Ted takes Joyce and the Scoobies for a game of miniature golf. Willow said in When She Was Bad that there no mini-golf courses In Sunnydale, but I guess it’s possible that Ted drove them somewhere else for their game. Mini-golf was also the favoured pastime of season three’s Mayor …

At the beginning of the episode Ted, Buffy, Xander and Willow refer to the events of What’s My Line? (Part 2). The Order of Taraka has apparently been called off, and Angel is still recuperating from the injuries he got from Spike and Drusilla.

The episode Ted was shot during Halloween. Many of the cast and crew came in costume to the set. Kristine Sutherland (Joyce) wore 50s clothes - dressed as Ted’s first wife - and Sarah Michelle Gellar came as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, including Toto - her dog, Thor. …

In the final fight scene between Sarah Michelle Gellar and John Ritter in Ted, both Sarah and John were sick. Sarah had the ‘flu and John had food poisoning.

Buffy goes to Ted’s workplace to spy on him. She pretends she’s a new temp and calls herself Belinda.

James G. MacDonald made his first appearance as Detective Stein in the episode Ted, questioning Buffy over Ted’s death. James appeared as the same character in Consequences and Becoming (Part 2). James has also appeared in Phone Booth, Sour Grapes, Vanishing Point, Malcolm X and Roswell.

Buffy says in What’s My Line? (Part 2), “After all of this is over, I’m thinking pineapple pizza and teen video movie fest. Possibly something from the Ringwald oeuvre.” This is a reference to Molly Ringwald, who starred in many 80s teen movies like Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast …

In What’s My Line? (Part 2), Buffy warns Kendra not to watch the in-flight movie if it’s got Chevvy Chase in it. This is a reference to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s 1988 uncredited cameo in the Chase film Funny Farm.

Spike calls Buffy, “Rebecca of Sunnyhell Farm” in What’s My Line? (Part 2), which is a reference to a 1903 children’s book Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm about a farmgirl called Rebecca. It was made into a movie starring Shirley Temple in 1938.

Buffy says to Kendra in What’s My Line? (Part 2), “Back off, Pink Ranger!” This is an in-joke, as Sarah Michelle Gellar’s stunt double, Sophia Crawford, used to be the stunt double for the Pink Power Ranger on the kid’s TV show Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.

Jonathan, played by Danny Strong, appears in What’s My Line? (Part 2), billed as ‘Hostage Kid’, though his name was established in Reptile Boy.

What’s My Line? (Part 2) marks the first time that Willow stakes a vampire, and it’s also the first time we actually see Giles dust one.

All Oz wants out of life is to play an E flat diminished ninth chord. He mentioned to Willow in What’s My Line? (Part 2).

Spice Williams played Patrice the demon assassin policewoman in What’s My Line? (Part 2). She played Debbie in the Angel episode ‘Salvage‘ (the woman who tries to kill Faith in prison), and she played a vampire in From Dusk Till Dawn. Spice is a stuntwoman who has done stunts for …

The software recruiter says to Willow in What’s My Line? (Part 1), “The jet was delayed by fog at Sea Tac but he should be here any minute.” Sea Tac is the abbreviated name of the Seattle Tacoma Airport. The “worlds largest software company” must be Microsoft as they are …