Extragratis defines as free, in the sense that one does not have to pay for a service (free of charge).
Unlike gratis, one is not limited by another good or service.
Examples:
The free mobile phone one could receive when they sign up for a mobile telephone contract is gratis or free, but not extragratis as one would only receive the phone if one complies with the mobile telephone contract.
Unlike gratis, one is not limited by another good or service.
Examples:
The free mobile phone one could receive when they sign up for a mobile telephone contract is gratis or free, but not extragratis as one would only receive the phone if one complies with the mobile telephone contract.
Florry Burrell is famous for being not famous enough.
She was born as Florence Kraus on May 19, 1924. In 1952 she, her husband Harry Burrell (a printer for The New York Times), and her mother Rose Kraus spent every cent they had to buy a house in Elmhurst, Queens, at 52-13 94th Street. There she began to raise her children, Adrienne (born 1950) and Barbara (born 1952).
Florry soon became a well-known and beloved figure in the community. She volunteered for the Red Cross, and became a Girl Scout leader (troop 4-104). When her children began to go to the local elementary school, P.S. 13, she joined the Mothers' Club, and did volunteer work for the school library. In 1963, she became a School Aide at P.S. 13, the local elementary school, and worked there for the next thirty-five years.
Florry loved children, and children loved her, which made her an ideal School Aide. In this most polyglot community of New York City, she knew how to say "don't run!" in seven languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese. Children who had trouble in school got her special attention. She made them her Visual Aids monitors, and the extra responsibility often helped to pull them up and make them better students. Decades after they graduated, they would still come back to visit and to thank "Mrs. Burrell."
Florry had a deep social conscience, and worked for democracy and fairness wherever she could. She was an elections inspector for her district for over twenty years, a well-known member of her Democratic club, and shop-steward for her union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Even after her retirement, she never hesitated to speak up for her community. When the Post Office announced that it would remove the only mailbox on 94th Street, she started a petition, wrote letters to every politician she knew, and eventually got the mailbox back for the neighborhood.
"Grandma Florry" was best known for her warm heart and good advice to any in need. If neighbors had trouble filling out a form or understanding a regulation, she would gladly help them straighten the situation out. At first the names of her friends were Italian, Irish, Jewish, and Russian; later Spanish, Greek, Dominican, and Korean. She was proud of the varied mosaic of the Elmhurst community, and even when she couldn't speak the language, she managed to communicate gardening tips, useful coupons, opera plots, and news of her grandchildren to all. Through the generations of children she mentored and the many people she helped, she made Elmhurst a better neighborhood. Though she died on June 14, 2002, she never really left the place she loved for fifty years.
In recognition of her contributions, her lifelong friends and neighbors, Karen Squeglio Ninehan and her mother Catherine Squeglio, petitioned the New York City Council, asking that the street Florry had lived on be named in her honor. On October 24, 2006, with the support of Council Member Helen Sears, the petition was granted.
On April 17, 2007, Florry's family, friends, and co-workers gathered at the corner of 52nd Ave. and 94th Street in Elmhurst for the dedication of a street sign labeled "Florry Burrell Way."
But the next Sunday, an opinion piece by Stuart Miller, a sports writer, appeared in The New York Times, asserting that Florry Burrell's name did not fit among those famous enough to merit a street sign; and that in any case, too many such signs were cluttering the streets. He may have been prompted by a recent case in Brooklyn where a City Council committee had rejected a street sign for a controversial neighborhood activist, Sonny Carson; but his animus against street-naming had appeared as early as 2003, when he co-authored another Times editorial [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res9805E3DD1239F93BA35752C1A9659C8B63&nTop/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/H/History] against naming a Brooklyn street for Harriet Tubman.
Karen Ninehan's eloquent letter in rebuttal appeared the next week. It said, "A matching piece of aluminum on a pole does not make clutter, nor is it costly. It is a way to remember the lives of residents who did more than pay taxes and obey the law. A humble street sign for one block is small recognition of one individual's selfless contributions to a community, vital to neighborhoods and the city."
Mr. Miller's scoffing only served to make Florry Burrell's name more famous, and her memorial will continue to stand on her street in Elmhurst.
She was born as Florence Kraus on May 19, 1924. In 1952 she, her husband Harry Burrell (a printer for The New York Times), and her mother Rose Kraus spent every cent they had to buy a house in Elmhurst, Queens, at 52-13 94th Street. There she began to raise her children, Adrienne (born 1950) and Barbara (born 1952).
