Trivia / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S6E17 "Normal Again"

• Completely Different Title:
  • Armenian: "Եվ կրկին ամեն ինչ կարգին է" (And Again Everything Is Fine)
  • Finnish: "Poikkeustilassa" (Exceptional Mode)
  • French: "A la dérive" (Adrift)
  • German: "Zwei Welten" (Two Worlds)
  • Japanese: "2つの現実" (Two Realities)
  • Polish: "Powrót do normalności" (Return to Normality)
  • Russian: "И снова всё в порядке" (And Again Everything Is Alright)
• Flip-Flop of God: Part of the reason of the debate is the various responses from the creators. Joss Whedon has said it's up to the audience which one was real, but Marti Noxon, the executive producer of Buffy, has insisted that the mental ward was the illusion:
  Noxon: It was a fake out; we were having some fun with the audience. I don’t want to denigrate what the whole show has meant. If Buffy’s not empowered then what are we saying? If Buffy’s crazy, then there is no girl power; it’s all fantasy. And really the whole show stands for the opposite of that, which is that it isn’t just a fantasy. There should be girls that can kick ass. So I’d be really sad if we made that statement at the end. That’s why it’s just somewhere in the middle saying "Wouldn’t it be funny if...?" or "Wouldn’t this be sad or tragic if...?" In my feeling, and I believe in Joss’s as well that’s not the reality of the show. It was just a tease and a trick.
  • It should be noted, though, that Noxon was not involved in the writing of this episode.

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