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The following is a stage direction for the episode Shadow, from the script:

Daniel Attias

Daniel Attias directed the episodes Shadow and Crush. Daniel has directed for The O.C., Alias, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos (for which he wrote the episode ‘Bust-Out’), Ally McBeal, Early Edition, Party of Five (on which he was also co-executive producer), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Northern Exposure. Daniel was second assistant director on E.T.

Kevin Weisman

Kevin Weisman, who played Glory’s minion Dreg in season five, played Marshall J. Flinkman in Alias. He has also appeared in Lip Service, Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Rock, Charmed, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, Felicity, The X Files, Roswell, The Drew Carey Show, ER and Frasier. Kevin appeared in Beverly Hills Family Robinson with Sarah Michelle Gellar in 1998.

Megan Gray

Megan Gray, who played Sandy in Doppelgängland, Family and Shadow, played Emma Jones in Dawson’s Creek. She has also been in Welcome 2 Ibiza, Picking Up Chicks with Harland Williams and Giving It Up.

William Forward

William Forward, who played Dr Isaacs in Shadow, has appeared in Beautiful, Gilmore Girls, The X Files, Babylon 5 (as Lord Refa) and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Dr. Isaacs

Dr. Isaacs was the doctor who discovered Joyce Summers had a “shadow” on her brain after her CAT Scan, in the episode Shadow.

Sandy

When Vampire Willow was at the Bronze in Doppelgängland, she bit a girl named Sandy. Riley later met the girl in Willy’s Bar in the season five episode Family. He realised she was a vampire, so Vampire Willow or another vampire must have followed through and sired Sandy. Riley staked Sandy in Shadow, after allowing her to bite him.

Big snake

In Graduation Day (Part 2), the Mayor turned into a giant snake-demon. His Ascension is referenced in several future episodes. In The Harsh Light of Day, Harmony and Willow discuss the “big snake” that threatened Sunnydale High in Graduation Day Part Two. It was during the confusion at the end of this episode that Harmony was bitten and turned into a vampire. In Shadow, Buffy says the snake is “big, but not Mayor-big”. In Primeval, Xander says, “Does anyone miss the Mayor? ‘I just wanna be a big snake?’” In Smashed, Amy mentions a “giant snake thing” and “Snyder got eaten by a snake”.

Buffy memorabilia

We see Spike stealing some of Buffy’s underwear in the episode Shadow and in Listening to Fear Spike steals photographs of the Slayer. In Crush, we see he has a whole collection of Buffy-related articles, including photos, clothing and drawings of the Slayer. Buffy blames Dawn in Crush for her missing blue cashmere sweater, but we discover that Spike has stolen it. Harmony wears the sweater when pretending to be the Slayer.

Bunnies

Anya has a fear of bunnies, first referenced in Fear, Itself when she wore a bunny costume to a Halloween party, with the simple explanation: “bunnies frighten me”. This fear is shown in Shadow, The Gift, Once More, With Feeling, Tabula Rasa, Smashed, Selfless and in Chosen. In Bargaining (Part 2), Razor asks Willow what she’s going to do, “pull a rabbit out of a hat?” Anya turns to Tara to be reassured that she won’t. Anya’s final words on the show are about bunnies. She thinks of them whilst preparing for the huge battle - “Bunnies. Floppy, hoppy, bunnies.” Anya’s bunny suit in Fear, Itself became so popular that modelmakers Clayburn Moore created a figure of the character.

Carousel

In Blood Ties, Buffy asks the Scoobies if they looked for Dawn at the carousel, when she goes missing. This is most likely the same carousel that Riley took her to in Shadow. Dawn told Riley that Joyce had rented out the carousel for Dawn’s birthday just after they moved to Sunnydale.

Glory’s domain

We first see Glory’s apartment for the first time in the episode Shadow. From the outside it looks quite like the building where Anya and Xander live. Glory’s minions call her many names including: “Shiny Special One”, “Your Terrifically Smooth One”, “Your Creamy Coolness”, “Silky and Effervescent Glorificus” and “Your Most Fresh and Cleanness”.

Go boom

In All the Way, Xander says, “Store. Go boom.” In Shadow, Willow said, “Tomb. Go boom” after Riley blew up a tomb in the graveyard.

Joyce’s tumour

Joyce has a CAT scan (CAT stands for Computed Axial Tomography) in Shadow. She is diagnosed with a low-grade Glioma in the left hemisphere of her brain. This is a tumour of supporting tissue in the brain. They’re slow growing so you can have one for many years without symptoms.

Magic Box

Giles opened the new Magic Box shop in No Place Like Home and took on a new member of staff - Anya. He first eyed up the prospect of opening a magic shop in Real Me, after the previous owner was found dead. Giles dressed as a wizard for the grand opening but Buffy told him, without words, how very silly he looked.
The Magic Box is located at 5124 Maple Court in downtown Sunnydale. The phone number there is 803-555-8966. Their slogan is “Your one-stop spot to shop for all your occult needs. Let us make it easy”, which Tara says in Shadow is great in a hard-to-read way.
A sign at the Magic Box warns customers that “Shoplifters will be transfigured”.
The magic box was trashed by Olaf the Troll in Triangle, but miraculously restored by the next episode, Checkpoint. It was finally destroyed completely by Willow in Grave after she consumed dark magics and fought Giles there. We see in Same Time, Same Place that the Magic Box has an “Unsafe” sign on the outside, presumably because the building was structurally damaged.

