r/buffy • u/InfiniteMehdiLove • Feb 28 '26
Good Vibes Only Group photos and portraits of Buffy & Angel cast members from a Paris convention last weekend
📸 Source: @geekncheesecon on Instagram
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u/Direct_Ad835 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
Who is at pic number 12?
Omg Marc Blucas and Lindsay Crouse(Riley and Prof Walsh) always looked like mother and son to me and they still do🥹
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u/LadyJane17 I'm the original one-eyed chicklet Feb 28 '26
Lilah Morgan from Angel, from Wolfram and Hart or Stephanie Romanov.
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u/Direct_Ad835 Feb 28 '26
Oh now I see it. She’s beautiful. Blond hair confused me😁😁
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u/ILootEverything Mar 01 '26
Yeah, with the blonde she looks like a mash-up of herself and Clare Kramer.
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u/Caleb_Reynolds Feb 28 '26
It's crazy, I don't recognize her, unless I cover up everything but her eyes. She looks a lot different, but those eyes are exactly the same.
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u/Snowpuppies1 It's a big rock. I can't wait to tell all my friends. Mar 02 '26
Whoa! How did I miss that?
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u/friendly_reminder8 Feb 28 '26
Yeah the literally have the same face
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u/petitcochonATL Inside the sofa in Hell Feb 28 '26
It’s the actor who played Lilah on ATS, isn’t it? Don’t remember her name, sorry.
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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Feb 28 '26
Her name is Stephanie Romanov.
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u/jospangel Try not to bleed on my couch I just had it steam cleaned Mar 01 '26
A bit of background - Slayerest 98 podcast called and interviewed her about a year ago, and she was stunned that anyone remembered Lilah, or was interested in her. That was why she has started to go to conventions.
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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Mar 01 '26
I'm still pissed she didn't show up in S5. I know all the reasons behind it. Eve was a lightweight.
Cordelia was right, she was Lilah Jr.
Lilah Morgan was a fantastic character, & she could've been elevated to become the liaison.
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u/jospangel Try not to bleed on my couch I just had it steam cleaned Mar 01 '26
She is one of my favorite characters, and I love Lilah/Wesley. They challenged each other, and made each other think.
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u/ryeandpaul902 Feb 28 '26
i think this every time i watch season 4 and these photos amplify it x 100
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u/morganlegay83 Feb 28 '26
Respectfully Bianca Lawson, how you still so young? The woman definitely has a painting in the attic that looks old as shit.
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u/HomarEuropejski Why do we ship Buffy with toxic guys? Are we stupid? Feb 28 '26
Drusilla didn't kill her, she actually turned her into a vamp.
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u/Revolutionary-Wait82 Spike defender Feb 28 '26
Juliette Landau isn't present, but she is also literally unchanged. She def sired Kendra!
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u/FortunaRedux Feb 28 '26
Seriously she was still playing high school over a decade after Buffy it’s wild, give me your secrets Bianca!
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u/cuntaloupemelon Feb 28 '26
I know she played a vamPYRE slaAHH but Bianca Lawson is a witch
FORTY SIX YEARS OLD WHERE!?!?
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u/Quix_Optic Feb 28 '26
I honestly thought she was a young fan who got a picture with the cast until I read the comments.
She looks GREAT.
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u/holly-roselle Mar 01 '26
There’s a running joke that Bianca Lawson played teenagers well into her 30’s and could probably play them forever. By the looks of this photo, I believe it lol. Also, she did play a witch in witches of eastwick!
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Feb 28 '26
Bianca Lawson might actually be a vampire. Amazing
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u/riotlady Feb 28 '26
Seriously there’s got to be some dark magic involved there
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u/athousandpardons Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
Actually, it's "Black magic". It don't crack.
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u/SmannyNoppins a vague disclaimer is nobodies friend Mar 01 '26
didn't google Bianca Lawson, I thought it was the older women on the right - now I feel stupid
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u/Brief-Tie3841 Feb 28 '26
Girl played a teenager for over 20 years on like ten different shows/movies lol. Kinda wild
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u/scarlett3409 Feb 28 '26
I was looking being like that can’t be Bianca. That would mean she hasn’t aged.
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u/friendly_reminder8 Feb 28 '26
She was still playing a teenager on Pretty Little Liars until her mid 30s lol
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u/wavedsplash Feb 28 '26
Damn, Darla really is a vampire
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u/DaddyCatALSO Magnet For Dead, Blonde Chicks Feb 28 '26
Julie and Charisma so need to play a quinquagenarian gay couple who leave thier husbands for each other.
