For better or worse.

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1. Buffy would be from Essex.

2. The Hellmouth would be somewhere around Basildon.

3. Buffy would be on the netball team.

4. Or the hockey team.

5. Or the football team, since woman aren't sideline participants in male sports.

6. It would be a lot harder to tell vampires from the regular sickly looking pale people.

7. Especially since they'd all be using fake tan.

8. She’d still be sarcastic, but so would everyone else.

9. Including the vampires.

10. They’d be extra sarcastic, probably.

11. Sarky bastards.

12. The show would involve a lot more banter.

13. Buffy would be among the least violent teens at her high school.

14. She’d spend as much time fighting hooded youths as demons.

15. And football hooligans.

16. And demon hoodies/hooligans.

17. Giles would still be posher than everyone.

18. People would assume he’d got chucked out of Oxford/Cambridge for doing something dodgy.

19. And they'd laugh because he looked just like the guy from the Nescafé ads on telly.

20. Students would actually use the school library for study.

21. And they would all wear school uniforms.

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22. Which would render Darla’s uniform angle useless.

23. Xander would be called Alex.

24. Except on MSN Messenger.

25. He’d be considered quite buff.

26. But still would not be mysterious enough for Buffy.

27. Willow would be the first person in school to be into Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

28. The book would pique her interest in magic.

29. And cosplay.

30. She'd play Harry, and she'd make Giles dress up as Dumbledore.

31. Willow and Alex/Xander would have grown up together on a local council estate.

32. They’d love Men Behaving Badly.

33. Which Willow would only pretend to love because Xander loves it.

34. Angel would be from Yorkshire.

35. No one would be surprised that he’s a bit moody.

36. Hearing him say “Buffy” in a Yorkshire accent would never get old.

37. He and Giles would bond over Yorkshire Tea.

38. A big part of Angel and Buffy’s relationship would have been taking the piss out of each other’s accents.

39. She'd find him mysterious because she'd never met an actual Northerner.

40. Buffy would not have been a virgin before she slept with Angel.

41. Xander wouldn’t have been a virgin before he slept with Faith.

42. Nor Willow before Oz.

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43. Nobody in the show would be a virgin.

44. Xander would have left school at 16 and done a carpentry apprenticeship.

45. He’d have his own white van.

46. And would go on at least one lads holiday to Magaluf.

47. Cordelia would still be rich.

48. But she wouldn’t have lost her fortune until the banking crisis in 2008.

49. But she would have gone out partying in east London, pretending not to be rich.

50. She would have taken Buffy to a house party with The Libertines in Bethnal Green.

51. She’d have dated pre-fame Pete Doherty.

52. And would have complained about Kate Moss taking her leftovers.

53. Since she likes a bit of rough, no one would think it was odd that she was dating Xander.

54. Spike would be an actual Londoner.

55. He’d hang out in Camden, mostly.

56. Within 10 metres of Camden Lock.

57. Where punk rock is not yet dead.

58. In “Ted”, Ted would have been played by David Jason.

59. The episode “Bad Beer” would have been titled “Bad Cider”.

60. It would have featured White Lightning and park benches.

61. And it would have been an episode in Season 1, when they were 16, not Season 4.

62. In the first Halloween episode they’d all have turned into drunk teens, since they would not have been in fancy dress.

63. At night they would hang out in a pub, since youth clubs are for 14-year-olds.

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64. The pub would only have live music on a Saturday night.

65. It would be a band that did shit Britpop covers.

66. The same band every week.

67. The same covers.

68. The band would have a comedy name like "No Way Sis".

69. It would probably just be actual Britpop cover band No Way Sis.

70. Oz would be their bassist.

71. He’d hail from Manchester, and have a shit haircut and a Vespa.

72. He would drop more E’s than Gadsby.

73. When he wolfed out he’d just lay there, stroking his own fur.

74. A major plotline would have involved members of parliament as demons.

75. Probably the Hamiltons.

76. There would have definitely been a vampire-in-the-royal-family plot.

77. Probably Charles.

78. Joyce would get excellent medical care for free on the NHS.

79. Giles wouldn’t have to leave, therefore not ruining large chunks of the latter seasons with his absence.

80. After dropping out of uni, Buffy would have worked in a Nando's.

81. Instead of involving actual university studies, Season 4 would have just been an extended freshers' week of drink, drugs, and casual sex.

82. Basically just Skins with vampires.

83. And finally, each season would have been only six episodes long.

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Sometimes she is callous and strange.

When her mom didn't believe she was actually rebelling.

The struggle of being a well-behaved teenager.

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When she made a not-so-vague disclaimer.

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When she accepted her role as a sidekick.

Tara has it right, sitting is better.

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We she had this awkward encounter.

For some reason we pretend like we're going to miss everyone.

