Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Season 3

Anne

1. The scene in school at the beginning, from about 6:43 to 10 minutes on DVD, is all filmed in a single take. From the library, through the cafeteria to the hallway, with six main actors, about a hundred extras and nearly fifty lines of dialogue.
2. A couple of the shots were used in the opening titles of Angel (1999).
3. This is the first use of the remastered Buffy theme. It will be heard in the opening credits through the remainder of the series.
4. First time the "real" goth Buffy logo in the main title.
5. Oz's "stake" is a wittled down baseball bat
6. The weapon Buffy used during the climax was the Hunga Munga. It was also the weapon of choice for a Lubber Demon in Angel: Happy Anniversary (2001).
7. Observing the logistics of the demon sweatshops: if they have a few dozen workers, who die after a single day on earth, they must be abducting that many people every day, which is not as insignificant as the demons claim. Kidnapping about 30 people a day for 365 days would make them kidnap about 11,000 people a year for that sweatshop, which is probably a noticeable part of the city's population, and would require many demon recruiters working simultaneously to meet that quota.
8. In the opening cemetery scene, Oz is wearing the same t-shirt (25c peep show) that Xander has worn before.
9. The montage depicting the teen runaways will be used again in the Angel pitch tape. The image of the teenage girl with the large skirt alone in the street will be used in the credits of Angel (1999).
10. Seth Green appeared in the opening credits for the first time.
11. Lily wears a white t-shirt underneath a green sweater. The visible part of the t-shirt says, "Dent" and has a red heart with the words "Home of" visible inside the heart. This is most likely a nod to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), in which a billboard is visible in a graveyard. On the billboard, there is a large red heart with the word "Denton" above it and the phrase "The Home of Happiness" inside it.
12. At one point in the battle with Ken's henchmen, Buffy wields both a hammer and a sickle. The factory setting, hard labor, and the hammer and sickle not only shows a theme of communism, but more importantly, the unification between peasants and workers to reach a better goal, seen here when everyone unites to defeat Ken's men.
13. This marks the first of two times in which Buffy refers to herself, or is referred to, as "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer." The second time is in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Help (2002).
14. Buffy's temporary neighborhood of residence is in the area around 11th Street on the south side of downtown Los Angeles. The intersection where she is hit by a car is the corner of 11th and Broadway. And the leaflets for the Family Home give its address as 1123 S. Hill Street, just around the corner.
15. Willow's line was cut for length: "Oh! That reminds me. I asked around about Andrew Hoelich, our gymnastic vampire, and apparently he used to like to hang out in Hammersmith Park and pick up grilles! Or, okay, that could be girls."
16. The demons who run the hell dimension and Family Home are identical to the demons who make up The Scourge in Angel: Hero (1999), differentiated only by color. The demon portrayed by Harley Zumbrum is nearly identical to Trask. Although they appear to be the same breed, it is unclear whether or not there is any affiliation between the two groups.
17. A poster for the band Phish is seen on the wall behind Xander and Willow in the Bronze.
18. Lily's character first appeared as Chantarelle in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Lie to Me (1997). She adopts Buffy's "Anne" persona at the end. "Anne" would later appear on Angel (1999) as the social worker Anne Steele, helping Angel on a few occasions.
19. Carlos Jacott (Ken) plays a different demon in Angel: The Bachelor Party (1999).
20. First time the Scooby Gang are shown patrolling as a team sans Slayer. They will be required to do this several more times throughout the series, most significantly at the beginning of Season 6, though by then, they are more skilled at the job.
21. Willow leads the gang in Buffy's absence; she will do so again during the period Buffy is dead between seasons five and six.
22. Time passing differently in alternate dimensions is introduced here; it will become more relevant with Angel's, and later Buffy's, return.
23. While trying to get into the mission to find Ken, Buffy says, "I just suck at undercover." However, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Enemies (1999), she does a lot better when she goes undercover to trick Faith.
24. In Buffy's dream, Angel sincerely described their relationship as "forever". Coincidentally, the real Angel states to Spike much later that what he and Buffy had was a "forever love" in Angel: The Girl in Question (2004).
25. David Boreanaz still appears in the credits despite Angel being sucked into Hell. This somewhat gives away the fact that he will be brought back to life. Until then, however, he only appears in Buffy's dreams.
26. Buffy's full name is 'Buffy Anne Summers'. Buffy said Anne is her middle name.
27. After leaving Sunnydale, Angel will start investigating supernatural crimes in Los Angeles, similar to what Buffy did here through Angel (1999).

Dead Man's Party

1. Pat mentions to Buffy that Joyce read "The Deep End of the Ocean" while Buffy was gone. It is a 1996 novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard about a suburban middle-class family much like Buffy's that is torn apart when the youngest son disappears, only to reappear at the front doorstep years later.
2. Joyce describing Snyder was cut: "Have you ever noticed his teeth? They're like tiny rodent teeth - horrible gnashing little teeth. You just want to pull them out with pliers."
3. The scene with Giles hot wiring his car is censored in British releases because it's an "imitatible act."
4. This is the first time downtown Sunnydale is shown, a street with several shops, most notably the Espresso Pump. In Season 5 it's revealed that the name of the street is Maple Court.
5. This is the first time zombies appear like monsters-of-day in the Buffyverse. Zombies appears also in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Nightmares (1997) only in background at the hospital just before the Scooby-Gang eliminates the Ugly Man and wake Billy Palmer.
6. The title refers to the song of the same name by Oingo Boingo.
7. At the beginning of the zombie invasion of the Summers' residence, the zombie who grabs Willow looks very similar to the character of Daryl Epps, a reanimated football player seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Some Assembly Required (1997).
8. The concept of reanimated people being controlled by magic is revisited in Angel: The Thin Dead Line (2001) where zombified policemen are controlled by an idol. Both feature a zombie assault on the stronghold of the heroes. Unlike this, however, the zombies there are capable of speech and their bodies' decay has been undone. It also features Anne Steele, aka Lily Houston.
9. During the scene where the zombies shuffle through the playground, a zombified Sunnydale High cheerleader can be seen in the background.
10. When Buffy meets Xander in the alley while out patrolling, he is holding a stake. Buffy jokes that it is all fun and games until someone loses an eye. In season seven Xander does in fact lose an eye in a fight against Caleb.
11. Hints again about Principal Snyder's connections with the Mayor (when Joyce and Buffy are in his office). The Mayor will eventually become the Big Bad of this season.
12. It's revealed that, despite what Snyder believed about the police's competence, they did in fact clear Buffy of Kendra's murder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming: Part 1 (1998), but he still refuses to let Buffy back into school. However, Joyce gets the school board to overrule him later.
13. Willow makes references to her dabbling in magic since she restored Angel's soul. She eventually grows into an extremely powerful witch.
14. Snyder recommends Buffy apply to Hot Dog on a Stick as an alternative to her education after he refuses to re-admit her to Sunnydale High. Buffy later worked a dead-end job as a fry cook in a local fast food chain.
15. Joyce mentions maybe sending her to private school and buffy responds saying 'kilts and blazers no way!'. Sarah Michelle gellar played the lead role in cruel intentions the year before as a wealthy girl who goes to private school and wears a kilt and blazer.

