In the first broadcast of the episode Lie to Me, the music playing as Ford enters the Sunset Club is “Never Land” by the Sisters of Mercy, from their album Floodland. In later broadcasts it was replaced by a track called “Blood of a Stranger”, specially composed for the episode. …

In Lie to Me, Buffy’s class discuss Marie-Antoinette and the French Revolution - in which the lower classes in France demanded equal rights from King Louis XVI and the land-owning aristocracy in 1789. Marie-Antoinette (the Queen of France), convinced her husband to seek aid from foreign governments, and not bow …

In the Sunset Club in Lie to Me, Ford mouths the words of a vampire movie playing in the background. The film is the 1973 TV movie Dracula, starring Jack Palance and directed by Dan Curtis.

Buffy says in Lie to Me that she got over her crush on Ford by listening to the DiVinyls 1991 hit “I Touch Myself”. (Willow: “Oh, that’s what that song is about?”)

Drusilla sings the rhyme, “Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch” in the episodes Lie to Me and What’s My Line? (Part 2). She also sings this in the Angel episode ‘Reunion‘.

Spike’s vampire lackey in Lie to Me was called Lucius. He didn’t have a speaking part in the episode.

When Buffy and Willow sit in the bathroom in Halloween, there’s a poster behind Buffy which says, “There are no heroes in this locker room” which seems apt considering how many students have been killed/attacked in the school’s locker room - when Buffy hasn’t been around!

Ethan Rayne says to Buffy in Halloween, “I feel quite moved to make you a deal you can’t refuse.” This is a reference to the 1972 movie The Godfather, in which Don Vito Corleone often uses the phrase, “an offer you can’t refuse”. In Choices, Faith tells the Mayor, “I …

In Halloween, Ethan leaves behind a note on the counter of the costume shop which says, “Be seeing you.” When Eyghon leaves Giles’ apartment after first possessing Ms. Calendar in The Dark Age, it also says, “Be seeing you.” The phrase is a reference to 60s cult paranoia drama The …

Oz first noticed Willow in Inca Mummy Girl when she wore an eskimo costume to the dance. In Halloween, Cordelia bosses Oz around, then when she walks away, Oz says (sarcastically) “Why can’t I meet a nice girl like that?” He then turns and bumps into Willow, wearing her ghost …

A tiny hint that Cordelia and Xander would eventually get together is shown in the episode Halloween. Xander says to Buffy that he prefers his women in Spandex - Cordelia said that Spandex was one of her trademarks in the previous episode (Reptile Boy).

Sunnydale’s Town Hall, the workplace of Mayor Richard Wilkins III, is actually a chiropractic centre in real life. The town hall is best seen in the episode Choices where Buffy, Angel and Willow broke in to steal the Mayor’s box of Gavrok spiders. Scenes of the town hall was shot …

Do Giles and Willow really need a computer in Reptile Boy to go through which letters of the alphabet go before ‘ENT’? Surely a pen and paper would do?

Kent Preparatory School, attended by Callie Anderson in Reptile Boy, is just outside of Sunnydale. In addition to Kent, St. Michael’s and Grant are other schools which are mentioned in that episode, which may or may not be in the area of Sunnydale.

Angel says in Reptile Boy, “When I kiss you, you don’t wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after.” This is probably a reference to the fairytale Sleeping Beauty.