Florry soon became a well-known and beloved figure in the community. She volunteered for the Red Cross, and became a Girl Scout leader (troop 4-104). When her children began to go to the local elementary school, P.S. 13, she joined the Mothers' Club, and did volunteer work for the school library. In 1963, she became a School Aide at P.S. 13, the local elementary school, and worked there for the next thirty-five years.
Florry loved children, and children loved her, which made her an ideal School Aide. In this most polyglot community of New York City, she knew how to say "don't run!" in seven languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese. Children who had trouble in school got her special attention. She made them her Visual Aids monitors, and the extra responsibility often helped to pull them up and make them better students. Decades after they graduated, they would still come back to visit and to thank "Mrs. Burrell."
Florry had a deep social conscience, and worked for democracy and fairness wherever she could. She was an elections inspector for her district for over twenty years, a well-known member of her Democratic club, and shop-steward for her union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Even after her retirement, she never hesitated to speak up for her community. When the Post Office announced that it would remove the only mailbox on 94th Street, she started a petition, wrote letters to every politician she knew, and eventually got the mailbox back for the neighborhood.
"Grandma Florry" was best known for her warm heart and good advice to any in need. If neighbors had trouble filling out a form or understanding a regulation, she would gladly help them straighten the situation out. At first the names of her friends were Italian, Irish, Jewish, and Russian; later Spanish, Greek, Dominican, and Korean. She was proud of the varied mosaic of the Elmhurst community, and even when she couldn't speak the language, she managed to communicate gardening tips, useful coupons, opera plots, and news of her grandchildren to all. Through the generations of children she mentored and the many people she helped, she made Elmhurst a better neighborhood. Though she died on June 14, 2002, she never really left the place she loved for fifty years.
In recognition of her contributions, her lifelong friends and neighbors, Karen Squeglio Ninehan and her mother Catherine Squeglio, petitioned the New York City Council, asking that the street Florry had lived on be named in her honor. On October 24, 2006, with the support of Council Member Helen Sears, the petition was granted.
On April 17, 2007, Florry's family, friends, and co-workers gathered at the corner of 52nd Ave. and 94th Street in Elmhurst for the dedication of a street sign labeled "Florry Burrell Way."
But the next Sunday, an opinion piece by Stuart Miller, a sports writer, appeared in The New York Times, asserting that Florry Burrell's name did not fit among those famous enough to merit a street sign; and that in any case, too many such signs were cluttering the streets. He may have been prompted by a recent case in Brooklyn where a City Council committee had rejected a street sign for a controversial neighborhood activist, Sonny Carson; but his animus against street-naming had appeared as early as 2003, when he co-authored another Times editorial [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res9805E3DD1239F93BA35752C1A9659C8B63&nTop/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/H/History] against naming a Brooklyn street for Harriet Tubman.
Karen Ninehan's eloquent letter in rebuttal appeared the next week. It said, "A matching piece of aluminum on a pole does not make clutter, nor is it costly. It is a way to remember the lives of residents who did more than pay taxes and obey the law. A humble street sign for one block is small recognition of one individual's selfless contributions to a community, vital to neighborhoods and the city."
Mr. Miller's scoffing only served to make Florry Burrell's name more famous, and her memorial will continue to stand on her street in Elmhurst.
There are several themes which recur in shared canon continuity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
Bunnies
Oz mentions that bunnies are able to take care of themselves in the season two episode "Phases". Bunnies become a running gag thanks to by Anya later on in the series.
* In the season four Halloween episode, "Fear, Itself", Anya dresses up as something truly scary... a bunny.
* In the season five episode, "Shadow", Xander proclaims, "Just once I would like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers," to which Anya replies, "Great! Thank you very much for those nightmares!"
* In the heart-rending finale of season five, "The Gift", Anya finds a plush stuffed bunny and takes it to be an omen of death.
* Anya spontaneously sings about bunnies in the season six musical episode, "Once More, with Feeling".
::Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes,
::They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
::And what's with all the carrots?
::What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
* Apparently, Anya's phobia is so deep-seated and ingrained that even amnesiac, in the season six episode "Tabula Rasa", she frightens herself by repeatedly summoning bunnies by accident, until the whole room is jammed with hopping white monstrosities.
Boss of Me
The phrase "boss of me" is mentioned in a few variations (Watcher of me, boss of us), both in the positive and the negative.
* In the season three episode, "Revelations", Xander responds to an unusually agitated Giles, "You're not the Watcher of me."
* In the season three episode, "Choices", Willow says, "Of the two people here, which is the boss of me?
* At one point, Tara says, "And then made this little plaque that said 'Boss of Us'."
Cheese
There are various references made to different types of cheese, including the band the String Cheese Incident.
