In 4.21 Primeval, Spike says:
“Alice heads back down the rabbit hole.”
He’s referring to Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, about a girl named Alice who sees a rabbit in a waist-coat and follows him down a rabbit hole into a world named Wonderland.
The Angel episode 2.21 Through The Looking Glass is a direct title reference to Lewis Carroll’s sequel novel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In Through the Looking Glass, Alice steps through a mirror into an alternate reality, which is a parallel to the Angel Investigations crew entering Pylea through a portal.
Cordelia quotes the Queen of Hearts within the episode:
Narwek: “Shall we gut the cows now that you might dine on their ignoble flesh, oh most high?”
Cordy: “You’re most high if you think that’s gonna happen. Besides, shouldn’t there be some extended groveling first?”
Angel: “Cordelia?”
Cordy: “Okay. - Off with their heads!”
(Some of the guards draw their swords to obey as the guys flinch in the hold of the rest of them.)
Cordy: “Just kidding.”
Cordelia references Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when she’s talking to herself in 3.22 Tomorrow:
Cordelia: “Slow poke! I’m late. I’m late. And it’s not a date.”
Related episodes: 2.21 Through The Looking Glass, 3.22 Tomorrow, 4.21 Primeval
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Wynter on May 14th, 2006 at 3:09 am
The Angel episode Through The Looking Glass is another reference to an “Alice” novel by Lewis Carroll. She steps through a mirror into an alternate reality, which is a parallel to the Angel Investigations crew entering Pylea through a portal.