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   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.   
      
   BY KAYLEENA PIERCE-BOHEN   
      
   When Joss Whedon set his smash hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 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 was the Slayer and her friends'   
   frequent patrolling of the cemeteries that kept the forces of darkness from   
   taking over the town.   
      
   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.   
      
      
      
   10   
   How Many There Are   
      
   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 has twelve cemeteries, 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.   
      
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   9   
   How Buffy Patrols Them All   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
      
   8   
   Perpetually Foggy Environments   
      
   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't actually have any bodies of   
   water nearby?   
      
      
   7   
   Nightly Services   
      
   There have been several times throughout the series where the cemeteries   
   have so much foot traffic that daily services aren't enough. The Scoobies   
   have been walking among the gravestones when funeral services are shown   
   being held in the background, and Spike breaks up one while singing his   
   angsty ballad in "Once More With Feeling".   
      
   Are people really dying that often in Sunnydale to require almost   
   around-the-clock funeral processions? Even with the amount of supernatural   
   activity around the Hellmouth, wouldn't the amount of murders draw some sort   
   of national attention? Surely the Slayer and her friends can't be the only   
   ones that remark on how strange their town's preoccupation with death is.   
      
       [Principal Snyder and the Mayor (pre- Mayor Wilkins) knew what was going   
   on - a plague of gangs on PCP killings]   
      
      
   6   
   Affluence   
      
   Some of the cemeteries in Los Angeles are sprawling, beautifully-manicured   
   places with stately mausoleums housing some of the wealthiest people in show   
   business. The cemeteries in Sunnydale seem to be very much the same, despite   
   the fact that Sunnydale is half as big as one zip code in greater LA.   
      
   Where does all the money come from in Sunnydale that allows its residents to   
   be able to afford the sort of opulent resting places featured on the show?   
   Sunnydale has many nice homes, but they're not indicative of wealth -   
   housing prices are low because of the frequent murders.   
      
      
   5   
   Electricity And Cable   
      
   After converting the Hawley mausoleum into his crypt, Spike is able to get   
   working lamps inside as well as cable television, on which he watches his   
   favorite daytime soap, "Passions". How is he able to get electricity in a   
   place designed for candles?   
      
   The Hawley mausoleum turned bachelor pad is covered with candles and   
   candelabras at the corners, indicating it was mostly a place for quiet   
   reflection and spiritual guidance surrounded by the deceased members of the   
   Hawley family.   
      
      
   4   
   Changing Features   
      
   Buffy and the Scoobies mainly patrol three notable cemeteries in the series:   
   Sunnydale Cemetery, Restfield Cemetery, and Shady Hill Cemetery. Restfield   
   is notable because it houses several prominent mausoleums, one being for the   
   Hawley family (Spike's crypt), and one for the Alpert family.   
      
   Viewers will know Buffy is in Restfield Cemetery because of the sight of the   
   mausoleums, even if they don't see the sign. Except when those mausoleums   
   appear in completely different places, like in the Season 6 episode "Grave"   
   when the Alpert mausoleum appears in a cemetery that looks nothing like   
   Restfield.   
      
      
   3   
   Buffy's Grave   
      
   After "The Gift" in which Buffy heroically sacrifices herself, she's buried   
   in a grave with the appropriate epitaph, "She saved the world. A lot"   
   somewhere in Sunnydale but not at any of the twelve gothic cemeteries it's   
   famous for.   
      
   The Scooby gang uses the Buffybot to make supernatural forces believe Buffy   
   is still alive, making the use of a marked grave confusing. Why wouldn't   
   they bury Buffy in one of the cemeteries in Sunnydale, either unmarked or   
   marked with something much less Buffy-ish? What's the point of a marked   
   grave otherwise?   
      
           [to hide her grave from vamps and demons who would want to dig up   
      
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