Grilles or girls?

This line of Willow’s was cut from the episode Anne:

Hunga-Munga

Buffy’s cross-like throwing weapon in the episode Anne is called a hunga-munga. It was purchased from a magazine by the props department. The effect of it spinning through the air was created by attaching it to a ball-bearing and a dowel and then spinning it on the spot.

Michael’s favourite episode

In the October 1, 1999 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Michael Gershman, the director of photography, said that Anne was his favourite episode.

Over-blown budget

The following was a mock stage direction for the elaborate scenes in Anne:

Seth in the credits

Seth Green was promoted to a regular cast member from the episode Anne.

Sunnydale’s gonna rule!

In the episode Anne, Jonathan Levinson was originally supposed to say Larry’s line, “If we can focus, keep discipline… and not have quite as many mysterious deaths, Sunnydale is gonna rule!”

Carlos Jacott

Carlos Jacott, who played the demon masquerading as a human (Ken) in Anne, previously played an agent in Being John Malkovich. He has been in She’s All That (with Sarah’s husband Freddie Prinze Jr), The Last Days of Disco, Grosse Point Blank, and he played Ramon the Pool Guy in Seinfeld. Carlos played Lawrence Dobson in Joss Whedon’s Firefly, and Richard in the Angel episode ‘Batchelor Party’. He is one of five actors to appear in all three of Joss’s TV shows.

Chad Todhunter

Chad Todhunter, who played Ricky in Anne, played Cody in Party of Five. He has also been in Never Been Kissed and Scream at the Sound of the Beep. Chad is married to Clementine Ford, who is the daughter of Cybill Shepherd. She appeared in Bring it On with Eliza Dushku and Clare Kramer, and in American Pie with Alyson Hannigan.

Harrison Young

Harrison Young, who played the old man in Anne, was old Private Ryan in Saving Private Ryan. He also played Palmer Harper in Spike’s favourite soap, Passions.

James Lurie

James Lurie played the teacher Mr. Miller at Sunnydale High in the episodes I Only Have Eyes For You, Anne and Graduation Day (Part 1). You might remember him as the teacher who plays hangman with his class in Graduation Day (”They always go for the ‘E’”). James has also been in Picket Fences, Law & Order and Cowboy Up.

Jeff’s cameos

Buffy’s stunt coordinator (until the end of season four) Jeff Pruitt had a non-speaking cameo in the episode Anne as the guy who holds the door at the Family Home open when Buffy tries to bluff her way in, and who then tries to slam it in her face when she fails. He previously appeared as a vampire in the episode Ted and also played the first cop that Faith pushed down in This Year’s Girl.

Julia Lee

Julia played the character Chantarelle in Lie to Me, who later appeared as Lily in Anne. Lily took Buffy’s middle name, Anne, and moved to L.A, where she appeared in the Angel episodes: Blood Money, The Thin Dead Line and Not Fade Away. Julia has also been in Charmed, Ophelia Learns to Swim and A Man Apart.

Mary-Pat Green

Mary-Pat Green played the nurse at the blood donor clinic in the episode Anne. Mary has also been in My Best Friend’s Wedding, Desperate Housewives, The Call, Charmed, Six Feet Under, Millennium and Twin Falls Idaho.

Andy Hoelich

Andy Hoelich was an ex-gymnastics team member at Sunnydale High, turned into a vampire. The Scoobies failed to stake him as he acrobatically got away at the beginning of the episode Anne.

Blood bank nurse

In Anne, the demon calling himself Ken devised a system where he got the names of healthy homeless kids via the nurse at the local blood donor clinic. No mention is made during the episode if the nurse understood the evil system, or what happened to her afterwards.

Chantarelle/Lily/Anne

Chantarelle was a member of Ford’s vampire wannabe group in Lie to Me. She later turned up again in L.A., this time calling herself Lily (Anne). There she met Buffy who politely informed her that Chantarelle was actually a mushroom. Later still, and using the name Anne (which she ‘borrowed’ from Buffy), she appeared in Angel, where she had become more confident and was running a shelter for the homeless.

Mr. Miller

Mr. Miller was a teacher at Sunnydale High. He appeared in the episodes I Only Have Eyes For You, Anne (”Slow down, people. Summer is over. Be somber.”) and Graduation Day (Part 1) (Playing hangman: “They always go for the ‘E’”).

Rickie

Rickie was Lily’s boyfriend in Anne. The two lived on the streets and spent all their money on huge tattoos proclaiming their love for each other. Rickie was taken by the demon Ken and forced to work in a hell dimension until he got too old. He was found by Buffy, who recognised him by his tattoo.

Angel credits

In the episode Anne, there is a shot of a lonely-looking woman standing on the streets of L.A. The same image is used in the opening credits of the spin-off series Angel.

Buffy Anne Summers

Buffy’s middle name is Anne, discovered in the aptly named episode Anne. The name was “borrowed” by Lily, who wanted to turn over a new leaf after Buffy saved her yet again. I wonder if Joss Whedon knew that Anne Summers is a chain of British shops which sells adult sex toys and clothing?

Buffy’s pink dress

The pink dress that Buffy wears in her dream in Anne (when she and Angel are on the beach) is the same one she wears in Dead Man’s Party.

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

Buffy is called ‘Buffy, the Vampire Slayer’ twice in the show. In Anne, she introduces herself to the demon as “I’m Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, and you are?” In Help, she goes to Cassie’s father’s house and says to Xander, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer would break down this door.”

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.

Following the preacher

When Lily and Buffy are catching up with each other in Anne, Lily says, “Well, before that, I was following this loser preacher and calling myself Sister Sunshine”. A nice bit of continuity would have been if that preacher had been season seven’s Caleb.

