The following is a stage direction from the script for Normal Again: “The camera pulls back slowly, down the hall. Leaving the doctor and Buffy’s parents helpless, and Buffy lost in a distant delusion.”

Anya returns to Sunnydale in Entropy as a vengeance demon. Halfrek reminds her that vengeance demons are unable to seek vengeance for themselves.

The following lines were deleted from the episode Entropy:
Willow: “Can’t help thinking maybe you were closer than you thought that day you went out with the addresses.”
Buffy: “And they sent the Psycho Demon to interrupt me.”
and
Buffy: “And, you know, maybe in a couple of months they’ll let us …

In Normal Again, Buffy asks Willow why she is all, “home, hearth, and DSL anyway?” DSL, which stands for Digital Subscriber Line, is American broadband Internet.

Andrew says in Normal Again, “I still say we’re gonna need at least eight other men to pull this off.” He’s referring to the movie Ocean’s Eleven in which 11 people pull off a heist.

In Normal Again, Willow refers to Buffy as, “Cuckoo’s Nest”. This is a reference to the book about a mental asylum One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. It was turned into a movie, starring Jack Nicholson.
In the Angel episode Damage, Harmony says, “A girl over in the …

In The Puppet Show, Xander holds up Sid the Dummy and says, “Redrum, Redrum”. This was an ad lib by Nicholas Brendon.

After the fiasco of their non-wedding in Hell’s Bells, Anya is nowhere to be seen in Normal Again. Xander returns to Sunnydale and says that Anya’s things are gone and there’s a closed sign in the Magic box.

In Normal Again, Buffy confesses to Willow that her parents put her into a clinic after she discovered she was the Slayer. She said they panicked and didn’t believe her, and felt there was something psychologically wrong with her. It seems strange, then, that Joyce didn’t mention anything about this …

In Normal Again, the doctor in Buffy’s hallucinations explains a couple key events of the past few years. He tells Buffy that she had a ‘momentary awakening’ during the summer and it was her friends who pulled her back into the delusion. This is a reference to Buffy’s death and …

After her mother died, Dawn started stealing things to try and get attention. She took some of Anya’s earrings in Intervention, a necklace in All the Way and an amulet in Once More, With Feeling. She told Justin in All the Way that “I haven’t paid for lipstick since forever” …

Lorraine Ross became the manager of the Doublemeat Palace after Manny was killed, after working with the company for five years. She explained to Buffy (in complete confidence) that the Doublemeat meat was actually vegetables. Lorraine allowed Buffy to have her job back after the wig-lady debacle. In Normal Again, …

The episode Normal Again was originally supposed to be shown as episode eight in season six but was later changed to seventeen.

Marti Noxon said about the episode Normal Again:
“It was always something we saw as a sort of stand-alone that could fit in almost any season. The idea was really strong and I thought the episode turned out kind of nice and moody and intriguing. The question that seemed to …

When Buffy looks at the family photograph of her as a little girl in Normal Again, it is the same child (Alexandra Lee) who portrayed young Buffy in season five’s episode The Weight of the World. The photo can also be seen in Never Leave Me.