* These references culminate with the Cheese Man in the season four finale, "Restless", in which the characters Buffy, Giles, Xander and Willow have four equally bizarre and symbolic dreams featuring several common elements, such as the half-seen presence of The First Slayer. Another element weirdly common to all four dreams is the presence of a man offering processed cheese slices and making statements such as, "I wear the cheese, it does not wear me." Buffy creator Joss Whedon said himself on season four DVD extras that the Cheese man was the only thing in the dreams that had no purpose except for humour and to make no sense.
Leprechauns
To give actuality and veracity to the dozens of other mythical and pseudo-mythical beings populating the Buffyverse, leprechauns are often cited as a truly fictional product of superstitious folklore, with the common understanding, "Everybody knows leprechauns are just pretend."
* In the season three episode "Faith, Hope & Trick", Buffy says, "There are two things that I don't believe in-coincidence, and leprechauns."
Mr. Pointy
In the season two episode, "What's My Line, Part Two", Buffy learns for the first time that Kendra has named her favorite stake, Mr. Pointy. Just before she dies in the season two finale, "Becoming, Part One", Kendra gives Mr. Pointy to Buffy for luck, which Buffy mentions sorrowfully in the finale's second half, "Becoming, Part Two".
* In the season three episode, "Helpless", Buffy wonders to Angel if she'll spend her retirement in the Old Slayer's Home telling tales of Mr. Pointy, which she's had bronzed.
* Mr. Pointy is mentioned in season three episode, "Choices", by Buffy and Faith.
* In the season four premiere, "The Freshman", Buffy refers to Mr. Pointy as her security blanket.
World Without Shrimp
Mentioned in episodes dealing with alternate universes and other dimensions, "the world without shrimp" is another theme obsessively promoted by Anya, as is a complementary world with "nothing but shrimp."
* Notable mentions occur in the episodes "Superstar" and "Triangle".
* Willow mentions an ability to communicate with shrimp in "Graduation Day, Part One".
* The converse world with nothing but shrimp is mentioned by Illyria in "Underneath" as one of the many dimensions which she visited during her reign on Earth. "I tired of that one quickly," she says.
Star Trek
The entire Star Trek franchise is referenced throughout the Buffyverse:
* In Prophecy Girl, Xander calls Giles Locutus of the Borg.
* Klingons are referenced in "The Replacement", "Seeing Red", and "Conversations with Dead People".
* Vulcans are referenced in "Sense & Sensitivity" (season one Angel episode), "Homecoming", "Flooded", "Doublemeat Palace", and "Dirty Girls".
* In the season one Angel episode, , Cordelia wants to hire that bald Star Trek guy to narrate her commercial.
* Andrew Wells appears to have a crush (which he calls a "man crush") on a Star Trek: Enterprise character. In the season seven episode, "First Date", Xander says, "You heard me. Just tell me what to do. I'm mentally undressing Scott Bakula. That's a start, isn't it?", and Andrew replies dreamily, "Captain Archer..."
Star Wars
* Doyle mentions going out for a Billy Dee in the Angel premiere, "City of".
* For the first four seasons of Angel, Cordelia calls her roommate, The Phantom Dennis.
* In the season one Angel episode, "Sense & Sensitivity", Cordelia makes a reference to Jar Jar Binks. She and Doyle also fight a unidentified squid monster she refers to as a giant calamari in this episode.
* In the season one Angel episode, , Cordelia refers to one of the vamps sired by Angelus as Psycho-Wan Kenobi.
* Spike holds a rare and valuable Boba Fett figurine hostage to Warren, Andrew and Jonathon, threatening to break it unless they help him.
Batman
Buffy makes many references to the Dark Knight, but they really get under way in Angel:
* Doyle refers to Batman's HQ, the Batcave, in the Angel premiere, "City of".
* When Spike goes to L.A. in season one of Angel ("In the Dark"), he mockingly calls Angel's Plymouth convertible the Angelmobile.
* After a make-up mishap at the beginning of the season one episode, "Expecting", Cordelia comments that she looks like The Joker.
Bunnies
Oz mentions that bunnies are able to take care of themselves in the season two episode "Phases". Bunnies become a running gag thanks to by Anya later on in the series.
* In the season four Halloween episode, "Fear, Itself", Anya dresses up as something truly scary... a bunny.
* In the season five episode, "Shadow", Xander proclaims, "Just once I would like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers," to which Anya replies, "Great! Thank you very much for those nightmares!"
* In the heart-rending finale of season five, "The Gift", Anya finds a plush stuffed bunny and takes it to be an omen of death.
* Anya spontaneously sings about bunnies in the season six musical episode, "Once More, with Feeling".
::Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes,
::They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
::And what's with all the carrots?
::What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
* Apparently, Anya's phobia is so deep-seated and ingrained that even amnesiac, in the season six episode "Tabula Rasa", she frightens herself by repeatedly summoning bunnies by accident, until the whole room is jammed with hopping white monstrosities.
Boss of Me
The phrase "boss of me" is mentioned in a few variations (Watcher of me, boss of us), both in the positive and the negative.
* In the season three episode, "Revelations", Xander responds to an unusually agitated Giles, "You're not the Watcher of me."
* In the season three episode, "Choices", Willow says, "Of the two people here, which is the boss of me?
* At one point, Tara says, "And then made this little plaque that said 'Boss of Us'."
Cheese
There are various references made to different types of cheese, including the band the String Cheese Incident.
* These references culminate with the Cheese Man in the season four finale, "Restless", in which the characters Buffy, Giles, Xander and Willow have four equally bizarre and symbolic dreams featuring several common elements, such as the half-seen presence of The First Slayer. Another element weirdly common to all four dreams is the presence of a man offering processed cheese slices and making statements such as, "I wear the cheese, it does not wear me." Buffy creator Joss Whedon said himself on season four DVD extras that the Cheese man was the only thing in the dreams that had no purpose except for humour and to make no sense.
Leprechauns
To give actuality and veracity to the dozens of other mythical and pseudo-mythical beings populating the Buffyverse, leprechauns are often cited as a truly fictional product of superstitious folklore, with the common understanding, "Everybody knows leprechauns are just pretend."
* In the season three episode "Faith, Hope & Trick", Buffy says, "There are two things that I don't believe in-coincidence, and leprechauns."
Mr. Pointy
In the season two episode, "What's My Line, Part Two", Buffy learns for the first time that Kendra has named her favorite stake, Mr. Pointy. Just before she dies in the season two finale, "Becoming, Part One", Kendra gives Mr. Pointy to Buffy for luck, which Buffy mentions sorrowfully in the finale's second half, "Becoming, Part Two".
* In the season three episode, "Helpless", Buffy wonders to Angel if she'll spend her retirement in the Old Slayer's Home telling tales of Mr. Pointy, which she's had bronzed.
* Mr. Pointy is mentioned in season three episode, "Choices", by Buffy and Faith.
* In the season four premiere, "The Freshman", Buffy refers to Mr. Pointy as her security blanket.
World Without Shrimp
Mentioned in episodes dealing with alternate universes and other dimensions, "the world without shrimp" is another theme obsessively promoted by Anya, as is a complementary world with "nothing but shrimp."
* Notable mentions occur in the episodes "Superstar" and "Triangle".
* Willow mentions an ability to communicate with shrimp in "Graduation Day, Part One".
* The converse world with nothing but shrimp is mentioned by Illyria in "Underneath" as one of the many dimensions which she visited during her reign on Earth. "I tired of that one quickly," she says.
Star Trek
The entire Star Trek franchise is referenced throughout the Buffyverse:
* In Prophecy Girl, Xander calls Giles Locutus of the Borg.
* Klingons are referenced in "The Replacement", "Seeing Red", and "Conversations with Dead People".
* Vulcans are referenced in "Sense & Sensitivity" (season one Angel episode), "Homecoming", "Flooded", "Doublemeat Palace", and "Dirty Girls".
* In the season one Angel episode, , Cordelia wants to hire that bald Star Trek guy to narrate her commercial.
* Andrew Wells appears to have a crush (which he calls a "man crush") on a Star Trek: Enterprise character. In the season seven episode, "First Date", Xander says, "You heard me. Just tell me what to do. I'm mentally undressing Scott Bakula. That's a start, isn't it?", and Andrew replies dreamily, "Captain Archer..."
Star Wars
* Doyle mentions going out for a Billy Dee in the Angel premiere, "City of".
* For the first four seasons of Angel, Cordelia calls her roommate, The Phantom Dennis.
* In the season one Angel episode, "Sense & Sensitivity", Cordelia makes a reference to Jar Jar Binks. She and Doyle also fight a unidentified squid monster she refers to as a giant calamari in this episode.
* In the season one Angel episode, , Cordelia refers to one of the vamps sired by Angelus as Psycho-Wan Kenobi.
* Spike holds a rare and valuable Boba Fett figurine hostage to Warren, Andrew and Jonathon, threatening to break it unless they help him.
Batman
Buffy makes many references to the Dark Knight, but they really get under way in Angel:
* Doyle refers to Batman's HQ, the Batcave, in the Angel premiere, "City of".
