Joss reveals his favourite character death and how it helped to inspire the shawarma scene in The Avengers

Not to be Old Sneep here, but ever since the workday as invented coworkers have gone out together for food, caffeine, or alcohol after a long hard day to get their group back on track. Obviously, if Joss was thinking about that specific trip to the boozebox when he wrote the scene, then I'm sure he was, it's just not an unusual thing. (I'm talking approximately here, of course, since I've enver seen the shawarma scene.)

I'd imagine they would have really been that drained killing off Fred and filming it, I mean she was a sweet girl and turning her into Illyria is just priceless, I can't decide if it was a good thing or not if it were happen in real life.