The events in Flooded imply that you and/or Doug have had problems with plumbers or bank managers. Is this the case?

In Flooded Buffy had a big problem with the plumber and I can absolutely identify with that. I've just bought my first home and I'm dealing with all of that. But that all happened after Flooded, so that really came much more from just a notion of what Buffy is going through this season.

We wanted to take her out of heaven and put her in the most horrific and yet prosaic of situations, just the business of day-to-day life. So that really came much more out of the necessities of the season than out of any household problems Doug and I might have been having.