Trivia / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S3E12 "Helpless"

• Completely Different Title:
  • French: Sans défense (Defenseless)
  • German: Die Reifeprüfung (The Final Examination)
• Deleted Scene: Buffy lists some good things about being a normal girl in this exchange cut for length:
  Buffy: I mean, there's a plus side to being a regular girl. The whole not-bleeding-killing-and-dying experience.
  Willow: As for example.
  Buffy: Then there's buying outfits without worrying if they're good for bleeding-killing-and-dying in. There's a lot of good to it.
• What Could Have Been: According to commentary from David Fury, the original idea for this episode included Buffy being drugged by the Council, and hallucinating, imagining her friends and family as vampires. However, this was abandoned, as it was too close to the premise of "The Wish". Also, Kristine Sutherland couldn't stand the vampire makeup.
• Working Title: The episode had the working title "Eighteen" as it is set around Buffy's eighteenth birthday.

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