons and got caught up on season 4 and 5 and continued watching 6 and 7 as they aired.

[definition of insane]

T'was I think the Decempber of 1996 I believe. I was 13. There were ads on Channel 7 with some little blonde girl beating up vampires. I remember seeing the posters for the movie but had never seen it, despite wanting to so I just thought "hey, this might be interesting." Was in Sydney and made the the family friends we were staying with watch it with us impressional youth. The adults were "what the heck is this crud?" but I was "Oh yeah....that was cool."

[Lily]

I've been a fan since the movie days, like a few of you have mentioned. But being in Australia it took a little longer to get the show and even in those days (oh the 90's and dial up internet) it was making a buzz online so I knew I'd have to at least give it a try! And so began my longest and strongest attachment (or obsession) to a show. No other television program can get my blood boiling, my heart racing or have me sobbing the way that Buffy can. I'm so glad I didn't go with my initial reaction to the cast list, which was "Uh no, why didn't Luke Perry get cast? This is gonna be so lame" :lol: my teenage self was often wrong!

[IdiotJed]

It's a little embarassing for me, but it was because of Sarah Michelle Gellar. I watched All My Children back in the day, and yes, I'm a heterosexual. lol I had a crush on her and saw her on this new show and I followed her there. The rest is indeed history...

And I did see the movie beforehand, and I remember thinking, "This is an interesting idea, but this movie is just horrible." Thanks to Joss for letting me eat my words. :)

[Buffy obsessed fan]

It was about three years ago, I was off school and flicking through channels when I came across Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and I was, literally, hooked by the opening credits. I'd never seen anything like it before, and I knew I'd been missing out. I then managed to get all the seasons on DVD, and I'd watched them within a few days (It's actually possible...) and I've know seen every season through...46 times, I think, plus I've seen some episodes at other times when I haven't been watching through the season. Now that's what you call an obsession :lmao:

[scarybunny97]

I admit, I was late to the party. (*hangs head in shame*) Back in college I'd want some background noise in my room to drown out hallway chatter . . . but I didn't wanna turn on something I might get sucked into and neglect my studies . . . and during that particular block of time FX showed reruns of all sorts of random crap (most of which was pretty crappy). So I'd have that on in the background. This was my habit for months and months. But several times I found myself looking up and laughing along with the "group banter" bits. Especially Willow and Xander lines (whose faces and names I knew before long), and I'd make a point of looking up from my studies when I noticed they were onscreen. I'd still put my focus back on work once the episode got back around to plot stuff . . . but then THE MAYOR KIDNAPPED WILLOW! And I put the books down and watched that whole episode all the way through. And the next one. And the next one. Since FX was airing a 2 hour block, and they aired episodes in a loop (as soon as they'd gone through the series, the next day they started again with S1), I was caught up in time to watch S6 when it premiered on UPN.

Before Long I was buying box sets, devouring commentary, and getting my roomies addicted---just like I had done before with Twin Peaks! Anyhow, that's the story of how I fell in love with BtVS. And Joss Whedon's work in general.

[Rebecca]

It was about three years ago, I was off school and flicking through channels when I came across Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and I was, literally, hooked by the opening credits. I'd never seen anything like it before, and I knew I'd been missing out. I then managed to get all the seasons on DVD, and I'd watched them within a few days (It's actually possible...) and I've know seen every season through...46 times, I think, plus I've seen some episodes at other times when I haven't been watching through the season. Now that's what you call an obsession :lmao:

..46 times? :jawdrop: That is what I call an obsession!!

I'm gonna be a bit math geeky here but if you've watched every season 46 times through then you've watched Buffy for approximately 7 months of your life! Jeez lol

[Bangelxx]

wow, BOF 46 times!? I just finished my first round! (but starting on my second!)

[slayerpower]

My sister told me that the best episode of Buffy was on, it was a repeat of Hush. I liked it, but it was so scary, so I didn't start to watch it then. But I watched Real Me when it aired and I got hooked!

[wiccianslayer]

When i was about 4 i went in to our living room to see my 14 year old sister watching a blonde girl do cheerleading i figured i had nothing better to do so i sat down and imediatly feel in love with the show the episode was The Witch.

[Starlet]

It was in summer 2001. Polsat (tv channel in Poland) was starting to air a few new tv-shows and Buffy was one of them. I saw some adverts and articles about it in magazines and thought it might be interesting. I saw the first episode and was totally hooked. I was taping the episodes because it was airing at midnight( strange time for tv show, I think)and I couldn't be up so late then.
I still have some of that articles. One of them is funny. It tells Buffy plot in some diffrerent way:
"Buffy Summers starts a new school. She meets handsome boy- Xander and they fall in love with each other. But in her life happens something unusual: the girl discovers her destiny is killing vampires! She has to save the world from demons.In her first fight she'll defend her lover"
Interesting,isn't it?

