All twinkied out

Both Nicholas Brendon (Xander), and Ara Celi (Ampata), had to eat up to ten twinkies each for the scene in when they are eating lunch in Inca Mummy Girl.

Gutierrez

Ampata’s surname - Gutierrez - is the same as Joss Whedon’s personal assistant: Diego Gutierrez. According to the original script, Ampata’s surname was originally going to be Duarte.

Joss on Oz

Joss Whedon says of Oz:

Milky nose

The following lines were deleted from Inca Mummy Girl:

Speccy Oz

Oz was originally going to wear thick black framed glasses inspired by the lead guitarist of Weezer. At the last moment, Joss decided they were too tacky, and the idea was trashed.

The museum

Buffy’s class go on a school trip to the museum in Inca Mummy Girl. The scenes were shot at the Natural History Museum, at 900 Exposition Boulevard (very apt) near the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Sunnydale Museum is also seen in Becoming (Part 1) (where Acathla was examined), Doomed (where the gang studied the Word of ) and Smashed (when the nerds stole the Illuminata diamond).

Using words for good

These lines were cut from Inca Mummy Girl:

Ara Celi

Ara played the Incan princess Ampata in Inca Mummy Girl. Ara is originally from El Paso in Texas. She was a former Miss Texas who turned her hand to acting. Ara appeared in Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Nip/Tuck and played Raquel Dion Santos in All My Children (which also starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and Michelle Trachtenberg). Ara played the title role in The Hangman’s Daughter (a film which was cast by Buffy casting director Marcia Shulman) and appeared in Bruce Almighty and American Beauty.

Gil Birmingham

Gil played the “Peruvian Guy” in Inca Mummy Girl. Gil has appeared in Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain with Jack Conley, who played Cain in Phases.

Joey Crawford

Joey Crawford (also known as Clayne Crawford) played Rodney Munsen in Inca Mummy Girl. He has also been in Thief, The Great Raid, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Trespassing, Gas Station Jesus, Swimfan, A Walk to Remember and One Blood Planet.

Kristen Winnicki

Kristen Winnicki played Cordelia’s friend Gwen in Inca Mummy Girl and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. She has also been in Lola’s Game.

Devon

Devon was a dumb but likeable lead singer with Oz’s band Dingoes Ate My Baby. Also Oz’s best friend, for some reason. He briefly dated Cordelia in season two’s Inca Mummy Girl and Halloween.

Rodney Munsen

Rodney was a rebellious boy at school with the Scoobies who used to bully Xander. He tried to steal the seal of the Inca Princess but broke the curse and became her first victim in Inca Mummy Girl.

Sven

Sven was a Scandinavian exchange student who stayed at Cordelia’s house in Inca Mummy Girl, and was heavily patronised and bossed around by his host.

Buffy’s moving door

The front door of Buffy’s house changes in different episodes. In the season one episode Angel, when Buffy is trying to close her front door on The Three, you can see that the front door opens on Buffy’s right. In the season two episodes Inca Mummy Girl and Halloween, we see that Buffy’s door now opens on her left.
Later in season two, when Cordelia talks to Norman Pfister in Buffy’s hall in What’s My Line? (Part 2), you can see that the door handle of Buffy’s front door is on the left. But when Xander let Cordelia in the house in the previous episode (What’s My Line? (Part 1))the handle was on the right!

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.

Dingoes Ate My Baby

Dingoes Ate My Baby were a rock band, fronted by Devon with vocals, and Oz, who played lead guitar. They played on various occasions at venues including the Bronze (Inca Mummy Girl, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and Doppelgängland) and Buffy’s house (Dead Man’s Party - where they played ‘Never Mind’, ‘Sway’ and ‘Pain’). The band were mentioned in the unaired pilot, when Xander said, “They don’t know any actual chords yet, but they have really big amps”.
In Earshot, Freddy Iverson writes a bad review of the band in the school paper (”Dingoes Ate My Baby play their instruments as if they have plump polish sausages taped to their fingers”) but Oz thought it was fair. Cordelia briefly dated Devon (Inca Mummy Girl).
The band’s name comes from a famous Australian outback incident, in which Lindy Chamberlain was accused of killing her baby, which had actually been taken by dingoes. The Dingoes’ music was provided by real-life band Four Star Mary, with whom James Marsters has occasionally performed. Four Star Mary themselves appeared in the season four finale Restless.
The Four Star Mary song “Pain” became one of the signature tunes for Dingoes Ate My Baby. It was heard in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (performed in the Bronze), Dead Man’s Party (performed at Buffy’s house) and Living Conditions - on the stereo in the dorm when Willow moves in suggesting that the Dingoes had recorded a CD.