* When Spike goes to L.A. in season one of Angel ("In the Dark"), he mockingly calls Angel's Plymouth convertible the Angelmobile.
* After a make-up mishap at the beginning of the season one episode, "Expecting", Cordelia comments that she looks like The Joker.
Buffy and Angel promos were used by the WB Network and later by UPN to promote episodes of Buffy & Angel. Most often promos include narration and clips from episodes being promoted. However occasionally more original and notable promos were used, and it is only these rarer promos that are discussed here. They may hold interest for fans of these television series.
History of the Slayer
History of the Slayer was a promotional clip shown on WB Network in 1997 to promote the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Before the first airing of Welcome to the Hellmouth, the WB Television Network showed a short promo. It lasted two minutes, fifteen seconds. Whilst the clip has no official known name, some of the few fans aware of the promo, refer to it unofficially as the "History of the Slayer". The clip aired at least three times, once before the premiere, once for a "special weekend presentation", and once for the final night of broadcasting on the WB network.
One of the Slayers which the clip introduced, Lucy Hanover was later used by Buffyverse authors Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder for a number of Buffy novels and Buffy comics. After the promotion, the Hanover character made appearances in
The Gatekeeper, Child of the Hunt, Immortal, Blood of Carthage, The Book of Fours, The Lost Slayer and finally after the completion of the Buffy TV series, Hanover appeared in Queen of the Slayers.
Content
::One of the promos can be downloaded below
A series of promos were shown, and each included different previous slayers. The information was later put on the official Buffy web site before that site was closed down.
1625: Plymouth Colony, early 1625. Mysterious deaths were attributed to some unknown animals. These deaths stopped shortly after a strange visitor, Abigail Cole, joined the community.
1845: The Slayer halted grisly murders at Boston shipyards.
1866: Local Civil War widows stopped disappearing in Virginia when Lucy Hanover showed up.
1888: Dodge City, Kansas. During the Summer of 1888, 40 deaths under suspicious circumstances. The deaths ceased when Belle Malone rode into town.
1893: Oklahoma Territory, the savage attacks which claimed 17 lives ended when a young woman blacksmith passed through.
1897: Bizarre murders at Virginia City, WY were stamped out when 20 year old Florence Gilbert arrived in town
1912: 23 killings at Brooklyn Boarding House. Student nurse Arabella Gish prevented further violence by lodging in room 6.
1927: May: Forty-one bodies were found at Union Station. Deaths stopped thanks to this woman.
1996: 1996: A small campus in southern California. It's starting all over again...
1997: Sunnydale, once again a string of murders is taking place, and the Master has plans for the town and the world.
1-800-Collect
::Can be viewed/downloaded below.
Immediately following the first airing of "Lovers Walk", was the first airing of an advert which featured Gellar and Boreanaz as their characters, Buffy and Angel. Despite being uncanonical, if it were forced into Buffyverse continuity it would fit after "Amends":
Commercial synopsis
In an earlier sweepstakes to win a chance to get staked on an episode of Buffy, Buffy is standing in a graveyard circa Season 2 with several clips from Season 1. Her lines are: "Sometimes 1-800-Collect can be a life-saver.", "You could be one lucky stiff." and "So, how do you like your stake." The commercial tag-line is "Let them eat stake."
Buffy is standing outside at a phone booth. Strangely it appears to be snowing in Sunnydale. Buffy says, "This season with 1-800-Collect, you don't have to be alone for the holidays." She then begins dialing the phone. Buffy hears footsteps behind her. She turns grabs a stake-shaped icicle, and makes a staking motion before Angel grabs her hand. Angel says, "Sorry I'm late." Buffy replies, "You should have called." The two smile, look into the snowing sky, then walk off together.
In an alternate, Angel says, "That's not mistletoe." The commercial ends with Buffy saying, "Your Christmas wish just may come true."
Promo offer
The promo was offering fans the chance to enter a sweepstake every time they made a call using the 1-800-COLLECT service. The prize was a walk-on part on Buffy. Jessica Johnson of Maryland won a three-day trip for two to participate in the episode The Prom.
Promo continuity
The advert would have to take place shortly after Amends, since snow in Sunnydale is highly unusual. The advert is clearly not part of Buffyverse canon since both the narrator and Buffy actively break the Fourth wall.
Barq's
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Nicholas Brendon plays Xander Harris in at least two promos for Barq's. :
:XANDER: (sitting in a cemetery) "Who wants to go to a raging party anyway. I'll just sit here alone, awaiting certain death. At least I have you (looks at bottle of Barqs, drinks then throws a stake into a vampire who is instantly dusted), "Woahh! Barqs does have bite."
