Episode Trivia
Carey Cannon
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Carey Cannon played the female Oracle in 1.08 I Will Remember You, 1.10 Parting Gifts and 1.22 To Shanshu In L.A. She also played Katya in The Secret, as well as numerous stage productions.
Casting the Oracles
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Both Carey Cannon and Randall Slavin, who played the Oracles in Angel had auditioned for roles on Buffy before. In an interview with Buffy Magazine, they said:
Carey Cannon: “I actually had met casting director Amy Britt when I auditioned for another role on Buffy, so when this role on Angel came around, they thought of me. They have a great casting team that does both shows.”
Randall Slavin: “I had read for Angel and Buffy so many times in the past, for various parts on Buffy, and for Spike. I’d gone in for so many parts that when this came up, I knew the casting director. I just auditioned like any other sort of thing. It must have been my sixth or seventh audition for that show.”
Crunchy Peanut Butter
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Buffy has a preference for crunchy peanut butter. When Buffy’s relaxing after her stay in the hospital in 2.18 Killed By Death:
Joyce: “Here you go, honey. Peanut butter and jelly, without the crust, just the way you like it.”
Buffy: “And the juice?”
Joyce: “Two parts orange, one part grapefruit.”
Buffy: “That’s my drink.”
Joyce: “I measured it exactly.”
Buffy: “Oh, mom?”
Joyce: “Mm-hm?”
Buffy: “I wanted crunchy peanut butter.”
After making love to Angel in 1.08 I Will Remember You:
Buffy: “Peanut butter, preferably crunchy!”
Angel: “I got it.”
Heartbreaking sewer talk
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In the Angel episode 1.08 I Will Remember You, when Buffy and Angel are tracking the Mohra demon in the sewer, they talk about their relationship, how can they never really be together. Buffy says:
“I was really jonesing for another heartbreaking sewer talk.”
She is referring back to the Buffy episode 3.20 The Prom, where Angel broke up with her in the sewer while they were tracking a demon. Buffy is also wearing a very similar outfit and hairstyle in both scenes.
Long story
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In 3.03 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 3.05 Homecoming:
Buffy: “Long story.”
Cordelia: “Got hunted.”
Buffy: “Apparently not that long.”
In 7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me:
Robin: “Chip?”
Giles: “It’s a long story.”
Buffy: “The military put a chip in Spike’s head so he couldn’t hurt anyone.”
Giles: “And that would be the abridged version.”
In the Angel episode 1.08 I Will Remember You, Angel and Buffy have the following conversation:
Angel: “It’s kind of a long story.”
Buffy: “You’re new sidekick had a vision, I was in it, you came to Sunnydale?”
Angel: “Okay, maybe not that long.”
Mohra demons
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We see in 1.08 I Will Remember You that the Book of Kelsor says Mohra demons are assassins who take out warriors on the side of good. They need vast quantities of salt to live and their “veins run with the blood of eternity”. If they’re killed, they regenerate and are bigger and stronger. “To slay the beast, one must bring darkness to the thousand eyes” - which means the red jewel in the centre of their forehead needs to be smashed to kill the Mohra. The blood of a Mohra has regenetative properties which can make a vampire human.
Mork and Mindy
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In 1.08 I Will Remember You, Doyle says “Orson, we’re in a situation here!” This is a reference to the TV show Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams, in which Mork reported to his leader Orson.
Not really a cure for that
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In City Of, Cordy and Angel meet:
Cordelia: “So are you still… Grr?”
Angel: “Yeah, there’s not actually a cure for that.”
We later learn that there is a cure - in 1.08 I Will Remember You Angel turns human after coming in contact with the blood of a Morah demon whose veins are said to run with the blood of eternity.
Not seeing each other
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In 1.08 I Will Remember You, Buffy says to Angel:
“What is it? You can see me, but I can’t see you? What are we playing here?”
This is similar to what Giles says to Angel in 4.08 Pangs when he tells him:
“It’s not fair. You know that’s what she’d say. You can see her and she can’t see you.”
Peanut butter in bed
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In 1.05 Rm W/A Vu we see the following scene, when Cordelia stays at Angel’s place:
Angel: “You got peanut butter on the bed.”
Cordelia: “Really? I don’t think so. I’ll look.”
She returns:
Cordelia: “Angel, at some point in the recent history you got peanut butter on your bed, and it’s gross. I think you’re gonna have to change the sheets.”
Angel: “I don’t eat.’
Cordy: “Well then, I don’t even want to know how it got there.”
Three episodes later in 1.08 I Will Remember You, we see Buffy and Angel eating peanut butter in bed.
Pier scenes
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In 1.08 I Will Remember You, when Angel and Buffy meet outside right after he is turned human, the scenes were filmed against the background of the Santa Monica Pier and Pacific Park.
Randall Slavin
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Randall Slavin played the male Oracle in 1.08 I Will Remember You, 1.10 Parting Gifts and 1.22 To Shanshu In L.A. He has also been in Zoolander, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Sleepy Time Gal, Auggie Rose, Shakespeare in… and Out, The Practice, Beverly Hills, 90210, Cybill and Beethoven’s 2nd. Randall was Kevin Spacey’s assistant for Swimming with Sharks. Randall was a friend of Glenn Quinn, and they appeared in Roseanne together.
Remembering you
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When originally shown, the Buffy episode 4.08 Pangs was immediately followed by the Angel episode 1.08 I Will Remember You, where Buffy shows up in LA, angry at Angel for not telling her he’d come back to town. In 4.09 Something Blue, Buffy mentions having seen Angel in L.A. for five minutes (seen in 1.08 I Will Remember You) though fans will remember that she actually saw him for much longer. Angel became human again, and he and Buffy became a couple, realising they had everything they wanted. When Angel realised the consequences (he wouldn’t be able to brood as much) he asked the Powers That Be to make him a vampire again. They reversed time so that only Angel would remember the events of that day.
