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Sunnydale Hospital

Oct 12 2007 04:07 am   #1Spikez_tart

Does anyone know the full name of Sunnydale's Hospital? 

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Oct 12 2007 04:26 am   #2Scarlet Ibis

I thought it was just Sunnydale General...can anyone confirm that?

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Oct 12 2007 06:13 am   #3Blood Faerie

So far, the sites I've seen just call it Sunnydale Hospital - such as the game guides for Chaos Bleeds, but I never played the game.

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Oct 12 2007 06:25 am   #4Eowyn315

In at least one episode, it's called Sunnydale General Hospital. I'm pretty sure we see an establishing shot with the name on the side of the building.

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Oct 12 2007 06:34 am   #5Scarlet Ibis

For the establishing shot, it's probably in the ep where Faith comes out of her coma, or when she and Buffy are in the hospital at the same time.  But I can't say for sure.

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Oct 12 2007 06:44 am   #6Eowyn315
You know, now that I think about it, there have been an awful lot of hospital eps. Buffy's hospitalized in Killed By Death, and then Willow is there in Becoming. Buffy and Faith both end up in the hospital in Graduation Day, and then Faith comes out of her coma in season 4. Practically half the episodes in season 5 feature the hospital, either because Ben is working there, or Joyce is being treated. That's actually where I think the establishing shot comes from - one of the season 5 episodes. But I don't know which one.
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Oct 12 2007 08:29 am   #7Blood Faerie

I did another search and saw it referred to as Sunnydale General Hospital on a lot of sites. Then, I found this page on a site I go to for some info.

http://www.buffyguide.com/episodes/outofmymind.shtml

It says under Notes near the bottom:

Sunnydale's local hospital (or one of them, if there's more than one) is Sunnydale General Hospital.

Unfortunately, we had big vampires in the next room, and I didn't think they'd wait while we had hot monkey sex. ~Cerulean Sins :: (Anita to Jean-Claude)“Is there anything your bloodline does that doesn’t involve getting naked?" ~Danse Macabre :: I’m dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That’s seven men. I’m like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty. ~Danse Macabre
Oct 12 2007 01:45 pm   #8Spikez_tart

Thanks everyone - you Spuffies are sharp.

If we want her to be exactly she'll never be exactly I know the only really real Buffy is really Buffy and she's gone' who?
Oct 13 2007 04:03 am   #9Blood Faerie

omg, lol - I'm watching America's Psychic Challenge and they're in an abandoned hospital in LA and it looks like the hospital they used for establishing shots - I just thought that was an interesting coincidence after looking at caps last night

Unfortunately, we had big vampires in the next room, and I didn't think they'd wait while we had hot monkey sex. ~Cerulean Sins :: (Anita to Jean-Claude)“Is there anything your bloodline does that doesn’t involve getting naked?" ~Danse Macabre :: I’m dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That’s seven men. I’m like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty. ~Danse Macabre
Dec 08 2007 11:46 pm   #10Izzy

I know a lot of people finished with this thread, but I feel like I just have to add this because of my obsessive watching of most of Buffy. 

In Season Five episode "Shadow" when Buffy is beaten in the Zoo when Glory is summoning up the Sobekite snake-thing, she slips off injured. Then she's calling Giles at the Magic Box from a pay-phone in the hospital and calls it "Sunnydale Memorial". So I think it's Sunnydale Memorial Hospital, which looks very different from the hospital Faith woke up in, though the hospital in Season Three could have been the first floor of the one used in Season Five. 

I dunno, just needed to put that detail out there.


Dec 09 2007 12:51 am   #11Spikez_tart

Thanks Izzy - I was watching a Season 7 episode - apparently there's a Sunnydale Mental Hospital as well.  It's also interesting how many many times members of the gang get seriously hurt but they rarely go to the doctor. 

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Dec 09 2007 12:53 am   #12Eowyn315

Well, either there's two hospitals in Sunnydale, or the writers weren't paying attention, lol.

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Dec 09 2007 01:32 am   #13maryperk

Well, I read that SD is supposed to have between 30,000 and 35,000 people.  That could certainly keep two hospitals in business.

Dec 09 2007 02:02 am   #14Eowyn315

*snort* Especially given the high mortality rate and the frequency of attacks.

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Dec 09 2007 08:21 am   #15Scarlet Ibis

I dunno--since most people don't seem to survive their attacks, seems like there should be more morgues than hospitals :P  But yeah, there are different wings in hospitals, so it was probably the same one.  And hospitals can be remodeled...Meh.

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Dec 09 2007 04:53 pm   #16Eowyn315

The morgue was actually a wing of the hospital (I don't know which hospital, though - maybe each had their own morgue). Xander says it in "The Body" - I think Tara asks if he knows how to get to the morgue, and he says it's a wing.

But there definitely had to be two hospitals, regardless of what they looked like, because one is specifically identified as "Sunnydale General" (Out of My Mind) and the other is specifically identified as "Sunnydale Memorial" (Shadow). Unless, as I said earlier, there's only supposed to be one and the writers screwed up.

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Dec 09 2007 06:48 pm   #17Spikez_tart

Undoubtedly the writers screwed up since it's the same building (same set).  There would definitely be more than one morgue.  The hospital would have one - the city would have one as part of the police.  Funeral homes would have their own and be doing a land office business.

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Feb 03 2013 07:54 am   #18PassionforSpike
I know this thread is long closed, but just one more note: Ben's name tag in 'Weight of the World' lists him as working at 'Sunnydale Memorial'.
Apr 25 2013 09:08 am   #19nmcil12
Thanks for the updated info -

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