Tara gives Giles a little rubber monster as a leaving present in Bargaining (Part 1) and says “Grrr…argh”, which is clearly a reference to the monster in the Mutant Enemy logo seen at the end of every Buffy episode.

Anya and Giles’s slap fight over the effigy in Bargaining (Part 1) is similar to Xander’s bitch fight with Harmony in The Harsh Light of Day.

When the Buffybot is injured in Bargaining (Part 1), it says, “Vampires - beware”. In Intervention, the Buffybot said, “Vampires of the world beware.”

In Bargaining (Part 1), we see that Willow has fixed the Buffybot after it was decapitated in The Gift. She’s given it a homing device so it goes to her when it’s broken and has even programmed in a few post-slayage puns. Willow has tried to remove any of the …

On the UK video release of Bargaining (Part 1), Giles does a voiceover reading his letter instead of Xander reading it out to the Scoobies.

When Bargaining premiered in Australia, the two parts were aired over two weeks, instead of as one episode. They were therefore out of alignment with Angel by a week. Later, because of the way the episodes were shown (or not shown) during the French Open, Buffy was two weeks behind …

Franc Ross, who played the lead hellion demon Razor in Bargaining, played ‘Monty Reynolds’ in Joss Whedon’s Firefly episode ‘Trash’.

Paul Greenberg, who played the vampire who discovered that Buffy was actually a robot in Bargaining (Part 1), has been in As Good As It Gets and played various roles on The Jenny McCarthy Show. He was a writer for MTV’s Jackass and played a dinner guest in the Curb …

At the beginning of most Buffy episodes, we see a recap of previous events. To celebrate it being the 100th episode, The Gift begins with a montage of at least one clip from each of the previous 99 episodes.

The Gift was the last original Buffy episode to air on the WB, and it was promoted as the “series finale” and not the “season finale”. The final two seasons of Buffy aired on UPN.

Buffy fans who hate spoilers found it hard to escape details of the episode The Gift before it aired. In the UK, a national newspaper ran a Buffy Dies article, and Sky One, the channel which airs the show first in the UK, kept showing shots of Buffy’s grave. I …

Joss Whedon said about the season five finale: “The Gift was our 100th episode and just a monster shoot and had to be big. We had to kill Buffy….” On Sarah Michelle Gellar’s reaction to Buffy’s death, he says, “they just sort of take the scripts, they go “Gulp” and …

In The Gift, Anya suggest that Buffy use the Dagon sphere, found by Buffy in No Place Like Home, and Olaf’s troll hammer from Triangle to defeat Glory. Olaf is called a “troll god”, though it was never mentioned in Triangle that he was a god. Later, Anya and Xander …

Spike is invited back into Buffy’s house in The Gift, after his first invitation was revoked in Crush.

In The Gift, Buffy asks how many apocalypses (apocalypsi?) this makes, to which Giles replies “Six, at least”. They were in: Prophecy Girl, Becoming (Part 2), The Zeppo, Graduation Day, Doomed, and The Gift. The events of season finale Primeval did not include an apocalypse. Buffy mentions killing Angel in …