CRD (Cadillax Research and Development) was a computer research lab that used to be the third largest employer in Sunnydale. It was shut down and Moloch the Corrupter then used it as a base from which to build himself a new body in I Robot, You Jane. Xander’s uncle worked …

Angelus, Spike and Drusilla lived in a mansion on Crawford Street after their old lair at The Factory burned down in Passion. Angel lived there when he was brought back from Hell in season three until he moved to L.A.

A coven is a group of witches. Jenny Calendar belonged to an online coven of Technopagans. In season seven we learn that Willow has been reintegrated back into society by an unnamed coven, a group of powerful British witches. They were the ones who helped Giles to combat Evil Willow …

The nickname for the group of girls that hung around school with popular girl Cordelia Chase. They turned on her when she dated Xander and Harmony became their new leader. Angel called Cordelia’s friends the ‘Cordettes’ in the Angel episode ‘Rm w/a Vu’.

The Initiative had a two-way communication device called a com cam. It is worn on the head and enables images, sound, location, and the wearer’s heart rate to be transmitted back to base. Buffy wore one in The I in Team when she was sent on a mission by Walsh, …

The episodes Earshot and Graduation Day (Part 2) were delayed by the network because of the events at Columbine High School, in which two students shot and killed several of their fellow students. It was felt that the events of the Buffy episodes (which contained violence at school) might have …

In Beer Bad, Xander compared his bartending skills to those of Tom Cruise in the 1988 movie Cocktail.

Xander had a fear of clowns because he was chased by one on his sixth birthday. He finally overcame the fear in Nightmares.

During The Prom, the students of Sunnydale High gave Buffy a special award, The Class Protector Award, to acknowledge the many times she had saved their lives. It was presented to her by Jonathan Levinson, who Buffy had saved from suicide in Earshot. The award was a gold and pink …

Angel gave Buffy a Claddagh Ring for her 17th birthday in Surprise. The ring depicts a heart and crown, held by two hands. It symbolises love, loyalty and friendship. The ring originated in the small fishing village of Claddagh in Galway, Ireland, around 400 years ago. The ring can be …

In the Italian town of Cortona in 1418, Moloch the Corrupter was bound to a book using a binding spell and the The Circle of Kayless (in I Robot, You Jane). Giles and Jenny formed a virtual Circle of Kayless to create the same spell when Moloch was unleashed on …

The band Cibo Matto played their songs ‘Sugar, Water’ and ‘Spoon’ in the Bronze during When She Was Bad. The band features Sean Lennon, the son of John Lennon. Xander and Buffy danced together to the song ‘Sugar, Water’. There is a Cibo Matto poster on the wall behind the …

We discovered in What’s My Line, Part One that there were forty-three churches in Sunnydale.

During Pangs, Buffy and her friends were held under siege by the vengeful spirits of some Chumash Indians, forcing them to rethink the real meaning of Thanksgiving. Chumash was a real Indian tribe (though the tribe in Buffy is spelt Shumach in the script). The Chumash Indian homeland lay along …

In Band Candy, the Scoobies ran into Principal Snyder who was giving students chocolate to sell. Xander said, “You weren’t visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, by any chance?” He’s referring to the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol, in which a man named Scrooge changes his miserly ways …