Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of Joss Whedon’s seminal series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and doesn’t that just make you feel ancient? As someone who started going by her middle name in high school because it was the name of Juliet Landau’s character on the show, Buffy played a huge part in my formative years and is probably one of a handful of reasons I get to write about television for a living. In honor of this huge milestone , I reached out to actor James Marsters, who played Spike, the bleach-blond, British vampire whose complicated relationship with the Slayer helped pave the way for one of the most hard-to-watch episodes of TV history .
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Hotsy Totsy Burlesque’s Tribute to Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the Slipper Room
The Home For Wayward Girls and Fallen Women is overrun with Vampires! Thank goodness Buffy and her monster hunting team are here to help! But first they must blend in and so they have infiltrated the show telling Cherry they are a burlesque troupe from Sunnydale and they are here to fight evil and spin tassels! Hosted by Handsome Brad & Cherry Pitz with performances by Le Grand Chaton, Mary Cyn, Matt Knife, Nina Marina and Johnny Caligula with Puss-n-Boots warming up the audience. In 1997 Joss Whedon took television with the revolutionary Buffy the Vampire Slayer, changing how television was made and creating a feminist Icon that has inspired women of all ages.