A demon named Skyler tries to sell the Books of Ascension to Buffy and Faith in Enemies. He says they are, “very powerful works and I’m not talking about the prose. They deal with some dark stuff. And the Mayor would hate for somebody to get ahold before he… well …

Of Human Bondage is a thinly veiled autobiography written by W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1915. In The Freshman, Eddie tells Buffy the book is his comfort blanket.

Old Faithful is a geyser in Yellowstone National Park which erupts on a frequent basis. Mentioned by Xander in Doppelgängland, when he confuses it with “Old Yeller”.

In Doppelgängland, Xander refers to Old Yeller, a 1957 Disney movie about a stray dog who is adopted. The film has a notoriously sad ending.

Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. In Earshot, Buffy develops telepathy after touching the blood of a mouthless demon. She goes to school and is able to excel in her English class using her new-found skill. The class are studying Othello.

In Real Me, Buffy warns Giles that magic shop owners have the life expectancy of a Spinal Tap drummer. This is Spinal Tap is a ‘rockumentary’ directed by Rob Reiner and starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. It follows a fake heavy metal band on their tour of …

Sarah Michelle Gellar told Jay Leno an on-set story when she appeared on his chat show. She was going to pull down Nicholas Brendan’s pants one day, as he was acting dumbly. At the last moment, she chickened out, so Alyson Hannigan said she’d do it instead. She got a …

In an interview in March 2003, Entertainment Weekly asked Sarah Michelle Gellar: “You’ve mentioned how much you disliked the sixth season. Why was that? And how did you feel about Buffy’s depression, and her sexual obsession with Spike?” Her answer was:
“It wasn’t who Buffy was, or why people loved her. …

Sarah Michelle Gellar talked to Entertainment Weekly about her personal favourite Buffy episodes:
“I loved ‘’The Prom‘’. It stood for everything Buffy was about: the fact that she so badly wanted to be part of the other kids’ lives. I think ‘’The Body‘’ is pretty amazing. I loved the episode in …

When Xander is looking down the hole where Buffy and Dawn are trapped in Grave, he slips a little and almost falls down himself. In the shot above Xander, you can see a hand grab Nick Brendon’s jeans, holding him so he can’t fall. Check out the photo for yourself.

Bob Fimiani played Mr. Ward, the head of the Initiative in The Yoko Factor and Primeval who ordered the Initiative to be closed down and the earth salted over. Bob also played ‘Grounds Keeper’ in the Angel episode ‘The Prodigal‘ and ‘Codger Demon’ in the Angel episode ‘Heartthrob‘. He played …

Jonathan M. Woodward played Holden Webster in Conversations with Dead People, Knox in Angel and Tracey in Joss Whedon’s space Western Firefly, in the episode ‘The Message’. Jonathan made his movie debut playing a doctor in the TV movie Wit. Whilst filming, Emma Thompson (who played a cancer patient in …

Jeff Ricketts played Weatherby in This Year’s Girl and Who Are You?. A regular member of the Buffyverse, he has appeared in Angel as Weatherby, and he also played the Spider Monster in Angel’s season four episode Sacrifice. Jeff played Malcolm in Amber Benson’s movie Chance. He also appeared in …

Justin played the cop named Munroe in Empty Places, and appeared in the Angel episodes ‘That Vision Thing‘ and ‘Billy’ as Billy Blim. He has also been in The Aviator, Paper Cut, 60 Seconds and Don’t Let Go.

In the episode Chosen the Mutant Enemy monster turns briefly to the camera at the end of the episode.