Well, I do believe it was the genesis of a new school of sales. He was sometimes a bit too much Drama sometimes.

Started off as a Rush fan and one of my coworkers (at the record store) said "oh, you like Rush, well you'll love Yes. Oh and King Crimson. And here, try Genesis" You mean like Land of Confusion? "PPffffff. No, that's new Genesis. You want OLD Genesis." Why is Peter Gabriel wearing a flower on this? "He was the original singer for Genesis" whoa. Mind blown.

As he's listing off the bands, he's literally pulling vinyl out of the bins and making a stack of albums for me to listen to. Tales from Topographic Oceans. Selling England By The Pound.

And thus my decades long descent into progressive rock began. I feel like I handled it better than Dean. No Floyd Holes.

Should point out that we worked at an indy record store. We were like the kids in High Fidelity. "I like Billy Ocean". Nooo, what you really want is this. and this. and this. No, put down the Lionel Richie, try this James Brown. And we opened the merch all the time to listen to it, then put it back in the shrink wrap. We were kindof asshole music snobs, but the best was when they came back the next day raving about something we recommended to them and then they ask what else we'd recommend.

OH god. The Body. Hush. They Got the Mustard Out. Brilliant.

Im sure some of it is through the rose colored tint of nostalgia, but if you're at all a Joss Whedon fan - so if you like The Avengers and whatever else he script doctored for the MCU - then you'll like Buffy. Like any show, it takes a while into the 1st season to really hit its stride, but by about the 2nd season you grow attached to the characters. I mean the whole premise is fairly rediculous: a teenaged "chosen one" fighting the supernatural, Angel is a vampire with a soul, the council of watchers.. cmon. Its goofy. ITs camp. It doesn't take itself too seriously.

The characters are real and say real things that you or would - again, a Whedon trait. They're just regular people like you or me.. except they have to save the world over and over again every week. There's a bit in the second last episode in S7 where they're waiting for the literal apocalyptic end of the world and no one can sleep so they're playing D&D and drinking Zima and Im like - yeah, I'd be doing that.

I wasn't a Buffy fan until I caught the all-silent episode Hush, and the musical episode Once More With Feeling. You don't need to know the leadups to either, they're one-offs and they're great (I think both won Emmys). Go watch those and see if your mind changes.

And yeah, Whedon apparently is a cancelled bad dude and you shouldn't give him any more money but some of the others get residuals they're good, so I dunno -up to you if you spend money on it or not.

Angel, a spin-off, is a bit more adult, bit darker, takes itself a bit more serious. And sometimes you get turned into puppets which is hilarious. I actually liked Angel a bit more than Buffy, but that's just me.