, he says:
:"I'm sure you're all dying to know the winning name of the Barq's Buffy Halloween Bash, and I'm dying to get out of this graveyard. So, ohh, oops. Hey, it's 'Riley Finn'. Who knew? See you at the party. Hey, where are you going? Did I mention that Barq's has bite?"
WB Image Campaigns
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Buffy and Angel also featured each year within the broader promo campaign of the WB networks. These campaigns featured not only Buffyverse actors but the casts from the other shows on the network such as Dawson's Creek, Charmed, Smallville and so on:
*Backlot breaks (1998–1999 season)
This campaign was made up of small clips featuring actors out of character on set revealing a few behind-the-scenes details, including Buffy stars.
* (1999–2000 season)
For the 1999–2000 season, The WB crafted a more elaborate promotional three-minute sequence around the song "Crawl" by Thisway. The band slightly rewrote the lyrics to the song to better suit its marketing efforts.
The song was used again when in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?vFxN3AJNdymU&NR1 WB's final promo], after which the network shut down.
Buffy and Angel actors involved in the promo: Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Seth Green, Nicholas Brendon, and Alyson Hannigan.
* (2000–2001 season)
This promo used a remix of "" (originally performed by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) by the band Vitamin C. The lyrics were slightly rewritten e.g. changing of the date to the more recent 1993. This promo had a fast-paced feel, and showed the network's young actors and actresses in a fun, party atmosphere.
Buffy and Angel actors involved in the promo: Gellar, Boreanaz, Brendon, and Emma Caulfield.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?vyRfRd_Yk3dw&moderelated&search= My Generation] (2001–2002 season)
Eden's Crush, the girls group formed as part of The WB's , joined rapper Hesher to remix a version of "My Generation" originally performed by The Who. Hesher and members of Eden's Crush appeared in the promotional spot alongside the network's stars, which included Angel actors: Boreanaz, Carpenter, and Julie Benz. This season Buffy moved to UPN, so was not part of the promotion.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?vUwCqo_ygbcY&NR1 Who Do You Love] (2002–2003 season)
Another all-girl pop group, this one hailing from Canada, remixed "Who Do You Love" for The WB's 2002–2003 image campaign. The song was originally released by the Romantics in the 1970s. Angel actors involved in the promo were Boreanaz, Carpenter, and J. August Richards.
Buffy Season 6 UPN promos
A series of Buffy Season 6 UPN promos were aired by UPN to promote Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2001. These clips hold interest for fans because, unlike other promos, these featured the actors playing in character. Thus the promos make up part of the fictional universe known as the Buffyverse.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired for Seasons 1-5 on the WB network. After five seasons WB opted not to continue airing the show. The final episode of Season 5, The Gift featured Buffy Summers dying. However the show was transferring to the United Paramount Network (UPN) for its final two seasons. UPN produced promotional clips of individual members of the Scooby Gang commenting on recent fictional events in character. The promotional clips aired until the airing of the sixth season opener on October 2, 2001.
Continuity: These all take place shortly before the episode Bargaining I.
Content
::Can be viewed/downloaded below.
The promos consist of individual members of the Scooby Gang, briefly talking about life without Buffy. Anya, Dawn, Spike, and Xander have two promos each, whilst Willow has one.
*Anya (1) - "If she was here right now, I know she'd tell us how proud she is of us. She'd say 'Yay, You guys. Fighting evil without me' That's what she'd say. You know... if her vocal cords aren't all decomposed and stuff."
*Anya (2) - "Death is stupid. You plummet off a tower, and that's it. It's shocking and I don't like it."
:Anya had already recently experienced death in "The Body" where for the first time, she emotionally came to an understanding of what mortality meant. Here Anya has moved on from grief.
*Dawn (1) - "My sister died saving the world... saving me. Who's gonna save us now?"
:Dawn is referencing events that happened in "The Gift", Buffy jumped from the pillar to save Dawn.
*Dawn (2) - "All my life, one person has kept me safe in Sunnydale. But she's gone. Now it's up to me to stay alive".
:In "The Gift", Dawn's life was saved at the cost of Buffy's life.
*Spike (1) - "Knew this girl once, not like me at all. They say the good die young, they weren't lying. "
*Spike (2) - "It hurts when I think about her, but soon I'm not going to be the only one, 'cause without her, all hell is going to break loose."
*Willow - "Even in high school she warned me, she told me she'd die young. I never believed her, until now."
*Xander (1) - "The Slayer is dead. Everybody else... We're next."
:Xander looks into the future for the Scoobies. He later tells Dawn in "Potential", that because he has no powers of his own, he is the one that "sees everything". Ironically Caleb took an eye from him in "Dirty Girls".
