Darla (played by Julie Benz) is seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the final time in Fool For love - in a flashback to the Boxer Rebellion.

A flashback to Spike’s past in Fool For Love reveals that his original vampire name ‘William the Bloody’ (first mentioned in School Hard) was actually given to him when he was human - but he was called ‘William the Bloody Awful Poet’. William/Spike was shy and nerdy as a human, …

Matthew Lang played one of the people at the party in 1880 in Fool For Love, and a ‘High Priest Minion’ in the Buffy episode The Weight of the World. He has also appeared in Target, The Rules of Attraction, We Were Soldiers and The West Wing.

Edward Fletcher, who played the pompous English party-goer in Fool For Love is a painter as well as an actor. He appeared in Titanic as Sixth Officer James Moody.

Ming Liu, who played the Chinese Slayer killed by Spike in Fool For Love, has done stunts for Collateral, The Scorpion King, Ghosts of Mars, Charlie’s Angels and American Pie 2 (starring Alyson Hannigan). She also did stunts for Joss Whedon’s Firefly movie Serenity.

Ken Feinberg, who played the Chaos demon in Fool For Love, was named one of the ‘50 Most Beautiful Atlantans’ (they clearly hadn’t seen this episode!). He has appeared in Pray Another Day, No Turning Back and The District, and he wrote, directed and starred in Coming Clean. Ken has …

Chris Daniels, who played the hairy 80s vampire who stabbed Buffy in Fool For Love, has done stunt work on Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Bringing Down the House, Deuces Wild, Spider-Man, Ready, Willing & Able, Walking Across Egypt and The Rage: Carrie 2.

April Weedon-Washington played the Slayer Spike killed in New York in Fool For Love (the role was later played by K. D. Aubert in season seven). April is a stuntswoman with a long list of credits to her name. She has stunt doubled for Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez …

In the episode Storyteller, the classical piece playing at the beginning of the episode, in Andrew’s fantasy, is Brandenburg Concerto 3, Movement 1, by Johann Sebastian Bach. The same piece can be heard in Hell’s Bells, being played by the quartet at Anya’s wedding.
In Out of Mind, Out of Sight, …

Carl Ellsworth wrote the episode Halloween. He has also written for Cleopatra 2525 and Xena: Warrior Princess. Carl wrote the screenplay for the Wes Craven movie Red-Eye. He spoke to the Louisville Courier Journal about how he left the Buffy writing team:
“One day I was called into Joss Whedon’s office …

The speech that Angel gives in the episode Passion is completely different from the one that was in the original script. The cheerful original version was as follows:
“Passion, it is born, and though uninvited, unwelcome, unwanted like a cancer, it takes root. It festers. It bleeds. It scabs only to …

The episode title Killer in Me is a line from the Smashing Pumpkins track, ‘Disarm’: “the killer in you is a killer in me”.

In Chosen, whilst playing Dungeons and Dragons, Andrew refers to “Trogdor, the Burninator.” This is a reference to the HomestarRunner.com cartoon site.
Joss Whedon was pictured wearing a Strong Bad t-shirt, which was noticed by the guys at Homestar in this interview. Andrew can also be seen wearing a Strong …

In Never Leave Me, just before the council is blown up, Quentin Travers says “We are still masters of our fates, Still captains of our souls”. This is a reference to Invictus by W.E. Henley - the lines are “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain …

At the end of each credit sequence there is a long close up of Buffy just before the episode starts. The close up at the end of seasons six and seven is not really Buffy at all. In season six, it’s actually the Buffybot from The Gift and in season …