Frog fear

In What’s My Line? (Part 1), Willow revealed to Giles that she has frog fear (”don’t warn the tadpoles”). This is a phobia known as ranidaphobia. It was used to Buffy’s advantage in Killed By Death when Willow created a distraction for Buffy to get away by screaming that she had frogs all over her. In Inca Mummy Girl, Willow has a toy stuffed frog, so her fear obviously only relates to the real thing!

Sad overalls

There seems to be a continuing theme that Buffy wears dungarees (overalls) when she’s sad. She wears them in Ted after she thinks she killed Ted; in Becoming (Part 2) before boarding the bus to run away; in Helpless when arriving, sans her power, to save her mother; and in Inca Mummy Girl when she wears them to hunt Ampata instead of going to the dance.

Where’s Angel?

Inca Mummy Girl was the first episode since Nightmares which does not feature the character Angel, even though he is credited in the opening titles.

Who’s that girl?

Oz first noticed Willow in Inca Mummy Girl when she wore an eskimo costume to the dance. In Halloween, Cordelia bosses Oz around, then when she walks away, Oz says (sarcastically) “Why can’t I meet a nice girl like that?” He then turns and bumps into Willow, wearing her ghost costume so he doesn’t recognise her. At the end of Halloween, Oz saw Willow once again, this time in her very non-Willow Halloween costume. They didn’t meet properly until What’s My Line, Part One, in which they are both picked out for special treatment by software recruiters, and bonded over finger food.

World Cultural Fair

In Tough Love, Tara was attacked by Glory at the World Cultural Fair in Sunnydale.
There was previously a cultural exchange programme at Sunnydale High in Inca Mummy Girl, the highlight of which was a dance where students dressed in the costumes of different countries.

Four Star Mary

The music for Oz’s band Dingoes Ate My Baby was provided by real-life band Four Star Mary. James Marsters has performed with them on stage (off screen) a few times. The band themselves appeared in the season four finale Restless, as the band who play with Giles during the Exposition Song.

Four Star Mary songs can be heard in the following Buffy episodes:

• Inca Mummy Girl - The songs ‘Shadows’ and ‘Fate’ at the Cultural party in The Bronze.
• Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - ‘Pain’ is heard in The Bronze.
• Dead Man’s Party - The Dingoes mime to ‘Pain’, ‘Nevermind’ and ‘Sway’ at Buffy’s party.
• Homecoming - we hear the song ‘She Knows’ at the Homecoming Dance - it’s the song Oz wrote for Willow.
• Living Conditions - ‘Pain is heard when Buffy and Willow move into their dorm room.
• Band Candy - the Dingoes mime onstage at The Bronze to ‘Violent’, when the adults are acting weirdly.
• Revelations - Dingoes Ate My Baby perform ‘Run’ in The Bronze at the start of the episode.
• The Harsh Light of Day - ‘Dilate’ is played at the Bronze at the start of the episode.
• The Initiative - Riley gets the song ‘Fate’ turned off at the party as it upsets Willow.

Ampata

Ampata was an Incan princess who was mummified. A protective seal over her body was broken and she came alive, though she was forced to drain the life from people to stay alive. She pretended to be an exchange student staying with Buffy and fell in love with Xander. She eventually crumbled to dust after Buffy stopped her killing any more people (Inca Mummy Girl).

A Summer Place (Theme to)

The theme song of this 1959 movie was written by Max Steiner and became a huge hit. In Inca Mummy Girl, Oz tells Devon what it takes for a woman to attract him, “Well, it involves a feather boa and a theme to A Summer Place” and in Him, the theme is used whenever a girl becomes attracted to R.J.Brooks.

