Drew Goddard spoke in his DVD commentary for the episode Selfless about the scene in which Anya and Olaf speak in Swedish. He said the scene was translated into Swedish and was originally supposed to be dubbed over with English. Emma Caulfield (Anya) and Abraham Benrubi (Olaf) were given the …

Joss Whedon wrote Anya’s song “Mrs” for the episode Selfless overnight. Drew Goddard said the following:
“Joss wrote the song (it’s called ‘Mrs’). I can’t take any credit for it whatsoever. We were on the set of Firefly when he was directing ‘The Train Job’ and we were talking and …

The Gnarl demon suit from Same Time, Same Place was used again in the episode Conversations with Dead People. The costume was painted black and used in the scene where a demon is seen over Joyce’s body.

In Chosen, Spike says, “Well I think it’s fair to say school’s out for bloody summer.” This is a reference to the Alice Cooper song ‘School’s Out’, which includes the lyric “school’s out for summer”.

David Fury mentioned in his commentary for Grave that he wanted to bring back the dragon that came out of the portal in The Gift for Buffy to fight. However, the season’s budget had been blown on Once More, With Feeling and Gone. Because CGI dragons are expensive they had …

At the end of Seeing Red, Spike says, “…I’ll be back, and when I do…” His incorrect grammar was corrected in the “Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer” section of Villains.

The BBC promised to show the longer version of the musical episode in the UK but in fact showed the much shorter one. Finally, in the very late night slot the following evening they showed the full length one - after lots of complaints. However it was so late and …

The Mutant Enemy monster joins in the singing at the end of the episode Once More, With Feeling.

A scene in After Life when the Scoobies are in the backyard was cut when Anya says: “Why are you having us skulk around and meet in the backyard like conspiracy squirrels? Sitting on this arm is making my buttocks hurt.”

There is a green surf board in Xander’s apartment (seen in Bargaining (Part 1)). An unconfirmed fan rumour has it that the board is actually the ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award presented to Sarah Michelle Gellar at the Teen Choice Awards in August 2001. It seems unlikely though, as this episode was …

The gruesome scene of Buffy being resurrected was cut when Sky One and the BBC showed Bargaining (Part 1) in the UK. Other edited scenes included Willow killing the deer; Willow choking up the snake; Tara’s comment about the vampire taking pescription medication; everything at Dawn’s school before they are …

Some of the Scooby Gang members wore clothes with numbers on them in the episode Bargaining (Part 1). Willow wears ‘11′, Xander wears ‘13′ and Dawn wears ‘7′. In Flooded, Dawn wears shirts with the numbers 2 and 55 on them. Many fans thought they were some kind of cryptic …

Anthony Stewart Head was listed as a guest star in the credits from Bargaining (Part 1). Alyson Hannigan’s credit from that episode was changed to “Alyson Hannigan as Willow”.

Tom Lenk (Andrew) mentioned in an interview that he inadvertently did his own stunts in a couple of episodes:
“You know the seen where Katrina clocks me in the face? [Dead Things] I got a little too close. I got clocked in the face. It was like, “All right, send Tom’s …

Tom Lenk mentioned in an interview which his favourite Buffy episodes were:
“I’d have to say, out of respect for my character, Storyteller. I just got to make such an ass out of myself. It was so much fun. Dancing in a toga on a hillside singing with unicorns was pretty …