Sara Van Horn, who played the nurse in This Year’s Girl, played Minnie Belle in Great Balls of Fire! (1989). She has played nurses before: in Mockingbird Don’t Sing, The Perfect Nanny, and Boston Public. She has also appeared in Will & Grace, Malcolm in the Middle, Strong Medicine, The …

Kevin Owers, who played the Watcher’s Council’s Smith in This Year’s Girl, also appeared in Ballad of the Nightingale and Titanic. He has been in The West Wing and also played Smith in Angel.

Jack Esformes, who played the doctor in This Year’s Girl has also appeared in Wag the Dog, Breaking In, Defense Play, The Drew Carey Show, G vs E and Seinfeld (playing Mike in the episode ‘The Frogger’).

Chet Grissom, who played the Detective in This Year’s Girl has also been in Robbery Homicide Division, MDs, The Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Any Day Now, Ally McBeal, Time of Your Life and The X Files.

In Goodbye, Iowa, Buffy and Xander accost Dr. Angleman in room 1317210. Leading off from this room are the rooms A18 and A17. Dr. Angleman is killed outside room A18.

In Goodbye, Iowa, Buffy and Xander spoof The Weather Girls song It’s Raining Men (Buffy: “…it’s raining monsters”. Xander: “Hallelujah”).

The Scoobies watch a Road Runner cartoon called ‘Wild About Hurry’ on Xander’s TV in Goodbye, Iowa.

In Goodbye, Iowa, Buffy wears ‘yummy sushi pyjamas’ (”That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn’t wearing my yummy sushi pajamas.”). They are made by the same company, The Cat’s Pajamas, that made the butterfly pyjamas she wore in Beer Bad. The Yummi Sushi flannel PJs cost …

In Goodbye, Iowa, Willow tells Tara about the demon-finding spell: “When the potion mixes and Thespia is called, it creates this mist over the parts where the demons are. It even makes different colors for different breeds.” She then embarks on the spell: “Thespia, we walk in shadow, walk in …

In Goodbye, Iowa, Anya is wearing Xander’s shirt from Something Blue as a pyjama top.

In Goodbye, Iowa, we see the mirror ball in Xander’s basement which he hung in The Harsh Light of Day.

Spike calls Buffy “Goldilocks” (after the children’s story Goldilocks and the Three Bears) twice in Buffy: in Goodbye, Iowa, he says, “Got to hand it to you goldilocks - you do have bleeding tragic taste in men I’ve got a cousin married to a regurgitating Frovalox demon that’s got …

In Goodbye, Iowa, Adam says he is a, “kinematically redundant, biomechanical demonoid. Designed by Maggie Walsh. She called me Adam and I called her mother. In addition to organic material, I’m equipped with GP-2/D-11 Infrared detectors. A harmonic decelerator, plus DC servo.” Yeah, all that and he’s still only got …

The following lines were deleted from Goodbye, Iowa for length:
Willow: “I bet you will.”
Buffy: “No. No bet. I will make it work.”

In The I in Team, Spike says, “I don’t care if it’s playing Rock the Casbah on the bloody Jew’s harp…” Rock the Casbah is a famous song by The Clash. A Jew’s Harp is a small musical instrument which is held against the teeth or lips, and plucked with …