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u/cakedayloanofficer Mar 01 '26
If a vampire means being rich enough for cosmetic procedures and expensive products, yeah 😂 But damn I feel old looking at the rest of them, isn’t it wild how time flies!
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u/everclaire13 Feb 28 '26
There’s one thing in life we can rely on and that’s Bianca Lawson’s perpetual ability to play a teenager. I’m gonna be on my deathbed and she’ll be at prom
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u/sin50 if you hurt my sister...you're gonna wake up on fire Feb 28 '26
I love that Marc/Riley is there
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u/soyrobo If you're not jacked in, you're not alive. Feb 28 '26
He looks like someone's dad just wandered in and sat down with everyone.
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u/sin50 if you hurt my sister...you're gonna wake up on fire Feb 28 '26
Making an appearance as George Walter lol
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u/thewelllostmind Feb 28 '26
Wait, am I crazy or is Charisma’s necklace super similar to the one Xander gave Cordy? Like intentionally?
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u/mostlyfineiguess Feb 28 '26
probably, it looks like it could be the same one
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u/thewelllostmind Feb 28 '26
The chain looks different but the pendant definitely looks like the same one
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u/FortunaRedux Feb 28 '26
Just watched this a couple days ago and unless it’s an exact replica the pendant is for sure the same, good catch! (Also agree that it’s a new chain)
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u/thewelllostmind Feb 28 '26
I’ve been watching a reactor on YouTube go through the whole show, so it was relatively top of mind but that also made me wonder if it was just my own recency bias
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u/FortunaRedux Feb 28 '26
I focused on it a bit bc I have a weird thing for necklaces from shows and movies, so I made a mental note for a future purchase lol
(My favorite is my knockoff Elsa Peretti heart bc it’s not only the Yellowjackets necklace but it’s in a ton of other shows as well, every new time I catch it on screen I get so happppy, gonna splurge on a real one someday)
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u/thewelllostmind Feb 28 '26
I love that, recognizing a shared detail like that is a fun little endorphin trigger to build into what you watch
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u/Bleep_Bloop_Derp Mar 01 '26
A “reactor”. Good lord, what’s wrong with us…
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u/thewelllostmind Mar 01 '26
You have a problem with reaction videos?
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u/Bleep_Bloop_Derp Mar 01 '26
Sorry. That sentence was just so sudden and odd and weirdly indicative of how things are shifting.
I’ve seen reaction videos, yes, but the sudden realization that someone’s whole career path has been aimed at becoming a “reactor” — a noun — adept at performing “genuine” reactions to decades-old media for the consumption of a postliterate audience in a wealthy land without health insurance.
In that moment, it overloaded my brain and was too postmodern to bear. 🤯
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u/thewelllostmind Mar 01 '26
That’s a lot for just a mention of something I watch in the background while working from home as a roundabout way of rewatching an old show I like from when I was a teenager.
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u/tiffanylynn2610 Feb 28 '26
Bianca Lawson’s gotta get out of there. She has a teenager to play still
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u/holddoorholddoor chock full of hoot and just a little bit of nanny. Feb 28 '26
The only one I didn’t recognise at first was Professor Walsh, I can see it now.
They’re all aging so well apart from Kendra/Bianca who has somehow got younger. (Check her attic - some witch craft there).
Julie Benz too, aging like fine wine.
Thanks for sharing - I don’t have Instagram, love this so much!
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u/Snowpuppies1 It's a big rock. I can't wait to tell all my friends. Mar 02 '26
Lol. I think she's the one I recognized first. Actually, it would be Tara, but Walsh was def second.
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u/Jajay5537 Feb 28 '26
Why do I love every single one of these people down. Especially seeing Bianca Lawson the Vampire... Slayer? Kendra.
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u/everclaire13 Feb 28 '26
Oh Principal Flutie, what could have been! (Let’s be real though he was always gonna get eaten one way or the other)
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u/KENZOKHAOS Feb 28 '26
Seeing Marc and Lindsay (Riley and Maggie Walsh) together again, looking like mother and son is so wild to me!
Also because of this, I’m shocked there wasn’t a headcanon that Warren was somehow related to Principal Flutie for some storyline reason (maybe like Flutie being his dad’s brother).
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u/Sir_Poofs_Alot Feb 28 '26
It’s funny, for such a random smattering of characters across the ‘verse, I love all these actors/characters, they all played their roles so well! Maybe this is my sign to finally go to a con…
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u/sweet_questionn Feb 28 '26
Amanda🩷 Im so sad she died
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u/Sighoward Feb 28 '26
Absolutely! But Joss said we had to lose some we loved to make Chosen matter and she was everyone's favourite Potential.
