The two actresses playing the blonde she-vamps are called Mercedes McNab and Julie Benz… Mercedes Benz, anybody? A coincidence? Maybe, but knowing that Joss has a twisted mind maybe not… Mercedes Benz is a European brand of cars. It’s also strange that Harmony and Darla are the only main …

The BBC series The Canterbury Tales is a series of 6 modern versions of Chaucer’s stories. One of the episodes is ‘The Knight’s Tale’. Paul (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor - who played “The Operative” in Serenity) is a man in prison, and Ace is his cellmate. On one of the …

In Some Assembly Required, Xander states, “People don’t fall in love with what’s right in front on them. They want the dream. The more unattainable, the more attractive.” In Phases, Willow says a similar thing, ironically about Xander: “He’s so busy looking around at everything he doesn’t have, he doesn’t …

In Hush, Tara runs from the Gentlemen into Willow’s dorm. At one point she runs up some stairs and past a message board, only it’s very hard to read what any of them say since the image has been reversed. Later, Willow and Tara run past the same message board, …

In the episode Sleeper, when Xander is asking Anya to look over Spike in his apartment, Anya’s arms are by her side. Then, in a shot from her front, they’re on her hips. They then change back in a different shot without her moving them.

In Doublemeat Palace, Buffy’s boss’s name is Manny. His nametag says ‘Manny Rocha.’ Doublemeat Palace is also the first episode in which we see Anya’s demon friend Halfrek played by Kali Rocha.

When Faith returns to Sunnydale in Dirty Girls, she meets Buffy and Spike in the graveyard. While fighting a vampire that Spike was going kill, Faith says “May I?” and takes a stake that Buffy had in her pocket. This is a callback to Faith, Hope and Trick (Faith’s first …

In the season four episode A New Man, when the Professor and Riley brag that he’s bagged 17 HSTs and then ask Buffy how many she’s killed they cut away. Then Riley and Buffy are walking through the quad and he is obviously reeling with her numbers. Question …

The Disney Channel has a show called W.I.T.C.H which has characters similar to Buffy’s Willow and Tara: one character is named ‘Will’, and has short red hair and is a tomboy. Another character is named Taranee and is “the shy one”. There is also another character named ‘Cornelia’.

It isclaimed in Bad Girls that Willow has early admission from a five or six colleges — but that’s not possible, is it? Applying early admissions means that you are in a binding agreement with the school that if you are accepted you must go there. Therefore, you can’t apply …

In the episode Gone, when Xander is blaming Willow for making Buffy invisible, she is holding a water bottle. In some camera angles she is holding the bottle with her right hand and in others she’s holding it with her left, without swapping hands.

In the episode Angel, Buffy says to Giles at the hospital, “I invited him into my home. Even after I knew who he was, what he was, and I didn’t do anything about it… ‘cause I had feelings for him, because I cared about him.” The problem with this is …

In Gingerbread, Xander puns admirably by saying to the MOO supporters, “What’s with the grim?” The Grimm brothers wrote Hansel and Gretel.

The writers of Buffy seem to love the name William and all its derivatives. Here’s a list of all the William variants used on the show:

William the Bloody (Spike’s human name and original title)

Liam (Angel’s human name)

Billy Fordham: (Buffy’s friend from LA who sold her out to Spike)

Billy Palmer: …

David Boreanaz sent on to star in a TV show called Bones after Angel finished.
K.D. Aubert, who played Nikki Wood in Lies My Parents Told Me, played a character called Toni in an episode of Bones called ‘The Man In The Bear’.
Leonard Roberts who played Forrest Gates in season …