Next day…

The episode Shadow begins the day after the events of the previous episode, Fool For Love. There we saw Joyce packing for her trip to the hospital.

Zoo

The Scoobies go on a school trip to the zoo in The Pack. All the zoo scenes in that episode were filmed at the Santa Ana Zoo in California. All the signs are in the same font as that in Jurassic Park. The zoo is seen again in Shadow, when Glory raises Sobek in the reptile house.

Sobek

Glory brought a Khul’s Amulet and a Sobekian Blood Stone from the Magic Box in order to raise Sobek, and find the Key in Shadow. She found a normal snake in the zoo and transformed it into a giant demon snake. In the Buffyverse, the Sobekites were an ancient Egyptian cult heavy into dark magic, and the Kohl’s Amulet was a transmogrification conduit. Historically, Sobek was an ancient Egyptian deity but he was a crocodile, not a snake.

Aleister Crowley

In Shadow, a Magic Box customer looks for the album ‘Aleister Crowley Sings’. English occultist and writer Crowley (1875-1947) dabbled in magicks. His works include “Magick in Theory and Practice” and “The Book of the Law”.

Star Wars

George Lucas’s Star Wars films are a cult phenomenon. They are referenced numerous times in the Buffyverse. The original trilogy included the movies Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return Of The Jedi (1983) and the movies The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005) were made later on.

• In When She Was Bad, when Xander and Willow play Guess the Movie from the tag line (Willow: “Use the Force, Luke.”,
  Xander: “Do I even have to dignify that with a guess?”)
• In School Hard, Spike told Angel that, “You were my Yoda!” Yoda was the ancient Jedi master who became the mentor and teacher for both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker.
• A visual reference to Star Wars can be seen in The Zeppo, when Xander runs into the corridor and runs back out with the gang members chasing him. Han Solo does the same thing in Star Wars.
• In Choices, Buffy says that Faith has turned to ‘the dark side’.
• In The Freshman, Xander confuses the Star Wars Jedi code quoted by Yoda in The Phantom Menace. (”Hate leads to anger…no wait…Fear leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side”). Also in that episode, the old frat house that the vampires are holed up in is the Psi Theta house. If you write those two greek letters together, and pronounce them together, you get Sith.
• In Fear, Itself, Xander says to Oz, “Sensing a disturbance in the Force, Master?”
• Buffy using the chain to choke Sobek the snake-demon in Shadow is reminiscent of Princess Leia killing Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi.
• In Forever, Ben calls Glory’s minions “Jawa rejects” after the small hooded and robed creatures in Star Wars.
• In Life Serial, Andrew paints a Death Star from Star Wars on the side of the gang’s van. It’s the Empire’s revised design from Return of the Jedi, which Jonathan says is flawed.
• In the episode Two To Go, Andrew says, “We’ve got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds us all into to Jawa burgers and not one of you bunch has the Midichlorians to stop her.” These are all Star Wars references: Darth is a title given to a Sith Warrior (such as Darth Vader); Jawas are the hooded creatures who live on Tatooine, and Midichlorians are micro-organisms which exist in all living things. Andrew says, “Laugh it up, Fuzzball” which is a quote from Star Wars. Andrew also later says in Two To Go, “…in a galaxy far, far away” - yet another Star Wars reference.
• In All the Way, Tara and Willow see a couple dressed as Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker kissing in the Bronze. Willow asks, “Do they know they’re brother and sister?”
• In Smashed, we see that the three nerds own a mint condition (though out of its packaging) 1979 Boba Fett action figure. Though Boba Fett was first introduced in The Empire Strikes Back (made in 1980), the earliest Boba Fett figure was made in 1979, before the film was released.
• In Dead Things, Jonathan and Andrew play fight with green light sabres.
• In Entropy, Warren calls Jonathan “Padawan”.
• In Conversations with Dead People, Jonathan and Warren have the following conversation: Warren: “Come on, “If you strike me down…” Andrew: “I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine…That boy is our last hope.” Warren: “No, there is another.” These are all quotes from Star Wars.
• In Potential, Xander says to Andrew, “Say Skywalker, and I smack you.” He is, of course, referring to Star Wars‘ Luke Skywalker.
• In Showtime, Andrew says, “I’m bored. Episode I bored.” He’s referring to George Lucas’s disappointing movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
• In Never Leave Me, Warren/The First says, “I’m like Obi Wan”. He also says to Andrew, “We’re right in the trench, and the exhaust port’s in sight.” This is a reference to the scene in Star Wars in which the Death Star is under attack.
• In Bring on the Night, Andrew says, “I’m like Vader in the last 5 minutes of Jedi with redemptive powers minus a redemptive struggle of epic redemption which chronicles…” He’s referring to the last scenes of the final Star Wars movie Return of the Jedi.
• In Storyteller, there are two framed Star Wars comics on the wall in Andrew’s opening scene.
• In Dirty Girls, Andrew says, “But like so many tragic heroes, Faith was seduced by the lure of the dark side.”

Seen at 26.24 minutes:

Glory injures Buffy’s right arm during the fight at the zoo, but the Buffy puts an ice pack on her left shoulder when she gets to the hospital.

Seen at 27.53 minutes:

Why doesn’t Glory instruct the snake to locate the Key then bring it to her?