*Xander (2) - "We live on a Hellmouth and we're down one slayer. If my calculations are correct, we're in big-ass trouble."
Notes and references
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #7 (UK, April 2000). Mini-feature on Barq's promotion.
History of the Slayer
History of the Slayer was a promotional clip shown on WB Network in 1997 to promote the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Before the first airing of Welcome to the Hellmouth, the WB Television Network showed a short promo. It lasted two minutes, fifteen seconds. Whilst the clip has no official known name, some of the few fans aware of the promo, refer to it unofficially as the "History of the Slayer". The clip aired at least three times, once before the premiere, once for a "special weekend presentation", and once for the final night of broadcasting on the WB network.
One of the Slayers which the clip introduced, Lucy Hanover was later used by Buffyverse authors Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder for a number of Buffy novels and Buffy comics. After the promotion, the Hanover character made appearances in
The Gatekeeper, Child of the Hunt, Immortal, Blood of Carthage, The Book of Fours, The Lost Slayer and finally after the completion of the Buffy TV series, Hanover appeared in Queen of the Slayers.
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::One of the promos can be downloaded below
A series of promos were shown, and each included different previous slayers. The information was later put on the official Buffy web site before that site was closed down.
1625: Plymouth Colony, early 1625. Mysterious deaths were attributed to some unknown animals. These deaths stopped shortly after a strange visitor, Abigail Cole, joined the community.
1845: The Slayer halted grisly murders at Boston shipyards.
1866: Local Civil War widows stopped disappearing in Virginia when Lucy Hanover showed up.
1888: Dodge City, Kansas. During the Summer of 1888, 40 deaths under suspicious circumstances. The deaths ceased when Belle Malone rode into town.
1893: Oklahoma Territory, the savage attacks which claimed 17 lives ended when a young woman blacksmith passed through.
1897: Bizarre murders at Virginia City, WY were stamped out when 20 year old Florence Gilbert arrived in town
1912: 23 killings at Brooklyn Boarding House. Student nurse Arabella Gish prevented further violence by lodging in room 6.
1927: May: Forty-one bodies were found at Union Station. Deaths stopped thanks to this woman.
1996: 1996: A small campus in southern California. It's starting all over again...
1997: Sunnydale, once again a string of murders is taking place, and the Master has plans for the town and the world.
1-800-Collect
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Immediately following the first airing of "Lovers Walk", was the first airing of an advert which featured Gellar and Boreanaz as their characters, Buffy and Angel. Despite being uncanonical, if it were forced into Buffyverse continuity it would fit after "Amends":
Commercial synopsis
In an earlier sweepstakes to win a chance to get staked on an episode of Buffy, Buffy is standing in a graveyard circa Season 2 with several clips from Season 1. Her lines are: "Sometimes 1-800-Collect can be a life-saver.", "You could be one lucky stiff." and "So, how do you like your stake." The commercial tag-line is "Let them eat stake."
Buffy is standing outside at a phone booth. Strangely it appears to be snowing in Sunnydale. Buffy says, "This season with 1-800-Collect, you don't have to be alone for the holidays." She then begins dialing the phone. Buffy hears footsteps behind her. She turns grabs a stake-shaped icicle, and makes a staking motion before Angel grabs her hand. Angel says, "Sorry I'm late." Buffy replies, "You should have called." The two smile, look into the snowing sky, then walk off together.
In an alternate, Angel says, "That's not mistletoe." The commercial ends with Buffy saying, "Your Christmas wish just may come true."
Promo offer
The promo was offering fans the chance to enter a sweepstake every time they made a call using the 1-800-COLLECT service. The prize was a walk-on part on Buffy. Jessica Johnson of Maryland won a three-day trip for two to participate in the episode The Prom.
Promo continuity
The advert would have to take place shortly after Amends, since snow in Sunnydale is highly unusual. The advert is clearly not part of Buffyverse canon since both the narrator and Buffy actively break the Fourth wall.
Barq's
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Nicholas Brendon plays Xander Harris in at least two promos for Barq's. :
:XANDER: (sitting in a cemetery) "Who wants to go to a raging party anyway. I'll just sit here alone, awaiting certain death. At least I have you (looks at bottle of Barqs, drinks then throws a stake into a vampire who is instantly dusted), "Woahh! Barqs does have bite."
, he says:
:"I'm sure you're all dying to know the winning name of the Barq's Buffy Halloween Bash, and I'm dying to get out of this graveyard. So, ohh, oops. Hey, it's 'Riley Finn'. Who knew? See you at the party. Hey, where are you going? Did I mention that Barq's has bite?"