Mommie Dearest

Buffy says in The Witch, “So mommie dearest is really… Mommie Dearest.” In Inca Mummy Girl, Buffy says, “Ok, I’ll still get Xander before he gets smoochy with Mummy Dearest.” Mommie Dearest was an autobiography by Christina Crawford about her abusive mother, the movie actress Joan Crawford. It was made into a movie in 1981, starring Faye Dunaway.
In Habeas Corpses, Cordy says “Listen up, Daddy Dearest”.

New York Islanders

In the episode Inca Mummy Girl, we see Oz (in his first appearance) wearing a New York Islanders (a hockey team) t-shirt.

Spaghetti Western

In Inca Mummy Girl Xander says the line, “I’m from the country of Leone. It’s in Italy pretending to be Montana.” This is a reference to ’spaghetti westerns’, films from the mid 60’s which were financed and usually filmed in Italy. The Leone part could be a reference to Sergio Leone who directed maybe the most famous of the spaghetti westerns - The Man With No Name trilogy starring Clint Eastwood.

WP (Widespread Panic)

A black and white oval sticker with the letters “WP” can often be seen in Sunnydale. The sticker is for a band called Widespread Panic. Examples of episodes in which this is seen include:
Inca Mummy Girl: behind Xander when he says to Ampata, “Why’d you run away?”.
Halloween: next to Cordelia when she’s dressed as a cat and talking to Oz (on Oz’s locker door), and when Willow walks into the library when she’s a ghost, there is one on the bulletin board to her right. There is also a sticker on the bathroom wall, seen behind Buffy’s right shoulder when she an Willow look through the book.
Reptile Boy: at the beginning of the episode, behind Xander’s left shoulder in Buffy’s room.
Bad Eggs: behind Jonathon’s right shoulder on the locker when he is being attacked.
Surprise: on the locker behind Cordelia when she is talking to Xander and behind Xander when he calls Giles a party weasel. A colourful Widespread Panic poster can also be seen behind Joyce in Buffy’s dream.
Phases: when Buffy is in the Bronze looking for the werewolf, a WP sticker can be seen on a pillar behind her right shoulder.
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: poster in Xander’s room and behind Xander when Harmony tells him he should learn a second language so more girls can reject him. A sticker can also be seen on the locker behind Cordelia when Harmony is telling her off for breaking up with Xander.
Becoming (Part 2): at the beginning of the episode, when the cop is arresting Buffy in the hall, you can see a WP sticker on the lockers behind her.
Dead Man’s Party: on a guitar case behind the drums during the party.
A New Man: behind Giles when he’s at Buffy’s party.
Wild at Heart: a colourful WP poster (not the sticker) can be seen to the right of Oz’s bedroom door.
The Yoko Factor: in Buffy and Willow’s dorm room.
The Replacement: on the payphone that Xander uses to call Buffy.

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Why is a delicate and expensive exhibit like an Incan mummy not protected at the museum? People can easily touch the mummy, and it shouldn’t be exposed to the air like that.

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Why did no one at the museum notice the broken seal/different mummy/braces on teeth etc?

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In Inca Mummy Girl, we see a scene showing Cordelia and Devon walking out to Devon’s van. Cordy’s exchange student, Sven, tries to interrupt the two and Cordy says to him, “Sven! Momento! Needa!” If you look behind Sven, to the left, as he reacts to this, you can see a couple, both wearing black, walking down the stairs. Then, when Cordelia walks past Sven, saying, “Sven! Come?” the couple can be seen walking down the stairs again.

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When the bodyguard attacks Ampata as she is sitting with Xander, a bag gets knocked off the seat. But when Xander gets up to chase the bodyguard, the bag is back on the seat.

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Ampata claims she has no lipstick, but we saw her put some on earlier in the girls’ bathroom at the school.

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Buffy opens Ampata’s trunk and we see the corpse is lying there. Buffy gets called away but when she later opens the trunk with Giles we see that the corpse has moved.

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When Oz plays guitar during the song ‘Shadows’, he’s clearly not playing what we’re hearing.

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Giles has not yet completed the seal but when Ampata attacks him, she picks up the seal, which is now whole.