Zachary Kralik is actually the name of writer David Fury’s young nephew. He thought it was a good name for a vampire.

In an interview with the BBC, Clare Kramer said that Glory’s original name was “Cherie”:
“My introduction to Buffy was getting material that I was going to be auditioning with. If I remember correctly, the character was actually called Cherie at first, and there was no character description, no hint …

Steven DeKnight was a writer on Buffy and Angel. He wrote the Buffy episodes Blood Ties, Spiral, All the Way, Dead Things and Seeing Red. Steven directed the Angel episodes ‘Inside Out‘, ‘Hellbound‘ and ‘Shells‘. He was also a supervising producer and writer on Smallville. Steven met Joss Whedon originally …

Sophia was the stunt double for Sarah Michelle Gellar up until the end of season four. She is married to Buffy’s stunt co-ordinator Jeff Pruitt. Sophia is one of triplets, and was born in Hammersmith, London. She has done stunts for Collateral, Ella Enchanted, Scary Movie 3, Birds of Prey, …

Jeff Pruitt was the stunt co-ordinator for Buffy during seasons two, three and four. He is married to Sophia Crawford, who was Buffy’s stunt double until the end of season four. He appeared in the episodes Anne (as the bouncer at the Family Home) and as a vampire in Ted. …

David Solomon was a co-executive producer and director on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. David was a writer on Hart to Hart, and has directed episodes of Tru Calling, Firefly and Matlock. David was the executive producer of the movie Paycheck.

Christophe Beck was a regular composer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer from it’s first season, as well as a composer on Angel. He wrote all the original music for season three and four, as well as the theme for The Gift and some music for Once More, With Feeling. Chris’s …

UC Sunnydale’s campus cafe was called the Rocket Cafe. Buffy met Parker Abrams there in Living Conditions.

Dawn performed a resurrection spell after her mother died in Forever, taught to her by Doc. She needed dirt from Joyce’s grave, a photo of her mother and the egg of a Gorrah demon. She cancelled the spell when she realised it would be too painful for herself and her …

Buffy was accepted at Northwestern University in Choices. The University is in Evanston, Illinois.

When Buffy and Willow first saw the huge UC Sunnydale library in The Freshman, Buffy said, “Yeah, this is great, you know, if we ever need a place for the Nuremberg rallies.” Nuremberg, in the south of Germany, was the place where the Nazi’s held their anti-Semitic rallies from the …

Lowell House was the fraternity house situated directly above The Initiative’s secret base. Riley, Forrest and Graham lived there. They accessed the Initiative via a secret elevator hidden behind a mirror. From 1949 to 1960 Lowell House was a home for children run by Genevieve Holt. She was a religious …

In Graduation Day (Part 2), Faith says, “Little Miss Muffet counting down from 7-3-0″ (a foreshadowing of the arrival of Buffy’s sister Dawn). In the season five episode Real Me, Dawn is approached by a mad man who calls her “curds and whey”. This is a line from the …

Lilac One was Riley Finn’s Initiative call sign, seen in Doomed.

Some demons and vampires use kittens as currency in games of poker. Spike joined a game in Life Serial, which was where we first met Clem. A literal lone shark came after Spike in Tabula Rasa looking for kittens he was owed.