In Same Time, Same Place, Anya mentions a “mix up” that she had with the Scoobies, which occurred in Beneath You.

In Same Time, Same Place, Xander writes his “Welcome Home, Willow” sign in yellow crayon, which is something that featured heavily in his speech to stop Willow destroying the world in Grave. Xander also refers to this speech in Same Time, Same Place and, from the looks it, has related …

The website Dawn uses in Same Time, Same Place, called ‘Demons, Demons, Demons’, was first used by Cordelia on Angel in the episode ‘The Ring‘.

We see in Same Time, Same Place that Buffy has moved into her mother’s old bedroom and Willow is now sleeping in Buffy’s old bedroom. Previously, Willow and Tara had been using Joyce’s old room, when they moved into the Summers’ house after Buffy died.

A glimpse of Spike becoming more like his human self, William, is shown in Same Time, Same Place. He says to Buffy “What’s a word that means glowing? It’s gotta rhyme.” William asked the same thing of a waiter in the season five episode Fool For Love, while composing a …

In Same Time, Same Place, there are a lot of references to Willow’s flaying of Warren in Villains.

The BBC and Sky One in the UK heavily cut the part of Same Time, Same Place where Gnarl peels and eats Willow’s skin.

Same Time, Same Place is the first episode of the series in which there are no guest stars credited at the start of the episode.

In the original promotion for the episode Same Time, Same Place, Spike was shown saying, “I mean, who doesn’t like skin?” but this line wasn’t aired in the episode.

In Two To Go, Willow says to Buffy, “I get it now. The Slayer thing really isn’t about the violence. It’s about the power.” The episode Lessons begins and ends with Buffy saying, “It’s all about the power”.

In Lessons, we see that the Scoobies have finally cottoned on to the fact that mobile phones are a good idea for people who are regularly in danger. Buffy and Dawn now have matching mobile phones. Xander also has a cell phone, and Buffy has his number on speed dial. …

There are loads of references to seasons one, two and three in Lessons, probably to make the idea hit home that Buffy was going “back to the beginning” (as Joss Whedon said it would before the season started). Xander says, “The last two Principals were eaten. Who’d even apply for …

The scenes of “Istanbul” in Lessons were actually filmed at Universal Studios, and the graveyard shown in the teaser was built indoors.

Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn) was adamant that she wanted to wear the argyle sweater she wears in the episode Lessons, but when shooting her scenes the temperature was 110 degrees so she was too hot all the time.

Season seven’s opening credits is the first since the start of the show where there have been no changes to the regular cast. For each of the previous seasons there have been either cast members added or removed at the beginning.