The music for Oz’s band Dingoes Ate My Baby was provided by real-life band Four Star Mary. James Marsters has performed with them on stage (off screen) a few times. The band themselves appeared in the season four finale Restless, as the band who play with Giles during the Exposition …

In Dead Man’s Party, Joyce Summers tells Buffy she has been looking at different schools to send Buffy to, including a girls’ school. Buffy replies, “A girls’ school? So now it’s jackets, kilts, and no boys? Care to throw in a little foot-binding?” Buffy is referring to the Chinese tradition …

Fondren High (a rival school to Sunnydale High) was mentioned in Some Assembly Required.

Faith often uses the phrase “Five By Five” to say she’s ok. The origin of the phrase is unknown, but it can be related to a poker term, a piece of wood, US Army talk for a radio signal being loud and clear, and it’s also a reference to the …

In School Hard, delinquent schoolgirl Sheila drinks in the Fish Tank bar in Sunnydale.

The Ferula Gemina looks like a stick, but has the power to split a person in half, putting positive and negative personality traits into two separate bodies. Neither body can survive without the other. Toth intended to kill the ‘Buffy’ part of Buffy in The Replacement, so the Slayer would …

In Where the Wild Things Are, Lowell House becomes possessed with the poltergeists of repressed, abused orphans who once lived there. We see a girl crying and cutting off her long curly hair as an effect of the possession. Xander says, “Anya, look around! There’s ghosts and shaking, and people …

In The Witch, Buffy says, “Mom, I’ve accepted that you’ve had sex. I am not ready to know that you had Farrah hair.” She’s referring to the star of the TV show Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett, whose flicked out hair became popular in the 1970s. In All the Way, Anya …

The animated movie Fantasia has been mentioned twice in Buffy. In Fear, Itself, Xander brings home Phantasm from the video shop but discovers he’s been given Fantasia instead. In All the Way, the Scoobies discuss cleaning the Magic Shop. Willow says, “I could whip up a jaunty self-cleaning incantation, it’ll …

In Bad Girls, the Mayor says, “I just love the Family Circus! That P.J., he’s getting to be quite a handful.” Family Circus is a newspaper-syndicated cartoon by Bill Keane which has been running since the 1960s.

Exorcism is a ritual performed to banish a ghost or poltergeist. The Scoobies unsuccessfully attempted an exorcism to banish the ghost of James Stanley from Sunnydale High School in I Only Have Eyes For You. They used the Mengas Tripod position, where one person chants on a ‘hot spot’ and …

The Espresso Pump is a coffee bar in Sunnydale’s main street often visited by the Scoobies (first seen in Dead Man’s Party). Giles sang and played guitar there in Where the Wild Things Are. The Espresso Pump was first shown in the episode Dead Man’s Party.

Cordelia says to her friends in the Bronze in Welcome to the Hellmouth, “My mom doesn’t even get out of bed anymore. And the doctor says it’s Epstein-Barr. I’m like, pleeease! It’s chronic hepatitis, or at least chronic fatigue syndrome. I mean, nobody cool has Epstein-Barr anymore.” Epstein-Barr is a …

Willow, Giles, Buffy and Xander used an enjoining spell to enable Buffy to defeat Adam in Primeval. They combined their essences of Giles (Surfus or The Mind), Willow (Spiritus or The Spirit), Xander (Animus or The Heart), and Buffy (Manus or The Hand). Buffy became indestructible, and was able to …

In Something Blue, Willow calls Spike “the undead English Patient”. She’s referring to the 1996 movie The English Patient, starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas. Kristin’s sister Serena appeared as Gwendolyn Post in the Buffy episode Revelations. In Beauty and the Beasts, Faith says that even your average, “Mr. …