Faith, Hope & Trick

1. The band playing at the Bronze is Darling Violetta, who later would provide the title theme for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) spin-off show, Angel (1999).
2. K. Todd Freeman (Mr Trick) auditioned for the role of Spike and was a front runner for the role alongside James Marsters.
3. The vampire seen dancing with Faith uses somewhat dated dance moves, harkening back to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Welcome to the Hellmouth (1997) in which Buffy picks a vampire out of a crowd based solely on his out-of-fashion clothes. Joss Whedon had originally wanted vampires to wear clothing from the era of their human lives, but felt that this would make them less frightening.
4. Faith's needing to stake Kakistos with a more potent stake is consistent with the series treatment of older and more powerful vampires, as with The Master being impaled on a broken table in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Prophecy Girl (1997) and the Turok-Han Vampire in Season Seven.
5. When Buffy asks Giles about the accuracy of her saying leprechauns aren't real, Giles responds with "As far as I know, yes." Marking the first instance of the running gag throughout both Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and Angel (1999) referencing the ironic nonexistence of a magical creature in a world where most if not all other mythical beings do in fact exist.
6. Joss Whedon's basis for creating the Slayer was the horror cliche of a beautiful girl being attacked by a monster in an alleyway but instead of her being a helpless victim as she appears, she would turn around and defeat it instead. In her first appearance, this is exactly what happens to Faith.
7. David Boreanaz's nude scene was first of many throughout his tenure of Buffy and Angel: The Series (1999) to feature full nudity belonging to his own without the use of a body double. While nudity is obviously implied in previous episodes (most notably "Surprise/Innocence" in season two where he loses his soul after he and Buffy have sex), it is unclear whether he was nude under the covers in season two or in a flesh-tone thong. However, given his antics for walking around set completely nude to get a rise out of his co-stars in between takes, it's very highly likely he was in fact fully nude for every storyline that called for it. Here for this episode, the nudity belonged to David solely and not a body double.
8. This exchange was cut due to length: Mr. Trick: "I believe this dance is mine."Buffy: "The music stopped."Mr. Trick: "But the beat goes on. Gimme whatcha got."
9. When Faith and Buffy are attacked by Kakistos in Faith's hotel room, the vamps come in without being invited. It's well established that vampires do not need invitations into hotel rooms (vis Angelus in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Innocence (1998) and Angel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Zeppo (1999)).
10. Xander openly showed an attraction to Faith which Cordelia noticed, claiming Xander had a thing for Slayers. This seemed to be somewhat true, considering Xander's crush on Buffy during the first and second seasons along with his brief flirtation with Kendra Young.
11. Faith is the only character to have her first appearance be one where she was featured.
12. The hideout Mr Trick and Kakistos use in this episode is also the same filming location used for the Ghostbusters firehouse interior in Los Angeles.
13. When Faith professes her attraction to Giles in the library scene, Buffy remarks 'Raise you hand if ew!' and she and Xander raise their hands. Notably, Willow, who is present, does not raise her hand, foreshadowing her later confession of having had a crush on Giles.
14. The title has the remarkable trait of being simply the list of the names of three characters that made their first appearance: Faith Lehane, Scott Hope and Trick the vampire. The title is even a mocking of the Three Theological Virtues of Christianity, with "Trick" as a substitute of "Charity".
15. When Buffy complains about Faith, Joyce replies "It's probably better that you were an only child." This will become a somewhat ironic statement following the introduction of Dawn.
16. Buffy describes the arrival of Faith as "the arrival of my best new little sis", foreshadowing the arrival of Dawn.

Beauty and the Beasts

1. The lunchbox Willow uses to hold tools in the morgue is Scooby-doo themed.
2. Oz's werewolf form, last seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Phases (1998), is radically changed. Then, the werewolf is portrayed as a gray bipedal creature with a wolf-like head. Now, his fur is a darker brown, he moves largely on four legs, and he has a human-like, hairless face with no muzzle. Among the production staff, the new makeup was referred to as the 'Gay Possum'.
3. Scott advising Buffy before she visits Mr. Platt was cut: Scott: "Stable. Okay. Topics to avoid. The little men that live in your teeth...your compulsion to paint circus clowns..."Buffy: "But if God keeps telling me to kill - it just seems snotty not to, you know?"
4. When Buffy looks for chains for Angel, she finds dolls which belonged to Drusilla. This implies that the chains belonged to Spike in his erotic sets with Drusilla.
5. Giles explains that demon dimensions are places of brutal torment in which time moves extremely fast. Over the time between being sent to Hell and brought back, Angel has experienced 100 years of torment.
6. We see the first attempt of Oz to control being a werewolf and his doubts of whether the wolf is a part of him or a separate being.
7. In some DVD extras it is claimed Mr. Platt's death was an allusion to smoking being bad.
8. If Pete had not been killed, he would have become a werewolf. It has been explained that anyone who was bitten by a werewolf will turn into one, and Oz was shown to have bitten Pete while in wolf form. However, Pete was not alive long enough after he was bitten for this to be acknowledged.
9. Buffy now has had two teachers that were nice to her and tried to understand her predicament before being killed by the monster-of-the-week: Mr. Platt here, and Dr. Gregory in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Teacher's Pet (1997). He is the 7th member of the Sunnydale High staff to die. Ironically, the first name of both teachers was "Stephen".
10. Mr Platt's corpse is discovered holding a cigarette with a really long ash on the end, which means either his killer placed a lit cigarette in his hand after killing him, or he sat completely still while being mauled. Neither of these scenarios seems particularly likely.
11. When Mr. Platt says to Buffy "If you can't, love becomes your master. And you're just its dog," it foreshadows one of main themes of Season 6: the sexual relationship between Spike and Buffy.
12. When Angel is on his knees hugging Buffy near the end, a piece of graffiti in the background reads EVIL EDDY. This is a reference to the character Evil Ed in Fright Night (1985).

Homecoming

1. Sarah Michelle Gellar broke a bone in her hand during filming.
2. Buffy's list of Cordelia's strengths reads: "Popular With Boys, Makes Friends Easily, Has Money To Buy Votes, Expensive Clothes, Perfect Teeth." Her list of weaknesses reads: "Manipulative, Two-Faced, Bad in Sports, Superficial, No Sense of Humor, Fake Smile, Brie, Xander." In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dead Man's Party (1998), both Cordelia and Xander express a dislike for brie cheese.
3. This exchange was cut for length: Buffy: "Okay, how 'bout...you vote for me and I don't beat the living crap out of you."Jonathan: "That works good for me."Buffy: "Tell your friends!"
4. Final appearance of Scott Hope, although he is mentioned in season seven's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Conversations with Dead People (2002).
5. This is the final Buffy script to be written by David Greenwalt, as he shifted his attention to preparing Angel (1999) for the following season.
6. We see Buffy wearing a SDH letterman's jacket with no indication of who the owner was. Xander would be entitled to one, having been on the Swim Team in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Go Fish (1998), but as he was assisting Cordelia's campaign, it remains unclear if it had been his.
7. This is the second time Lyle Gorch has been seen. He was previously in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bad Eggs (1998).
8. The Gorches are the only example seen so far of vampires getting married.
9. Willow and Xander kiss for the first time.
10. This is the first time the Mayor appears. He later becomes the villain of season three.
11. Buffy's wish for a perfect moment in high school will be granted in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Prom (1999).

Band Candy

1. The accent used by Anthony Head for Young Giles is not his own accent. Head's accent, while not as upper class as Giles's, is a much more refined Southern accent. The accent he uses for the younger Giles is a real working class London accent.
2. According to the Sunnydale High Yearbook the chocolate sale earned $600,000 for the band.
3. This is the first to be written by Jane Espenson.
4. Kristine Sutherland has often named this as her favorite and most fun to film, along with Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ted (1997), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When She Was Bad (1997) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Innocence (1998).
5. This is the only time where Joyce takes direct action along with the other Scoobies, without being taken, targeted or held hostage by an enemy.
6. Xander had Cordelia's flyer for Homecoming Queen on his locker door.
7. Snyder states that he practiced Tae Kwon Do which is Sarah Michelle Gellar's martial art.
8. When Principal Snyder tells Buffy and Willow to refer to just by his last name, Snyder, like Barbarino, he is referring to the character, Vinny Barbarino, played by John Travolta in the 70s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
9. This comment from Buffy was cut for length: "I love that you guys love torches." A chant by the Lurconis summoners was also cut.
10. The Cream song that Giles and Joyce listen to ("Tales of Brave Ulysses") is played after Joyce's funeral. Giles listens to it in season five's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Forever (2001).
11. When she and Willow find their teachers at the Bronze, Buffy makes a reference to the song "Let's Do the Time Warp Again," from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Anthony Head played Frank N. Furter in the 1990-91 West End revival of that show at London's Piccadilly Theatre.
12. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Earshot (1999) Buffy learns that Giles and Joyce actually did have sex. Twice.

Revelations

1. The lightning that shoots from the Glove of Myneghon was drawn frame by frame by an artist per Joss Whedon's request.
2. Cordelia is doubtful about Angel in this exchange cut due to length: Cordelia: "Okay, but when there's a big massacre, who gets the I-told-you-so?"Xander: "You get the I-told-you-so."Cordelia: "Just so we're clear..."
3. This is the first time where electricity and lightning are magically manipulated.
4. Faith's comment on the interior design of the hotel room was cut: "The decorator just left. Cost me a pretty penny - but a motif like this don't come cheap."
5. This was the Buffy script written by Douglas Petrie.
6. The incantation Gwendolyn Post uses to shoot lightening with the Glove of Lagos are actually Gaelic. The words are "Tân fri", roughly translated as "prestige fire".
7. The first time Faith and Angel meet starting an interesting relationship through both Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and Angel (1999) series and, eventually, their own comic series.
8. Giles' comments about the memo he didn't receive (about Post's expulsion from the ranks of the Watchers) furthers the background theme of his isolation from the rest of the Watchers' Council which begins in his musings about the enjoyable Watchers' retreats in the Cotswolds, to which he was not invited this year, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith, Hope & Trick (1998).
9. This marks the beginning of Faith's turning against the others. It begins with a high point in her relationship with Buffy, and ends with her feeling dejected and betrayed.
10. The glove is shown as being left-handed but Gwendolyn Post puts the glove on her right hand.

