Episode Trivia
Alan Henry Brown
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Alan Henry Brown, who played the funeral director in 5.17 Forever, also played the demon bartender who talked to Warren in 6.20 Villains, and ‘Lead Nahdrah’ in the Angel episode 3.12 Provider. He has also appeared in The X Files.
Allie
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Allie hired Wesley and Gunn to get rid of her ex-boyfriend Brian who was stalking her in 3.12 Provider. They eventually found out that she had actually poisoned and killed Brian, and despite his being a zombie, the couple reconciled their differences and agreed to give the relationship another try.
Bill Norton
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Bill Norton directed the Buffy episode 6.21 Two To Go, and the Angel episodes 2.13 Happy Anniversary, 3.02 That Vision Thing, 3.12 Provider, 4.05 Supersymmetry, 4.12 Calvary and 5.05 Life Of The Party.
He has also directed episodes of John Doe, Hack, The Fugitive, Roswell, Them and The Invisible Man.
Brian
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In 3.12 Provider, Wesley and Gunn were hired to protect Allie from her ex-boyfriend Brian. They later found out that Brian had been murdered by her, but came back as a zombie to win her back.
Eric Bruskotter
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Eric Bruskotter played Brian in 3.12 Provider. He was in Can’t Buy Me Love with Seth Green and Max Perlich. He is also another Whedon alumni to be a part of the Bring It On series. He played Tim Allen in Bring It On: All or Nothing.
I’ll never know the love of a woman
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In the episode 3.12 Provider, Lorne makes a joke about being able to download Wesley’s web articles about DNA fusion comparisons from “illneverknowthe loveofawoman.com“. This is an actual site. You will not find any of Wesley’s articles there, but you will find “resources and information on Love and Dating services”.
Julies Verne
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Lorne says of the Nahdrah’s ship in 3.12 Provider, “Jules Verne meets Leona Helmsley.” Author Jules Verne (1828-1905) is best known for his novels relating to travel, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Keith Szarabajka
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Keith Szarabajka played vampire hunter Holtz in season three of Angel. Born on December 2, 1952, in Illinois, he attended the University of Chicago, and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He studied acting at the Organic Theater in Chicago between 1972-1978.
His has appeared in Charmed, 24, The Inside and Law & Order, and is probably best known for his role as Mickey Kostmayer in the 1980s show The Equalizer. He has also contributed his distinctive voice to several audio books, including Fear Nothing and Seize the Night by Dean Koontz.
Keith’s surname, pronounced “Sharah-bike-ah”, is Polish, meaning “dark fairytale”.
Laurel Holloman
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Laurel Holloman played vampire hunter Justine Cooper in Angel. Born on May 23, 1971 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina she is probably best known for playing the role of Tina Kennard on The L Word. Holloman made her film debut in Maria Maggenti’s The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love and appeared in The Myth of Fingerprints and Boogie Nights.
She is married to Paul Macherey since 2002; they have a daughter, Lola, who was born in November, 2004.
Leona Helmsley
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In 3.12 Provider, Lorne says of the Nahdrah’s ship, “Jules Verne meets Leona Helmsley.” Billionaire Leona Helmsley married a real estate tycoon who, under her influence, began a program of conversion of apartment buildings to condominiums. In the 1980s she became infamous for two things – being a tyrannical “boss from hell” (her employees gave her the title “The Queen of Mean”), and for being prosecuted, and eventually convicted and sentenced to prison, for income tax evasion.
In 5.21 Power Play, Lorne references Helmsley again when he says, “It’s like Angel suddenly started channeling Leona Helmsley.”
Rice Krispies
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Snap, Crackle and Pop are the names of the three characters associated with Kellogg’s Rice Krispies cereals.
Cordy says in 2.10 Reunion:
“Easy, boss. This kid’s ready to snap, crackle and pop. I felt it in my vision”.
In Angel’s season three episode 3.12 Provider, when the three demons talk to Cordelia in their weird language, she comments that it sounds like “Snap, Crackle, Pop” to her, and calls Wesley.
In 4.08 Habeas Corpses:
Fred: “Can you not do that?”
Gunn: “Oh! Sorry, it helps me think.”
Fred: “Didn’t mean to snap.”
Cordelia: “I’m ready to crackle pop myself.”
Rudyard Kipling
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In 3.12 Provider, Fred says:
“If you can keep your head when those about you are losing theirs guess you’re pretty lucky. I could kiss you both.”
This is a reference to Rudyard Kipling’s powm If:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!