D.J. Joss

Giles listens to the radio in I Robot, You Jane. The announcer’s voice on the radio was that of Joss Whedon.

Nicki

The character of Jenny Calendar was originally to be called Nicki but was changed to Jenny to avoid confusion on set as Nicholas Brendon is generally called Nicky by his co-stars.

Chad Lindberg

Chad played Dave in I Robot, You Jane. Chad was in The X-Files episode ‘Schizogyny’ as Bobby Rich. He has also been in the movies The Fast and the Furious, The Last Samurai and The Rookie.

Edith Fields

Edith Fields, who played the school nurse in I Robot, You Jane, has also been in A Host of Daffodils, Motherly Love, The Bachelor, 3 Men and a Little Lady, Dad, No Way Out, Micki + Maude, Kiss Me Goodbye, Six Feet Under, Judging Amy, Walker, Texas Ranger, 7th Heaven, Picket Fences, Seinfeld, Brooklyn Bridge, Murphy Brown, Moonlighting, Cagney & Lacey, Falcon Crest, Family Ties.

Jamison Ryan

Jamison played the creepy Fritz in I Robot, You Jane. He played Bob in Murder Live! and Jerry in The Last Don.

Mark Deakins

Mark voiced the demon Moloch in I Robot, You Jane. He has also played two parts in Star Trek: Voyager and been in Fallout, The Devil’s Advocate and Star Trek: Insurrection.

Pierrino Mascarino

Pierrino played the monk Thelonius in I Robot, You Jane. His long career has included roles in Uncle Nino, Tears of the Sun, The 4th Tenor, General Hospital (as Drago), Warm Hearts, Cold Feet, Summer Rental, True Confessions, Alias, Everybody Loves Raymond, ER, The Drew Carey Show, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Mad About You, Seinfeld, Dynasty, Cagney & Lacey, Benson, Taxi, Starsky and Hutch and Dark Shadows.

Dave

Dave was a quiet student at Sunnydale High, and member of the computer club. He became a reluctant agent of demon Moloch the Corrupter and warned Buffy not to interfere with Willow’s new relationship with the demon. Moloch asked Dave to kill Buffy but he refused, so Fritz killed him, pretending it is suicide (I Robot, You Jane).

Fritz

Fritz was an intense computer nerd, even before he became corrupted by the demon Moloch. He helped his new Master, by killing Dave, electrocuting Buffy and kidnapping Willow. Fritz was eventually killed by Moloch himself inI Robot, You Jane.

Thelonius

Thelonius was the leader of the group of monks who banished Moloch the Corrupter into a book in Cortona, Italy, 1418 (I Robot, You Jane). The character of Thelonious is named after the famous jazz artist Thelonius Monk.

CRD

CRD (Cadillax Research and Development) was a computer research lab that used to be the third largest employer in Sunnydale. It was shut down and Moloch the Corrupter then used it as a base from which to build himself a new body in I Robot, You Jane. Xander’s uncle worked there as a janitor.

Demon magnet

Xander’s relationship with the praying mantis in Teacher’s Pet is joked about in several later episodes, such as I Robot, You Jane, Inca Mummy Girl, Anne (in which Cordelia says of Xander, “He’s always been attracted to monsters” and later mentions Ampata from Inca Mummy Girl, calling her “some hot little Inca mummy girl”), What’s My Line? (Part 2) and Something Blue, when Willow says, “Let’s look at your bio: Insect Lady, Mummy Girl, Anya… you’re a demon magnet.” In First Date, Xander says, “Another demon woman was attracted to me” after his date Lyssa turned out to be evil.

Special Projects

In the episode Passion, when Giles questions why Jenny is in the computer lab so late, she replies that she is “working on a special project.” In the episode I Robot, You Jane, Fritz says to Jenny that he is working on a “special project” on the computer. Ironically, when Jenny asks if she will like Fritz’s ’special project’, he replies that she’ll die.

Willow’s crush

In I Robot, You Jane, we see that Willow has a picture of herself and Giles pinned to the inside of her locker. It can also be seen in the episode Nightmares. Willow confirms that she used to have a crush on Giles in Where the Wild Things Are, after she sees him singing.

Circle of Kayless

In the Italian town of Cortona in 1418, Moloch the Corrupter was bound to a book using a binding spell and the The Circle of Kayless (in I Robot, You Jane). Giles and Jenny formed a virtual Circle of Kayless to create the same spell when Moloch was unleashed on the internet. The people who answered their call were in Hawaii, Vancouver, Denver and Mexico City.

Moloch the Corrupter

Controlling and powerful demon who was banished into a book by monks in the 15th century. The demon could only be freed if the words were read aloud, and just to make sure, the monks sealed the book in a box. The book was accidentally scanned into the school’s computer system, which unleashed Moloch on the internet. He could create any destruction he liked - destroy records, unleash nuclear weapons etc. He pretended to be Malcolm and became Willow’s online boyfriend. He also had a new robot body made for himself, which was electrocuted and destroyed by Buffy (I Robot, You Jane).

2001: A Space Odyssey

The episode I Robot, You Jane has a couple of similarities to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The voice of the demon Moloch, when he’s still trapped in the computer, is similar to the voice of the murderous computer Hal in the movie. Additionally, the main student with whom Moloch communicates is called Dave, which is the name of the astronaut Hal talks to in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I Robot and You Jane

The title of the episode I Robot, You Jane comes from both a line from the Tarzan movie (”Me Tarzan. You Jane”) and I, Robot, which was a collection of sci-fi short stories written by Isaac Asimov, published in 1940. The theme of I, Robot is of moral interaction between humans and robots. Alan Tudyk, who played Wash in Joss Whedon’s Firefly, played Sonny the robot in the 2004 movie version of I, Robot, alongside Will Smith.

