Restless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as one of the best episodes of the series. In the series, Buffy Summers is a teenager who, at the age of fifteen, was chosen by mystical forces to be the latest "Slayer", a girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight and defeat vampires, demons, and other evil forces. After moving with her mother, Joyce (Kristine Sutherland), to the fictional town of Sunnydale, she befriends Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon), who join her in the struggle against evil. They are guided by Buffy's "Watcher", Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), who is well-versed in demonology and is
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was going to play the rest of the scene, and the role, for that matter, and defined the character. Her approach subsequently got her the role. The "Buffy" opening sequence provides credits at the beginning of each episode, with the accompanying music performed by Californian rock band Nerf Herder. In the DVD commentary for the first "Buffy" episode, Whedon said his decision to go with Nerf Herder's theme was influenced by Hannigan, who had urged him to listen to the band's music. Janet Halfyard, in her essay "Music, Gender, and Identity in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel"," describes the