Joss Whedon mentions in his DVD commentary for Hush the use of the ‘extra characters’ in the scene where people’s voices are being stolen by the Gentlemen. He points out that it takes a lot to film a three-second piece like that - you have to cast someone, then build …

Joss Whedon’s inspiration for the Gentlemen included: a dream he had as a child; Nosferatu; Pinhead from Hellraiser; Mr. Burns from The Simpsons; The Joker and The Seventh Seal. A stage direction in the script for the Gentlemen was: “He’s old, bone white, bald – Nosferatu meets Hellraiser by way …

Riley and Buffy kiss for the first time in Hush, once in her dream, and once in real life. In his DVD commentary, Joss Whedon states that he expected to have Riley and Buffy make love for the first time in the episode, but it seemed too soon in the …

Carlos Amezcua played the newscaster on Giles’s TV in Hush. He is an actual newscaster on KTLA’s morning news. KTLA is the WB affiliate in Los Angeles. The weatherman from KTLA, Mark Kriski, was the weatherman in Amends. Carlos produced the first all-Latino standup comedy programme in Los Angeles, called …

Amber Benson has said that one of the scariest things about her first day on Buffy was the Gentlemen: “I went in for lunch and almost screamed because they were all sitting at the lunch table eating and it freaked me out. Plus it was 11pm at night and we …

Joss Whedon wrote the episode Hush as a challenge to himself. He felt his directing skills had become boring stylistically and that TV was limiting as to the kind of shots you can use. He therefore wanted to create an episode which was completely different to his usual work. He …

There is a bridal shop in downtown Sunnydale. Whilst under Willow’s spell in Something Blue, Buffy goes there to admire wedding dresses for her future wedding to Spike.

UC Sunnydale has a park-like area known as Rugg’s Field. Riley takes Buffy there for a picnic in Something Blue.

In Something Blue, Buffy says, “Anyone remember when Buffy had the fun beer-fest and went one-million years B.C.?” to which Xander replies, “Sadly without the fuzzy bikini.” This is a reference to the 1966 movie One Million Years B.C., which starred Racquel Welch as a bikini-wearing cave woman.

In Something Blue, Willow mentions Steel Magnolias a movie starring Julia Roberts, made in 1989 (”We could eat sundaes and watch Steel Magnolias and you can tell me how at least I don’t have diabetes.”)

The title of the episode Something Blue comes from the wedding rhyme: “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”. It is considered good luck for a bride-to-be to be armed with all of these things before chancing going down the aisle.

In Something Blue, Spike reveals himself to be a fan of the NBC supernatural soap Passions (”Passions is on! Timmy’s down the bloody well and if you make me miss it, I’ll…”). He has a discussion with Joyce about it in season five’s Checkpoint, and in Real Me, Giles says, …

Willow’s friends overreact when they see her drinking a low-alcohol beer in the Bronze in Something Blue. She’s reminded by Buffy that when she got drunk she turned into a cave woman (in Beer Bad).

In Something Blue, Buffy tells Riley that, “cars and Buffy are like, un-mixy things”. She’s not kidding - the last time we saw her drive was in Band Candy when she crashed her mother’s car.

In Pangs, why is Willow wearing such a restrictive top in the graveyard at night? Surely she’d want to be able to keep her arms as free as possible?!