Lovers Walk

1. According to James Marsters he burnt his hand quite badly whilst filming the scene where Spike is struck by sunlight while passed out drunk. But rather than go to the on-set medic, he pretended everything was fine and went to a hospital directly after shooting wrapped.
2. Buffy's last words to Angel ("Tell me that you don't love me") are identical to the script she and Angel were forced to re-enact when possessed by the ghosts of a murder-suicide couple in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I Only Have Eyes for You (1998).
3. Spike and Drusilla were inspired by Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Spike sings along to the Gary Oldman cover of "My Way" by Sex Pistols at the end.
4. The title has been cited on listings, books, and DVD covers and menus variously as "Lovers Walk", "Lover's Walk", and "Lovers' Walk". However, the introduction to Rhonda Wilcox's Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer says: "The script apparently does not carry an apostrophe, making for a short, sad, declarative sentence for a title." Therefore, the title "Lovers Walk" seems the most definitive.
5. The set outside the magic store is the same set they used for the entrance and outside of the later magic store of Giles and Anya.
6. This was screenwriter Dan Vebber's first script for the show.
7. Immediately after the first airing, the "A Buffy Christmas" advertisement began airing.
8. This is Spike's only appearance in season three. It was his performance that convinced Joss Whedon to bring Spike back as a series regular in season four.
9. As a child, Charisma Carpenter really was impaled on a rebar. She was playing in the backyard of her house, where they were building a pool. There was no fence around it, and she slipped in and punctured her stomach on a piece of rebar poking out of the concrete. The scar is visible sometimes after when Cordy is in the nude, but not worse than an appendectomy.
10. Spike foreshadowed his relationship with Buffy when he said, "You'll fight, you'll shag, you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends."
11. Spike's arrival in Sunnydale in the opening is a near-perfect recreation of his arrival in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: School Hard (1997), right up until he rams his car into the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign. Spike later knocks over a different sign when he destroys Sunnydale in the Series 7 finale Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen (2003). The sign remains standing for a moment after the town is destroyed, then collapses into the crater.
12. At one point, Spike confides to Willow that his alliance with Buffy in the Season 2 finale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming: Part 2 (1998) was the reason why Drusilla dumped him. "It was that truce with Buffy that did it; she said I'd gone soft". This is important and will come into play in the rest of the series; in Season 5 it is revealed that Drusilla knew that Spike was in love with Buffy before he realized it himself.
13. This is the only time in the series (as well as Angel (1999)) that Buffy, Angel, and Spike are all in the same scenes together.
14. Joyce amiably hosts Spike in her house for the first time. This pattern will repeat several times later in the series.
15. Buffy re-invites Angel into her house. He never reenters her house after this season.
16. This marks an early example of Willow automatically turning to magic to solve human problems and make her own life easier. As her powers grow stronger, so does her impulse to use magic as a catch-all problem solver and to manipulate human emotions. Eventually (in season six), it becomes an addiction and has drastic repercussions on her life, which foreshadows her turn to evil , when she again abuses magic for vengeance for Tara, with more destructive results.
17. Cordelia asks "what kind of moron would ever want to come back here" (to Sunnydale). After season three, she never came back to Sunnydale-the moron in question turns out to be Spike.
18. When discussing their feeling for one another, Buffy remarked to Angel that she could not fool Spike when it came to hiding her emotions. Spike would later realize that he was, in fact, in love with Buffy, and she grew to have feelings for him as well.
19. Willow comforts Spike in a similar manner in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Initiative (1999).
20. Cordy and Oz find out about Willow and Xander's "affair".
21. Cordelia and Xander break up.
22. Spike and Buffy fight together for the first time

The Wish

1. The vampire dusting effect now starts to feature the vampire's skeleton as they turn to dust.
2. This is the first mention of Cleveland, Ohio as another Hellmouth and center of demon activity.
3. Some viewers have claimed that Faith is visible in the background, being bitten by a vampire in the Wishverse. In actuality, the woman is simply a background extra with a similar hairstyle to Eliza Dushku.
4. Joss Whedon ranked this as his sixth favorite of the entire series in The Last Sundown featurette of the Buffy Season 7 DVD, and is notable for being the only one on the list that was not at least partially written by him (although he was uncredited for his writing contribution for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Conversations with Dead People (2002) which ranked ninth on the list)
5. The top worn by Alyson Hannigan as Vampire Willow was reused as a costume for Lindsey Stoddart, who played Katie Ney (the Mayor's wife) in Bones: The Man with the Bone (2006). Both shows starred David Boreanaz.
6. Jesse McNally, Darla and Luke did not appear in the Wishverse. While it's entirely feasible that Jesse was killed prior to these events, it is unknown what happened to Darla and Luke, considering they were the main disciples of The Master.
7. Along with Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland (1999), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Prom (1999) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day: Part 1 (1999), this is the first of only four times in which both Cordelia and Anya appear, and the only one in which they have an exchange of dialogue.
8. Buffy's talk with Cordelia outside the Bronze mirrors the talk they had in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When She Was Bad (1997), only in reverse roles.
9. It is mentioned that vampires are attracted to bright colors. This is only explicitly mentioned in the Wishverse, but Spike later admits to wanting to bite Willow while she was in her "pink frilly number," and it is logical that people wearing bright colors would be caught more easily.
10. This is the only time we see Cordelia's room.
11. This is the first appearance of The Master since Buffy the Vampire Slayer: When She Was Bad (1997), and the first appearance of Mark Metcalf since Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Prophecy Girl (1997).
12. When Xander throws a match at Angel, Willow remarks that the match almost lit her hair. In Dead Man on Campus (1998), Alyson Hannigan's character got her hair lit on fire.
13. Angel does not appear in the scenes taking place in the main reality, as he is keeping his distance from Buffy after the events of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Lovers Walk (1998).
14. Xander Harris in the Wishverse is very intrigued by the Slayer, demonstrating a possible attraction for her like his mainstream counterpart. However, this version of Xander had also a comportment similar to Spike when he learned of the existence of the Slayer in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fool for Love (2000), foreshadowing his future attraction to Buffy.
15. This is the second time Cordelia would be caught outside the Bronze in garbage, the first being in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Some Assembly Required (1997).
16. Amy is mentioned, but does not appear.
17. Anya has a deepened voice in her demon form. Since she never uses this in seasons six and seven, it's likely she has the power of Voice Manipulation, which is the first time the power appears in the series.
18. The Buffy from the alternate reality has a scar above her lip, like Melaka Fray.
19. Anyanka was introduced as a one-shot character but was brought back for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland (1999) where she was made more humorous. When the producers realized how funny Emma Caulfield Ford was they simply kept bringing her back, until she was made a regular cast member (including appearing in the opening credits) at the start of season five.
20. In the alternate reality, as in the original, Buffy is killed by the Master as foretold in the Pergamum Codex.
21. The scene where Cordelia walks through Sunnydale's main street finding it a deserted wasteland with the populace too frightened to venture out at night is repeated shot by shot in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland (1999) where Vampire Willow finds it full of happy people. Although she never witnesses it, this one shot encapsulates the difference Buffy coming to Sunnydale makes; that things would be infinitely worse without her. This is especially relevant to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gingerbread (1999) where Joyce questions whether Buffy really does any good by being the Slayer.
22. In this alternate reality, several regular and recurring characters take on the roles of different characters from the main reality: vamp Willow and Xander display most of the Spike/Drusilla traits; Oz and Larry working with Giles are very similar to the original Willow and Xander, with Oz being the smart observer, and Larry the comic relief; even the alternate Buffy looks, talks and behaves much like Kendra. Of the main cast, Giles and Cordelia are the ones that closest resemble their original selves.
23. Many have commented on the father/daughter-like relationship we later witness between D'Hoffryn and his female Vengeance Demons, Anyanka and Halfrek. In the scene where Cordelia remarks on Anya's magical necklace, given to her by D'Hoffryn, Anya states it was a gift from her father.
24. This marks the first time in which an evil form of Willow says her catchphrase: "Bored now." She later repeats this as Vamp Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland (1999) and as Dark Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Villains (2002).
25. Even in the alternate reality, the prophecy of the Pergamum Codex still comes to pass as The Master kills Buffy in both realities. However, Buffy could not have been revived, as neck snapping is irreversible.
26. Two lines were cut from Giles' conversation with Anyanka: (Giles: "Cordelia Chase, what did she wish for?") (Anyanka: "I had no idea her wish would be so exciting. Brave new world. I hope she likes it.") Giles: "She's dead." Anyanka: "It happens."
27. This is the first time (although in a parallel world) when Buffy's violent and somehow sadistic-masochistic behavior show.
28. This marks Anya's first appearance. At the start, after Buffy slays the demon, Willow asks, "Isn't he gonna go poof?" She would say the same line on Xander and Anya's wedding day in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hell's Bells (2002).
29. Giles's exposition was changed: "Anyanka raised a demon to ruin her unfaithful lover. The demon did her bidding - but then cursed her and turned her into a sort of patron saint for scorned women. Apparently the cry of a wronged woman is like a siren's call to Anyanka." Because of this alteration to Giles' dialogue, the first direct mention of Anya having been human before she was a vengeance demon comes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Something Blue (1999). However, the aired "The Wish" does still have Giles say that destroying Anyanka's power center will make her an ordinary woman "again", implying that she had been one before. This version of events is different from what would eventually be established in "Something Blue", Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Triangle (2001) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Selfless (2002) (though the tome Giles is reading from might not be 100% accurate): Anya cursed her unfaithful lover Olaf herself, attracting the attention of the demon D'Hoffryn, and accepted D'Hoffryn's offer to "elevate" her to demon status.
30. There is no mention of Jenny Calendar, who would have never been killed by Angelus. Her main duty was to watch over Angel and keep him from the Slayer, which is presumably unnecessary with the two so far apart.
31. The cross that Buffy-from-Cleveland wears is significantly larger and more prominent than the one that Angel gave her in "our" Buffy's world.
32. Anya's first arrival happens to serve revenge on Xander, whom she later ends up falling in love with. Although Cordelia ironically wishes Xander will never feel the touch of a woman he eventually will from Anya.
33. This premise, along with that of Angel: Birthday (2002), are very similar: a dissatisfied and disillusioned Cordelia makes a pact with a higher power (Anyanka and The Powers That Be, respectively) to have history rewritten (in "The Wish," Cordelia wished Buffy had never came to Sunnydale, while in "Birthday," Cordelia wishes that she had never met up with Angel at a party in L.A., instead running into a talent agent who makes her into a celebrity), resulting in a future which Cordelia initially appreciates, but soon regrets due to the tragedies that resulted from her decision. In both, the future is returned to normal, the only difference being that in "Birthday" Cordelia is the one to change time back to normal, while in "The Wish" it is Giles.
34. When Buffy-from-Cleveland says, "I don't play well with others," this is the ultimate proof that Cordelia's wish really brought us into another universe, although some have tried to argue otherwise.
35. This is the only time where Cordelia and Anya having direct interaction. Although they both play primary love interests to Xander, the two outspoken women only speak to one another here. As Charisma Carpenter moved to Angel (1999), leaving Emma Caulfield Ford to fill the "Blunt Void."
36. Throughout season 3 the phrase I wish is regularly used by various characters. This episode demonstrates the dangers of wishing.

