Mariah O’Brien, who played White Hat Nancy in The Wish, has also appeared in Being John Malkovich and Jam. She was briefly married to Giovanni Ribisi (Lost in Translation, Cold Mountain, Friends) with whom she has a child, but they divorced in 2001.

In Lover’s Walk, Giles went to Breakers Woods, which has a clearing in which druidic rituals were performed and which is about a 45-minute drive from Sunnydale.

In Lover’s Walk, Spike listens to ‘My Way’. A common misconception is that it’s Sid Vicious’s version. It’s not - it’s Gary Oldman from the soundtrack of Sid and Nancy. Joss Whedon has said that Spike and Drusilla were based on Sid Vicious and his groupie girlfriend Nancy.

Lover’s Walk, the title of a season three episode, is also the title of an Elvis Costello song.

As Spike watches him in the mansion in Lover’s Walk, Angel can be seen reading La Nausee (”Nausea”), the 1938 first novel by the French existentialist philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). Joss Whedon mentioned in his commentary for the Firefly episode ‘Objects in Space’ that La Nausee had a …

James Marsters had huge blisters all over his hand after filming the hand-on-fire scene outside Angel’s mansion in Lover’s Walk.

In Lover’s Walk, Cordelia sees Xander kissing Willow, runs away, falls and gets spiked in the stomach. In real life, Charisma Carpenter (who plays Cordelia) was impaled by a cement construction bar after falling in a pool when she was five years old. She has a large scar on her …

In Revelations, Faith calls Gwendolyn Mary Poppins, after the eccentric British nanny from the book and the 1964 musical of the same name. In Once More, With Feeling, the men seen sweeping streets and dancing is an homage to the chimney sweeps’ dance from Mary Poppins. In Tabula Rasa, Spike …

Lagos was the huge demon in Revelations who was seekine the Glove of Mynhegon, which gives it’s wearer strong magical powers. Lagos is the Greek word for rabbit.

Joyce tells Giles in Band Candy that he’s like actor Burt Reynolds, just after he takes the gun from the cop.

In Band Candy, Joyce mentions Juice Newton when looking at the coat in the shop window. Newton was a country and pop singer in the 80s.

Some graffiti at the school in Band Candy says ‘Kiss rocks’, which Willow notices (”Why would anybody want to kiss… oh, wait. I get it”). Kiss were a glam metal group formed in the early 70s whose trademark was wearing black and white paint on their faces.

In Band Candy, Buffy compares her life to The Real World, a reference to the MTV reality TV show which films a group of strangers living in a house together.

In Band Candy, Principal Snyder mentions Barbarino (”Call me Snyder. Just a last name. Like Barbarino”) who was a character played by John Travolta in the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter.

In Band Candy, Buffy says, “Let’s do the time warp again!” when she and Willow enter the Bronze to find it full of teenage-adults. This is a reference to a song from the musical The Rocky Horror Show.
In Anne, Lily wears a T-shirt which is partially hidden by her …