Revello Drive

Scenes at Buffy’s house were originally shot on location, but later the interior was re-built on a soundstage. The location used for the exterior of Buffy’s home was 1313 Cota Drive in Torrance. It can be found just 3 blocks away from Torrance High School (used for the location of Sunnydale High). Bear in mind that people live there and most likely don’t want to be disturbed, so don’t go gawking at the house!
Buffy’s fictional address is 1630 Revello Drive. This is discovered in the episode Angel when Buffy rang the paramedics after her mother was bitten by Darla. The address was also mentioned again in The Body (again when Buffy rings for an ambulance) and in Dirty Girls, when Shannon asks Caleb to take her to Revello Drive.

Carrie Southworth

Carrie Southworth, who played Betty in Dirty Girls, appeared in the Firefly episode ‘The Train Job’ as an immigrant woman. She also played a murdered girl in the movie Soul Survivors with Eliza Dushku.

Christie Abbot

Christie Abbot who played the ‘helpless girl’ in Dirty Girls, appeared in the movie The New Guy with Eliza Dushku.

Dania Ramirez

Dania Ramirez played Caridad in season seven. She has also been in Romy and Michele: In the Beginning, Fat Albert, She Hate Me, The Ecology of Love, Little Black Boot, Cross Bronx and 25th Hour.

Mary Wilcher

Mary Wilcher played the potential Slayer Shannon in Dirty Girls, Empty Places and Chosen. She appeared in Son of the Beach as a character named Buffy and played Marguerite in MTV’s Undressed.

Nathan Fillion

Nathan played the preacher Caleb in season seven and Captain Mal Reynolds in Firefly, a short-running TV show created by Joss Whedon. Nathan also played Mal in the 2005 Firefly movie Serenity. He originally auditioned for the part of Angel many years ago. He and Anthony Stewart Head have acted together before: Nathan starred in Two Guys and a Girl, in which Anthony guest-starred in an episode called ‘Two Guys a Girl And a Mother’s Day’ in 1999. Nathan played Father David in Wes Craven’s Dracula 2000. He has also been in Saving Private Ryan and Miss Match (along with Charisma Carpenter).

Rachel Bilson

Rachel Bilson, who played Colleen in Dirty Girls (the second girl in Xander’s dream), played Summer Roberts in The O.C. and has also been in Unbroken, That ’70s Show and 8 Simple Rules… for Dating My Teenage Daughter (which starred Buffy’s John Ritter - Ted).

Caleb

Caleb posed as a Southern preacher, but was in actual fact the right-hand man of the First. He was in charge of the eyeless Harbingers who killed potential slayers in an effort to destroy the slayer line. He took an active part in this also, by blowing up the Watcher’s Council headquarters in England, and by setting a bomb in an effort to Faith and some of the potentials. During a battle with the Scoobies, Caleb pushed Xander’s eye out with his thumb, blinding him. Buffy’s power was no match for the strength of Caleb but she eventually split him in two - twice - using the scythe she found in his lair.

Caridad

Caridad was the potential Slayer who Xander fantasised about talking with in bed in Dirty Girls (the first girl who told him she’d never had a boyfriend, and that she was scared). She also appeared in Touched and End of Days. Caridad survived the bomb blast at the end of the episode Touched, but didn’t appear for the final fight in Chosen so went AWOL somewhere along the line.

Colleen

Colleen was the second girl who Xander fantasised about in Dirty Girls. She only appeared in his fantasy so it’s possible that she wasn’t a real potential Slayer. In Xander’s fantasy, Colleen and Caridad told him:

Colleen: “I’ve never been with a man before, either.”
Xander: “Colleen…”
Colleen: “I’ve never been with her in front of a man before.”
Caridad: ” I’ve never been with her in front of a man, neither.”

Molly

Molly was the potential Slayer who seems to have attended the Dick Van Dyke School for Extraordinarily Bad English Accents. She arrived in Sunnydale with Giles in Bring on the Night, and kindly told Buffy her house was a “bit of a mess”. Molly was killed by Caleb in Dirty Girls.

