In Welcome to the Hellmouth, Angel says about vampires to Buffy, “You want to kill them. You want to kill them all.” In the season two episode When She Was Bad, Angel asks Buffy how she is going to distract the vampires to which she responds, “I’m gonna kill them …

There are a number of times in the series where Buffy wears overalls. I have noticed that whenever she is wearing her overalls, she is vulnerable or despairing, and sort of hiding in them.
- Becoming (Part 2) (when Buffy’s on the run)
- Helpless (when she’s lost her power)
- Restless (in …

In Get It Done, Kennedy asks if what Spike does best is get thrown through ceilings. Destroying the Summers house might actually be what he does best, since six episodes prior, in Never Leave Me, he rips Andrew through a wall in Dawn’s bedroom, leaving a massive hole. In the …

In Showtime, Anya says, “You’re rejecting my offer of sexual bribery? What am I, a leper in this town? I can’t even give it away.” Even though she is talking to Torg, the trash-taking-out demon, she is also referencing Sleeper. In that episode, when she was trying not make Spike …

Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) was the first member of the main Buffy cast to be given a role. He was cast on the first day of casting. According to Marcia Shulman (on the ‘Casting’ featurette on the season 5 DVD) the moment Anthony spoke, they knew he was the one. …

Jack Plotnik, who played the deputy Mayor Allan Finch during season three, spoke about his time on Buffy in an interview with BroadwayWorld.com on January 29, 2006:

“Sadly, I didn’t become a crazy huge fan of the show until after I appeared on it. Back then I was like, “Nice to …

In Triangle, when Olaf’s hammer is thrown into the magazine rack in the Magic Box, the magazines UFO, Green Egg, Nexus, Shaman’s Drum and Massage Bodywork are visible.

The following line was cut from the script of Innocence for length. The Judge’s line would have followed Spike’s line “So let’s take some! I’m bored!” from the beginning of the episode.

The Judge: “I fought an army. They hacked me to pieces. For six hundred years …

The following line from the original script of What’s My Line? (Part 2) was cut for length from the broadcast:

Xander: “You know, just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes a worm guy.”

In The Monster Book, writer Doug Petrie shares some of the original ideas for Revelations that never made the final cut. Petrie states that the original intent of the Glove of Mynnigon was a “demonic falconer’s glove.” Petrie continued to state that “[w]hen you put it on and …

In The Monster Book (page ix), Joss Whedon states that, “we refer to Ted as ‘The Stepfather-Terminator-Collector’”, revealing three of the films that contributed to the frame of reference for a single character.

Buffy writer Rob Des Hotel stated in The Monster Book, page 217:
“Phases is probably my favorite episode of the five we wrote. Oz just has an ability to pinpoint what’s going on and make it sound absurd. I think there’s a sweetness to him. In Phases, Willow comes …

Robert ‘Rob’ Duncan was a composer on Buffy for much of season seven. He wrote Spike’s predatory vampire theme “Sleeper Suite” in Sleeper. Robert also wrote the “Willow/Kennedy Love Theme” from The Killer in Me; and the “Hell School” theme which appeared in Storyteller. Robert’s other compositions …

In The Body, when Buffy finds Joyce’s body, she says “Mom? Mom? Mommy?” Dawn repeats this phrase in Conversations with Dead People, when she thinks Joyce is trying to communicate with her.

In the season six episode, Hell’s Bells, as Anya is practicing her vows in front of Tara and Willow, Tara tells her that she’s probably not supposed to say ’sex poodle’ in her vows. Inher DVD commentary for the episode, Rebecca Rand Kirshner mentioned that this was a shout-out to …