When Buffy and Dawn climb out of the hole in Grave, you can briefly see a tattoo on Sarah Michelle Gellar’s left hip. It is the Chinese symbol for integrity.

Cast listings in the closing credits in TV shows are usually reserved only for background characters with unimportant parts, or those with no speaking roles, but occasionally main characters are listed there when their appearance is to be a surprise. Examples of this in the Buffyverse are in Two To …

In Villains, Andrew says, “I miss Ferris Matthew. Broadway Matthew - I find him cold.” He’s talking about actor Matthew Broderick who is probably best remembered as Ferris Bueller in the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. He has also appeared in Godzilla (referenced in Dirty Girls), Inspector Gadget (with …

Willow’s vampire self from an alternate universe used “Bored now” as her favourite phrase in Doppelgängland. Willow repeats this line in Villains.

How did Spike get all the way to Uganda in Africa in the timespan between Seeing Red and Villains? We know from Surprise that he can’t travel by plane. Angel says it’s too difficult as vampires have no way of controlling direct sunlight on a plane. If he went by …

Ww discover in Villains that Warren created another robot just like himself. He must have done this while ago in case anything went wrong as it would have taken him weeks to build the Warren-bot.

Adam Busch, who played Warren, spoke at a Buffy convention (The Harvest, London, June 2003) about how pleased he was with the ‘flaying’ scene in Villains. He joked that the actor who played ’skinned’ Warren had much better muscle tone than he did.

Although Amber Benson (who played Tara) is present in the episode Villains as a body, she is not in the opening titles and is uncredited. She was credited in the series’ second run as ‘The Body‘. This is Tara’s final episode in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In Seeing Red, Xander says he is part fish, which could be a reference to the season two episode Go Fish. He was exposed to weird Russian steroids in a sauna when undercover spying on the Sunnydale High’s swim team.

From the episode Seeing Red until the end of this season’s finale Grave, all events occur within around 24 hours. According to Tara’s grave in Help, these episodes occur between May 7th and May 8th 2002.

Several scenes from Seeing Red were cut out during it’s first airing on the BBC in the UK. The attempted rape of Buffy was cut from where she falls and hits her back on the shower to where she finally kicks him away. The exit wound appearing on Tara’s chest …

Parts of the episode Seeing Red were filmed at Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in California (when the nerds try to break into a armoured van). The banner at the amusement park which reads “Opening Weekend” is the same font and colour as the Once More, With Feeling logo.

Marti Noxon said about the episode Seeing Red in the SFX Year End Collector’s Edition (written by Edward Gross):
“We really wanted to make it pretty brutal and scary. It think the whole episode makes you feel like things are going in one direction and then, kablooey, they go in …

During a Buffy convention in London in June 2003 (’The Harvest‘), James C. Leary, who played Clem, said how difficult it was to film the scenes in Seeing Red with James Marsters as his character had only been in comical scenes before.

In When She Was Badm we hear Alison Krauss & Union Station’s ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ as Angel leaves Buffy’s bedroom (from the albums So Long, So Wrong, and Buffy The Album). In Entropy, we hear ‘That Kind of Love’ by Alison Krauss, after everyone argues about Spike and Anya.