Shannon

Shannon was the potential Slayer who was picked up by Caleb in his car at the beginning of Dirty Girls. He gave her a message for Buffy and stabbed her in the leg, before pushing her from the moving vehicle. She survived and gave Buffy the message: “He said, “I have something of yours.”" She also appeared in the episodes Empty Places and Chosen.

Andrew on Faith

There are many flashbacks to previous episodes in Dirty Girls when Andrew describes Faith’s past to the potentials. The episodes include Faith, Hope and Trick, Revelations, The Zeppo, Bad Girls, Consequences, Enemies, Choices and This Year’s Girl.
Andrew’s speech goes as follows: “Faith, her name alone invokes awe. Faith: a set of principles or beliefs upon which you’re willing to devote your life. The Dark Slayer. A lethal combination of beauty, power and death. For years and years - or to be more accurate - months, Faith fought on the side of good, terrorizing the evil community. But like so many tragic heroes, Faith was seduced by the lure of the dark side. She wrapped evil around her like a large evil Mexican serape. She became a cold-blooded killer. Nobody was immune to her trail of destruction. Not friends, not family, not even the most pacifist and logical of races.”

Andrew’s stories

In Dirty Girls, Molly reminds Andrew that he’s not supposed to be telling stories anymore. Buffy demanded this in Storyteller after he kept lying about the murder of Jonathan.

Change of figure

When Xander dreams in Dirty Girls, there are small dog and cat figures behind his bed. When he wakes up, there are model cars there.

Eyeless

When Buffy sees Xander fighting vampires in Dead Man’s Party, she says, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.” Xander actually loses an eye in season seven’s Dirty Girls.

Faith smoking

Faith smokes cigarettes in the episode Dirty Girls, which is the first time we’re seen her do this in Buffy. It’s possibly something she picked up in prison. Eliza Dushku smoked in real life but has since quit.

Faith’s back

Faith arrives back in Sunnydale in the episode Dirty Girls. We last saw Faith in Buffy (literally) in the season four episode Who Are You? but she appeared on six episodes of Angel since then. Faith is annoyed that nobody told her that potential Slayers were being killed, and that she was a target herself. She references an attack in prison, where somebody tried to stab her (shown in the Angel episode ‘Salvage‘). The knife was the same as the one the Bringers have. Faith flirts with Spike, much to the annoyance of Buffy. Faith slept with Buffy’s boyfriend Riley in season four (though she was in Buffy’s body at the time). Buffy’s still smarting from it.

Hospital girls

The scene in Dirty Girls, when Buffy and Willow visit Shannon in hospital, is very similar to the scene in Nightmares when Buffy and Giles visit Laura, the girl who was beaten by the Ugly Man. Both girls are lying in bed in the hospital, badly bruised, deliver vital clues - (”I have something of yours” and “Lucky Nineteen”), and have been attacked by the episode’s villain. Though Caleb saying he has something of Buffy’s is a red herring to lead her to the vineyard, it is true - he has her scythe.

May I?

When Faith returns to Sunnydale in Dirty Girls, she meets Buffy and Spike in the graveyard. While fighting a vampire that Spike was going kill, Faith says “May I?” and takes a stake that Buffy had in her pocket. This is a callback to Faith, Hope and Trick (Faith’s first episode) when she does the same thing after meeting Buffy and the gang for the first time outside of the Bronze.

Met me before?

Faith returns to Sunnydale in season seven’s Dirty Girls, after leaving in Who Are You?. She meets Spike again, but naturally he doesn’t recognise her as the last time they met she was in Buffy’s body. She reminds him when they chat in Buffy’s basement and he tells her he remembers her speech: “Like you could ride me at a gallop till my knees buckled. Squeeze me till I popped like warm champagne. That’s not the kind of thing a man forgets.”

See ya, vamps

The last episode to feature a vampire (the regular kind, not Turok-Han, and not including Spike and Angel) was Dirty Girls.

Seeing. Knowing.

After Xander accurately realises how she’s feeling in Potential, Dawn says to him, “Maybe that’s your power… Seeing. Knowing.” Coincidentally, Xander is blinded in one eye by Caleb in Dirty Girls. Nice one, Dawn.
Shortly before thumbing his eye out, Caleb refers to Xander as “the one who sees things”. Before the fight, Xander says , “Everything’s got eyes” when he talks to the potentials.

