"Buffy" creator Joss Whedon is feeling blue after his popular and critically acclaimed supernatural drama came back empty-handed from the Emmy nominations.

Joss spent some of his own money to pump the show and potentially attract Emmy voters' attention. Now the "Buffy" mastermind's face is about as red as the blood his vampires suck every season, TV Guide reports.

"I feel a certain embarrassment," he told TV Guide Online. "I feel like I just spent a lot of money trolling for a compliment that I didn't get. So I felt stupid having even gone there."

Last year Whedon was nominated for a writing Emmy for the "Buffy" episode titled "Hush". He had high hopes for this year's episode "The Body" which earned critical acclaim from TV writers at many different publications.

Marti Noxon, the executive producer of "Buffy", thinks the group that votes on the Emmys needs some younger members.

"The voting population are not the people who watch our show," she told TV Guide. "And I think the newer people to the [Writers Guild of America] and the [Screen Actors Guild] don't know they can join the Academy."

Meanwhile, the cast of the show is staying strong and ignoring the Emmy snub.

Said series' star Sarah Michelle Gellar, "We don't make the show to win awards."

--AllPop