Shanshu foreshadowing
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In 1.08 I Will Remember You, the following exchange takes place:
Angel: It was the demon’s blood. It wasn’t the Powers-That-Be that did this?
Male Oracle: The Powers-That-Be? Did you save humanity? Avert the Apocalypse?
This could be seen as a foreshadow of the Shanshu prophecy, which says that a vampire with a soul will play a significant part in the Apocalypse, and as a reward, be turned human. The line is also alluding to the fact that the Oracles already knew about the prophecy.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Buffy references the cartoon characters Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when she says to Angel in 1.08 I Will Remember You:
“The next thing I knew we’re being attacked by this mutant ninja demon thing.”
The Oracles
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The Oracles were one of the channels through which the “Powers That Be” communicated with “lesser” beings. The Oracles were difficult to locate and expected gifts in exchange for answers. They enabled Angel to turn back time in 1.08 I Will Remember You, in order for him to stay a vampire. Slain by the demon Vocah, the female Oracle spirit offered a final guidance for Angel towards his prophetic destiny - the Shanshu prophecy.
The story thus far
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The following conversation was cut from the Angel episode 1.08 I Will Remember You. It references the Buffy episodes 2.13 Surprise, 2.14 Innocence, 2.22 Becoming (Part Two), 3.03 Faith, Hope And Trick and 3.22 Graduation Day (Part Two):
Doyle: “So Buffy and Angel? It’s always been pretty volatile?”
Cordelia: “That was nothing. One time they kicked the daylights out of each other at the mall… I was too embarassed to shop there for, like, weeks”.
Doyle: “It must have been good sometime”
Cordelia: “At first he was just hanging around in the shadows, spying on us - boy, a lot’s changed there huh? I was seeing someone at the time so I guess he just fixated on her”.
Doyle: “And eventually they got together?”
Cordelia: “Did they ever, on her seventeenth birthday. Which kicked in his ‘knowing a moment of true happiness’ curse and then it really got ugly.”
Doyle: “He went bad, tried to kill her”.
Cordelia: “He tried to kill everybody. You weren’t really going out much after dark in these days…..then she ran him through with a sword, sent him to Hell. He popped out four months later which was like a hundred years of torment in demon time or something… his hair’s never really been the same”.
Doyle: “And then?”
Cordelia: “Then they were on-again, off-again - you sort of need a score card at this point - but finally they broke up for real last spring. That’s when he took off for LA. The story thus far”.
Doyle: “Great. So what happens now?”
Titanic
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In 1.08 I Will Remember You, Cordelia says:
“Oh, they’ll be into this for a while. We still have time for a cappuccino and probably the director’s cut of Titanic.”
She is referring to James Cameron’s epic 1997 movie Titanic, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie clocked in at 3 hours and 14 minutes.
Vampires and sunlight
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We first learn that vampires can be killed by direct sunlight in 1.02 The Harvest, when Buffy says:
Xander: “So, what else?”
Buffy: “What else what?”
Xander: “For vampire slayage.”
Buffy: “Oh, fire, beheading, sunlight, holy water, the usual.”
Of course, this doesn’t mean that the actors who play vampires can be destructed using sun beams. There are several occasions when direct sunlight lays on vampires in the show without them being destroyed.
- When Angel is sitting on Buffy’s bed in 3.18 Earshot, sun is shining in but he doesn’t burst into flame.
- In 4.19 New Moon Rising Adam confronts Spike in his crypt during the daytime. There’s lots of sunlight around, yet Spike doesn’t dust.
- In 5.18 Intervention, Spike’s face is in direct sunlight when Glory pulls him up by his lip. She then throws Spike on the bed, and his left arm is also in direct sunlight - he doesn’t burn on both these occasions.
- In the scene with Spike and the mannequin in 5.03 The Replacement, Spike has a tan line on his arms, where his t-shirt has been, though it may be possible to tan in indirect sunlight.
- During the Angel episode 1.03 In The Dark, there are quite a few incidents where sunlight is laying directly on vampires without them burning. This can be seen in particular during the warehouse torture scenes, and when Angel is in the van, about to attack Marcus.
- When the demon attacks Angel in his office in 1.08 I Will Remember You, Angel is clearly standing in direct sunlight.
As Harfang says in the comments section of this trivia - vampires’ resistance to sunlight appears to be directly dependent on their importance to the story.
Another point to note is that only direct sunlight harms vampires - and it just kills them. In 2.10 What’s My Line? (Part Two), Angel is seen being weakened by sunlight which is actually nowhere near him.
Where’s Hank?
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Hank Summers, an already absent father, reaches new bad-father heights in the episode 5.17 Forever by not showing up to his ex-wife’s funeral. Buffy says she’s not been able to contact him as he is in Spain (which we learnt about in 5.06 Family). The last time we know of that Buffy saw Hank was early season four - when Buffy went to see Angel in 1.08 I Will Remember You she said she was in L. A. to see her father.
In 6.01 Bargaining (Part One), Dawn says that her father “said he’d call today” which is the first time we’re told he has been in touch with his daughter since Joyce Summers died. He has no idea that Buffy has also died.
[Goof] Angel’s reflection
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When Buffy first arrives at Angel’s office in 1.08 I Will Remember You, just after she says, “a little upset”, you can see Angel’s reflection in the office door behind her.