Episode Trivia
Cordy’s princess clothes
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Charisma Carpenter said the following in a BBC interview about Cordelia’s Pylean princess outfit:
“I was scantily clad wasn’t I? And cold. It was tremendously cold. In fact in the last episode [of season two], we’re in Pylea. Groosalug and Angel are fighting and I run to Groosalug’s rescue. He’s fighting with Angel and Angel has to go ‘extra hellbeast’ to fight him, because he’s like the king of all fighting in Pylea.
At that moment I realise my love for Groosalug and I go to hug him, and he’s wearing a metal plate, and there was snow on the camera cases. So I’m in a bikini top with coins all over going brrrr - so cold.”
End credits
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Cast listings in the closing credits in TV shows are usually reserved only for background characters with unimportant parts, or those with no speaking roles, but occasionally main characters are listed there when their appearance is to be a surprise. Examples of this in the Buffyverse are in 6.21 Two To Go, in which Giles makes a dramatic entrance at the end of the episode; the Angel episode 2.01 Judgement, in which Faith (Eliza Dushku) is visited by Angel; and 2.22 There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb, in which Willow appears at at the very end of the episode. In 5.08 Destiny, Christian Kane’s name was omitted from the opening credits to make his character Lindey’s arrival a surprise.
Geraldo
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Cordy says to her servant Marelda in 2.22 There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb, “Can you keep a secret Geraldo?” She’s referencing the sensationalist TV journalist Geraldo Riviera.
Headless Lorne
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In 2.22 There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb, we discover that Lorne’s clan, the Deathwoks, can live without their heads as long as their bodies are not mutilated.
It’s Buffy
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Willow appears in L.A. at the end of the Angel episode 2.22 There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb to inform Angel that Buffy had died - seen in 5.22 The Gift. Angel realises why she’s there as soon as he says her, saying, “It’s Buffy”.
Michael Phenicie
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Michael Phenicie played the Pylean head priest Silas in 2.22 There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb, Through the Looking Glass, and Over the Rainbow. He has also been in Alias, Ghosts Never Sleep, The Shield, Judging Amy, The Pretender, Gentleman’s Bet, Knots Landing and Desperate Moves.
The Wizard of Oz
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The movie The Wizard of Oz, made in 1939, in mentioned several times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- Buffy refers to the hyena-possessed bullies in 1.06 The Pack as the “winged monkeys”. The phrase comes from the scene in The Wizard of Oz in which the Wicked Witch of the West sends her loyal winged monkeys to collect Dorothy and the ruby slippers.
- In 6.04 Flooded, Andrew says he trained flying demon monkeys to disrupt the school play.
- In 1.10 Nightmares, Billy Palmer awakens from his coma and, seeing the Scoobies around his bed, says, “I had the strangest dream. And you were in it, and you”. This is a reference to when Dorothy wakes in her bed and sees her friends around her.
- In 2.10 What’s My Line? (Part Two), Xander says, “Welcome my little pretties”. In The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West called Dorothy her “pretty”.
- Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch of the West by throwing water on her. The following dialog is from 1.17 Eternity:
- In 4.20 The Yoko Factor, Willow says, “If ever a whiz there was.” This is a line from the song in the film ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’ / ‘We’re Off To See the Wizard’.
- The episode 5.05 No Place Like Home takes it’s name from Dorothy clicking her heels together and repeating the phrase, “There’s no place like home” in order to get back to her Kansas home.
- A similar reference to this phrase is in the Angel episode 2.22 There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb. In that episode, Lorne also sings the song ‘Over the Rainbow’.
- In 6.22 Grave, Willow says, “Fly my pretty…fly!” when she sends her ball of fire to find Andrew and Jonathan. This is what the wicked witch says to her flying monkeys when she sends them off.
- In 7.19 Empty Places, Rona says, “Ding, dong, the witch is dead.” This is from a song in The Wizard of Oz.
- A similar reference to this phrase is in the Angel episode 4.13 Salvage. Lorne says, “Well, ding-dong, the Beast is dead!”
- The title of the Angel episode 2.20 Over The Rainbow is another reference to The Wizard of Oz, in which the land of Oz is said to be ‘over the rainbow’. In that episode, Cordelia clicks her heels three times (as Dorothy does in the film) and says, “Worth a shot.”
- In 4.15 Orpheus, Cordelia says, “You want to go, Glinda?” This is a reference to Glinda, the Good Witch of the South.
- In 5.02 Just Rewards, Angel says, “To see the wizard”, is a reference to The Wizard of Oz song called “We’re Off to See the Wizard”.
- In 5.21 Power Play, Lorne says, “And what if he’s skipped too far down that evil brick road?” This is a reference to the yellow brick road which Dorothy and the others follow to Oz.
(Cordy pulls off the top of a water container.)
Cordy: “Back off!”
Angel: “What are you going to do? Melt me?”
Cordy: “One more step and you’ll find out. You think this is just water?”
Whitney Dylan
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Whitney Dylan, who played Xander’s car-mad date Lysette in 3.13 The Zeppo, played a serving girl in the Angel episode 2.22 There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb. She also appeared in Coyote Ugly.
[Goof] Angel’s shirt
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When Angel is in Fred’s cave in 2.22 There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb, we see the back of his shirt is torn but then later when he is fighting the Groosalugg, there are some scenes where his shirt is intact.