Signals

In Dirty Girls, Buffy tells Xander that her signal will be lots of yelling. Willow said the same thing when she dressed as Vampire Willow in Doppelgängland.

Stake stealer

Faith takes a stake from Buffy’s pocket to kill a vampire in Dirty Girls. She did the same thing when the two Slayers first met in Faith, Hope and Trick.

The mission’s what matters

Principal Wood and Buffy had the following exchange in Dirty Girls:

Buffy: “Some of these girls haven’t even been tested in battle.”
Robin: “Then, I guess, maybe you should test them… Remember, Buffy, the mission’s what matters.”

In the next episode, Empty Places, the Slayer decides to act upon his words, but Robin turns on her, leading to her being kicked out of the house.

Xander’s patch

Xander wears an eye patch when he is dressed as a pirate in All the Way. Xander’s eye was removed by Caleb in season seven’s Dirty Girls and he then had to wear an eye patch. He even references the costume when he’s in hospital in Empty Places: “Well, to go with the eye patch, to really complete the look. I think I still have that costume from Hallowe’en.”

Where are you going?

The people of Sunnydale start leaving the town in the episode Dirty Girls, for no apparent reason. Nothing huge has happened recently to force them to do this, except for some trouble at the High School. They’ve withstood much worse events in the past without a murmur of complaint: The Mayor turned into a giant snake and started to eat people before the high school was blown up; the town was attacked by creatures from another dimension in The Gift, which left massive craters in the streets; and this is without mentioning the massive numbers of casualties suffered from an infestation of vampires and demons. The town has a massive mortality rate. People are used to this. So what’s making them leave?

Falcon Crest

In Dirty Girls, Kennedy says the vineyard is evil, to which Spike replies, “Kind of like Falcon Crest“. This was a soap opera (1981-1990) which centred around a family that owned a vineyard.

Glitter

Faith says in Dirty Girls that the last movie she saw in prison was Glitter. The movie was made in 2001 and starred Mariah Carey. It was a huge flop.

Godzilla

Godzilla is a massive, nearly invincible dinosaur/lizard-like creature with incredible strength and destructive fire. Godzilla has starred in 22 movies produced from 1954 to the present. Godzilla has been referenced in Buffy a few times. In Teacher’s Pet, Xander says, “We’re on Monster Island”, meaning the island where Godzilla lives. Xander says in Reptile Boy, “Godzilla’s attacking downtown Tokyo! Aargh, Aargh!” In Crush, Harmony calls Drusilla “Droodzilla”, which is probably a reference to Godzilla.
In Dirty Girls, Amanda says, “Matthew Broderick can kill Godzilla. How tough is he?” This is a reference to the 1997 movie Godzilla, starring Matthew Broderick which disappointed many fans (like Xander and Andrew).
In Redefinition, Merl says “I heard about your girls - Godzilla, Darcilla, whatever”.

Matthew Broderick

In Villains, Andrew says, “I miss Ferris Matthew. Broadway Matthew - I find him cold.” He’s talking about actor Matthew Broderick who is probably best remembered as Ferris Bueller in the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. He has also appeared in Godzilla (referenced in Dirty Girls), Inspector Gadget (with Michelle Trachtenberg) and Election. Broderick appeared on Broadway in The Producers.

Ray Charles

In Dirty Girls, Caleb calls the Bringers “the Ray Charles brigade.” Ray Charles, like the Bringers, was blind (but not evil).

Star Trek

There are many cast/crew links between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the long-running cult sci-fi show Star Trek. Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder) played Quark in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for seven years. Dominic Keating, who played Blair in the episode Helpless, later went on to star in Star Trek: Enterprise as Lt. Reed. Jennifer Hetrick, who played the teacher Ms. Moran in Homecoming (whom Buffy asked for a reference) played the girlfriend of Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Buffy writer Jane Espenson wrote an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called ‘Accession’. Star Trek has also been referenced numerous times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