Amends

1. The only Christmas episode in the show's run.
2. Reveals the real reason Angel was brought back from the Hell universe.
3. The flashback scenes take place in Dublin on December 25, 1838 and London on December 25, 1883.
4. Giles mocks his book's description of the Bringers with the following line: "They're rebels and they'll never, ever be any good." This is a reference to the song "He's a Rebel" by the 60's band, The Crystals.
5. The snow was artificial, as southern California was going through an extreme heat-wave at the time. The ground would have been too warm to accumulate that much precipitation so quickly, let alone at all.
6. Final appearance of Jenny Calendar.
7. The miraculous snowfall just before dawn possibly marks the first "appearance" of the Powers-That-Be, the benevolent higher beings that send messages through a conduit in order to fight evil on the mortal plane. It is revealed in his spinoff that Angel is prophesized to play a key role in the apocalypse, but since it's not told what side he'll be on, both good and evil strive to sway Angel one way or the other. The sun being blocked out may have been the Powers-That-Be interfering in order to keep Angel alive for their own purposes and to thwart the First Evil
8. The area where Angel attempts suicide is the same area where Dark Willow will attempt to destroy the world in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Grave (2002), at which time its name is finally revealed as Kingman's Bluff.
9. First appearance of the First, or First Evil, which will feature significantly in Season 7.
10. The First's prediction "Sooner or later, you will drink her" ends up being accurate, since Angel drinks Buffy's blood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day: Part 2 (1999).
11. Robia Scott was happy to be asked back to reprise the role of Jenny Calendar, but in later interviews, she stated that had she known she was to play the personification of the First Evil, she would not have taken the job, as she is a born-again Christian, and the First is the Buffyverse equivalent of Satan.
12. The First is able to touch Angel and even hold his hands. However, when The First reappears in season seven, it is well established that it has no physical form and cannot touch anything or anyone.
13. Oz asks Willow if she's ever had a dream where she doesn't really know her lines or even the plot. In the season four finale Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Restless (2000), Willow has a dream that starts off in the exact same scenario.

Gingerbread

1. The only appearance of Willow's mother Sheila Rosenberg.
2. Ironically, for a message about criticizing censorship, the BBC censored the scene when Buffy stakes the demon through the throat.
3. The German used on the screen when they are looking up articles isn't correct and seems to have been translated by someone who had either very little or no knowledge at all of the German language.
4. The Californian town of Torrance, where much of Buffy was filmed, was one of the areas affected by the 'Satanic Panic' child abuse hysteria of the early 80s.
5. Cordelia asked Giles rhetorically, "How many times have you been knocked out, anyway?" Giles has been rendered unconscious on an almost regular basis.
6. When the camera pans out of Willow and Amy's coven, first revealing the symbol they were gathered around, the faint laugh of Kakistos can be heard in the background. It's the laugh he uttered after telling Buffy she needed a bigger stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith, Hope & Trick (1998).
7. The future director Jerome Elston Scott played the stoner boy who is led away from his locker in the opening scene.
8. Amy and Willow have something in common in this exchange cut due to length: Amy: "Oh, God, and Mr. Nyman that thing he does with his face..."Willow: "The thing with the face! When he makes a point, the - I always think he's going to sneeze!"Amy: "I thought I was the only one who saw it."
9. Xander reveals that he "reads" Playboy magazine. Charisma Carpenter and Mercedes McNab would later go on to pose for the magazine, as would Kristy Swanson, who starred in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). Playmates Daphne Duplaix (Miss July 1997) and Jaime Bergman (Miss January 1999) would both appear on Angel (1999), with Bergman later marrying David Boreanaz.
10. Snyder paraphrases Apocalypse Now (1979), which he will appear in a parody of in season 4.
11. When the Scooby Gang are investigating the deceased children, they come across an article written by "Howard Fine". This is a possible reference to the Three Stooges, whose last names were Howard (Moe, Curly and Shemp) and Fine (Larry).
12. Angel's speech to Buffy about purposes for fighting evil is reminiscent to the speech he gives Kate Lockley in Angel: Epiphany (2001).
13. The opening credits finished a half-second earlier than usual, slightly trimming the end theme's final note. Presumably, this was done because of time constraints.
14. This story uses the Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel." The Brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm) are later alluded to. When Xander and Oz come up against some adult men, Xander says "Why so grim?"
15. The original victim of the demonic children was the witch from Hansel and Gretel. Emma Caulfield Ford later played this very witch on Once Upon a Time (2011).
16. This marks the beginning of Cordelia's gradual return to the Scooby-gang.

