In her commentary with David Fury for the season six DVD, Marti Noxon said the marzipan comment by the Buffybot in Bargaining (Part 1) (”That’ll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!”) was a shout out to Jane Espenson, a fellow Buffy writer, who always thought the word marzipan was …

In School Hard (2.03), when Buffy is in the alley at the Bronze fighting the vampire that Spike sent out to “get something to eat”, Buffy yells to Xander that a stake would be nice. Xander runs in the Bronze, grabs her bag, pulls out something I can’t make out …

Listen to Amy as Willow’s evil side in Smashed:”I just don’t wanna deal with him [her father] right now. I think I would be…bored” [now?]Following up with that fantastic Bronze-scene where they go spell-crazy, then Willow returning everything to normal with one languid gesture: “So, we’ve kinda played this scene.”

In Smashed we see Willow and Amy play pool in the Bronze. Not the ordinary kind, though: they use either telekinesis or invisible cues. Yet nobody in the packed joint seems to even notice this fascinating sight of coloured balls moving around the table all by themselves. Has the Sunnydale …

After her first kiss in All the Way, Dawn says, “Shiver me timbers”. This is a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1881 novel Treasure Island, and was also used in a 1934 Popeye cartoon going by the same name. Dawn originally heard the phrase from Anya, who said:

“But you …

The shooting script for Welcome to the Hellmouth included an alternate exchange in the scene when Xander chases after Buffy when she leaves the Bronze to find Willow:

Xander: “Why, you know something about Mr. Goodbar that she doesn’t? Oh! Hey. I hope he’s not a vampire. …

The shooting script for Welcome to the Hellmouth had a slightly modified version of the history teacher’s lesson on the Black Plague. The line in italics was not included in the episode:

“It’s estimated that about 25 million people died in that one four year span. But the fun part …

The shooting script for Welcome to the Hellmouth shows additional dialogue for Buffy and Principal Flutie’s conversation in his office on her first day. These lines take place between where he actually looks at her transcript and begins taping it together

Principal Flute: “At Sunnydale we nurture the whole student. …

In the episode ‘Ruby Newsday’ of the popular Canadian sit-com Corner Gas, Buffy is referenced twice. First a poll is taken to see who was the better vampire Slayer - movie Buffy or TV Buffy (no question), and later they ask who was the better vampire battler - Buffy …

In A New Man, when Giles and Spike are driving, Giles mentions the word ’serviceable’ and Spike laughs. When Giles asks why, he says that it’s funny to here a Fyarl demon say serviceable and they’re more like ‘Like to crush, crush now?’

In the episode Restless (time: 19:18) while Xander is going in the back of the van he passes a window. Just as the window vanishes to the left side, you can see the bluescreen instead of the moving lane.

In Triangle, Anya told Xander that if he ever decided to leave her she wanted a warning (such as a big bomb-clock) and some way of preventing it (such as cutting the right wire). When he did leave her, in Hell’s Bells, he had obviously forgotten this conversation. Anya got …

Faith, by most people’s perspectives, during her time in season three appearances would be considered a ‘bad girl’ because of her rampant immorality, violence, murder, and lack of respect for any rules or legal system. This is embodied in the episode Bad Girls where she accidentally kills the Deputy …

In Graduation Day (Part 2), Mayor Wilkins attempts to suffocate Buffy using his hand in the Sunnydale hospital after he learns that Buffy nearly killed Faith putting her into a coma; however Angel stops him. After Buffy defeats Glory, Giles suffocates Ben (Glory’s human side) in The Gift in …

Giles asks Xander to look through the Kippler volum