In Real Me, we see that Giles has brought a new sporty red convertible BMW. This ties in well with his semi-mid-life crisis played out in season four. Being an unemployed librarian and ex-member of the Watcher’s Council must pay pretty well.

Bob Morrissey, who played the crazy guy who talks to Dawn in Real Me, played the same character in Spiral and The Weight of the World. He appeared as Dr. Gregson in the Angel episode ‘Heartthrob‘. He has also been in The Terminal, Northern Exposure and Soul Plane.

The song playing when Buffy and Riley play with a football on the beach in Buffy vs Dracula is ‘Finding Me’ by Vertical Horizon, from their album Everything You Want.

In Buffy vs Dracula, Buffy says “‘killer’ just sounds so…like I paint clowns or something”, which is a reference to serial killer John Wayne Gacy, Jr., who had a hobby of painting clowns.

Xander says in Buffy vs Dracula, “where’d you get that accent, Sesame Street?”, and he impersonates Count von Count from the children’s show. In Disharmony, the following conversation refers to the character Big Bird, from Sesame Street:
Cordy: “Whoa. Big bird”
Gunn: “Big Bird?”
Cordelia: “Not the muppet, dumbass…”

In Buffy vs Dracula, Willow says, “Just call me the Computer Whisperer”, which is a reference to the book The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans. A movie of the novel starring Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas and Scarlett Johannsson was made in 1998. Interestingly, Anthony Stewart Head’s partner Sarah Fisher …

Dracula mentions that Buffy’s power is “rooted in darkness” in Buffy vs Dracula. In the season seven episode Get It Done, we discover that the Shadowmen created the First Slayer by using the energy of a demon.

Riley offers Buffy a jelly doughnut whilst at Giles’ house in Buffy vs Dracula. In The Zeppo we discovered that both Buffy and Giles love jelly doughnuts.

Joyce apparently knows nothing about Willow and Tara’s relationship in Buffy vs Dracula as she says, “Oh, when you girls are older you’ll understand. It’s hard to date. Sometimes you just…feel like giving up on men altogether.” She apparently finds out before the next episode as Dawn mentions in her …

When was Dawn created by the monks? There’s a suggestion in Buffy vs Dracula that it was as late as during that episode, as Joyce comments (as she and Buffy eat alone) that the house will get quiet when Buffy goes back to college.

Scott Berman, who played one of Dracula’s movers in Buffy vs Dracula, played ‘Vendor’ in the Angel episode ‘Blind Date‘.

Edward James Gage, who played one of Dracula’s movers in Buffy vs Dracula, played ‘Mordar the Bentback’ in the Angel episode ‘Judgement’

Jennifer Slimko, who played one of the vampire girls who toyed with Giles in Buffy vs Dracula, also played a Romanian woman in the Angel episode ‘Five By Five‘.

The poem Willow is painting on Tara’s back in her dream in Restless is by Sappho and is in the original Greek:

Deathless Aphrodite on your lavish throne,
Enchantress, daughter of Zeus: I beg you, queen,
Do not overpower my soul with heartaches
and hard troubles,
But come here, if ever at another time
Having …

Joyce’s seduction of Xander in Restless is similar to the events of 1967 film The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. Buffy’s line in Into the Woods, “Are you planning to seduce me, Mr. Finn?” is a paraphrase of the famous line from The Graduate, “Are you trying to …