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Willow’s jacket

In Help, Xander takes Willow to the cemetary to see Tara’s grave. While they’re there, Willow is wearing the same dark denim jacket she wore in Villians, Two To Go and Grave, after Tara died and she went evil.

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Unique… well…

In Get It Done, Spike refers to himself and his souled condition as “unique” before pausing and stating, “Well, more or less.” This is a clear reference to the original souled vampire of the Buffy mythos: Angel.

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Ex-python

In Life Serial, when the nerds are watching Buffy’s retail career stall before its even begun, they can hardly contain their excitement.

WARREN: This mummy hand has ceased to be!
ANDREW: It is an ex-mummy hand!

This is a reference to the classic Monty Python ‘dead parrot’ skit in which a pet …

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Following the preacher

When Lily and Buffy are catching up with each other in Anne, Lily says, “Well, before that, I was following this loser preacher and calling myself Sister Sunshine”. A nice bit of continuity would have been if that preacher had been season seven’s Caleb.

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Rack and ruin

Where does the name Rack come from? There is an old saying ‘gone to rack and ruin’, to indicate the complete destruction of something. ‘Rack’ here is a derivation of the older word ‘wrack’, now meaning ‘wreck’. Another derivation of Rack is the medieval instrument of torture of …

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Ricky and Lilly tattoo

Surely if Lilly/Chanterelle/Anne, keeps changing her name why would she want her boyfriend to permenantly have it tattooed onto her boyfriend’s arm?

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Xander the hypocrite

Xander throughout the series condemns Angel, and Buffy’s involvement with him because he was “a known murderer”, although technically, it wasn’t really Angel who committed the deeds of Angelus, but rather the demon inside of Angel. If Xander is so condemning of getting involved with murderers, why does he get …

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Angeles vs Angelus

In Becoming (Part 1) when Buffy sees her Claddagh ring in the drawer, on of the posters on her wall is partly visible. It is of Los Angeles at night and says so towards the bottom but because of where Buffy is standing, all you can see is “Angeles.” Which …

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Long story

In Faith, Hope and Trick, the following dialogue takes place:

Willow: “Oz is a werewolf.”
Buffy: “Long story.”
Oz: “I got bit.”
Buffy: “Apparently not that long.”

This is similar to a conversation which takes place, two episodes later, in Homecoming:

Buffy: “Long story.”
Cordelia: “Got hunted.”
Buffy: “Apparently not that long.”

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Man of the House

Buffy is referenced in the 2005 film Man of the House. The character called Heather says the following line: “We were about to go all Buffy on their ego asses”.

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Dracula III - Legacy

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was referenced in the 2005 movie Dracula III - Legacy in the following conversation:
Father Uffizi: “Tell me something. What does it mean “D.G?”
Luke: “Damaged goods. It was either that or Buffy.”

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The X Files: Resist or Serve

Buffy was referenced in The X Files: Resist or Serve in the following converstation between Mulder and Scully:
Dana Scully: “Just because these girls have a high school fascination with witchcraft it doesn’t mean they’re raising the dead”. Fox Mulder: “Saw them do it on Buffy”.

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Lost

The TV show Lost has many Buffy ties. The season one’s third episode is titled “Tabula Rasa“, the same title as Buffy season 6, episode 8. Both episodes deal with a type of false “starting-over” scenario (tabula rasa = ‘clean slate’), Buffy and the gang forget who they are …

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Sluggy Freelance

The webcomic Sluggy Freelance gave a reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a storyline called ‘Muffin the Vampire Baker’.

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Jane Atkins

Jane Atkins was one of the of three high school girls from Fondren High who died in a car accident. Chris and Eric dug up her body in order to create a girlfriend for Daryl Epps in Some Assembly Required.

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