[TheHeartist]

Watched it when it first aired, just saw it advertised and tuned in. Never missed an ep either, watched it and Angel when that started airing, all the way through to the end :)

[littlewilly]

What was the 1st time you saw Buffy?

The first time i saw Btvs, it was 2000, and i was flicking through the channels n came across the last 20 mins of a re-run of innocence.

i was really suprise it was quite good, enough to make me watch the brand new episode
later that week, and it was harsh light of day(then in the dark after it) and i was hooked
right away. Addicted to it.

but thank god i dint come across beer bad or reptile boy or i might not have given it a chance.

[white avenger]

The first episode that I ever saw was the first run of "Once More With Feeling," that a friend asked me to tape for him because he wouldn't be at home when it was on. The chemistry between Sarah and James did it for me. Hooked, reeled in, and landed. I didn't miss another episode. FX was showing 2 episodes back to back just when I got home from work, so I was able to catch up quickly.

[littlewilly]

I saw season 4 alongside the 2nd half of s2 and the 1st half of s3. i ended up seeing 2 3 and 4 before one. but it was good like that, it gave it a different spin to it.

[caitaintdead]

I watched Welcome to the Harvest when it was first aired in Australia. Can't remember what year it was but I was quite young and didn't 'get' it straight away but my mum loved it so I watched a couple more episodes with her. I wasn't completely sold until Season 2 though. I remember being about 11 or 12 and watching Buffy on foxtel at my Grandmas house and asking her to tape every episodes so I could have it on tape and watch it.

I also remember trying to be just like Buffy when I was about this age. I tried to dress like Buffy, got my hair done like Season 3 Buffy and even asked my mum if I could take kickboxing classes! When I was 13 I even stole a lipstick from a department store because it was the exact shade that Cleo said SMG wore!

[Slayerfest 99]

Hmm it was a rerund during '98 I belive, and it was The Pack from the first season...My younger sister had seen a few episodes and told me to give it a try (that it was actually pretty good) nothing else was on at the time, so I wacthed it. This may not be many peoples favorite episode but I fell in love with the show after watching this, it was just so different and dark and hilarious, and Buffy was the same age I was, so her high school years were the same as mine. I could go on....but I'll just sit and sigh:happy59:

[day walker]

i do not remember the episode but it was the first season in 1995 or 1996
it was the talent show episode with the dummy the ending was funny when they where performing that greek play

[eunsoma]

oooh i can remember once seeing it on TV it was in season one now i look back I'm pretty sure the episode was Prophecy Girl... I was so scared of the Master, seriously I thought he was like terrifying.. I was 7 btw. lol... The first full episode I ever sat down to watch was Beer Bad I think, and even tho this episode kinda sucks it was still good enough to get me hooked... ooohh and for someone to see beer bad followed by the rest of s4 and still get hooked is pretty impressive.. Shows was a good show we have on our hands ;)

[Cangel]

Well I always thought 'Flooded' was the first episode I ever saw. I was over at a friend's house and her sister had taped this episode the previous night (it was the new episode, and those always aired like at 10 in Germany, and we were all rather young so she taped it) well and when I was over we were watching it. I liked it, but couldn't really watch a lot of episodes at home because of my parents. But I also remember this was around the time they played 'Walk through the Fire' a lot on Viva (a second MTV we have here).
Well, so I thought. Recently I read some old posts of me on a forum, and like 4 years back I wrote somewhere on this forum the first time I saw Buffy was when I was 9, which would be around 1999/2000, so probably s3. The problem is I can't recall this at all. Am I just repressing or what is the matter with me? lol

[Joyce Summers]

Well I watched it when it first aired way back in '97. I was sixteen and loved anything supernatural so my Mom was like 'Look, this new show's starting, might be cool'. So me and Mom sat down and....both were hooked within minutes. And since it was just us two there were no other family members or Dads or whatevers telling us to change the channel each and everytime we watched it. Which was regular. Haha.

My Mom immediately fell for Giles ('Isn't he the coffee guy...?') but me in my young state was immune to his Gilesy charms dammit, so I was a typical teen and went slack-jawed at the sight of Angel. Add into the total oh-too-coolness of the kickass show and great characters and well, I sure as hell wasn't gonna miss an episode.