WB Image Campaigns
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Buffy and Angel also featured each year within the broader promo campaign of the WB networks. These campaigns featured not only Buffyverse actors but the casts from the other shows on the network such as Dawson's Creek, Charmed, Smallville and so on:
*Backlot breaks (1998–1999 season)
This campaign was made up of small clips featuring actors out of character on set revealing a few behind-the-scenes details, including Buffy stars.
* (1999–2000 season)
For the 1999–2000 season, The WB crafted a more elaborate promotional three-minute sequence around the song "Crawl" by Thisway. The band slightly rewrote the lyrics to the song to better suit its marketing efforts.
The song was used again when in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?vFxN3AJNdymU&NR1 WB's final promo], after which the network shut down.
Buffy and Angel actors involved in the promo: Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Seth Green, Nicholas Brendon, and Alyson Hannigan.
* (2000–2001 season)
This promo used a remix of "" (originally performed by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) by the band Vitamin C. The lyrics were slightly rewritten e.g. changing of the date to the more recent 1993. This promo had a fast-paced feel, and showed the network's young actors and actresses in a fun, party atmosphere.
Buffy and Angel actors involved in the promo: Gellar, Boreanaz, Brendon, and Emma Caulfield.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?vyRfRd_Yk3dw&moderelated&search= My Generation] (2001–2002 season)
Eden's Crush, the girls group formed as part of The WB's , joined rapper Hesher to remix a version of "My Generation" originally performed by The Who. Hesher and members of Eden's Crush appeared in the promotional spot alongside the network's stars, which included Angel actors: Boreanaz, Carpenter, and Julie Benz. This season Buffy moved to UPN, so was not part of the promotion.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?vUwCqo_ygbcY&NR1 Who Do You Love] (2002–2003 season)
Another all-girl pop group, this one hailing from Canada, remixed "Who Do You Love" for The WB's 2002–2003 image campaign. The song was originally released by the Romantics in the 1970s. Angel actors involved in the promo were Boreanaz, Carpenter, and J. August Richards.
Buffy Season 6 UPN promos
A series of Buffy Season 6 UPN promos were aired by UPN to promote Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2001. These clips hold interest for fans because, unlike other promos, these featured the actors playing in character. Thus the promos make up part of the fictional universe known as the Buffyverse.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired for Seasons 1-5 on the WB network. After five seasons WB opted not to continue airing the show. The final episode of Season 5, The Gift featured Buffy Summers dying. However the show was transferring to the United Paramount Network (UPN) for its final two seasons. UPN produced promotional clips of individual members of the Scooby Gang commenting on recent fictional events in character. The promotional clips aired until the airing of the sixth season opener on October 2, 2001.
Continuity: These all take place shortly before the episode Bargaining I.
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The promos consist of individual members of the Scooby Gang, briefly talking about life without Buffy. Anya, Dawn, Spike, and Xander have two promos each, whilst Willow has one.
*Anya (1) - "If she was here right now, I know she'd tell us how proud she is of us. She'd say 'Yay, You guys. Fighting evil without me' That's what she'd say. You know... if her vocal cords aren't all decomposed and stuff."
*Anya (2) - "Death is stupid. You plummet off a tower, and that's it. It's shocking and I don't like it."
:Anya had already recently experienced death in "The Body" where for the first time, she emotionally came to an understanding of what mortality meant. Here Anya has moved on from grief.
*Dawn (1) - "My sister died saving the world... saving me. Who's gonna save us now?"
:Dawn is referencing events that happened in "The Gift", Buffy jumped from the pillar to save Dawn.
*Dawn (2) - "All my life, one person has kept me safe in Sunnydale. But she's gone. Now it's up to me to stay alive".
:In "The Gift", Dawn's life was saved at the cost of Buffy's life.
*Spike (1) - "Knew this girl once, not like me at all. They say the good die young, they weren't lying. "
*Spike (2) - "It hurts when I think about her, but soon I'm not going to be the only one, 'cause without her, all hell is going to break loose."
*Willow - "Even in high school she warned me, she told me she'd die young. I never believed her, until now."
*Xander (1) - "The Slayer is dead. Everybody else... We're next."
:Xander looks into the future for the Scoobies. He later tells Dawn in "Potential", that because he has no powers of his own, he is the one that "sees everything". Ironically Caleb took an eye from him in "Dirty Girls".
*Xander (2) - "We live on a Hellmouth and we're down one slayer. If my calculations are correct, we're in big-ass trouble."
Notes and references
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #7 (UK, April 2000). Mini-feature on Barq's promotion.