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Juanita Jennings

Juanita Jennings played Dr. Wilkinson in Killed By Death. She has also been in Runaway Jury and What Women Want.

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Doctor
Richard Herd

Richard Herd played Dr. Stanley Backer in Killed By Death. Richard previously played visitor leader John in Kenneth Johnson’s excellent 80s miniseries V, as well as it’s successor V: The Final Battle. He has done other genre turns in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager, playing the part of …

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La Boheme

‘Acte 10 Soave Fanciulla’ from La Boheme by Puccini plays when Giles returns home to find Jenny dead in Passion. The nomadic group called gypsies or Romany are called “bohemiens” in French. Bohemians and gypsies share some characteristics: Both groups are known for their vagabond lifestyle, for their merry poverty, …

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Pussycat
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Xander says of Giles in Passion, “Faster pussycat! Kill! Kill!”. This is a name check of a trashy B-movie made by Russ Meyer in 1965. The plot consists of three strippers who hit the road in their sports cars and crush everything in their path, plus a wheelchair-bound old man.

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Buffy
Public places

A vampire can enter a public place such as a school or hospital (this is seen in Passion and Killed By Death). In Passion Angel says the sign outside the school says ‘Romatia transicara edicatorum’ which translates to ‘Enter all ye who seek knowledge’.

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Angel
Orb Of Thesulah

The Orb Of Thesulah was the key to translating the Transliteration Annuls for the Rituals of the Undead. These texts contained the spell to restore a soul to the undead but were lost. In Becoming (Part 1), Giles says to Willow that he has an Orb Of Thesulah which can …

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Something to fall back on

Willow taught Jenny’s computer science after she died in Passion and continued to do so in I Only Have Eyes For You, Go Fish and Becoming (Part 1).

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Uncle Enyos

Enyos was Jenny’s uncle and member of the Kalderash clan. Enyos came to Sunnydale in Surprise to ensure that Jenny was keeping a close eye on Angel, as the Kalderash people had given Angel his curse. When Angel lost his soul he killed Enyos, who was found by Jenny and …

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Buffy’s photo

The photograph of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) behind Joyce as she eats dinner in Passion is a publicity shot from Entertainment Weekly - the August 1997 issue.

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Angelus
Robia’s shoes

Robia La Morte said the following about filming the episode Passion:
“[The filming of] the confrontation in the classroom was one day in itself, that took probably four or five hours because of all the fire and explosions… On a separate day we did the rest…to the point of my death. …

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Oz or Jenny?

Alyson Hannigan said in an interview, “Angel…had to kill somebody we loved - we were all warned about that. Actually, I think it was supposed to be Oz that was killed, then they decided they’d keep Oz around and they killed Ms Calendar.”

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Richard Assad

Richard Assad, who played the magic shop owner in Passion, has also been in Along Came Polly, Wishmaster, Mars Attacks!, Forget Paris and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

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Rohypnol

Buffy says to Xander in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, “She loved you before you invoked the great Roofie spirit.” Roofie is the street name for Rohypnol, also known as the “date rape drug,” which enhances the effect of alcohol and causes sleepiness and memory loss.
In Harm’s Way, Tamika tells Harmony, …

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Bewildered

The title of the episode Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered could come from the song “Bewildered” by Rodgers and Hart, made famous by Frank Sinatra, the lyrics include the lines,
“I’m wild again, beguiled again,
A whimpering, simpering child again,
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.”
This song can also be heard in Woody …

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Pogo comics

The name of the episode Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered may come from the Pogo comic books. The comics came out in the 1950’s and were created by Walt Kelly. Among the many characters of these comics were three bats (who wear top hats and trousers and do not resemble bats …

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