When writing the episode Lessons, Joss Whedon deliberately kept the new Principal’s name unisex (Robin Wood) as he wasn’t sure in his script if Robin would be male or female, or good or evil.

At the end of Lessons, Spike is confronted by various manifestations in the form of previous big bads: The Master, Glory, Warren, Drusilla, Adam and the Mayor. The actors’ names were omitted from the guest stars list in the opening credits so as not to spoil the ending. Mark Metcalf …

In Restless, Giles said in Xander’s dream that, “A Watcher scoffs at gravity.” Willow defies gravity in Grave by pinning Giles to the ceiling.

In Grave, Willow mentions the argument in Flooded in which Giles called her a “rank, arrogant amateur”.

In Grave, Jonathan and Andrew go to Mexico, which Andrew first suggested in Two To Go. We see footage of them in Mexico in Storyteller.

In Grave, Buffy fills Giles in with the events of this season, “Xander left Anya at the altar” (Hell’s Bells), “Anya’s a vengeance demon again” (Entropy), “Dawn’s a total klepto” (Older and Far Away), “money’s been so tight that I’ve been slinging burgers at the Doublemeat Palace” (Doublemeat Palace), “And …

When Buffy and Dawn climb out of the hole in Grave, you can briefly see a tattoo on Sarah Michelle Gellar’s left hip. It is the Chinese symbol for integrity.

Cast listings in the closing credits in TV shows are usually reserved only for background characters with unimportant parts, or those with no speaking roles, but occasionally main characters are listed there when their appearance is to be a surprise. Examples of this in the Buffyverse are in Two To …

In Villains, Andrew says, “I miss Ferris Matthew. Broadway Matthew - I find him cold.” He’s talking about actor Matthew Broderick who is probably best remembered as Ferris Bueller in the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. He has also appeared in Godzilla (referenced in Dirty Girls), Inspector Gadget (with …

Willow’s vampire self from an alternate universe used “Bored now” as her favourite phrase in Doppelgängland. Willow repeats this line in Villains.

How did Spike get all the way to Uganda in Africa in the timespan between Seeing Red and Villains? We know from Surprise that he can’t travel by plane. Angel says it’s too difficult as vampires have no way of controlling direct sunlight on a plane. If he went by …

Ww discover in Villains that Warren created another robot just like himself. He must have done this while ago in case anything went wrong as it would have taken him weeks to build the Warren-bot.

Adam Busch, who played Warren, spoke at a Buffy convention (The Harvest, London, June 2003) about how pleased he was with the ‘flaying’ scene in Villains. He joked that the actor who played ’skinned’ Warren had much better muscle tone than he did.

Although Amber Benson (who played Tara) is present in the episode Villains as a body, she is not in the opening titles and is uncredited. She was credited in the series’ second run as ‘The Body‘. This is Tara’s final episode in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In Seeing Red, Xander says he is part fish, which could be a reference to the season two episode Go Fish. He was exposed to weird Russian steroids in a sauna when undercover spying on the Sunnydale High’s swim team.