The episode Beauty and the Beasts is an obvious homage to Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, in which the main character can change into an evil persona after drinking a concoction of chemicals. The German title of the episode is actually …

Phill Lewis, who played the school counsellor, Mr. Platt, in Beauty and the Beasts, has also been in City Slickers and Heathers. He also played Steve in Friends.

John Patrick White played Pete in Beauty and the Beasts. He worked with Seth Green before in the 1998 movie Can’t Hardly Wait. He has also been in Galaxy Quest and the TV version of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (with Jewel Staite, who played Kaylee in Joss Whedon’s Firefly).

When Faith first arrived in Sunnydale, she stayed at the Downtowner Apts. Motel.

Sunnydale’s State Street, which included the town’s cinema and the Espresso Pump, was first shown in Dead Man’s Party. The cinema was first seen in Faith, Hope and Trick.

Buster Keaton (1895-1966), referenced by Scott Hope in the episode Faith, Hope and Trick, was one of the biggest names in comedy during the silent film era. He wrote, directed, and starred in many films in the 1920’s including The General, Steamboat Bill Jr. and The Cameraman. Keaton’s work didn’t …

In Faith, Hope and Trick, Mr. Trick says that Sunnydale “makes DC look like Mayberry”. Mayberry was the quiet, sleepy town in The Andy Griffith Show. It was also referenced in the episode Villains when Andrew believes the prison he and Jonathan are in is “like Mayberry”.

In Faith, Hope and Trick, Cordelia says, “What was the last thing that guy danced to, KC and the Sunshine Band?” They were a disco band in the 1970s whose most famous hit was (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty.

Faith says in Faith, Hope and Trick, “The vamps, they better get their asses to DefCon One.” This term derives from ‘Defense Condition’ which has a rating level of 5 - DefCon Five is peace time and DefCon One is all out war. In Bargaining (Part 2), Xander says, “this …

In Faith, Hope and Trick, Buffy complains of Faith: “I’m the one getting Single White Femaled here”. This is a reference to the 1992 movie Single White Female, which starred Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bridget Fonda as flatmates. In the film Leigh’s character begins to psychotically copy every aspect of …

Both Giles and Buffy agree in Faith, Hope and Trick that leprechauns don’t exist.

K. Todd Freeman played the vampire Mr. Trick during season three. He also played McCullers in Grosse Point Blank and Muddy in The Cider House Rules.

Jeremy Roberts, who played Kakistos in Faith, Hope and Trick, played ‘Russell Washington’ in Days of Our Lives and ‘Future Malcolm’ in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle. He’s also been in The Mexican, Touched by an Angel, Charmed, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The X Files, Xena: Warrior Princess, …

One of the party-goers in Dead Man’s Party says to Giles, “You got the wrong house, Mr. Belvedere.” He’s referring to the American sitcom which ran from 1985 to 1990. It starred Christopher Hewitt as a British society butler who takes a job as a live-in nanny for a typical …

In Dead Man’s Party, Joyce’s friend Pat references The Deep End of the Ocean, which was the critically acclaimed and best-selling 1996 debut novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard about the problems a family faces when their youngest son is kidnapped. A few months after the episode aired, the movie version entered …