Although the season one episode is officially known as “Out of Mind, Out of Sight“, it is also widely referred to as “Invisible Girl”.

The sequence where Marcie watches as her hand disappears in class in Out of Mind, Out of Sight (and, indeed, the whole episode) was inspired by a vivid dream Buffy creator Joss Whedon had as a child. He used to think nobody loved him and that he was invisible to …

The cartoon Scooby Doo has several ties with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Xander calls Buffy’s group of friends the “Scooby Gang” for the first time in What’s My Line? (Part 1) as they have similarities with the young crime-fighting sleuths in the Scooby Doo cartoon. He says to Cordelia, “C’mon, …

When Buffy looks at her photo album in Prophecy Girl, we hear Jonatha Brooke’s “Inconsolable” from the album Plumb.

Xander listens to country music (”the music of pain”) in Prophecy Girl, after Buffy turns him down. His chosen track is Patsy Cline’s “I Fall To Pieces“. A season one episode of Angel was entitled I Fall To Pieces after this song.
Fred sings Patsy Cline’s song “Crazy” at Caritas in …

A few seconds of a Porky the Pig cartoon can be seen in the school common room where the students where killed in Prophecy Girl.

There are many cast/crew links between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the long-running cult sci-fi show Star Trek. Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder) played Quark in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for seven years. Dominic Keating, who played Blair in the episode Helpless, later went on to star in Star Trek: …

In Prophecy Girl, Jenny revealed that she knew the end of the world was coming because of a series of weird portents: a cat gave birth to a litter of snakes, a boy was born with his eyes facing inward and blood poured from the sink in the girls’ bathroom …

Buffy’s death in Prophecy Girl, albeit very brief, was enough to activate another Slayer, Kendra. The two met in season two’s What’s My Line? (Part 1). Giles said in that episode that the event was unprecedented.

When the Master is killed in Prophecy Girl, only his soft tissue is dusted: his skeleton stays intact. There is no explanation for this other than as a plot device for the season two premiere When She Was Bad.

Xander says to Buffy in Prophecy Girl, “I want to dance with you”. His wish comes true when Buffy dances sexily with him in the very next episode - When She Was Bad.

Xander saved Buffy’s life by giving her CPR after she drowned in Prophecy Girl. He helped to bring her back from the dead again in Bargaining (Part 1). In season seven’s End of Days he tells Buffy that if she dies again he’ll bring her back. “It’s what I do”.

In Prophecy Girl, Giles finally realises that the vampire Buffy killed in Never Kill a Boy on the First Date wasn’t the Anointed One. Oops.

Buffy’s mother bought her daughter a long white dress for the dance in Prophecy Girl (a sacrificial garment, if I ever saw one - what was Joyce thinking?!) Everyone comments on it. At the end of the episode, when the gang are walking away, Angel says “I like your…”, and …

The story of Hansel and Gretel as we know it first appeared in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s collection of fairy tales, published sometime between 1812 and 1815. Grimm’s stories were based on folk tales that had previously been told in oral storytelling traditions. The episode Gingerbread takes a lot of …