Belly Love

The band Belly Love played at The Bronze in the episode Anne on what Xander called “depressing night”. They played the track ‘Back to Freedom’ in that episode. Their performance on Buffy was Bellylove’s first show as they had only just released their first album on their own label, Bad Boy Kitty Records.

Ken

An unidentified demon who pretended to be a human named Ken working for the homeless shelter ‘Family Home’. It disguised himself as human by gluing a human face onto it’s own. He was actually recruiting kids for slave labour in a hell dimension. Buffy killed him when she went to rescue the kids in Anne.

Commu-Buffy

The story of the episode Anne is clearly an allusion to the economic philosophies of Karl Marx. According to Marx, the proletariat, abused and maltreated factory workers, are slaves under the whip of the capitalistic, bourgeoise factory-owners. But eventually the proletariat will rise up and destroy their bourgeoise masters. This parallels the plot in Anne, where Buffy leads the workers to kill the demon bosses and escape the factory.

Additionally, during the revolt, Buffy fights with a big hammer and a weapon that, given the context, can easily be mistaken for a sickle. The Hammer and Sickle are the international signs of Communism, which developed directly from Marxism.

Gandhi

In Anne, Buffy says, “Hey, Ken, wanna see my impression of Gandhi?” She then kills Ken and says, “Well, you know, if he was really pissed off.” Peace-loving Gandhi (1869 - 1948) worked for over 20 years to help secure rights for Indians in South Africa. He then spent the rest of his life trying to free India from British rule. He was assassinated by a religious extremist. In Consequences, after Faith killed Alan Finch, she said, “The guy I offed was no Gandhi.”

Jaws

Steven Spielberg’s 1975 shark movie Jaws is alluded to a few times in Buffy.
In Go Fish, Xander says, “This was no boating accident” - which is a line from the first Jaws movie.
In Graduation Day (Part 1), Xander and Giles open a page of a book to see a giant monster they may have to face. Xander says, “We’re going to need a bigger boat”, which was the phrase used by Brody (Roy Scheider) in the movie when he first sees the size of the great white shark he’s hunting.
In the episode Anne, Oz suggests that Willow uses the phrase “This time it’s personal” as it’s a “classic”. He’s quoting from the fourth Jaws movie.
Anya makes an explicit reference to the movie in End of Days when she suggests killing demons with gas cylinders, “They’d only be useful if something big was attacking, and then we could shove one down their throat and blow ‘em up like Roy Scheider did with that shark in Jaws.”
In Empty Places, Xander mentions the abysmal third movie in the Jaws series, made in 1983. After he loses his eye, Xander says, “Oh, you know what the best part is? No one will ever make me watch Jaws 3-D again.”
In Soul Purpose, whilst dissecting Angel in his dream, Fred holds up a Mexican license plate saying, “Hmm. Came up the gulf stream, huh?” This is a reference to the first Jaws movie,in which Hooper opens the dead shark and says, “Ah. Just like I thought. He came up with the Gulf Stream - from southern waters” before holding up a licence plate from Louisiana.

My Fair Lady

In the episode Anne, Buffy says, “I don’t want any trouble. I just want to be alone and quiet in a room with a chair and a fire place and a tea cozy. I don’t even know what a tea cozy is, but I want one.” This may be a reference to the 1964 musical My Fair Lady, based upon the play Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw. In the song “Wouldn’t it Be Loverly” Eliza Doolittle sings, “All I want is a room somewhere far away from the cold night air with one enormous chair. Oh, wouldn’t it be loverly? Lots of chocolate for me to eat. Lots of coal making lots of ‘eat. Warm ‘ands, warm face, warm feet. Oh wouldn’t it be loverly?”
In What’s My Line? (Part 1), Spike says, “By George, I think he’s got it!” which is a paraphrase of the line said by Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.

The Divine Comedy

In the episode Anne, Ken asks, “What is Hell but the complete absence of hope?”. This may be a reference to the epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri where the gate to Hell has the statement, “Abandon all hope ye who enter here” engraved on it.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

In Band Candy, Buffy says, “Let’s do the time warp again!” when she and Willow enter the Bronze to find it full of teenage-adults. This is a reference to a song from the musical The Rocky Horror Show.
In Anne, Lily wears a T-shirt which is partially hidden by her sweater. The T-Shirt has the Denton sign (a Heart with the phrase “The Home of Happiness”) from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) played Frank-N-Furter in the RHPS in London in the early 1990s.

Seen at 08.20 minutes:

It seems very strange that Willow didn’t know that Oz didn’t finish school.

Seen at 14.18 minutes:

When the old man steps into the street, his trousers are tucked into his boots. When he turns toward the approaching car, his trousers are untucked and at a normal length.

Seen at 14.19 minutes:

Why doesn’t the guy who knocks over Buffy in the car even try to stop? He must have seen her, or at least the guy she was saving!

Seen at 14.23 minutes:

When Buffy saves the old man from the oncoming car, you can see her stunt double’s kneepads right before she’s hit. In the first shot of her on the ground after being hit, you can tell that her uniform skirt has been fastened to her legs like shorts.

Seen at 35.05 minutes:

When Buffy says, “Anyone who’s not having fun here. Follow me”, her top is purple, but when she turns round to run away, the top is green.

Seen at 36.22 minutes:

When Buffy fights the demons in the hell dimension, she’s wearing white trainers. Then when she climbs the rope to escape the dimension, she’s wearing cream canvas shoes.

Seen at 36.30 minutes:

Throughout the final fight, you can clearly see all the safety/landing mats surrounding the platform Buffy’s standing on.