In Older and Far Away, Halfrek reveals that there are different “jobs” for vengeance demons. Anyanka concentrated on scorned women, and Halfrek’s duty was to protect children and punish parents. She originally came to Sunnydale because she heard Dawn’s cry for care and attention.

In Older and Far Away, Dawn screams, “Get out, get out, get out!” at Buffy and the gang. She said the same thing to Buffy and Joyce in season five’s birthday episode, Blood Ties. In Lessons, the zombie janitor yells, “get out, get out, get out!” at Buffy.
This phrase is …

Marti Noxon said about Older and Far Away:
“An effort to deal with Dawn, with her state of mind and what was going on with her. How abandoned she had been feeling. We were trying to do a good haunted house story. Again, maybe not our best demon in the …

Tara uses the book The Brekenkrieg Grimoire to research Buffy’s resurrection in Dead Things. She discovers that Buffy didn’t come back “wrong”. She says, “Shifting you out of… from where you were, funnelling your essence back into your body, it altered you on a basic molecular level. Probably just enough …

‘Boh Wah Boo Wah’ by Red and the Red Hots plays at the Bronze when Anya, Xander and Willow are dancing in Dead Things.

‘Out Of This World’ by Bush is the music playing as Buffy stands outside Spike’s crypt, trying to decide whether to enter in Dead Things. The lyrics are:
When we die we go into the arms of those who remember us.
We are home now out of our heads out of our …

In Dead Things, Buffy sees Xander and Dawn dancing and asks, “Is there singing?! … Are we singing again?” This is a reference to the musical episode, Once More, With Feeling.

Amy’s spell on Willow in Doublemeat Palace is one word: “Potestas”. It translates from Latin into “power” or “you have the power”.

In Doublemeat Palace, Buffy says, “Variety is the spice of bad.” She’s paraphrasing the English poet William Cowper, who wrote “Variety’s the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour”.

Buffy says about the swirly cow and chicken in Doublemeat Palace, “It’s like Sleepless in Seattle, if Meg and Tom were minced.” She is, of course, referring to the 1993 romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

“Wig Lady” was one of the regular customers at the Doublemeat Palace. She seemed fairly harmless at first, but we later discovered that her bad wig was actually covering a giant penis-like monster which grew from the top of her head. The demon paralyzed its victims so that it could …

Brent Hinkley, who played Manny in Doublemeat Palace has also been in Vampires Anonymous, Say It Isn’t So, Carnival of Souls, Ed Wood (alongside Buffy’s Juliet Landau), Falling Down (as Whammyburger), Honeymoon in Vegas, The Silence of the Lambs and Jacob’s Ladder. He has also been in Carnivále, ER, The …

Pat Crawford Brown, who played the scary “wig lady” in Doublemeat Palace, has previously appeared in Stuck On You, Daredevil, Forces of Nature, Jack Frost, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard (with Amber Tamblyn, who played Janice in All the Way), Reality Bites, Sister Act and …

Andrew wears a Spongebob Squarepants t-shirt in Gone. This cartoon was also referenced in Life Serial by Tara, who revealed she once ‘zoned out’ when watching it. Spongebob Squarepants has become something of a gay icon, so this may be an in-joke into Andrew’s questionable sexuality, and Tara’s obvious one.

Sarah Michelle Gellar seems to have been wearing a wig in the scenes prior to, and including, cutting her hair in Gone. This suggests that she had her hair cut before shooting of this episode began. It’s unlikely that she would have cut her own hair on film as it …