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“First Date”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Episode no.	Season 7 Episode 14
Written by	Jane Espenson
Directed by	David Grossman
Guest stars	Anthony Stewart Head    (Giles) Ashanti    (Lissa) Danny Strong    (Jonathan) Tom Lenk    (Andrew) Iyari Limon    (Kennedy) Sarah Hagan    (Amanda) Kristy Wu    (Chao-Ahn) K.D. Aubert    (Nikki) DB Woodside    (Principal Wood)
Production no.	7ABB14
Original airdate	February 11, 2003
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List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes

"First Date" is the fourteenth episode of season 7 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Contents 1 Plot synopsis 1.1 Summary 2 Acting 2.1 Main cast 2.2 Recurring role 2.3 Guest stars 3 Production details 3.1 Music 4 Trivia 5 Translations 6 Continuity 6.1 Arc significance 6.2 Timing 7 External links

Principal Wood asks Buffy out to dinner, to which she accepts partly because she likes him and partly because she is intrigued as to what he really is. Xander also agrees to go out at night with a girl he meets at a tool demo somewhere in Sunnydale.

Things go very differently for them. Buffy finds out Robin Wood is in fact the son of a Slayer, trying to find his mother's killer. Xander in the meantime, discovers that the girl he was out with is a demon, as she ties him up to the wooden structure over the seal beneath the school and sticks a knife between his ribs.

At the Summers house, Willow receives an SMS with a help code from Xander and Spike offers himself to go fetch Buffy. He finds her at the restaurant with Wood and they all rush out to rescue Xander. When they get to the seal beneath the school, they fight and kill the demon and find Xander only slightly hurt. It all turns out to be almost alright but not quite, as Wood finds out Spike is a vampire.

At the end of the episode, the First shows itself to Wood in the guise of his dead mother and tells him it was Spike who murdered her.

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
• Emma Caulfield as Anya Jenkins
• Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
• James Marsters as Spike
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenburg

• Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
• Tom Lenk as Andrew Wells
• Iyari Limon as Kennedy
• D.B. Woodside as Principal Robin Wood
• Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
• Sarah Hagan as Amanda

• Clara Bryant as Molly
• Indigo as Rona
• Felicia Day as Vi
• Kristy Wu as Chao-Ahn
• Ashanti as Lissa
• K.D. Aubert as Nikki Wood

• Patty Medina - "Still Life"
• Trembling Blue Stars - "Ammunition"

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• At the very beginning of the episode when Giles and the Scoobies are walking in the graveyard, there's a gravestone clearly marked "Snyder," a reference to Principal Snyder.

• As Xander himself points out, Lissa is only the latest of several demonic women who have been drawn to him. Her predecessors include Natalie French from "Teacher's Pet," Ampata from "Inca Mummy Girl," and, of course, Xander's ex-fiancee Anya. Even Xander's Sunnydale High girlfriend Cordelia Chase ended up becoming part demon (although the Scoobies may not be aware of this).

• During Xander's monologue about turning gay, he makes a reference to fantasizing about Scott Bakula. Andrew then dreamily remarks, "Jonathan Archer..." a reference to Star Trek: Enterprise that was also airing on UPN at the time.

• When Buffy is picking out clothes for her date with Principal Wood, Anya remarks that it may be blood or pizza sauce on the shirt, a reference to the episode "Conversations with Dead People". In that episode, Dawn gets pizza sauce on her outfit while Buffy is out of the house, and comments to herself that she'll just think it's blood.

• Andrew mentions Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z.

• Italian title: "Primo appuntamento" ("First date")
• German title: "Das erste Date" ("The First Date")
• French title: "Rendez-vous dangereux" ("Dangerous Date")
• Spanish title: "La Primera Cita" ("The First Date")

• Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

Location, time (if known)	Buffyverse: January 2003 - Spring 2003 (non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.11 Showtime
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.12 Potential
L.A., 2003	A4.11 Soulless
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.13 The Killer in Me
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.14 First Date
L.A., 2003	A4.12 Calvary
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.15 Get It Done
L.A., 2003	A4.13 Salvage
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.16 Storyteller
L.A., 2003	A4.14 Release
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me
L.A., 2003	A4.15 Orpheus
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.18 Dirty Girls
L.A., 2003	A4.16 Players
L.A., 2003	Angel book: Nemesis
L.A., 2003	Angel book: Book of the Dead
L.A., 2003	A4.17 Inside Out
L.A., 2003	A4.18 Shiny Happy People
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.19 Empty Places
L.A., 2003	A4.19 The Magic Bullet
L.A., 2003	A4.20 Sacrifice
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.20 Touched
L.A., 2003	A4.21 Peace Out
L.A., 2003	A4.22 Home
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.21 End of Days
Sunnydale, 2003	B7.22 Chosen

• "First Date" at the Internet Movie Database
• "First Date" at TV.com

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