Helpless

1. On the original idea presented by writer David Fury, the drug Giles gives Buffy would make her hallucinate that her mother and friends had turned into vampires, but with Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Wish (1998) so close in time, Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt changed the content of the Council test.
2. This marks the only time Buffy celebrates her birthday without Spike featured in any way.
3. The story had the working title "Eighteen" as it is set around Buffy's eighteenth birthday.
4. Buffy is disappointed by both of her father figures. Her father does not follow through on their tradition of attending the ice show and Giles betrays her trust.
5. Sutherland couldn't stand the vampire makeup.Deleted Scenes Buffy lists some good things about being a normal girl in this exchange cut for length: Buffy: "I mean, there's a plus side to being a regular girl. The whole not-bleeding-killing-and-dying experience."Willow: "As for example."Buffy: "Then there's buying outfits without worrying if they're good for bleeding-killing-and-dying in. There's a lot of good to it."
6. The scene where Buffy is chased through the alleyway is reminiscent of Sarah Michelle Gellar's chase scene in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).
7. David Haydn-Jones who plays Hobson, went on to play Arthur Ketch on The CW's Supernatural (2005).
8. Buffy says her father takes her to the ice show for her birthday every year, but there was no mention of the tradition a year earlier in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Surprise (1998). Hank most likely took her, off-camera, on one of the few days surrounding the birthday.
9. Jeff Kober (Kralik) has previously played a vampire on the short lived TV show Kindred: The Embraced (1996).
10. David Fury named the vampire Zachary Kralik after his nephew, who was then 4 years old, according to the DVD commentary.
11. David Fury, who created the character of Quentin Travers, says in the DVD commentary that he wanted a "very British" name, and combined the names of Quentin Crisp and P.L. Travers (author of "Mary Poppins").
12. The book Angel gives Buffy is a book of love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning called "Sonnets from the Portugese" (1850).
13. Jeff Kober, who plays the vampire Kralik, later played the warlock Rack, a recurring character in Season 6.
14. This is the only time in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) that holy water is used to kill a vampire, by making him actually drink it. It is used at other times to injure or torture a vampire, splashing or pouring it on the skin, but this is the only time a vampire is killed using it.
15. Giles being fired from the Council paves the way for Buffy's rebellion against the Council, and her decision to operate outside their authority. The separation of Council and Slayer - and Giles' own situation with the Council - will not be solved until Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Checkpoint (2001).
16. This marks the first of many severe falling outs that Giles and Buffy continued to have throughout the years.
17. When Buffy walks home alone, and is first harassed by 2 human men, and is then attacked by Zachary Kralik and the other vampire before being rescued by Giles, she is wearing a red hooded coat. This is an obvious reference to Little Red Riding Hood, which in itself an allegory for helpless (this episode's title) girls being constantly set upon by men (wolves).
18. This marks the beginning of Buffy's estrangement from her father. Eventually, Hank begins a relationship with his secretary, and severs all ties with his former family until season 6, when he appears to be in contact with Dawn via phone.
19. Head of the Watcher's Council, Quentin Travers, is seen for the first time. He will reappear several times, usually in opposition to Buffy's methods and activities.
20. This is he first time that Giles betrays Buffy. The council has been edging out Giles from communiques and Council events. Giles has misgivings about putting Buffy through this, like giving Buffy drug injections, and yet he proceeds, possibly selfishly to get back into the Watcher's Council's good graces.
21. This is the first time a vampire nearly kills Buffy with her own stake. The second instance is in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fool for Love (2000), where she actually is stabbed.

The Zeppo

1. In an August 2013 Entertainment Weekly interview, Joss Whedon said that his then-upcoming ABC/Marvel comics television show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) would be "basically a TV series of "The Zeppo", which was a very deliberate deconstruction in order to star the person who mattered the least. The people who are ignored are the people I've been writing as my heroes from day one."
2. Nicholas Brendon cried when he read the script because he was "so delighted with it, and its meaning for his character."
3. The structure and concept of this script (which for the most part follows Xander on what would be a subplot, while the series' more conventionally main characters are relegated to the background) is an homage to Tom Stoppard's 1967 existentialist play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', which follows the action of two relatively minor characters from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" while using the actual main plot and characters from 'Hamlet' as occasional background and diversion.
4. One of the thirteen apocalypses the gang will face. It is also the second and final time the Hellmouth monster appears.
5. "Zeppo" (Herbert Manfred) Marx was the fifth and youngest of The Marx Brothers, after Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, and Gummo Marx. Although he was a performer (unlike Gummo), he was rarely given much comedic material, usually playing the "straight man" in the Marx's plays and movies instead - hence Cordelia's insult to Xander that he is nonessential to Buffy and the gang and therefore the "Zeppo" of the group. Zeppo Marx stopped appearing in films after Duck Soup (1933), and formed a theatrical agency with Gummo.
6. The shot of the cafeteria food - sauerkraut, hot dogs, and spaghetti - is the same clip used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I Only Have Eyes for You (1998). At that time, the food turns into snakes.
7. The multi-headed demon is the same one that attacked Giles, Willow, Cordelia and Jenny in the library when the Master's ascension opened the Hellmouth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Prophecy Girl (1997). The Master's death caused the demon to retreat back into the Hellmouth.
8. Jack's comment was cut for length: "That's it. No way am I bringing him back after I kill him."
9. Xander asks Oz if it is hard to play guitar. In his dream in the opening of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Teacher's Pet (1997), he was playing a guitar solo on stage at the the Bronze. He may have started to learn as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (1998), he has an acoustic guitar in his room.
10. As a precaution, Willow places Oz in a basement storeroom while in werewolf form. This is the first time that he is shown in a place other than the book cage.
11. It is well known that members of the group that are hired "To Serve and To Protect" a.k.a. cops often survive on coffee and doughnuts. This must be the ultimate food of heroes as the Scooby Gang also gear up their research parties by consuming mass quantities of donuts. Giles' favorite being jelly filled. He is very disconcerted at 14:33 to discover that all the "jellies" have been eaten. Willow throws Buffy under the doughnut-bus by saying; "We're sorry. Buffy ate 3!" (this is out of the 4 Xander bought earlier that day).
12. Xander loses his virginity to Faith. This will be brought up in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Consequences (1999), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Harsh Light of Day (1999), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Who Are You? (2000), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Empty Places (2003). Xander becomes the third Scooby Gang member to lose his virginity, after Cordelia (mentioned in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bad Eggs (1998) ) and Buffy (in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Surprise (1998) ).

Bad Girls

1. Alyson Hannigan first met future-husband Alexis Denisof on the set. While Alyson was immediately attracted to Alexis and asked him out, he declined saying that he didn't date coworkers. The two remained friends for over a year before they started dating. They married on October 11th, 2003.
2. First appearance of Wesley Wyndam-Price.
3. Willow receives an acceptance letter from Wesleyan, the university that Alyson Hannigan's character Lily on How I Met Your Mother (2005) attended
4. Buffy originally said a little more to Faith in the last scene: "I know you think you can handle this. And you've gotten used to being on your own. You've got your tough loner act down pretty well."
5. Willow gives Buffy the protection spell she has been working on since Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gingerbread (1999) in a lavender-scented pouch.
6. The song playing during Faith and Buffy's dance at the Bronze is also the song playing during the opening sequence of the Season 3 DVDs.
7. An early draft gave Willow's middle name as Danielle.
8. Oz wears a T-shirt for the early English punk band Eater.
9. When Faith is "violently" dancing at the Bronze, she demonstrate a sexual promiscuity with three guys who seem friends, suggesting an eventual foursome. She will reproduce the same effect in a night-club in L.A. before meeting Lilah Morgan in Angel: Five by Five (2000).
10. At the end, when Buffy goes to talk to Faith, she was supposed to have discovered Faith dead, having hanged herself, this was planned until they decided to further Faith's character on the show.
11. The Mayor's ToDo list reads: Greet Scouts-check, Plumber Union Reschedule-check, Call Temp Agency-check, Become Invincible-check, Meeting With PTA, and Haircut.
12. One of the colleges from which Willow receives acceptance letters is Wesleyan University, Joss Whedon's alma mater.
13. First time a human, albeit a slimy one, is killed by a slayer.
14. When Buffy tells Faith "I hate it when they drown me," it's an allusion to the season one finale in which the Master drowns Buffy (she was revived by CPR).
15. This is a major turning point of season three. Faith has been a loose cannon with issues of trust, and she enjoys slaying a little too much, but she has been fighting for the right cause. She won't be for much longer. The Mayor's plan becomes clearer, and Wesley has arrived and will bug the Scoobies until the end of this season.

