Ready to get excited for something cool that will never come to be? Of course you are!

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That’s the four minute “presentation” of “Buffy the Animated Series,” a show that was originally developed in 2001 and greenlit in 2002. I remember it getting a lot of coverage at the time - “Buffy” creator Joss Whedon and big time comic book guy (and current “Heroes”writer) Jeph Loeb were going to co-executive produce - and it looked awesome, but most fans pretty much forgot about it until now. It was going to be on Fox Kids (the cartoon was to be produced by 20th Century Fox, just like the live action show), but that stopped existing in 2002 (much to the dismay of “Eek! The Cat” fans everywhere). After that, producers couldn’t find a place for the show, so it died.

It was meant to take place during season 1, thus the references in the clip to Xander’s crush on Buffy and Willow’s crush on Xander.  All of the main voices were to return for the show, except Sarah Michelle Geller, though voice actor Gieslle Loren, who also played Buffy in a few video games, did a credible job at filling in.

The clip has given some fans, at least on Facebook, hope (more than likely false hope, but still) of the project returning. Given the popularity of the current “Buffy” comic published by Dark Horse Comics, it’s probably at least fractionally more possible than it was a couple years ago.

In this non-story from Sci Fi’s Web site, Sarah Michelle Gellar says she doesn’t think a big screen “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” movie would work. Another one, that is. One with her in it.

But wait! She also says “Never say never,” and that is the script was good and she thought it COULD work, she would probably do it.

So let’s recap: If the movie won’t work, she won’t do it. If it would work, she would do it. Glad to have that cleared up.  They should make a movie version of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Now that would be crazy!

In perhaps more important SMG news:  She’s sort of nude in a Vaseline ad. I like how this Fox News story tries to make it sound all scandalous when it’s clearly anything but (no pun intended).

Yeah, it’s a slow day. Blame Heath Ledger for not being in more TV shows.