TV Guide Online: Alyson Hannigan has a sitcom coming up. Why not you?
Brendon: That’s what I really want to do. I want a sitcom! I’m tryin’! I’ve been taking meetings, just trying to figure out what to do. I did do a sitcom pilot for Fox with Ron Levin the creator of Married with Children called The Pool at Maddy Breakers. It didn’t get picked up. But good for Alyson. I should call her! TVGO: How pissed were you that, in Buffy’s last season, you were turned into an under-five [minutes of screen time], while a bunch of Slayerettes we’d never seen before hogged all the air time? Brendon: I was kind of unappreciated, but my wife, Tressa, talked me through it. She said, “It’s not quantity, it’s quality.” And I had a lot of great scenes. After seven years, I think [creator Joss Whedon] pretty much said my character was kinda played out a little bit. So they brought in a bunch of people. TVGO: Played out? That’s whack. Xander always seemed to have interesting stuff to do. Brendon: He was a great character because he was the only one who didn’t have powers. Whi