Eleven years later and I'm still as hooked as ever- and Mom and me regularly have Buffy-themed conversations. Most common debate being who is the better vampire- Spike or Angel (Spike usually comes out on top of that one, haha). I think we drive my husband insane. (Wait till our daughter's old enough to get addicted too, then we'll REALLY drive him nuts, mwa haha).

[Entiel]

I was in a friends house about 6 years ago and he said that he wanted to see a tv show in some French channel while I wanted to play video games..I agreed finally and I saw my first Buffy episode,"Amends"...then for a long time I didn't get to watch because the show was not aired in Greece..then two years ago I realized that my cousin had the first two seasons on DVD..I watched them and was thrilled..then I bought the rest of the series+AtS and since then I can't stop watching or reading the comics xD

[Bangelxx]

First episode i watched was "Welcome to the Hellmouth" on DVD last april. I never watched it on TV:(

[Spuffy is true love]

i don't really remember when I saw it on TV. We didn't get the WB while I was growing up and when it actually aired I was only 11 so my parents felt like it was "too scary for me."

But every once in a while it would be on Fox on Sat. afternoons and I would be able to watch it then. I can specifically remember Band Candy, which is still one of my favorite episodes.

What really got me hooked was one year I was going through a huge Eliza Dushku phase and was buying everything she was in, The New Guy, Bring it On, etc. And I saw that she was in season 3 of Buffy. So I grabbed that season and started watching it. After about the 2nd disc I was like I have no idea what is going on. So I went and got the first 2 seasons and started watching. When it got to Prophecy Girl in the season 1 and Sarah had the "Giles I'm 16 years old.....I don't wanna die." BAM! I was hooked instantly.

[littlewilly]

got to admit, we are the new trekkies!!!

[scarybunny97]

got to admit, we are the new trekkies!!!

ADVANCE APOLOGY FOR THE OT: Hey! :) Maybe it's because I have issues w/Star Trek, but I think we're a far smarter gaggle of freaks than TREKKIES! All the "trek" shows, in their many incarnations and spin-offs, are waaaaay more focused on the ideas than the characters. It's all about the cool future-y technology and a human species that has become waaaaay more enlightened than I think we ever will be.

Ahem. Back on topic. BtVS, despite it's demons and monsters and hellmouths--IS all about characters. Characters who react to their situations in ways that feel authentic and real, even when they are petty and unsympathetic. Which finally brings me to THE TOPIC: I don't know about the 1st episode--but I do know that I would never have started watching Buffy if not for FX. I was in College. My Junior year. And I wanted background chatter while I studied to drown out Dorm Noise. But I didn't want it to be something I would actually pay attention to. And with my schedule at the time, my hours of study lined up with when the FX network was airing re-runs off all kind of crap I never watched, including Buffy. So I'd flip on the FX network and hit the books. Well, when Buffy came on I would occasionally chuckle at a line or two--sometimes flat-out laugh. But I still didn't put down the books. As the weeks went on I slowly learned the names of each character . . . and I so didn't realize I cared about any of them UNTIL the one where Angelus grabs Willow by the throat. I snapped my book shut and glued myself to the screen. I thought "No! Willow can't die! You let go of Willow!" Damn. I cared. I had to know what happened next. From then on my study period started after those 2 eps. of Buffy aired on FX. And now I own the whole series on DVD. My Buffy love is a total fluke. But I'm glad for it. :)

[InsaneMystic]

but thank god i dint come across beer bad or reptile boy or i might not have given it a chance.
Actually, even the weaker eps of the series are good enough to get hooked on. We tend to forget just how much better Buffy and Angel are than other TV shows. Ah, we're spoiled geeks.

Proving my point is that the first ep I watched was the German first airing of "Inca Mummy Girl" (I can hear you guys give out a collective moan), guess this must have been either late '98 or early '99 if I remember correctly, and I fell in love with the series - and Willow :: red :::buffy_wil: lovey : - immediately. Actually it took me a friend to suggest watching the show for the first time, as the German title is even cheesier than the original - so I first thought the show would have been crap... boy was I proven wrong.

[littlewilly]

yeah, the weaker episodes are stil good.
Whats btvs called in Germany?

[InsaneMystic]

"Buffy - Im Bann der Dämonen" (lit.: "Buffy - In the Demons' Thrall")

[littlewilly]

I think on s6 extras it shows you buffy around the world and there is so funny titles in some countries

[The Ferg]

I started watching Buffy in like... 2004 in the morning 7:00 to 8:00. Then finally I decided I needed to buy a whole season. I looked up what people thought was the best season. So, I got S6. (Plus it had the musical!) Then I got S1 the same year. Now, finally, just this year, I decided to get all of the seasons. S2,3,4,&5. :) I lvoe Buffy!