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Alex Skuby
Alex Skuby, who played the vampire and El Eliminati member Vincent in Bad Girls, also appeared as Harlan in the Angel episode ‘Sense and Sensitivity’. he has also been in Strip Mall and The King of Queens.
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Vaughn Armstrong
Vaughn Armstrong, who played the cop in The Zeppo, may be familiar to Star Trek fans. He has made 18 appearances in various Star Trek series, as 11 different characters of 8 different races. He played Admiral Maxwell Forrest in Star Trek: Enterprise. Vaughn played Harry in Days of Our …
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Whitney Dylan
Whitney Dylan, who played Xander’s car-mad date Lysette in The Zeppo, played a serving girl in the Angel episode ‘There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb’. She also appeared in Coyote Ugly.
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Michael Cudlitz
Michael Cudlitz, who played the zombie Bob in The Zeppo, has also been in Band of Brothers (as Sgt. Denver ‘Bull’ Randleman), Forces of Nature, The Negotiator, Grosse Point Blank, A River Runs Through It, Beverley Hills 90210 (as Tony Miller) and 24 (as Agent Rick Phillips).
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Supergrass
In The Zeppo, we hear Supergrass’s ‘G-Song’ as Xander talks to Lysette in The Bronze.
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Beastie Boys
In The Zeppo, Xander says to the bomb, “Hello, nasty”, a reference to the Beastie Boys album of the same name.
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Michael Jackson
In The Zeppo, Jack says, “You wanna be startin’ somethin’?” Xander’s replies, “What? Starting something? Like that Michael Jackson song, right? That was a lot of fun. ‘Too high to get over, yeah, yeah…’ Remember that fun song?” They’re referring to Michael Jackson’s song ‘Wanna Be Starting Something’.
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Hellmouth reminders
The quotes in The Zeppo, “The one that opened…,” “about twenty feet from where you’re standing” and “Do you remember the demon that almost got out the night I died?” are references to Prophecy Girl in which a big ugly monster burst through the floor of the library.
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Flugelhorn
Xander reveals in The Zeppo that he used to play the flugelhorn in 8th grade. A Flugelhorn is a trumpet-like instrument that sounds very much like a French horn.
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Zeppo misunderstanding
Many fans hated The Zeppo when it first aired, as they missed its point. It’s an episode through the eyes of Xander. The sub-plot about the end of the world isn’t important, it’s Xander’s view (or rather, lack of view) of it. His melodramatic view of Buffy and Angel’s relationship …
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Brian Boitano doing Carmen
Buffy’s line in Helpless, “Brian Boitano doing Carmen is a life changer” refers to the American 1988 Olympic gold medallist skater. Boitano has a song devoted to him in South Park Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Carmen is an opera composed by George Bizet in 1875, based on a novel by …
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Spinning the Bottle
In the Angel episode ‘Spin the Bottle‘, Wesley references the Slayer test shown in Helpless. He says, “There are stories at the Watcher’s Academy of a test. A secret gauntlet which only the most cunning can survive. You’re locked in a house with a vicious, deadly vampire, and you have …
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Holding your heart
Angel reveals to Buffy in Helpless that he saw her before they first met in Welcome to the Hellmouth. We saw this as a flashback in Becoming (Part 1).
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Parties for Buffy
In Helpless, Buffy says that parties in her honour tend to go badly (”monsters crash, people die”), referring to her surprise party in Surprise and her welcome-home party in Dead Man’s Party. Angel also references Surprise when he says “Then why’d you seem more excited last year when you got …
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Little bell
Amy is mentioned in Helpless. She is still a rat, from when she turned herself into one in Gingerbread and Willow is keeping her. She has bought her a wheel and “the cutest little bell”.
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