Nazis

Nazis have been referenced a few times in Buffy:

• In The Witch, Buffy says Amy’s mother is, “Nazi-like”.
• In I Robot, You Jane, a student’s essay has been changed by Moloch the Corrupter, “This isn’t my report! Nazi Germany was a model of a well ordered society’? I didn’t write that! Who’s been in my files?”
• In Nightmares, Xander says, “I’m sorry, I’m unruffled by spiders. Now, if a bunch of Nazis crawled all over my face…”
• In Becoming (Part 1), Cordelia says of Principal Snyder, “How about because you’re a tiny impotent Nazi with a bug up his butt the size of an emu?”
• In Gingerbread, Xander says, “Aw, man it’s Nazi Germany and I’ve got Playboys in my locker!”
• In The Freshman, Buffy mentions the Nuremberg rallies, where the Nazi’s held their anti-Semitic rallies from the early 1920s to 1938.
• In the episode The Initiative, Spike is in his containment cell talking to another vampire about who could have captured him, Spike says, “And they are? The government? Nazis? A major cosmetics company?” In the Angel episode ‘Why We Fight‘, we see in a flashback that Spike was captured by Nazis in 1943, who were experimenting on vampires as a means of controlling them for their war effort.

Spider-Man

Spider-Man is a popular Marvel comic starring Peter Parker, who leads a double life as superhero Spider-Man. Made into two successful movies starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. There are many similarities between Peter and Buffy, as she too is trying to lead a normal life, and (occasionally) make a living, whilst saving the world. Spider-Man has been mentioned in numerous Buffy and Angel episodes, including:

• Angel - The Master says, “With power comes responsibility”, which is the motto of the Spider-Man comics and movie.
• I Robot, You Jane - Buffy says, “My spider-sense is tingling”.
• A New Man - Riley says to Buffy, “You’re strong. Like Spider-Man strong”.
• No Place Like Home - Ben suggests Buffy’s strength comes from a “Radioactive spider bite”.
• Flooded - Anya and Dawn argue over if Spider-Man charges for helping people - Xander reminds them that “Action is his reward”.
• Two To Go - Andrew says, “Lex Luthor had a false epidermis escape kit in Superman Versus the Amazing Spider-Man Treasury edition”
• Selfless - Xander says, “This isn’t springy high-flying fun!”
• Bring on the Night - Andrew says “My spider-sense is tingling”.
• Inside Out - Cordy says “That’s it? I get away with bringing the world down around you and two eensy words tingle your spider sense?”
• Additionally, Buffy stuntman Erik Betts was director Sam Raimi’s choice for doubling actor Tobey Maquire for the movie Spider-Man, but was told by the costume designer that his shoulders were too large. Nicholas Brendon auditioned for the role of Spider-Man in the movie.

The Beatles

In I Robot - You Jane, Xander refers to the Beatles song “With a Little Help from My Friends” when Buffy says that Dave’s death looked like suicide. The song is from the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Band.
In Out of Mind, Out of Sight, most of Marcie’s text book at her new school is not actually about ‘Infiltration and Assassination’, as the chapter suggests. Most of it is either nonsense or devoted to the Beatles’ “Happiness is a Warm Gun”.
In What’s My Line? (Part 2), Xander says, “I am the bug man, coo coo ka choo.” This is a reference to The Beatles’ psychedelic song “I Am The Walrus” (1967) which contains the line, “I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.”
The episode The Yoko Factor is named after John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono, who was widely believed to have been the catalyst for breaking up The Beatles. In that episode, Spike explains this to Adam, who replies, “I like Helter Skelter” (a Beatles song).

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Moloch sends Fritz details of Buffy via the school’s computer system. We see two different versions of her school record on the computer. In the second one, her status changes from ’sophomore’ to ’senior’. Her date of birth also changes from 24 October 1980 to 6 May 1979. In Nightmares, Buffy’s date of birth on her gravestone reads 1981-1997, and in The Gift, it says 1981-2001.

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When Buffy and Xander discuss who Willow’s internet boyfriend could be in I Robot, You Jane, there is a blonde girl behind them in a pink shirt, who can then be see both walking and running behind the two in different shots and in different directions. Look for her at 10.03, 10.20, 10.27 and 11.22 - she seems to have no idea where she’s going!.

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How does Buffy manage to follow Dave to the CRD building so easily when he’s driving and she isn’t? I know she has super powers but she’s not that fast!

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When Giles leaves the library after discovering the blank book, why don’t we see him in the window of the room he goes into?

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Fritz appears suddenly behind Dave to kill him, when Dave tells Moloch he can’t hurt Buffy. Moloch then writes on the computer screen to make it look like a suicide… but where did Fritz come from?

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When Buffy goes to turn on the computer to delete Willow’s files she never touches the monitor ‘on’ button. She touches the area above the button, yet the screen pops on.

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It would be impossible for Buffy not to see Dave’s hanging body as she entered the lab.

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Just before Willow is captured by Fritz at her house, the computer’s screen goes black to announce new mail. She doesn’t touch it, but when Buffy and Xander get to her room the computer is displaying the e-mail.