Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 10 Things About The Cemeteries That Make No Sense – Screen Rant

From their numbers to their locations, the cemeteries of Sunnydale often don't make sense despite being a big part of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

When Joss Whedon set his smash hitBuffy the Vampire Slayerin Sunnydale, California, he played upon the typical horror movie trope of ominous danger occurring in a bucolic small town, where nothing exciting ever happens. Its oblivious population didn't seem to wonder why so many of its members died in mysterious ways, never knowing that it wasthe Slayer and her friends' frequent patrolling of the cemeteries that kept the forces of darknessfrom taking over the town.

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The cemeteries have always been a prominent setting in the series, with Buffy and the Scoobies encountering some of their deadliest foes lurking among their tombstones, as well as unexpected allies (Spike does make his home there after all). But over the years, fans have raised more questions about them than vampires waiting for one of Sunnydale's bizarre nightly funerals.

Sunnydale isn't a big town - it has 38,500 inhabitants, Sunnydale High, one small college, one museum, one zoo, one club, and one main street. Given its small town Southern California charm, why does it have so many cemeteries?

In total, Sunnydale hastwelvecemeteries, which seems excessive for a town with its population. Did the town have a plague in its historical past that wiped out a third of its population at one time? It almost seems like at a certain point the dead would outnumber the living, making many more vampires than the Scoobies can handle.

With twelve cemeteries to monitor, it's amazing that Buffy has time to patrol them all. In the series, it always seems like she's strolling through a couple of prominent ones, but surely all of them are a hot spot for supernatural activity given Sunnydale's proximity to the Hellmouth.

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While it's true the Slayer has her Scooby Gang, even putting Xander at one, Willow at another, and Oz, Tara, and Cordelia (depending on the season) at another one, that would only account for half of the cemeteries having Scooby eyes on their restless occupants.

In the first three seasons of the series, Buffy and her friends are seen at the beach, where they're shown lounging in the sun and tossing around a beach ball. At one point Sunnydale is shown on a map appearing similar to Santa Barbara and situated in a bend on the coast, with a harbor where coastal freighters can dock along the Pacific Ocean.

But by Season 7's finale, when Sunnydale is almost wiped off the map, it's shown in a far away shot to be land-locked. So where does all the fog come from for the cemeteries if Sunnydale doesn'tactuallyhave any bodies of water nearby?

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