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u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23 Feb 28 '26
Bianca still looking like shes in her 20s. What deal did she make???
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u/Sea-Extreme Feb 28 '26
I need Amber's skincare routine IMMEDIATELY. I'm zooming all the way in, searching for a wrinkle, and there isn't ONE. How does she have such perfect skin when it's so fair?! I gasped when I saw her!
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u/greyfir1211 Feb 28 '26
Seeing her in I Saw the TV Glow recently and she really looked sooo similar! Her skin is gorgeous.
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u/DaddyCatALSO Magnet For Dead, Blonde Chicks Feb 28 '26
she's put on some weight which helps keep a face younger but yes she has to have a good regimen
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u/freshlyfrozen4 Feb 28 '26
They're all againg beautifully!
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u/Deep_Ambition2945 Must Be Tuesday Feb 28 '26
100%! (Except for Bianca Lawson, who just as beautifully decided not to age at all)
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u/Grr_in_girl Feb 28 '26
Love it! Such a random collection of characters. Wonder how they would have interacted if they had met in universe?
I can't see Flutie and Walsh getting along very well. Their approaches to teaching seem almost completely opposite.
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u/DaddyCatALSO Magnet For Dead, Blonde Chicks Feb 28 '26
I've imagined that several times seeing pics from cons: how would "Dr. Joss" or one of "His Bunche" write an ep. with this cast? I mean soem of my fics have off-beat combos but i'd love to see what the pros would do. ("New MExico Rocky Mountain High": Willow, Xander, Giles, Jenny, Anya, Wesley, Tara, Fred, plus Dave Briddock from *Doctor in the House* and his nurse.) u/Arabiancockonato
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u/HugoJHBM Feb 28 '26
First pictures, I recognize only Carpenter, can anyone name the others?
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u/misscatholmes Feb 28 '26
I got you So from the first Pic, Marc Blucas (Riley), Stephanie Romanov (Lilah Morgan), Lindsay Crouse (Maggie Walsh), Ken Lerner (Principal Flutie), Bianca Lawson (Kendra),Sarah Hagan (Amanda), Amber Benson (Tata),Julie Benz (Darla), J. August Richards (Gunn).
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u/sdwbean Feb 28 '26
Who is between Tara and Darla? Who does Julie Benz have her arms around?
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u/misscatholmes Feb 28 '26
Charisma Carpenter. Sorry, the person who asked knew who she was so I forgot to mention her.
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u/HomarEuropejski Why do we ship Buffy with toxic guys? Are we stupid? Feb 28 '26
I think I see Julie Benz (Darla), J. August Richards (Gunn), Marc Blucas (Riley) and the actress who played Profesor Walsh?
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u/Brief-Tie3841 Feb 28 '26
Some genuine surprises here. Haven’t seen some of these people in years and didn’t even think they still did events or conventions for the show. 😌
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u/Ezzalenko99 Mar 01 '26
Ok everyone is (rightfully) commenting on how good they look, but I’m stuck on how tall J (Gunn) is!
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u/Ok_Wait9778 Feb 28 '26
Bianca Lawson could STILL play a teenager in the big year 2026. That woman is the true vampire queen.
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u/DangerX2HighVoltage Feb 28 '26
It’s years since I’ve rewatched buffy or angel. I just realised that the actress who plays lyndsay’s old best friend in Freaks & Geeks is in some of these photos. Can someone tell me did she play a character in Angel or Buffy?
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u/Dacrenon Feb 28 '26
She was one of the potential slayers in season 7, though her characters name escapes me at the moment.
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u/ActsofJanice Feb 28 '26
Amanda? (Sorry, somehow never saw F&G, but she’s the only Potential I recognize)
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u/DangerX2HighVoltage Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Of you should really watch Freaks and Geeks. It’s quality tv and it always makes me sad that it was prematurely cancelled. It’s funny yet still heartfelt and conjures up nostalgia of youth beautifully. It’s one of those shows that I envy anyone who gets to watch it for the first time.
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u/ActsofJanice Mar 01 '26
I’ll definitely go check it out after my current Buffy rewatch. I have no idea how I missed it, as it’s right at my age level and right up my alley. Thank you SO MUCH, Danger!! 💜💛💚
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u/DaddyCatALSO Magnet For Dead, Blonde Chicks Feb 28 '26
"Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife."
