Apartment set list

The set list for th episode Rm W/A Vu included: “Bad apartment. Very bad apartment. Worse apartment”

B. J. Porter

B. J. Porter played Dennis Pearson In Rm W/A Vu. His character went on to become Cordelia’s ghostly room-mate, and B. J. did not appear in any other episode - though he can be seen in the opening credit sequence in every episode. He has also appeared in Cake Boy, Melvin Goes to Dinner, Run Ronnie Run (which he also wrote), Touched by an Angel, Malcolm in the Middle, Sham, Just Shoot Me! and Mr. Show with Bob and David (which he also wrote).

Beth Grant

Alabama-born Beth Grant played the interfering ghost Maude Pearson in Rm W/A Vu. She is probably best known as Kitty Farmer in Donnie Darko. Beth has also appeared in many other movies and TV shows including Six Feet Under, Wonderfalls, Malcolm in the Middle, CSI, Pearl Harbor, The X Files, Providence, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Doctor Dolittle, Cybill, Friends, Speed, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Child’s Play 2, Flatliners, and Rain Man.

Aura

Aura was a friend of Cordelia who discovered a body in her locker - the first victim Buffy saw at her new school in Welcome to the Hellmouth. The character is heard in the Angel episode ‘RM W/A VU’ when Cordelia talks to her on the phone.

Dennis Pearson

Dennis was murdered by his mother, Maude, and his spirit trapped into an apartment Cordelia later moved into. Cordy vanquished the ghost of Maude and released Dennis, who became her ghostly roommate. Dennis is very protective of Cordelia, becoming jealous of her dates, keeping her safe from intruders and soothing her wounds.

Maude Pearson

Maude Pearson murdered her only son, Dennis, because of his relationship with a girl whom she did not approve. Mrs. Pearson tied up her son and trapped him behind a wall in her apartment. She then died from a heart attack moments after the deed. Ever since, she haunted her apartment, killing the tenants because she thought they were the girl after of her Dennis. Cordelia moved into the apartment and eventually stood up to the ghost, releasing Dennis’s spirit, who sent his mother to hell.

Sunnydale memories

There are a few references to Cordelia’s time in Sunnydale in Rm W/A Vu. When confonting the ghost, Cordelia says, “I’m not a sniveling whiny little Cry-Buffy. I’m the nastiest girl in Sunnydale history. I take crap from no one.”
When visiting Cordy’s apartment, Doyle notices her burnt up High School graduation diploma to which Cordelia replies, “rough ceremony” - referring to Graduation Day (Part 2).
Cordelia also mentions the mansion that Angel lived in in Sunnydale in the following dialogue:

Cordy: “Like I’m still getting punished.”
Angel: “Punished. For what?”
Cordy: “I don’t know. For what I was? For everything I said in High School just because I could get away with it? - And then it all ended, and I had to pay. - Oh, but this apartment – I could be me again. Punishment over – welcome back to your life! Like, like I couldn’t be that awful if I get to have a place like that? - It’s just like you!”
Angel nods: “Working for redemption.”
Cordy frowns confused: “I – I meant because you used to have that mansion.”

Cordelia also speaks to Aura, one of her Cordette’s from Sunnydale, seen in Welcome to the Hellmouth.

The Mills Brothers

Cordelia listens to the song ‘You Always Hurt the Ones You Love’ by The Mills Brothers in her apartment in Rm W/A Vu.

Ghost

In Never Leave Me, Andrew compares Warren/The First to Patrick Swayze. Swayze starred in the 1990 movie Ghost in which his non-corporeal ghost attempts to avenge his own murder. In Rm W/A View, Cordelia mentions the same movie when she says, “Old lady ghost. How come Patrick Swayze’s never dead when you need him?”
In Just Rewards, Harmony says to the now non-corporeal Spike, “Why should now be any diff’? Just ‘cause you’ve gone all Patrick Swayze?”

Mastercard

Doyle says in Rm W/A Vu, “What about friendship and family, all those things that are priceless like they say in the credit card commercial?” This is a reference to Mastercard adverts.

Seen at 33.35 minutes:

When the Kaliff demons arrive at Cordy’s house, one of them shoots at the ghost and damages the tile on the fireplace, but when we see the tile again at 36:10 there is nothing wrong with it.