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first date

Season 7 Episode 14

Episode aired february 11, 2003

Plot

buffy goes on a date with principal wood, and is shocked when he tells her his true identity. xander meets a girl at a hardware store, who turns out to be more than she seems. the first tries to manipulate andrew into killing all the potential slayers.

Behind the Scenes

at the very beginning, when giles and the scoobies are walking in the graveyard, there's a gravestone clearly marked 'snyder', a reference to principal snyder, played by armin shimerman, who was a major character in the high school years.