Debbie Lee Carrington, who played the Queller demon in Listening to Fear, has also played an Emperor Penguin in Batman Returns, and an Ewok in Return of the Jedi. She has made appearances in Seed of Chucky, Austin Powers in Goldmember, She’s All That, Mighty Joe Young, Men in Black, …

In Shadow, a Magic Box customer looks for the album ‘Aleister Crowley Sings’. English occultist and writer Crowley (1875-1947) dabbled in magicks. His works include “Magick in Theory and Practice” and “The Book of the Law”.

Dr. Isaacs was the doctor who discovered Joyce Summers had a “shadow” on her brain after her CAT Scan, in the episode Shadow.

The following is a stage direction for the episode Shadow, from the script:
GLORY’S POV - Push in on a phone book resting on the vanity, opened to (wait for it…yes…) the ad for “The Magic Box”

In Fool For Love, Spike says to Drusilla, “You ever hear them saying the blood of a Slayer is a powerful aphrodisiac?”

Glory discovered that Buffy was the Slayer in the episode Family, “A Slayer? Oh, god, please don’t tell me I was fighting a Vampire Slayer. How unbelievably common. If I had friends and they heard about this…”

The Lei-ach were a family of demons sent by Glory to kill Buffy in Family. They had white and red faces and long, forked tongues. The Scoobies were blinded by a spell placed on them on Tara and were unable to see the Lei-ach to fight them properly until …

Buffy says in Family, “I saw a really cute sweater at Bloomies but I think I want me to have it”. She means the department store Bloomingdales.

When Buffy tells Tara’s family that “we’re family” in the episode Family, both Joyce and Riley are missing. Both characters left the show later that season.

Tara always believed that she was part demon, due to some handy women-repression by the male members of her family. She purposefully messed up a demon-finding spell with Willow in Goodbye, Iowa, as she was ashamed of what she thought she was. Tara discovered in Family that her father had …

In Family, Buffy calls Glory “Miss Congeniality”. This is an award given out at beauty pageants which is voted for by the contestants themselves. It goes to the most friendly contestant. Sandra Bullock starred in a movie entitled Miss Congeniality in 2000, which had a sequel in 2005.

The song that Willow and Tara dance to at the end of the episode Family is called “I Can’t Take my Eyes Off You” by Canadian singer Melanie Doane. It appears on her 1998 album ‘Adam’s Rib’. The song has a different meaning one would assume. Melanie Doane says …

Buffy reveals in Family that her father is currently living in Spain with his secretary and is not returning Buffy’s calls.

Tara is the only Scooby apart from Buffy to have a birthday on-screen, which is seen in Family.

Amy Adams, who played Tara’s cousin Beth in Family, played Marvel Ann in the movie Psycho Beach Party with Nicholas Brendan and Brenda Strong in Catch Me If You Can with Amy Acker (Fred in Angel). She played Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions 2, the role played in the movie …