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1. Buffy would originally be from Sydney.
2. Instead of being in Sunnydale, the Hellmouth would actually be in some small New South Wales town like Wagga Wagga, Griffith or Broken Hill.
3. Because it's Australia, there would be no cheerleading team.
4. So Buffy would just sign up for netball.
5. And Cordelia would be the captain of the netball team.
6. There would be no cute outfits on weekdays because every Aussie school kid has to wear uniforms.
7. But Buffy would still wear her signature cross necklace to school.
8. And people would probably assume she went to a Catholic school instead of a public one.
9. She'd also get detention for wearing her black boots.
10. Because of how damn sunny it is, it'd be easy to spot the vampires from the tanned civilians.
11. And they'd probably all just melt to death anyway.
12. Cordelia would call everyone a "moll".
13. Xander would take up surfing to try and impress the ladies.
14. He would be terrible at it.
15. Oz's band name, Dingoes Ate My Baby, would be WAY more offensive.

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16. Oz would exclusively listen to Triple J.
17. And he'd also try and get his band on the station.
18. He'd love Silverchair and Powderfinger.
19. Because of the heat, Giles wouldn't be able to wear his signature suits.
20 He'd constantly talk about how "bloody hot" it is.
21. And the Scooby Gang would affectionately call him a pom.
22. Students would only come to Giles' library to use the free internet and look at Dolly magazines.
23. Buffy would have a poster of Drazic from Heartbreak High in her bedroom.
24. There would definitely be a bizarre plot about drop bears.
25. Or emus because they're actually pretty frightening.
26. Instead of going to The Bronze, everyone would hang out at the local pub.
27. And because the drinking age is 18, the whole Scooby Gang would be able to enjoy beer a lot sooner.
28. Which means the episode "Beer Bad" would have happened earlier.

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“If the apocalypse comes, beep me.”

“Into every generation, a slayer is born.”

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“Five-by-five”.

She provides much needed sarcasm and honesty.

When she knew her time was precious.

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When she accurately did impressions of her friends.

Especially her impressions of Giles.

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When her comfort was the most important.

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When she wasn't afraid to talk about her sex life.

Have you every played shiver me timbers?

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Because, like, duh.

But if he was forced? "How can I not [say] Buffy," Joss asked rhetorically.

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"She is the very distilled essence of everything I am not and want desperately to be or be around."

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“You’re still my girl?”

Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins is all of us.

When she made her thoughts on dating clear.

Anya: "I don't have a date for the prom."
Xander: "Well gosh. I wonder why not. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with your sales pitch?"
Anya: "Men are evil. Will you go with me?"

When her bedroom chat was 💯.

When she had thoughts about wedding vows.

"I promise to love you, to cherish you, to honour you, uh, not to obey you, of course, because that’s anachronistic and misogynistic and who do you thing you are, like a sea captain or something?”

When she took pride in her accomplishments.

“I mean, I for one didn’t want to start my day with a slaughter. Which really goes to show how much I’ve grown!”

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This quiz can see, with perfect clarity, exactly who you are.

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See if you can go 10 for 10.

Come on, Buffy buffs. Flex your knowledge.

What episode is this shot from?

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What about this one?

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The chosen one and her friends did a lot more than fight monsters.

You can kick ass and still look damn good.

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We all make mistakes out of love and it’s okay.

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That mother-daughter relationships are some of the most important relationships in this world.

If Joyce’s death didn’t crush you entirely you were never really a fan of this show.

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Sometimes, all you need is a little belief in yourself.

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“The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.” Or to take this quiz.

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These ladies slay more than vampires.

For a Hellmouth, there sure was a lot of lovin’.

Let's be honest, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the most iconic shows of all time.

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And it created some pretty damn memorable romances too.

Bangel ❤️.

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Remember the intense relationship between Spike and Drusilla?

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Or the beautiful bond between Tara and Willow?

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For six years, Sarah Michelle Gellar embodied one of pop culture’s most capable, strong-willed, and fearless young women in Hollywood as the titular star of Joss Whedon’s iconic series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

When the series came to an end in 2003, Gellar followed it up in with the 2004 sequel to 2002’s massively successful Scooby-Doo and the incredibly popular American adaptation of Takashi Shimizu’s The Grudge. But in the years that followed, she struggled to replicate that success.

So she turned her attention to her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., and their two young children when fate presented her with an unexpected but undeniable opportunity. “I was at a place in my life where I wanted to do something different and every time I would post something I made for my kids or from a project, I would just notice this interest in this other side of my life,” she told BuzzFeed News of the early seeds that led her to launch a culinary lifestyle company. Yet even with that social media encouragement, Gellar found herself confronting a kind of fear long thought conquered.

