How did you discover BtVS?

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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 !
 
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. 🙂
 
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.
 
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!
 
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 😉
 
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.

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

And the rest was history...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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."
 
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!
 
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. 🙂
 
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:
 
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.
 
Buffy obsessed fan said:
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:
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..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
 
wow, BOF 46 times!? I just finished my first round! (but starting on my second!)
 
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!
 
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