Consequences

1. Angel seems to be able to get through to Faith, a theme that will be picked up much later when the two meet in Angel: Five by Five (2000).
2. When Buffy confronts Faith at the docks, the ship in the background is the Tanager. This same vessel also featured prominently in The Usual Suspects (1995).
3. Finch's death is the third murder investigation in which Buffy has been involved in less than two years. She was previously suspected in the deaths of her would-be stepfather, the robot Ted (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ted (1997)), and fellow Slayer Kendra (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming: Part 2 (1998)). Additionally, both of the previous cases were investigated by the same detective, Paul Stein.
4. Although credited, Oz does not appear as Seth Green was away filming Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). This is the only time during Season 3 that a main character is absent.
5. Faith says to Buffy "We are the law." Later, Buffy mentions in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Selfless (2002) that she was the law.
6. Wesley is shocked to learn that Cordelia is a student at Sunnydale High (and not a teacher, as he first assumed), since this means that she is a lot younger than him. In real life, Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) was 28 years old when this scene was filmed and additionally, she is only four years younger than Alexis Denisof (Wesley). In fact, in real life, Alexis Denisof would later go on to marry co-star Alyson Hannigan (Willow), who is younger than him by eight years.
7. This exchange was cut for length: Angel: "You and me, Faith, we're a lot alike." Faith: "Well, you're kind of dead..." Angel: "Like I said. A lot alike." Faith: "Sorry, buddy. I'm alive and kicking. In fact, I've got a bodily function that needs attending to pretty quick here." Angel: "You're not alive. You're just running. Afraid to feel. Afraid to be touched..." Faith: "Save it for Hallmark. I have to pee."
8. The telephone number that Wesley dials when contacting the Watchers Council regarding Faith appears to be a correct one, which is unusual for television and film. The international calling code from the US to the UK is 011-44-telephone number. On screen, we clearly see Wesley dialing 11-44-the rest of the number.
9. Despite failing to help Faith change here, Angel helps her seek redemption over a year later and she willingly sends herself to prison for her crimes, only breaking out when Angel needs her help.
10. Faith follows Angel as a character who fights on Buffy's side but later turns into a villain. While Angel's turn was sudden and caused by his curse, Faith's transformation is more gradual. The seeds were planted in her first appearance.
11. Cordelia and Wesley meet each other for the first time. The two will become each other's superficial love interests until Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day: Part 2 (1999). Later, on Angel (1999), the two become very close friends and coworkers.
12. The events of here are one of the primary reasons Wesley is eventually dismissed from the Watchers Council, as revealed in Angel: Parting Gifts (1999).
13. Buffy seeing Mayor Wilkins and Mr. Trick together provides the Scoobies with their first concrete evidence that the Mayor is not what he seems and will become a problem.
14. After the death of Mr. Trick, Faith firmly casts her lot in with the Mayor, representing the first conscious, definitive break from the good side she has taken.
15. Only the third time the police forensics are involved in a death. The first time was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ted (1997) in season 2, the second in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gingerbread (1999).

Doppelgangland

1. Joss Whedon liked the character of Vampire Willow when she was first introduced in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Wish (1998) so much that he wrote this specifically for her.
2. Joss Whedon commented, "God, some of the funniest stuff we ever did was in that episode, but also the scene where they find out that Willow is alive and everybody, everybody, is so goddamn funny. It's Giles, Xander, Willow and Buffy, the fearsome foursome."
3. The scene where Vampire Willow walks down Sunnydale's main street, finding it full of happy people, is a shot-for-shot recreation of Cordelia walking through the same area in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Wish (1998). However, Cordelia's experience is the direct opposite of Vampire Willow's. Although she never witnesses it, this one shot encapsulates the difference made by Buffy's appearance in Sunnydale. This is especially relevant in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gingerbread (1999), where Joyce questions whether or not Buffy really does any good by being the Slayer.
4. This is one of Alyson Hannigan's favorites.
5. Willow and Anya first meet marking the beginning of their mutual dislike, which would be a love/hate relationship until the end. It was also the first time they cast a spell together.
6. This is not the only time Alyson Hannigan has played her own doppelganger. In How I Met Your Mother (2005), her character, Lily, has a stripper doppelganger.
7. Devon offers Angel a different career track in a cut scene: Devon: "Hey, man, how'd you like to be our roadie?" Angel: "Less than you'd think." And Xander takes responsibility in this exchange also cut: Xander: "It's all my fault." Giles: "What makes you say that?" Xander: "I don't know... Statistical probability."
8. Alyson Hannigan loved her vampire make-up so much that she was made up again as "Vampire Willow" to attend a Halloween party that same year.
9. The term from the title "doppelgänger' refers to a duplicate or double of a person or their mirror image or reflection. In the myth, it absolutely doesn't mean that one is all good and the other is all evil. For instance, the generous one can be violent and the peaceful one can be greedy.
10. This is one of Joss Whedon's ten favorite.
11. Xander later suggested that Willow would not handle having an evil twin any better than he did in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Replacement (2000). This prompted Willow to state "I handled it fine," referring to these events.
12. Vampire Willow comments that in her world there are "people in chains and we can ride them like ponies". According to Kelly A. Manners, Joss Whedon would occasionally get down on all fours and give Alyson Hannigan and Sarah Michelle Gellar pony rides around the production office.
13. This marks the first appearance of D'Hoffryn, Anya's boss when she was a demon.
14. Audience members catch their first glimpse of Wesley's gallantry when he rushes to Cordelia's rescue.
15. Willow comments that her vampire self seemed "kind of gay." Buffy remarks that vampires and their human counterparts are nothing alike, but Angel began to correct this before letting the matter go. This foreshadowed Willow's homosexuality in Season Four and onward. Also, Willow's jokes about her and Oz "playing Mistress of Pain" might implicate a preference for BDSM, as shown by her vampire self in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Wish (1998), as she tortured Angel with sadistic playfulness.
16. Sandy, the woman Vampire Willow bit in the Bronze, will appear again as a vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Family (2000) and then again in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Shadow (2000), where she ultimately meets her end.
17. Dark Willow later repeated Vampire Willow's phrase, "Bored now", before skinning Warren Mears in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Villains (2002).
18. First appearance of character Sandy. She appears again in season five's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Family (2000) and again in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Shadow (2000).
19. The top worn by Alyson Hannigan as Vampire Willow was reused as a costume for Lindsey Stoddart, who played Katie Ney (the Mayor's wife) in Bones: The Man with the Bone (2006). Both shows starred David Boreanaz.
20. Percy later mentioned the time that Vampire Willow attacked him, still unaware it wasn't his reality's Willow, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day: Part 2 (1999).
21. Principal Snyder references the events of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Go Fish (1998) where he, similar to this, wanted Willow to unfairly pass a lazy jock because of his importance to the Swim Team, which he claims was a debacle, which would be true considering four of their best players became monsters.
22. When Willow is impersonating Vampire Willow in the Bronze, she strokes a girls hair. This girl looks remarkably like Tara (Willow's season 4-6 love interest). This foreshadows Willow's sexuality along with the fact that Willow questions Vampire Willow's sexuality.
23. This is the 50th show of the series. David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter and Alexis Denisof all also appeared in the 50th show of Angel (1999), Angel: Billy (2001).

Enemies

1. After meeting Skyler, Buffy allows him to depart unharmed rather than slaying him, noting that he seems harmless. This marks the widening of one of the Buffyverse's overall themes, that demons are capable of being benign whereas soulless vampires are not, a concept introduced in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming: Part 1 (1998) and explored more fully in Angel (1999).
2. The movie that Buffy and Angel are walking out of, Le Banquet D Amelia, is not a real movie.
3. The Shaman's spell is in Arabic translated to: "O demon, your soul stay no more..."
4. Faith was originally supposed to kiss Buffy on the lips.
5. When the Mayor suggests miniature golf to take her mind off her troubles, Eliza Dushku's laughing at the absurdity wasn't scripted.
6. The Mayor worries that killing Buffy would bring about another Slayer, not knowing that the Slayer line begins with Faith, and not Buffy.
7. This marks the return of Cordelia as a regular member of the Scooby gang. She is taking part in research without any back story and will be a regular part of each adventure from now on.
8. Wesley displayed a sense of humour in a line cut from the script: "You failed in last night's mission because you lacked faith. If you had simply...'Lacked Faith'. A pun. From me! Well. Bet you never thought I had the funny in me, eh?"
9. Buffy and Willow had an exchange cut due to length: Buffy: "I can't stop thinking about that demon." Willow: "'Cause of him being chopped up into little bits and all?" Buffy: "Yeah, Will, let's keep bringing on the visuals."
10. Faith is freaked out about killing a demon and having its literal blood on her hands. This is the first of two incidents of this nature, the second is Angel: Sanctuary (2000).
11. Wilkins shows again his strange father-daughter relationship with Faith when he asks Angel to bring her back before 11 o'clock. Faith reveals the deep resentment she has kept behind her happy-go-lucky face.
12. In Season 2, makeup was added to David Boreanaz so that Angelus appeared noticeably more pale than Angel, differentiating the two. Although Angel imitates Angelus' slow, deliberate pace of speaking, his skin tone remains normal, a hint to the audience that Angel is only pretending to be Angelus.
13. Joss Whedon states in an interview on the Season 3 DVDs that fans had been eager to see Angelus again.
14. A sorcerer quite similar to the Shrouded Man in appearance and power appears in Angel: Awakening (2003) (where he does in fact remove Angel's soul, as the Shrouded Man only pretends to do) and Angel: Calvary (2003).
15. Faith's turn to the dark side becomes public knowledge.

