Buffy reveals in Family that her father is currently living in Spain with his secretary and is not returning Buffy’s calls.

Tara is the only Scooby apart from Buffy to have a birthday on-screen, which is seen in Family.

Amy Adams, who played Tara’s cousin Beth in Family, played Marvel Ann in the movie Psycho Beach Party with Nicholas Brendan and Brenda Strong in Catch Me If You Can with Amy Acker (Fred in Angel). She played Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions 2, the role played in the movie …

Kevin Rankin, who played Tara’s brother Donny in Family, has appeared in Hulk, Birds of Prey and Philly. He is no relation to Steve Rankin, who played Tara’s father in the same episode.

Buffy creator Joss Whedon is a huge comics fan, particularly the Marvel comic X-Men. His dream came true when, post-Buffy, Joss wrote the Astonishing X-Men comics. The comic has been referenced numerous times in Buffy:

In No Place Like Home, Riley says, “Giles, you got that Danger Room set up …

In No Place Like Home, Dawn says to Buffy, “Who died and made you the Iron Chef?” referring to a Japanese cooking show of the same name.

In No Place Like Home, Anya says, “The Hand of Glory has some serious power”. This is apt as the character Glory appears in Sunnydale for the first time in that episode.

In No Place Like Home, we see that Spike has started to act upon his crush on Buffy, first realised in Out of My Mind. He hangs around outside her house, and tells her she has silly hair.

Buffy struggled with French in school - in School Hard, she and Willow study together and Buffy says, “La vache… doit me… touche… de la… jeudi. Was it wrong? Should I use the plural?” to which Willow replies, “No. But you said, ‘The cow should touch me from Thursday.’” In …

Clare Kramer spoke to the BBC about the morphing process between Ben and Glory:
“The morphing (into Ben) was a big technical process, especially the first couple of times we did it because nobody really knew what we were doing. For example, the first time we morphed you see Charlie talking …

Clare Kramer, who played Glory, talked to the BBC about how she and Charlie Webber (Ben) were cast:
“I got the two pages and thought “Well why not?” I’d heard good things about the show, so just went in, auditioned, did what I felt was interesting and worked with the material …

Giles opened the new Magic Box shop in No Place Like Home and took on a new member of staff - Anya. He first eyed up the prospect of opening a magic shop in Real Me, after the previous owner was found dead. Giles dressed as a wizard for the …

James Wellington, who played the night watchman in No Place Like Home, has appeared in Still Single, Roundabout and Too Fast Too Young. He played Rob in The Young and the Restless. He played the same character in Listening to Fear - but as a brain-sucked mental patient.

Ravil Issyanov, who played the monk who tells Buffy what Dawn really is in No Place Like Home, has also appeared in Holes, K-19: The Widowmaker, Arachnid, Along Came a Spider, The Shrink Is In, Under Pressure, Hamlet (1996), GoldenEye and Hackers. He played Sergei in The Young Indiana Jones …

Lyssa met Xander at some sort of construction demonstration in First Date, and bonded with him over the thickness of ropes. Xander asked her on a date, but it turned out Lyssa was a demon who wanted to show the First she was on it’s side. She attempted to open …