The hidden secrets of the opening credits
at Buffy the Vampire Slayerer
(c) greenlion


I armed myself with chocolate and a can of coffee and went through all my copies of BtVS and analysed the openening credits. Since I am german I have no problems to read those texts used in the credits. But I have to disappoint everyone who thought that mighty Joss might have revealed his ideas already during season 1. There are three different of texts used during the openening credits season 1 to 5. Only the the order changes and some new graphic features are added. Here we go:

Bewaffnet mit Schokolade und einer Kanne Kaffee habe ich mich aufgemacht das Geheimnis der "opening credits" der Serie Buffy im Banne der Dämonen zu entschlüsseln. Gerüchten zur Folge sollen nämlich die dort integrierten Textschnipsel Hinweise auf die kommenden Satffeln enthalten. Weit gefehlt. Zwar sind die Texte überraschenderweise auf deutsch, aber konkrete Hinweise sind trotzdem nicht enthalten.



I made some screencaps. The picture from the left is from S1x01 Welcome to the hellmouth and the left one from S5x22 The Gift. The text goes like this (underscores mark missing letters, translation in parentheses):


_en, wenn du mein_ (if you my)
_e ein frohes & (a happy &)
_ef gesund antri_ (healthy)
an dei(ie)nen Mann (your husband)
_einer Schwester (a [your] sister)

Well, as far as I can see this is a christmas letter typed on an oldfashioned typewriter :)

Now the next one is easy ;))


But now it's getting more complicated and pobably more interesting.


The left picture is again from S1x01 Welcome to the hellmouth and the right one from 5x22 The Gift. Now this is written in Fraktur a font face which is to date found in (german) newpapers, but was also regulary used in german books before world war II. The text belongs to the old testament. It's the passage where Moses left to get the ten commandments up on mount Sinai and his people were getting worried and want his brother Aaron to built the golden calf as a god. ->[Exodus 32, 1].


mache uns Götter, die
Mann Mose widerfahren ist,

Mit diesem Verlangen

 

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