• In Prophecy Girl, Xander says, “Calm may work for Locutus of Borg here, but I’m freaked and I intend to stay that way.” Upset by Giles’ reserve, he is referencing Star Trek’s emotionless cyborgs from the episode ‘The Best of Both Worlds’. Locutus was the name given to Captain Pickard (Patrick Stewart) when he was captured, and ‘assimilated, by the Borg.
• In Homecoming, Cordelia woos the nerds at Sunnydale High by saying, “Are you kidding? I’ve been doing the Vulcan death grip since I was 4.”
• In Consequences, Cordy calls Wesley, “Giles the next generation” in a reference to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• In Out of My Mind, Buffy says, “You’re like my fairy godmother and Santa Claus and Q all wrapped up into one… Q from Bond not Star Trek“.
• In The Replacement, the two Xanders say, “Kill us both Spock” - a reference to a Star Trek episode where Kirk is split two - one being good and one bad.
• In Flooded, the nerds vote with the Star Trek Vulcan salute, which is the same salute that Cordelia used to impress the ‘geeks’ in Homecoming.
• In Smashed, Spike tells the nerds, “You can play holodeck another time” - he means the virtual reality technology used in Star Trek.
• The nerds compare Buffy’s time loop in Life Serial with an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called ‘Cause and Effect’ (Andrew: “I just hope she solves it faster than Data did on the ep of TNG where the Enterprise kept blowing up.”)
• In As You Were, Buffy says. “they’re like really mean Tribbles”, referring to the popular, but quick breeding, pets on board the Starship Enterprise.
• After her visit to the nerds’ ‘lair’ in Doublemeat Palace, Willow says that they had numerous pictures of the “Vulcan women from Enterprise“. She’s referring to Jolene Blaylock, who played T’pol in UPN’s Star Trek show.
• The episode Normal Again is similar to the season five episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called ‘Far Beyond the Stars’. In that episode, Captain Benjamin Sisko imagines that he is a science fiction writer living on 1950s Earth and writing about a station full of aliens called Deep Space Nine. He hallucinates that the people he knows in the 1950s are futuristic aliens and is thrown into an asylum.
• In Seeing Red, Andrew references Star Trek: The Next Generation when he discusses who’s boss of the nerds: “Warren’s the boss. He’s Picard, you’re Deanna Troi. Get used to the feeling, Betazoid.” In that episode, Xander realises that the nerds had love poems in their lair written in Klingon.
• In Grave, after the Magic Box has been destroyed, a William Shatner book can be seen on the floor.
• In Conversations with Dead People, we learn that Andrew learned Klingon (a language in Star Trek) from a dictionary in two and a half weeks.
• In Dirty Girls, Andrew hilariously confuses Faith’s murder of a Volcanologist with a Vulcan:
  

  Andrew: “Nobody was immune to her trail of destruction. Not friends, not family, not even the most pacifist and logical of races…”
  Amanda: “What the hell are you talking about? I thought Faith killed a volcanologist.”
  Andrew: “Silly, silly Amanda. Why would Faith kill a person who studies Vulcans?”

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.”

The Bible

The Bible is referenced a few times in the Buffyverse. In the episode Angel, the Master says, “out of the mouths of babes”, which is from Psalms 8:2. Absalom, the religious vampire in When She Was Bad, was named after a character in the Bible. Absalom was the third son of King David. He turned against his father and challenged him for the kingdom of Israel. The story is told in the second book of Samuel (2 Samuel 13:20 - 19:10).
The title of the episode Faith, Hope and Trick is from the Bible verse 1 Corinthians 13:13: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” Love has been replaced by Trick.
In Hush, as Buffy and Willow are first walking through town after their voices have been stolen, they walk past a group of Christians reading from the bible. The verse they’re reading is Revelations 15:1: “Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and wonderful: seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for in them the wrath of God is ended.”
In Never Leave Me, Quentin Travers quotes Proverbs 24:6: “Proverbs 24:6. O, by wise council, you shall make your war”.
In Dirty Girls, Caleb says to Faith, “Well you’re the other one. The Cain to her Abel. No offence to Cain, of course.” In the Bible, Cain and Abel were the sons of Adam and Eve. Cain murdered Abel out of jealousy.

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Willow wears a different outfit to the one she did in the Angel episode ‘Orpheus‘ (in which she left L.A. to return to Sunnydale with Faith). Did she change in the car?