Ever Done Anything Special for Buffy?

[The Ferg]

For example, recently I just bought S7 and I'm at Chosen. So... To celebrate the awesomness that is Buffy I watched every season finale. I watched 1-3 from like 3:15-5:30 (yeah, I'm weird). Then I watched 4-6 from around 9:00-11:00 (don't really know, and you obviously don't care). Right now I'm waiting for my mom to get out of the shower so I can get in, then I'm gonna watch Chosen in my room. Which is special to me because I've watched most Buffy episodes sitting on my bed in front of the TV (it's a thing). I'm really excited. :)

Have you guys done anything like this before?

[nerd4hire]

What? You mean like Buffy watching rituals?

I remember there used to be a lot of these when Buffy was on the air. There's threads about them somewhere.

Some I remember are...

Lights out.
Candles.
Telephone unplugged.
Popcorn.
Watching groups.
Rules of watching etiquette.

You mean you DVD people have your rituals too?

[SC7 Fan]

I watch the halloween episodes at halloween, the christmas episodes at christmas and the birthday episodes on my birthday!

[Bluebird]

My friend and I will have our Buffy and Angel marathons and we will have a set of rules for watching.

Always watch it at her house cos she has the widescreen TV.
No eating noisy food.
TV turned up to high volume (that one really annoys the neighbours).
Discussion of the episode is only done at the end of each one, as talking during will cause me to shout at you 'Shh, be quiet, I'm missing everything here!!!'

I'm usually a very laid back person, but not when it comes to watching Buffy and people talking through important parts of an episode. lol!

[ashleey]

Well, me and my friends usually have a marathon when a season has ended.
We all have a good time watching buffy.

[VisionGuy]

I remember I snuck out of my own birthday party to watch the last five minutes of Chosen when it first aired. LOL

[Keanoite]

I remember when Buffy was first on my mother didn't want me or my younger sister watching it, she said it wasn't suitable! (despite the fact that she had never and still hasn't watched and episode!). Anywho, it used to be on Friday nights at 8 and that was when we would get our groceries every week. So we would rush through putting away the shopping, grab some chocolate and head up to my mother's room and watch Buffy and Angel every week. That was our ritual...until it was changed to Thursday night:)

[percepto girl]

I do mini-marathons with my friend on an almost-weekly basis (10-12 episodes per night). Milkshakes and coffee are a must.

[littlewilly]

I changed my name to William Marsters, and got a tattoo of Buffy and Reilly hugging on my ass.

[LorneyTunes]

I watch it with my friend on a regular basis cause know one else will lol
also when am playing cards or chess i use my Buffy sets x


Also when i go back to do Glass painting am gonna make some Buffy stuff for my room x

[frayadjacent]

what I usually do is wait a couple months or a year and re-start watching the entire series from the first season to the end, there were times where I've skipped around and also skipped episodes in certain seasons, and I tried doing it once with my ex to get her into the show and I think we stopped at Season 3. Right now is the first time since I've gotten all Seasons of Buffy and Angel on DVD that I'm going to sit through and watch each and every episode in chronological order (I'm on Season 5 for Buffy right now.) I haven't decided if I'm going to start alternating between BTVS and Angel Seasons now or just start Angel after I finish Buffy.

I wish there were more BTVS fans that I knew of in the area, especially when the show was airing. I would love to go to a BTVS watching party, the closest one I've been to was going to my friends house and inviting 1 other fan besides him and 3 non-fans to watch the Series Finale. I think I'm also nervous of meeting BTVS fans in person, I'm the biggest fan I know and I've only really met 2 other actual Buffy fans in real life (not counting all the fans I didn't meet when I saw James Marsters and Drucilla.)

[Jenny]

Well it used to air on Tuesday night's here in Canada. So every Tuesday was date night with my hubby, we would order food, pour some wine, dim the lights and .... you know.

Oh get yer heads out of the gutter...we watched Buffy of course! :D

Yup it was pretty heartwrenching when Buffy was over. We missed our date nights! Of course we carried on with Angel but we all know how that went. Angel was cancelled and I had my daughter 9 months later :D :D

[bufsum]

I have given class presentations on Buffy (I mention this because that's the first special thing I thought of). I also have marathons, and such with and without my sis.

[Lyri]

I've spent about £600, probably more, going to Conventions to see the stars of these shows. Does that sound obsessive? Nah, didn't think so.

Apart from that, I collect all the comics, and the TPB's. I never really had anything like marathons and stuff. One thing I do though, is that I can never go a week without watching at least one ep, usually more.

And I opened not one, but TWO websites based on these shows, and I come here every single day to hang out with other people who are as obsessed as I am!!

I'm completely normal, right?

[bufsum]

Sounds normal to me, Lryi!

frayadjacent-I have actually given several, one (my favorite) was a powerpoint presentation that included a look through the series, and used jergen from the class... it was a popular culture class. Another time I wrote a paper comparing Buffy, Harry and Spiderman... and their similarites. That was a lot of fun. I enjoy taking the characters, and using them to get an intellectual point across. My professors always seemed to enjoy it, too! :)

[LittleMissLikesToFight]

i feel so left out. i dont really have any rituals, other than i cannot start watching an episode and continue at a later time, i MUST have the time to sit and watch the whole thing.

And I am doing chronological order between Buffy and Angel. Oh, and i never skip around with episodes. When im done, i just start the series over.

hee hee well i guess that counts sort of as viewing habits... but i dont have anyone to watch it with :( and i dont have any other sort of things. I will sit and watch way too many episodes in a row though and wonder where my day went.

[Buffy obsessed fan]

On my birthday I watched all my favourite episodes back to back...twice. And at a sleepover we watched Once More, With Feeling and then sang all the songs, doing different duets and stuff. Then at another sleepover we watched through some episodes and then acted them all out.

[bufsum]

Oh, I want to have a sing along to OMWF... I heard that there was a tour of that going around, (like Rocky Horror style) but it's done now... that would be awesome to see.

...sorry for the digression.

I just thought that my sister and I read the comics together, out loud to one another.

[frayadjacent]

I just thought that my sister and I read the comics together, out loud to one another.

Wow! No offense but that's too strange even for me, and I mean in general not in terms of "Buffyness." I'm an avid comic reader, and I can see someone narrating a comic to someone else, but reading comics aloud to each other? That would seem like it'd get confusing. I can see reading together and quoting a few things to each other during and after...

I have a friend that I talk to after we've both read the new issue.

[TabulaRasa]

Well, me and a couple of my awesome friends here have done some Buffy marathons together. It's a lot of fun. And sometimes when I watch End of Days or Chosen, I like to get my scythe down off the wall and look at it, lol. I'm a nerd I know. But it's a thing.

[bufsum]

Wow! No offense but that's too strange even for me, and I mean in general not in terms of "Buffyness."

:lmao: Glad I could register high on your "strangeness meter!" :)

I should probably have prefaced that with the fact that my sister and I watched Buffy together every Tuesday... except when one of us had to work... that was our ritual. So, in place of watching the series we read the series.

And, this is the first comic series we've read... besides a smattering of superhero comics... so we don't have a template on how to read them. ;)

Ooops, I forgot to add-Jenny... I will be looking that up! Thanks a million. :)

[Primal Slayer]

I did a PowerPoint Presentation for my PP class in Highschool. Everyone should get some kind of knowledge of Buffy in HS. Its essential..

I also dedicated a wall in my room to the show, an entire Buffy section next to my bed.

Wrote about it in my autobiography (in 7th grade)

And ofcourse always have to have a mini Buffy marathon atleast every 6 months followed by playing Chaos Bleeds.