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Alyson Hannigan’s favorite "Buffy" episodes

Thursday 20 October 2005, by Webmaster

Yes, yes, we know Alyson Hannigan has a prominent role on a hit sitcom (she’s Lily, the lusty kindergarten teacher on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother), and it’s been a long time since she pulled up stakes on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Still, if you were going to interview the erstwhile Willow, as Whitney Pastorek did for next week’s Entertainment Weekly, you too would be unable to restrain yourself from asking Hannigan what her favorite Buffy episodes were.

Fortunately, the actress was a good sport and offered her four faves. Not surprisingly, one of them featured Alexis Denisof, who later became Mr. Hannigan. Here are the actress’ picks, along with her comments:

1. ’’Hush’’ (Season 4; creepy floating demons the Gentlemen rob everyone of the power of speech.) ’’It was a whole new way of figuring out how to act, the not-talking thing.’’

2. ’’The Body’’ (Season 5; Buffy’s mom dies from an aneurysm; the episode had no background score.) ’’I just remember the no sound, no music — it was so disconcerting.’’

3. ’’Ted’’ (Season 2; John Ritter guests as Buffy’s mom’s evil robot suitor.) ’’John Ritter was the best. We would all just hang out in his trailer and be like, ’Hi, John Ritter!!’ and he didn’t care. And, we got to shoot at a mini-golf place.’’

4. ’’Dopplegangland’’ (Season 3; a spell gone awry spawns Willow’s nefarious twin.) ’’I was in the vampire Willow outfit, and Alexis had some holy water, and he made this noise, like FFFFT!! And it just cracked me up. I had such a crush on him.’’

These may have been Hannigan’s favorite episodes to shoot, but were they your favorites to watch? What’s on your best-of-Buffy list?


6 Forum messages

  • > Alyson Hannigan’s favorite "Buffy" episodes

    20 October 2005 20:31, by Nick
    You moron. You missed her point completely. She’s saying she had such a crush on him back then, when she wasn’t married to him. Back when she wasn’t IN LOVE with him. People don’t usually have ’crushes’ on their spouses.

  • > Alyson Hannigan’s favorite "Buffy" episodes

    20 October 2005 22:42, by sicklittlemonky
    That’s a fantastic picture of her!

  • > Alyson Hannigan’s favorite "Buffy" episodes

    20 October 2005 23:15, by Michael

    "Doppelgängland" with good Wil being bad ("look at my outfit") & bad WIl being good ("I like books. And I’m shy.") is just too much. Too bad they figured out so quick how to send Leather back (at least for a couple of episodes...).

    "Crush" for (Spike/Dawn-Who’s bad), "Him" (4 gal square off in living room), "Orpheus" (eh?).

    "Bargaing + AfterLife" (lots of reasons, BuffyBot, The Rotund Vamp, The Veneson sandwich [a joke, a joke]). "Empty Places" (Nerf Herder & Faith/Spike fight). That fight, Spike coiling like a snake for first strike & Faith’s kick back...

    Ffffft & Pppppt to you both A & A, Happy Halloweeniee!

    Michael (San Diego)

  • > Alyson Hannigan’s favorite "Buffy" episodes

    21 October 2005 02:33, by Adam
    anyone know where this picture of aly came from? or where to find more from this shoot?

  • > Alyson Hannigan’s favorite "Buffy" episodes

    21 October 2005 04:57, by Anonymous
    hee hee Mr.Hannigan! very cool "Hello, Mrs ross!" "Hello Mr Rachel!!!!!!!"

  • > Alyson Hannigan’s favorite "Buffy" episodes

    23 October 2005 21:41, by Spellbound

    "Mr Hannigan!" Thats much better than what we call him. "The lucky @&%^$ that married Aly" or "Thingy-whatsit" But I guess thats who he is, Mr. Hannigan!! Bet he loves that!!

    Gotta say Dopplegangland! Wickedly brilliant ep, and The Body... if you didn’t cry, there’s something wrong with you!