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Buffy Staked Again By Emmys

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dead-in-the-water dept.

jonerik writes "Despite six witty, intelligent seasons, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' has never been able to catch a break from the folks at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences who vote on the annual Emmy Awards, with the show's nine nominations to date (with no wins) being mostly in technical categories. And, according to this piece from E! Online, when the ballots for this year's Emmy nominations were sent out in early June, this season's musical tour de force, 'Once More With Feeling,' was inexplicably left out of list of shows eligible for the Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series catefory. The academy has attempted to correct its error by sending out postcards to Emmy voters informing them that they can, in fact, vote for the episode, but the fix is probably too little, too late. According to awards-show expert Tom O'Neil, 'It entailed such extraordinary effort that it was unlikely the voters would do it even if they loved the episode. So it definitely curses its chances.' If you missed it the first time around, 'Once More With Feeling' will be re-run tomorrow evening at 8pm eastern time on UPN."

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  1. Re:FYI... by dattaway · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uh oh, slashgoth just got slashdotted.

    The undead are now dead.

  2. Re:FYI... by unicron · · Score: 4, Funny

    No kidding. I can completely vision how the brainstorming for this show went down:

    Network Exec: "Alright, we take Melrose Place, make the girls slightly uglier, the stunts better, and we put it on a network so unbelievably bad that Chia Pet documentaries garner 30% of it's total viewing audience, and bam, instant gold..well, at least silver, probably copper. Maybe we need something else."

    Intern Worm: "Lesbians sir. Feminine, non-political agenda lesbians."

    Network Exec: "It's slightly more of an imagination stretch than vampires, but sure, what the hell."

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    Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
  3. Re:Slashdot by krow · · Score: 4, Funny

    What sort of doll are we talking about?

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    You can't grep a dead tree.
  4. Doesn't take itself seriously at all. by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Funny
    The show continually pokes fun at itself. For example from the Episode that was aired here last night, Normal Again:
    BUFFY: It stung me or something, and ... then I was like ... no. It, it wasn't "like." I *was* in an institution. There were, um ... doctors and ... nurses and, and other patients. They, they told me that I was sick. I guess crazy. And that, um, Sunnydale and, and all of this, it ... none of it ... was real.
    XANDER: Oh, come on, that's ridiculous! What? You think this isn't real just because of all the vampires and demons and ex-vengeance demons and the sister that used to be a big ball of universe-destroying energy? (pauses, frowns)
    What makes Buffy special is the depth of character and the seemlessness with which it flitters from comedy to drama. It's a fun show, even in this season which is considerably darker than those before it.
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    Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
  5. Re:Slashdot by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Dare I say, you're a moron? Buffy isn't even on WB! It moved to UPN last year."

    Dude, you are seriously overreacting. I don't think knowing the difference between UPN and WB will suddenly result in an invitation to Mensa.

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    "Derp de derp."