The American discount store Wal-Mart is mentioned a few times in Buffy: in The I in Team, Willow says to Buffy, “I mean, okay, yeah, they neuter vampires and demons. But then what? Are they gonna reintegrate them into society? Get them jobs as bagboys at Wal-Mart?” In The Harsh …

The title of the episode The I in Team comes from the expression “There’s no I in team” meaning that a team consists of a group who work together rather than an individual who does everything by themselves.

In The I in Team, Buffy says, “Oh, you mean the camo and stuff? I thought about it but, I mean, it’s going to look all Private Benjamin.” Goldie Hawn played the title character in the 1980 movie Private Benjamin about a girly girl who joins the army.

Polgara (the demon seen in The I in Team) is a character in the novel series by David Eddings: Polgara the Sorceress. She was an immortal sorceress with black hair, besides one single white lock. She could perform powers by “will”, just by just thinking about it.

Willow implores to Neisa, the goddess of chance and fortune, to help her win a poker game in The I in Team: “I implore you, Neisa, blessed Goddess of Chance and Fortune, heed my call. Send to me the heart I desire”.

In The I in Team, Riley tells Buffy that Professor Walsh liked Buffy before he did, referring to the conversation he had with Maggie in The Initiative.

In A New Man, Ethan Rayne tells Giles about a new threat in Sunnydale - 314 (pronounced “three-fourteen”). He says to Giles:
“Something’s happening in the dark worlds. It’s only been rumors out there but one thing’s coming through clear: that something’s harming demons and it’s not the Slayer… They’re …

Buffy says in The I in Team that Ethan Rayne “worships chaos and tries to kill you”. Rayne attempted to kill her and Giles in The Dark Age using the demon Eyghon. He was shown worshipping chaos in Halloween. In A New Man, Ethan turned Giles into a Fyarl demon, …

In The I in Team, Giles pays Spike the $300 that he promised him in A New Man (after Spike helped him when Giles was turned into a Fyarl demon). He gets the money back before the end of the episode by removing the Initiative’s tracer from Spike, aided by …

We see in The I in Team that Spike has moved into a new crypt. He was moving his stuff out of Xander’s in A New Man.

Jack Stehlin, who played the Initiative’s Dr. Angleman in season four, has also been in Purpose, Blackout Effect, JAG, ER, NYPD Blue and L.A.Law. He played Davis Reese in General Hospital.

The classroom used in Lessons was the classroom set used in the first three seasons at Sunnydale High. The library set in which we see Willow and Cassie in Conversations with Dead People was the old school library set from seasons one to three.

Joss Whedon posted at Whedonesque in April 2005 about how he set about writing The Body:
“I had the arc mapped out years before I made the ep, and I always knew it would be MY ep. But when it came around I was filled with ideas for expansion, movies, comics, …

In Buffy vs Dracula, Giles falls into Dracula’s basement, where he is surrounded by the sisters. After he falls he says, “Good show, Giles. At least you didn’t get knocked out for a change.” In A New Man, Giles says he has a “tendency to get knocked on the head”. …

Buffy fills Riley in on the details of the Mayor’s Ascension in A New Man. Just how long have the Initiative been in Sunnydale? It seems to be only a short time if he knew nothing about the demise of last season’s nemesis.