“It’s kind of crazy because it's nothing I've ever done in my life,” she said of developing the brand, now called Foodstirs, with partners Galit Laibow and Gia Russo. “I think we get complacent in life when we know we're good at something and we can do it with our eyes closed, so I was like, Can I do this? Can I learn e-commerce? Can I learn user experience? Can I learn front-end and back-end development? But how am I going to teach my kids to try stuff that's different if I'm actually afraid to do something that's different?”

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While Hollywood is littered with actors promoting companies they did nothing to help build, Gellar couldn’t imagine simply slapping her name on a prepackaged product. “Foodstirs is my baby,” she enthused. “I've never done anything where I'm just the face of something. That's not how I do things. I can't put my name on a charity unless I'm in the field, doing the work. It’s not always easy to do, but it's important to me — that's when it's not about a business, it's about a passion.”

So, Gellar put her nose to the grindstone and immersed herself in every facet of what it would take to successfully launch a food-based company: recipe development, back-end web development, front-end user experience, learning all about SEO, and mission statement execution.

And that mission statement makes clear that Foodstirs’ first — and most important — customer is children. The company’s primary product is whimsical baking mixes, designed to visually appeal to kids and to be prepared with the adults in their lives. “I believe that the best thing you can give your children is confidence, and confidence with food is body image, it's language, it's vocabulary, it's mathematics, it's science — when you think about everything that goes into [cooking], it's incredible,” Gellar said. “This is using all of my passions at once.”

Those closest to Gellar have marveled at how much her skill set has evolved over the last two years — particularly her husband. “Freddie’s like, ‘What language do you speak now?’” she said of her newfound technological prowess. “It’s because I was seriously lucky if I could turn on my computer two years ago.”

Robin Williams and Gellar on The Crazy Ones.

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At that time, Gellar was coming off back-to-back shows that were canceled after a single season: the CW’s noir-tinged drama Ringer where she played twin sisters and CBS’s The Crazy Ones with Robin Williams playing her ad executive father. “Crazy Ones … that was a perfect situation,” she said, growing uncharacteristically quiet, the loss of Williams still visibly affecting her. “Two years later and it's still hard to talk about. I don't know if that kind of experience will ever come around again. I think it will be very hard to commit to something after that experience because it was so perfect.”

Those two jobs are the temporary bookend to Gellar’s impressive career, particularly for an actor of her age: After winning an Emmy in 1995 for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for All My Children and headlining Buffy, one of the most acclaimed shows of all time, she parlayed her television triumphs into cinematic dominance, starring in 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1999’s Cruel Intentions, and the aforementioned Scooby Doo and Grudge movies

“I've had more success than I ever thought I would have,” Gellar said, leaning back in her chair inside a cavernous conference room in Midtown Manhattan. “You hope in your life to do one thing that leaves a mark and leaves a legacy; I've had several. I'm more than fortunate. I don't even know what the word is. Who gets to play this many iconic characters? All I can say is I feel extremely fortunate and I feel extremely grateful and appreciative of it. … It's not about topping something, it's about enjoying the experience now. And if I'm going to leave my children and leave my family to do something and be somewhere, it’s about the experience. I'm not trying to re-create or chase. I don't feel pressure.”

Gellar's Star Wars Rebels character in action.

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The latest Hollywood experience that was worth Gellar’s while was voicing the role of the nefarious Seventh Sister in the upcoming season of Star Wars Rebels. It’s a family affair for Gellar: Prinze Jr. voices the role of Kanan Jarrus, a Jedi. “I kept teasing Freddie when he got the job, like, ‘Who do I have to sleep with to get on this show?!?’” she said with a laugh. “Who doesn't want to be a part of freakin’ Star Wars!? Find me someone on the street who doesn't want to be part of Star Wars lore forever. I think sometimes people think you're joking when you say that kind of thing, so I had to tell [the producers] I wasn't joking. When they finally realized I was serious, it was like, 'Oh, OK, sure.'”

Although Gellar is by no means leaving Hollywood behind, acting is simply not her focus now; her every waking moment is consumed by an elaborate plan to continue expanding Foodstirs, which she doesn’t mind because there’s a larger, more important goal in mind. “I just want to encourage people to put the phones down. There was an article in the paper recently that was talking about how this new generation can't have confrontation because everything is done this way,” Gellar said, lowering her head and looking down at an invisible phone in her hand. “If you look at all the studies and you want to keep kids off drugs, you want to keep kids from being depressed, it all comes down to family time.”

The 38-year-old is doing her part with Foodstirs, and she hopes her company continues to expand and grow — in fact, she can even visualize a day when Foodstirs actually brings her back to television. “There's no reason why we can't move into programming,” she said, mental cylinders firing. “There’s no reason I can’t have my own channel!”

Star Wars Rebels airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET/8:30 CT on Disney XD.