When Willow is impersonating Vampire Willow at the Bronze in Doppelgängland, she runs her hand through the hair of a young woman (though it could be a guy, it’s hard to tell) sitting alone at a table. Many fans thought the girl was Amber Benson (Tara), but after a close …

The Buffy make up team initially called D’Hoffryn “Mr. Hodgepodge” because he was made by using pieces from The Judge, a demon of Jhe and Pete from Beauty and the Beasts.

There is a rumour that in the original storyline for the episode Consequences, Wesley was supposed to have been killed by Faith when she escapes from the Council’s custody.

In Bad Girls, Faith comes to the school, breathes on the window and draws a heart shape. Doug Petrie, who wrote the episode, remembers a similar incident when he was in High School and a girl who was cutting class drew on the glass. He thought it was cool. Faith’s …

An internet rumour runs along the lines that at the end of the episode Bad Girls, when Buffy goes to talk to Faith, she was supposed to have discovered Faith dead, having hung herself. This doesn’t seem entirely right as the Faith/Mayor relationship is so integral to this season.

The episode Helpless was originally titled “Eighteen” as it features Buffy’s 18th birthday.

Cordelia’s confiscated hairspray in Gingerbread is Hard Head by TIGI Bed Head. It is American and $12, not imported and $40.

In Gingerbread, Willow and her mother discuss the Mister Rogers puppet show, and one of the show’s characters, King Friday. This is a reference to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a children’s show that has been running since 1965.

In Gingerbread, Xander says, “It’s Nazi Germany and I’ve got Playboys in my locker”, referring to the famous magazine. Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) appeared in Playboy in May 2004.

In Gingerbread, Buffy rues the loss of Giles’ occult library when she asks about how they will research, “Using what a dictionary and My Friend Flicka?” The book My Friend Flicka was written in 1941 by Mary O’Hara. It features a boy and his horse, Flicka, and nothing occult at …

In Gingerbread, Giles says that the events of Salem were similar to those in Sunnydale. He’s referring to the Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, where mass hysteria led to many people being tried on the charge of witchcraft and hanged. In Intervention, Tara says, “Willow wants to …

Elizabeth Anne Allen, who played Amy Madison, told the BBC:
“[In the] season three [episode] Gingerbread, I was being burned on a pyre. It was my birthday, and when they lit me up they yelled “Fire in the hole” and up everybody started to sing “Happy Birthday”! Jokesters.”

Blake Swendson played Willow’s warlock friend Michael in Gingerbread. He played Joey in Boy Meets World and Elman in 3rd Rock From the Sun.

Jordan Baker played Sheila Rosenberg in Gingerbread. She was Charlie in Passions (Spike’s favourite soap) and has also appeared in Ally McBeal, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, 7th Heaven, Touched by an Angel, Chicago Hope, Frasier, Quantum Leap and L.A. Law. Jordan Baker worked with Alyson Hannigan in an episode …

Roger Morrissey played the demon in Gingerbread and Tapparich in Living Conditions. He has also played Mr. Vompatatat in The Cat in the Hat and Grindl in Xena: Warrior Princess.