Tara uses the book The Brekenkrieg Grimoire to research Buffy’s resurrection in Dead Things. She discovers that Buffy didn’t come back “wrong”. She says, “Shifting you out of… from where you were, funnelling your essence back into your body, it altered you on a basic molecular level. Probably just enough …

‘Boh Wah Boo Wah’ by Red and the Red Hots plays at the Bronze when Anya, Xander and Willow are dancing in Dead Things.

‘Out Of This World’ by Bush is the music playing as Buffy stands outside Spike’s crypt, trying to decide whether to enter in Dead Things. The lyrics are:
When we die we go into the arms of those who remember us.
We are home now out of our heads out of our …

In Dead Things, Buffy sees Xander and Dawn dancing and asks, “Is there singing?! … Are we singing again?” This is a reference to the musical episode, Once More, With Feeling.

Amy’s spell on Willow in Doublemeat Palace is one word: “Potestas”. It translates from Latin into “power” or “you have the power”.

In Doublemeat Palace, Buffy says, “Variety is the spice of bad.” She’s paraphrasing the English poet William Cowper, who wrote “Variety’s the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour”.

Buffy says about the swirly cow and chicken in Doublemeat Palace, “It’s like Sleepless in Seattle, if Meg and Tom were minced.” She is, of course, referring to the 1993 romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

“Wig Lady” was one of the regular customers at the Doublemeat Palace. She seemed fairly harmless at first, but we later discovered that her bad wig was actually covering a giant penis-like monster which grew from the top of her head. The demon paralyzed its victims so that it could …

Brent Hinkley, who played Manny in Doublemeat Palace has also been in Vampires Anonymous, Say It Isn’t So, Carnival of Souls, Ed Wood (alongside Buffy’s Juliet Landau), Falling Down (as Whammyburger), Honeymoon in Vegas, The Silence of the Lambs and Jacob’s Ladder. He has also been in Carnivále, ER, The …

Pat Crawford Brown, who played the scary “wig lady” in Doublemeat Palace, has previously appeared in Stuck On You, Daredevil, Forces of Nature, Jack Frost, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard (with Amber Tamblyn, who played Janice in All the Way), Reality Bites, Sister Act and …

Andrew wears a Spongebob Squarepants t-shirt in Gone. This cartoon was also referenced in Life Serial by Tara, who revealed she once ‘zoned out’ when watching it. Spongebob Squarepants has become something of a gay icon, so this may be an in-joke into Andrew’s questionable sexuality, and Tara’s obvious one.

Sarah Michelle Gellar seems to have been wearing a wig in the scenes prior to, and including, cutting her hair in Gone. This suggests that she had her hair cut before shooting of this episode began. It’s unlikely that she would have cut her own hair on film as it …

Sarah Michelle Gellar cut her hair in the episode Gone, which caused lots of internet discussion about her new “do”. Personally, I think the show is way above the issue of the length of the lead actress’s hair but there we go (plus, why is it that everytime Anya changes …

Susan Ruttan, who played Social worker Doris Kroeger in Gone, appeared as Roxanne in L.A. Law from 1986 to 1993. Susan appeared alongside Clea DuVall (Marcie Ross in Out of Mind, Out of Sight) in the movie Helter Skelter about Charles Manson. Clea played Linda Kasabian, the key witness in …

The effect of an invisible Buffy nibbling Spike’s ear in Gone was apparently achieved by gluing a stick to James Marsters’ earlobe, wiggling it about and then removing the stick with computer graphics in post-production.