OK, this is funny. I was just Buff Diving, and....

Cindy: None of you are true believers. Buffy and Angel tapes get used for nothing else. Do you write your grocery lists in your Bible? Do you write your to do list in Romeo and Juliet? My B/A tapes are on my bookcase, (upper shelves) so my children can't breathe on them and pass them the latest cold going through their schools. They NEVER get taped over. My darling husband knows that to touch one to tape anything is to forfeit his life. They are in chronological order, and labelled with tape number, 2 episode numbers (e.g. S5, ep22, series ep. 100), title, and air date - before the episode starts. I do not re-use them when a season's DVDs become available. Clearly, they have been pre-ordained as back up, and besides, they're where the previouslies and previews live.

The only way I'd use a B or A tape for something else is if one of my children (or Jesus) was going to be on TV, and then? I'd use one that had some blank space on it. THERE IS NO TAPING OVER.

Santa puts blank tapes in my stockings. I get blank tapes for Valentine's Day, my birthday and in my Easter basket. I buy them when I go grocery shopping. The only more urgent non-food item I buy is toilet paper.

You call yourselves Buffistas?

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?

I don't even know you anymore.

And I don't think I want to.

(I still have all my tapes, but now they live in my mother's cottage in Maine, and the DVDs live here in the house.)

I just packed away all of my VHS tapes this past weekend. sadly, it was more than just Buffy and Angel. i think i also had some Leonardo DiCaprio-era Growing Pains in there. some MSCL. some General Hospital. etcetcetc.

David Boreanaz is an "Angel" for animals.

David Boreanaz is an "Angel" for animals.

PETA? Wouldn't that mean...NO MORE LEATHER PANTS?

Ye gods, I hope not. Maybe it's Dennis Leary's "cute" animals theory... cows are not cute, so they are not saved.

YAY! It's not just me! This marshmallow does not stand alone!

oh yes. I still have seasons 1-5/Angel 1-2 on tape, with special Buffy Labels. they will never leave my home, unless I can get them on a DVD.

Angel question: I have a list of Buffy, Firefly, and even Wonderfalls episodes I'd use to convert someone. But what I like most about Angel is S2 1-18 or so. I can't choose between my babies, because the ones I like most have too much HSQ or context. What would you single out as a toaster-getter?

The S1 ep with the Gem of Amara (and Spike) was the one that hooked me into the Buffiverse.

Good call.

I do remember hooking a friend into the Buffyverse with FFL and Darla, but she was a writer and fell for the device (and Tim) perhaps more than the show.