Boca
In the Angel season four episode Long Day’s Journey, the totem Manget, or Manny, makes a remark about how he can’t retire to Boca now. He is referring to Boca Raton, a city about an hour outside of Four Lauderdale, Florida that is known for its population of retirees.
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was first mentioned in School Hard. It was an anti-Westerner uprising in China that took place from 1900 to 1901. During the rebellion, Spike killed a Slayer (his first, we discovered in Fool For Love). Angel had his soul at that point but he attempted to pretend …
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Chippewa Bay, NY
In Entropy, when Willow is talking to Tara about going for coffee, she is wearing a red t.shirt with the name of a town on it - Chippewa Bay, NY. This is a tiny summer resort town on the St Lawrence River in upstate New York. The total population year …
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Cleveland
Buffy lived in Cleveland, Ohio in the alternative universe in The Wish. In Chosen, Giles reveals that there is another Hellmouth in Cleveland in Chosen.
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Cuernavaca
In Helpless, Buffy said, “My game’s left the country. It’s in Cuernavaca”. Cuernavaca is the capital of the state of Morelos in Mexico.
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Disneyland / World
In Smashed, Warren says to the security guard, “Museums, libraries, Disney Hall of Presidents … not boring.” The Disney Hall of Presidents is in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida. Disneyland is referenced in What’s My Line, Part Two (Buffy: “No, Disneyland would get boring after a …
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Galway
Angel originally comes from Galway, in the west of Ireland, though his accent comes from somewhere near Mars. Darla sired him there in 1753 (seen in the episode Becoming (Part 1)). In Surprise, Angel gave Buffy a Claddagh ring. Claddagh was a small fishing village near Galway, which is now …
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Nazis
Nazis have been referenced a few times in Buffy: In The Witch, Buffy says Amy’s mother is, “Nazi-like”.
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Northwestern University
Buffy was accepted at Northwestern University in Choices. The University is in Evanston, Illinois.
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Nuremberg Rallies
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 …
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Old Faithful
Old Faithful is a geyser in Yellowstone National Park which erupts on a frequent basis. Mentioned by Xander in Doppelgängland, when he confuses it with “Old Yeller”.
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Salem
In Gingerbread, Giles says that the events of Salem were similar to those in Sunnydale. He’s referring to the Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, where mass hysteria led to many people being tried on the charge of witchcraft and hanged. In Intervention, Tara says, “Willow wants to …
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The Burning Man Festival
Jenny attended The Burning Man Festival in the summer after the events of Prophecy Girl. She mentions this to Giles in When She Was Bad. The radical arts festival is held every summer in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. The festival’s climax is the burning of a forty foot …
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Woodstock Festival
Spike said he was at the hippy festival Woodstock in School Hard. The festival was held in Bethel, New York in August, 1969. Musicians there included Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead and Neil Young.
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