We see in Bargaining (Part 1) that Sunnydale Cinema is showing Dude, Where’s My Car? Kristy Swanson, who played Buffy in the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a cameo role in Dude, Where’s My Car?

In Bargaining (Part 1), Anya says the desert gnome in Cairo who sold her the Urn of Osiris also threw in a Backstreet Boys lunch box for Xand…. ahem… a “friend”. Backstreet Boys were an American boy band whose hits included ‘Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)’ and ‘Quit Playing Games (with My …

Anya buys the last known Urn of Osiris on eBay in Bargaining (Part 1). For those who have been living in a cave, eBay is an online auction house where you can buy just about anything - I mean anything.
In Ground State, Gunn says “But if it’s at an auction …

Tara gives Giles a little rubber monster as a leaving present in Bargaining (Part 1) and says “Grrr…argh”, which is clearly a reference to the monster in the Mutant Enemy logo seen at the end of every Buffy episode.

Anya and Giles’s slap fight over the effigy in Bargaining (Part 1) is similar to Xander’s bitch fight with Harmony in The Harsh Light of Day.

When the Buffybot is injured in Bargaining (Part 1), it says, “Vampires - beware”. In Intervention, the Buffybot said, “Vampires of the world beware.”

In Bargaining (Part 1), we see that Willow has fixed the Buffybot after it was decapitated in The Gift. She’s given it a homing device so it goes to her when it’s broken and has even programmed in a few post-slayage puns. Willow has tried to remove any of the …

On the UK video release of Bargaining (Part 1), Giles does a voiceover reading his letter instead of Xander reading it out to the Scoobies.

When Bargaining premiered in Australia, the two parts were aired over two weeks, instead of as one episode. They were therefore out of alignment with Angel by a week. Later, because of the way the episodes were shown (or not shown) during the French Open, Buffy was two weeks behind …

Franc Ross, who played the lead hellion demon Razor in Bargaining, played ‘Monty Reynolds’ in Joss Whedon’s Firefly episode ‘Trash’.

Paul Greenberg, who played the vampire who discovered that Buffy was actually a robot in Bargaining (Part 1), has been in As Good As It Gets and played various roles on The Jenny McCarthy Show. He was a writer for MTV’s Jackass and played a dinner guest in the Curb …

At the beginning of most Buffy episodes, we see a recap of previous events. To celebrate it being the 100th episode, The Gift begins with a montage of at least one clip from each of the previous 99 episodes.

The Gift was the last original Buffy episode to air on the WB, and it was promoted as the “series finale” and not the “season finale”. The final two seasons of Buffy aired on UPN.

Buffy fans who hate spoilers found it hard to escape details of the episode The Gift before it aired. In the UK, a national newspaper ran a Buffy Dies article, and Sky One, the channel which airs the show first in the UK, kept showing shots of Buffy’s grave. I …

Joss Whedon said about the season five finale: “The Gift was our 100th episode and just a monster shoot and had to be big. We had to kill Buffy….” On Sarah Michelle Gellar’s reaction to Buffy’s death, he says, “they just sort of take the scripts, they go “Gulp” and …