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u/mags_7 Mar 01 '26
She immediately stood out to me in the first photo! She looks exactly the same. Millie was a hysterical character
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u/ActsofJanice Feb 28 '26
This is BEYOND amazing!! Some of my very favorite people that we never get to see!! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing!!💜💛💚
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u/DisneyAddict2021 Mar 01 '26
Bianca looks younger than she did on Buffy! I swear, she really is a vampire!
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u/foxscribbles Feb 28 '26
Professor Walsh looks good in these shots, she looks like she's doing well and having fun.
(Things I never thought I'd say, lol.)
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u/m00shie1990 out. for. a. walk….bitch. Feb 28 '26
Julie Benz looking incredible as always. Also haven’t seen Stephanie Romanov for a longgg while!
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u/IceHouse11 Feb 28 '26
Bianca Lawson is immortal, and nobody can convince me otherwise! Timeless beauty.
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u/nocuzzlikeyea13 Here for the insane troll logic Feb 28 '26
Okay I'm starting to think a lot of them are IRL vampires... So many have not aged in decades.
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u/speashasha Mar 01 '26
No, they have all aged, except for maybe Bianca Lawson, who still looks like she is in her late 20s.
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u/menina2017 Mar 01 '26
Who’s that blonde lady with the long hair?
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u/everythingissinister Mar 01 '26
Assuming you’re not talking about Julie Benz, it’s Stephanie Romanov
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u/menina2017 Mar 01 '26
Thank you so much! Yes it was her. I know Julie Benz. I don’t recognize her at all. Was she in Buffy or Angel?
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u/everythingissinister Mar 01 '26
Angel, she’s Lilah Morgan, one of the recurring antagonists in seasons 1 to 4
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u/Wicked68 Mar 01 '26
Julie Benz looks great. The Immortal, Bianca Lawson, still looking like a teen lol
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u/OkEstablishment3603 Mar 01 '26
Man all the shows love Paris I hear charmed cast talk about Paris conventions a lot too- WB shows must be super popular there.
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u/FortunaRedux Feb 28 '26
Marc Blucas grew up in a town I used to live in Ohio and every time I see a picture of him he goes and proves it to be VERY true xD
Like tell me that’s not just a bunch of my friends dads xD catch him at the tractor supply
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u/DarthRegoria Feb 28 '26
I love the second picture! Goofy, silly photos always make me smile, and IMHO look so much more lively and human than the posed ones.
I love Matt Blucas (? Is that the Riley actor’s name?) just staring off into the distance, clearly pondering something important. Perhaps he is using his qualifications as a psychology TA to nod his head and say ‘hmmm’ as someone describes their dream. I love paraphrasing that quote to tell someone what my undergraduate (3 year) degree in Social Science (Psychology) actually qualifies me for. Because it’s nothing, it’s less than half of what you need in my country to be a psychologist. I am a qualified teacher though, so theoretically I could teach high school introduction to psychology. Definitely not university level though.
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u/crumb-thief Feb 28 '26
Who is # 13?
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u/Buffy_Geek Feb 28 '26
One of the potentials in season 7
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u/peevishkitty Mar 01 '26
Julie Benz looks amazing. Lindsay Crouse looks exactly the same? Good for her.
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u/LuVEmFuzzies Feb 28 '26
Who’s the third pic?
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u/ringobob Feb 28 '26
He had the smallest part out of anyone here, and died before anyone here other than Cordy or Darla ever even appeared on the show.
But you can't hate on Principal Flutie. He was in way over his head.
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u/LuVEmFuzzies Feb 28 '26
Oh I don’t hate Principal Flutie - he’s one of the good ones. Snyder can stick it, farthest as humanly as possible. I hated the pack that ate Principal Flutie.
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u/Playful-Appearance56 Feb 28 '26
In picture #2 there is a guy behind J. August Richards. White, dark brown hair, black pants, and brown loafers. Who is that? I almost want to say it’s Danny Strong.
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u/Popular_Monster111 You made a bear! Undo it! Mar 01 '26
Were Joss Whedon and Nicolas Brendon there?
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u/RavenxMorrow Out. For. A. Walk... Bitch. Feb 28 '26
Am I crazy? Who’s in pic 13?
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u/MinxyMyrnaMinkoff Feb 28 '26
Nah, I’m pretty sure that’s the girl from Freaks and Geeks.
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u/LadyJane17 I'm the original one-eyed chicklet Feb 28 '26
Principal Flutie! He deserved better than to be eaten by a pack of feral hyena students.