Earshot

1. The final scene, in which Giles walks into a tree, was not in the shooting script. It was a last minute addition by Anthony Head, intending to provide the scene with more comic relief.
2. According to Jane Espenson, the fact Joyce and Giles had sex under the influence of the chocolate bars in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Band Candy (1998) was confirmed because she was shocked fans still weren't sure about it.
3. We learn in this episode that Sunnydale High has a high enough mortality rate for the school newspaper to run a regular obituaries section.
4. When the gang are together in the library, Oz thinks to himself "I am my thoughts. If they exist in her, Buffy contains everything that is me, and she becomes me. I cease to exist". This is a nod to French philosopher René Descartes, who came up with the Latin phrase "Cogito, ergo sum" which translates to "I think, therefore I am". Descartes used it to prove his own existence, claiming his ability to form thoughts made him a real, living, human being. On her DVD commentary, writer Jane Espenson says that Joss Whedon suggested Oz's reaction by telling Jane to "write him something that sounds like something Friedrich Nietzsche would have said in the situation."
5. The stunt double for the lunch lady was extremely obvious because of the massive size difference. Jane Espenson identified this issue in the DVD commentary, in which she claimed most people assumed the stunt was done by a man instead of a woman.
6. Buffy's class discuss Shakespeare's Othello in English class. Previous drafts of the script had them discussing Henry VIII or The Catcher in the Rye, but Joss Whedon rewrote the scene to make it tie in with Buffy's feelings.
7. The Sunnydale High School clock tower was constructed especially for this show. It will be seen only one more time in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day: Part 2 (1999).
8. According to Jane Espenson, Joss Whedon hates having demons with tails on the show, as the tails almost never look realistic. That was parodied with Buffy checking if she has one.
9. On the DVD commentary, writer Jane Espenson says that she named the character of basketball star Hogan Martin after a gymnast in her high school.
10. Despite the fact that Jonathan is planning to commit suicide, very few people who use a gun for the act use a rifle. Almost all gun suicides are committed with a handgun. It is also a fact that in states with the highest number of people who own guns also have the highest suicide rates.
11. Xander interrogates possible suspects for the mass murder using the FBI's serial killer profiles. Nicholas Brendon would later become a recurring guest star on Criminal Minds (2005), playing a computer expert who aids FBI profilers in catching serial killers.
12. Mulligan stew: a stew put together by several homeless people by combining whatever food they have or can collect.
13. Buffy's line "Say 'Uncle'. Oops. No mouth." was cut for time.
14. When Buffy hears Cordelia's thoughts it's apparent that she always says exactly what she's thinking.
15. This was about a student planning to kill himself on the school campus. It was filmed before the Columbine massacre, but it was scheduled to air a week after the shooting and was delayed until the next season. Due to the weapon he would have used, a sniper rifle, and being in a clock tower, many people are under the mistaken impression that he was planning mass murder. This was also contributed to by the fact that Buffy did telepathically hear thoughts of somebody planning to kill all the students, but it wasn't a student.
16. Joss Whedon wrote two scenes. The scene in the classroom where Othello is discussed, and the scene in the clock tower between Buffy and Jonathan.
17. In her commentary on the DVD, writer Jane Espenson reveals that when she found out that she was going to write this, she knew that she wanted the student in the tower to be Jonathan. Even though Danny Strong had only had small, comedic parts on the series over the years, she had faith that he would be able to handle the dramatic scene.
18. When Willow is interrogating Jonathan she tells him, "We all have fantasies where we're powerful and respected, where people pay attention to us. But sometimes the fantasy isn't enough, is it Jonathan? Sometimes we have to make it so people don't ignore us, make them pay attention." This is a foreshadowing of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Superstar (2000) in which Jonathan does an augmentation spell thus creating an alternate reality where he's famous and admired by everyone.
19. When Buffy tells her friends that someone was thinking about killing students, Xander quips that the lunch lady will "do us all in with that Mulligan stew." Coincidentally, it was in fact the lunch lady who was planning to poison the students. Xander would do something similar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Him (2002).
20. Jonathan is suspected of plotting a mass shooting. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: First Date (2003), in the form of the First Evil, he does actually plot a mass shooting.

Choices

1. This is the first time that Buffy and the Mayor meet face-to-face, despite the fact that they were in the same room together at the city hall press conference in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gingerbread (1999) and they almost met in the sewers beneath Sunnydale in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Band Candy (1998).
2. The security guard killed by the spiders is the eighth member of the Sunnydale High staff to die in the series.
3. It's the first time that Willow uses her magical power to kill someone (a vampire with a pencil).
4. Joyce phones Buffy's Aunt Arlene and refers to "her family", establishing that Buffy and Dawn have at least one other cousin in addition to Celia from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Killed by Death (1998).
5. When the mayor asks Angel what sort of future he can give Buffy, he plants the seeds for their breakup.
6. Cordelia mocks Buffy for not having a future. Ironically, Cordelia will be dead in 4.5 years and in a coma long before that. She dies in S5.12 of Angel. Although Buffy spends some time dead about 2 years from now, she will ultimately outlive Cordelia because Willow brings her back.
7. Reveals Cordelia's financial woes for the first time.

The Prom

1. Buffy's prom dress was designed by couturier Pamela Dennis, by request from Sarah Michelle Gellar. Gellar could not sit down in the dress once it was on her.
2. Sarah Michelle Gellar's favorite Buffy show.
3. The band at the prom can be heard singing the lines, "Aladdin and his lamp". Brad Kane, who guest-starred as Tucker Wells, was the singing voice for Aladdin in all three of the Disney films.
4. In the scene where Angel breaks up with Buffy, Sarah Michelle Gellar has admitted that she "could not stop crying," and the set was closed for 25 minutes to allow her to recover.
5. Buffy's prom dress was designed by Pamela Dennis, while Vera Wang designed her wedding dress. Incidentally, Wang also designed Sarah Michelle Gellar's wedding dress when she tied the knot with Freddie Prinze Jr.
6. The first and only appearance of the character Tucker Wells (played by Brad Kane ). He is the older brother of Andrew Wells (portrayed by Tom Lenk ) who does not appear until season 6 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Flooded (2001).
7. Jessica Johnson, the winner of the "A Buffy Christmas" sweepstakes, participated in this.
8. The movies Tucker Wells uses to train the Hellhounds to attack the prom include: Carrie (1976), Prom Night (1980), Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil (1991), Pump Up the Volume (1990), Pretty in Pink (1986), and The Club (1994).
9. The actor Brad Kane who portrays Tucker Wells had already worked with Sarah Michelle Gellar on the TV show Girl Talk (1989).
10. This exchange was cut due to length: Giles: "Fine. You're all suffering from a touch of spring madness, if you ask me." Oz: "Mine is more space madness. But I'll feel better once I get used to the weightlessness." Willow: "Promise me you'll never be linear." Oz: "On my trout."
11. Xander's "Sock Puppet of Love" routine is reminiscent of Señor Wences, a ventriloquist who would draw a face on his hand and speak through it with a funny voice.
12. When Anya asks Xander to the prom, she references the events of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Lovers Walk (1998) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Wish (1998).
13. Because Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Earshot (1999)'s premiere was delayed out of respect for the Columbine massacre victims and their families, viewers at the time were unaware of Buffy stopping Jonathan from committing suicide. The fact that Buffy saved his life makes his presentation of the Class Protector Award to her even more significant.
14. Up until this point, it was normal for civilians in the series to not mention the supernatural events that they experience. Giles explained this as the ability of people to "rationalize what they can and forget what they can't" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Harvest (1997)). This is the first time that the students of Sunnydale High openly show awareness of the supernatural events at their school. While Buffy is presented with the Class Protector Award, students shout out "Zombies" ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dead Man's Party (1998) ) and "Hyena People" ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Pack (1997) ) as examples.
15. This marks the end of Buffy and Angel's relationship. He would leave Sunnydale after the season finale, and start the spin-off Angel (1999).
16. Buffy's line "miles to go before we sleep", references the famous Robert Frost poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". Faith later references the poem in a dream sequence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day: Part 2 (1999) saying, "Miles to go-counting down from 730"; this was a reference of Buffy's death which occurred 730 days after Faith's prediction. Buffy also says "one night of Glory", foreshadowing Glory who would play a role in her death.
17. It is revealed that Cordelia's father was guilty of tax fraud of some sort, reducing her family to near poverty. This change eventually leads to her migration to LA, where she will team up with Angel in Angel: City of... (1999).
18. Angel promises Joyce that he will not turn into Angelus again. Sadly, this proves untrue, as he will revert to his soulless self four years later on Angel (1999).

