In Get It Done, Andrew says, “They’ll see the big board.” This is from Stanley Kubrick’s movie Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. In that movie the Russian ambassador is invited into the Pentagons’ War Room by the President and General Turgidson says, …

In Get It Done, the First as Chloe says, “T.T.F.N.” Rona explains this is the favourite saying of Tigger in the Disney version of A.A. Milne’s childrens’ book Winnie the Pooh. “T.T.F.N.” means “ta ta for now”.

There is a Silver Surfer comic near Andrew at the beginning of the episode Storyteller. The Silver Surfer was a Marvel comic book character.

In Andrew’s flashback in Storyteller he tells Warren/the First about a demon selling bizarre weapons. He mentions a “collapsible sword.” In the Angel episode ‘Spin The Bottle’, Wesley buys a collapsible sword. This is also mentioned in the Angel episode ‘Lineage‘.

In Lies My Parents Told Me, Spike says, “There’s the rub, isn’t it?” This is a paraphrase from a line in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Ay there’s the rub”. It comes from Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, when he feels suicidal but worries about what comes after death.
In the same episode, during her unholy …

In Lies My Parents Told Me, William and his mother’s doctor was called Dr. Gull. This could be a reference to Dr. William Gull (1816-1890). He was a doctor in service to the Royal Family at that time, and there are theories that say he may have been Jack The …

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.

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

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.

The scythe which Buffy finds in Touched comes from the Slayer comic book called Fray, created by Joss Whedon. In the comic, future slayer Fray is using the scythe to fend off vampires, so it gets passed down through generations after Buffy has it.

Anya mentions the Rhodes Scholarship in the episode Touched. It’s a scholarship which allows students to attend the University of Oxford.

In Touched, the Mayor references Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women: “Who was my favorite character in Little Women. Meg. I know! Most people guess Beth but Meg, she’s such a proper young lady. Remember when Jo burned her hair?”

In End of Days, Spike says, “Have you gone completely Carrot Top?” Carrot Top is an American comedian whose real name is Scott Thompson.

The title of the episode End of Days is also the title of a 1999 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Eliza Dushku once played the daughter of a character played by Arnie in True Lies (1994).

Buffy’s pulling of the scythe from the stone in End of Days is clearly influenced by the story of King Arthur’s sword. Buffy even says, “…until I King Arthured it out of there.”