On the soundtrack album called ‘Radio Sunnydale’, released in 2003, soundtrack producer John C. King calls the episode Crush, “Crush, Kill, Destroy”.

At Buffy’s party in the episode Blood Ties, we hear ‘Holiday’ by Star Ghost Dog from their 2000 album ‘The Great Indoors’.

Paul Bates, who played one of the mental patients in Blood Ties, has also been in 8 Mile, Showgirls, Mr. Wonderful, True Romance, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Coming to America and Hannah and Her Sisters. He also played the crazy guy in Spiral and The Weight of the World.

Anya mentions some alternative universes in Triangle, including the Land of Trolls, the land of perpetual Wednesday and the world without shrimp.

In Triangle, Willow and Tara tell Anya about Dr. Seuss’s 1957 book The Cat in the Hat. The book was made into a film in 2003. It starred Mike Myers, who appeared with Seth Green (Oz) in the Austin Powers movies.

Xander mentions the pornographic magazine Penthouse in Into the Woods: “Only in an erotic, Penthousey way.”

In Into the Woods, Xander mentions Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov (1860-1904): “The chimp playing hockey? Is that based on the Chekov?” Chekhov’s plays include The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and The Seagull.

Xander says Buffy in Into the Woods, “got all Rambo and torched the place.” He’s referring, of course, to Sylvester Stallone’s famous Vietnam War veteran character Rambo who appeared in three movies.

In Into the Woods, Anya is excited about seeing a film featuring a hockey-playing chimp - and who wouldn’t be? The movie is actually genuine, it’s called MVP (Most Valuable Primate) and was released in October 2000. It starred Kevin Zegers as a teen hockey player who plays on a …

We learn in Into the Woods that vampire brothels have been in existence for centuries, in which humans pay vampires to suck some of their blood because they find it arousing and like the thrill. It’s a good deal for the vampires too. They get free blood and don’t arouse …

Nick Chinlund, who played Major Ellis in Listening to Fear and Into the Woods, has appeared in Tears of the Sun, Once in the Life, Mr. Magoo, Con Air, Eraser and Lethal Weapon 3. He played Donald Addie Pfaster in The X Files.

In Listening to Fear, Dawn says “There’s a girl at school told me that gelatine is made from ground-up cow’s feet, and that if you eat Jell-O, there’s some cow out there limping with no feet.” She’s not far from the truth. Gelatine is obtained from collagen, which is usually …

The following is a stage direction from the script for Listening to Fear after Joyce says something weird:
“The girls are a bit wigged. Joyce smiles at them and nestles into her pillow, closing her eyes. Dawn and Willow look to Buffy: What the hell?”

The mental patient who is attacked by the Queller demon at the crash site in Listening to Fear is the night watchman who was brain-sucked by Glory in No Place Like Home.

In Listening to Fear, Xander jokes about the meteorite being a “festive piñata”. Piñatas are a tradition often found at children’s birthday parties. They are papier-mache figures filled with sweets. Children are blindfolded and given a stick to hit the piñata, to try and break it open to get at …