Graduation Day: Part 1

1. During the original airing, the first trailer for Angel (1999) was shown. It lasted only four seconds with David Boreanaz turning towards the camera and the words "Angel. This Fall" appearing.
2. Willow comments that she'll miss the Sunnydale High soda machine which never gives her the drink she chooses, possibly as a result of being bashed about by Buffy in Halloween and Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Zeppo (1999). This is an in-joke as fans had pointed out that it actually dispenses types of soda cans that aren't amongst the choices available on the selection panel.
3. According to stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt, stunt double Sophia Crawford was uncomfortable with Buffy's signature leather pants, since she felt they were preventing her from kicking freely.
4. Eliza Dushku is from Boston. When Faith is telling the mayor about when she was a kid she says she lived just outside Boston. This is also evident by her use of the phrase "wicked gross" when the Mayor says he has to eat several spiders. Wicked is a commonly used slang word for "very" or "extremely" , most commonly used by people from Boston/Massachusetts.
5. This is the only time Anya had interaction with Wesley.
6. This is the first time since Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ted (1997) that Buffy has intentionally attempted to kill another human - she previously cut off Gwendolyn Post's arm in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Revelations (1998) - and the first instance where it could be considered consciously premeditated. Despite Faith's actions, Buffy's reaction after stabbing Faith is reminiscent of the reaction she had when she thought she'd killed Ted.
7. Xander tells Cordelia "There's no way I'm getting out of this school alive." This was originally meant to be foreshadowing for the series finale, in which Xander would have died protecting Dawn at the high school. This fate was switched to Anya instead, as Emma Caulfield-Ford did not want to come back if the show was ever rebooted.
8. Faith's line "Look at you, all dressed up in big sister's clothes" is a reference to the Elvis Costello song "Big Sister's Clothes" on the album Trust. Since Joss Whedon was said to have planned much of the show out early on, this could be a subtle reference to Buffy becoming a big sister later on.
9. Buffy tries to convince Wesley to help her by telling him that "this is about watching my lover die". Wesley would later watch his own lover die in his arms.
10. Buffy vows Angel will be her "last office romance", but instead, she will go on to establish relationships with Riley and Spike.
11. This is the first time where Buffy apparently intends to kill a human being; however, it is unknown how far she would have gone because, while she did indeed stab Faith in a heated fight, she was shocked and surprised at her actions. And had Faith not jumped, it is unknown whether or not Buffy would have actually taken her to Angel or allowed him to drain her. Later in the series, Buffy will kill numerous humans, despite her rule of not doing so; the knights of Byzantium and Caleb are among her victims.
12. Willow became the third Scooby Gang member to lose their virginity in the series, (Oz was said to have had sex before by Willow and himself), after Cordelia (mentioned in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bad Eggs (1998)), Buffy (in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Surprise (1998)), and Xander (in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Zeppo (1999)).

Graduation Day: Part 2

1. During the time of its airing, this caused a great deal of controversy in the media. The Columbine High School massacre, only four weeks before the airing of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day: Part 1 (1999), was widely blamed on violence in entertainment. The WB had already pulled the plug earlier with Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Earshot (1999) (which itself was not aired until September), and feared that several scenes in this show would provoke high school students to do the same thing, especially those depicting the entire graduating class handling weapons against the mayor. On May 25, 1999, only two hours before this was due to air, The WB suddenly decided to replace it with a re-run from earlier in the season. This sudden move received huge attention in the media and thousands of letters were sent to the network demanding that the season finale be shown. Sarah Michelle Gellar publicly spoke out against the decision, although Seth Green agreed that it would seem "callous and inappropriate" after the Columbine shootings. The WB did not air this until July 13, 1999, almost two months after it was originally scheduled. Since nearly all US schools end their term in May or June, it was then felt safe. It attracted 6.5 million viewers, atypically high for The WB during summer, and comparable to what the show of the season had received.
2. As this was not delayed in Canada, many bootleg digital downloads were available. Joss Whedon stated, "Bootleg the puppy."
3. According to Danny Strong, it was Charisma Carpenter's idea for Cordelia to cower behind Jonathan, because she was leaving for Angel (1999) and never got much screen time with him.
4. This is the second season finale in which Buffy is bitten by a vampire. The first being Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Prophecy Girl (1997) when she is bitten by The Master.
5. The Sunnydale High Yearbook seen was released as a tie-in product after this aired.
6. This portrays the first time Cordelia ever "dusts" a vampire, as well as the first time Angel and Wesley fight side by side.
7. This is the first season finale not to feature Joyce Summers.
8. The way in which the Scooby Gang plan their attack will be similarly done in their battle against the First Evil and its Turok-Han army in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen (2003). Buffy comes up with an idea at the end of the second act, which will not be fully explained until it is revealed during the battle itself.
9. This is the last in which David Boreanaz and Charisma Carpenter are series regulars, and in which Alexis Denisof is a recurring character. The three will return to the Buffyverse the following season on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff series Angel, while this marks the final appearance of both Cordelia and Wesley on Buffy, Angel will appear on Buffy at least once (either in person or in flashbacks) in every season with the exception of Season Six.
10. During the graduation speech you can see Buffy laughing and hide her face, then willow points at her.
11. When the Scoobies are plotting their attack against the mayor, most of the main cast of Buffy season 4 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) season 1 are present. Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander and Oz will be the main cast of Buffy season 4 (excluding Riley and Spike (and Jonathan once)). Angel, Cordelia and Wesley will be the main cast of Angel (1999) season 1 (excluding Doyle).
12. Cordelia dusts a vampire for the first time. It announces her future heroine status in Angel.
13. According to Marti Noxon in a DVD commentary, the explosion scene was filmed at 5 a.m. in Torrance, California, where the outdoor scenes had been filmed for the previous three years. The explosion was so huge it woke up many of the residents, broke windows and set off car alarms. As a result, the town refused to allow Buffy to film there again.
14. On the Season 3 DVD, Joss Whedon reveals that since Charisma Carpenter was leaving Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) to transfer to the spin-off Angel (1999), she asked if Cordelia could kill a vampire during the final battle. She got her wish.
15. First appearance of the Shadow Demon (aka the Spirit of the Slayer) in the form of a cat in Buffy and Faith's vision. Since Buffy's death in the season one finale Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Prophecy Girl (1997), the Spirit of the Slayer has been shared with two individuals, with neither one having everything required to be at their full potential. The exchange between Buffy and Faith resulted in Buffy gaining full control of the Slayer's inherent resources represented by the boxes of items all over Faith's apartment. The Slayer Spirit makes its next "physical" appearance in the season four finale Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Restless (2000) as Willow and Tara's cat and more prominently as Sineya, the first Slayer.
16. The death of recurring character Larry, a subject of significant debate among fans, was established at the shooting script but not confirmed on-screen until Season Six ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Smashed (2001) ). Harmony, seen being bitten by a vampire, will be confirmed dead and arisen as a vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Harsh Light of Day (1999).
17. This marks the second time in a row that the principal of Sunnydale High has been eaten alive. The first, Mr. Flutie, was eaten alive when a group of kids possessed by hyenas in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Pack (1997). Of his predecessor being eaten, Principal Snyder says that that's what happens when you're soft on students. He is the 9th member of the faculty to be killed.
18. The Buffy/Faith dream is first foreshadowing of Buffy's death at the end of Season 5. Faith's comment, "Little Miss Muffet counting down from 7-3-0", comes (roughly) 2 years (730 days) before Buffy dies. The term "Little Miss Muffet" is a reference to Buffy's little sister Dawn's arrival. A crazy man also refers to "curds and whey" when he accosts Dawn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Real Me (2000). Glory also makes references to "sitting on a tuffet" when she goes looking for the Key during Season 5. Also, Buffy sees a clock in her room during her dream reading 7:30, which Tara tells her is completely wrong, as one whole year has passed (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Restless (2000)).
19. Xander's line was cut: "Guys, we blew up the school! It's the best day ever!"
20. In classic Buffyverse style, writers and producers retire the Sunnydale High School sets by utterly destroying them.
21. Willow suggested to Buffy in Season One Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Harvest (1997) that one way they could get kicked out of school would be to "blow up the school", which she finally does.
22. Its later revealed that Wesley was fired from the Council once Buffy quit. He becomes a "rogue demon hunter" but is so incompetent at it that Cordelia has to save him from the demon he's hunting. He later joins Angel Investigations and becomes an integral part of the team, maturing and becoming much better at fighting over the course of that show.
23. In Buffy and Faith's dream, Faith says, "miles to go, little Miss Muffet, counting down from 7-3-0", this is not foreshadowing Dawn. It is actually foreshadowing Buffy's death in the season 5 finale Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift (2001), which is two years from this (730 days) and miles to go is a reference to a poem about death (I've got miles to go before I sleep).
24. This is the first time to feature the last appearance of a main character (in this case, Cordelia). Later times this is done are Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Restless (2000) (Oz), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: As You Were (2002) (Riley), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Villains (2002) (Tara), and, of course, the series finale Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen (2003).
25. The background music when Angel is draining Buffy is the same as used on the main menu's sequence of the Season 3 DVDs.