In the episode Anne, Buffy says, “I don’t want any trouble. I just want to be alone and quiet in a room with a chair and a fire place and a tea cozy. I don’t even know what a tea cozy is, but I want one.” This may be a …

Buffy says in What’s My Line? (Part 1), “Have a cow Giles.” This is a play on the phrase “Don’t have a cow”, made popular by Bart in the TV show The Simpsons. It means don’t get excited/worked up.
In Lover’s Walk, Willow compares herself to Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel. This …

Kendra’s accent was (how do I put this?) … bizarre. It’s probably what she was most remembered for (besides being the first new Slayer). In an interview with SFX magazine, Bianca explains just how unhappy she was with the accent herself:
“I really hated that accent! I got the part, …

Eric Saiet played the bespectacled vampire Dalton in the episodes What’s My Line? and Surprise. He has been in Godzilla, Ugly Naked People, Groundhog Day and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off.

Saverio Guerra, who played Willy the Snitch, appeared in five episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer including What’s My Line? (Part 1) and Part Two, Amends, The Zeppo and Goodbye, Iowa. He is best known as Bob in Becker, and has also appeared in EZ Streets (as Sammy), Mad About …

Kelly Connell, who played Mr. Norman Pfister/Bug Man in What’s My Line?, has worked with Alyson Hannigan before in an episode of Picket Fences called ‘To Forgive Is Divine’. Kelly has also been in Spider-Man 2, K-PAX, Cocktail and CSI.

P.B. Hutton, who played Mrs. Kalish in What’s My Line? (Part 1), also played Mrs. Ruzaove in the Angel episode ‘Double or Nothing‘. She has also been in Gilmore Girls, CSI, Malcolm in the Middle, The Norm Show, Beverley Hills 90210, Seinfeld and The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Howard Gordon co-wrote the episode What’s My Line? (Part 1) with Marti Noxon, and was consulting producer on the show. He was also a consulting producer and writer on Angel. He wrote the Angel episodes ‘Hero’, ‘Expecting‘ and ‘The Ring‘. Howard worked with Buffy’s executive producer David Greenwalt before, on …

Buffy says to Giles in The Dark Age, “I care from you Lost Weekend-ing in your apartment!” The Lost Weekend (1945) is a film about the effects of alcoholism on a man’s life. It was based on a novel of the same name by Charles R. Jackson. The movie won …

In The Dark Age, Giles lent Jenny Calendar a first edition of a novel by British author E.M. Forster (1879-1970). His most famous works include A Room With A View, Howard’s End and A Passage To India.

After being possessed by Eyghon, Jenny says to Giles in The Dark Age, “I mean, I’m not running around, wind in my hair, ‘The hills are alive with the sound of music’ fine, but… I’m coping.” This is a quote from the title song of the musical The Sound of …

The Dark Age was the first episode since Prophecy Girl to be rated TV-14.

In The Dark Age, we see a photo of a young Rupert Giles holding a bass guitar. The production crew faked the photo by superimposing his head onto a photo of Sid Vicious.

Stuart McLean, who played Philip Henry in The Dark Age, also played ‘X-Ray Tech’ in several episodes of ER. He has appeared in episodes of Nip/Tuck, Silk Stockings and Babylon 5.

Robia LaMorte said at a Buffy Convention (The Harvest, London, June 2003) that she didn’t like playing Possessed-Jenny in The Dark Age because of her religious beliefs, but that it was fun to be sexy for a while. She also hated playing the First Evil in Amends and really didn’t …