Episode Trivia
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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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.”
Cats
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While training Connor to fight in 3.22 Tomorrow, Fred offers to pretend to be a vampire. Angel isn’t convinced of her performance:
Angel: “Vampire. You’re not in Cats.”
This is a reference Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats.
Connor’s age
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There is an inconsistency when it comes to Connor’s age. From the third season’s finale, Tomorrow:
Cordelia: “I’m not telling your sixteen year old boy that.”
Cordelia: “It’s called being 18. If you make it past 21, things get a lot better.”
This stems from the gang not knowing how long Connor was in the hell dimension.
David Denman
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David Denman played Skip in Angel. He appeared in an episode of David Boreanaz’s show Bones as Phil Garfield, and played Roy in the US version of The Office. David has also appeared in When a Stranger Calls, Night Stalker, Big Fish, The Singing Detective, Out Cold, The X Files, Chicago Hope and ER.
Electric tasers
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Drusilla uses an electrical taser to stun Buffy in 5.14 Crush. Dawn also uses one of these on Xander in 7.21 End Of Days. Tasers have also been used in Angel, in the episodes 3.22 Tomorrow and 4.01 Deep Down. A taser is also known as an electroshock gun or stun gun. They send an electric current through a person to incapacitate them, but are supposed to be non-lethal.
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.
Lying prince
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In 3.22 Tomorrow, Connor tells Angel, “You’re the prince of lies”. In 5.13 Why We Fight, we see a flashback to World War II, in which Angel is on a submarine with a vampire called the Prince of Lies.
Mockk-na
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In 3.22 Tomorrow, Groo gives Cordelia a Mockk-na, a Pylean drink to relieve tension. Mockk-na is made with mud, creeping fig and sourgrass.
Point Dume
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In 3.22 Tomorrow, Cordelia asks Angel to meet her at Point Dume, a State Preserve operated by Los Angeles County. The California State Parks website has the following to say about the area:
Point Dume State Preserve features headlands, cliffs, rocky coves and vast beach access. The beach is presently operated by Los Angeles County, which also operates Zuma County Beach. These facilities are noted for swimming, surfing, scuba diving and fishing. Point Dume is a perfect place to watch for California gray whales during the December - March migration period.
Skip
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Skip was a metal-clad unclassified demon who worked for the Powers That Be, by overlooking Billy’s torture in an unknown hell dimension in 3.02 That Vision Thing. His will kept Billy locked in the cage of flames while robbing him of his ability to scream. He fought Angel, who freed Billy to help Cordelia. Skip later appeared as Cordelia’s demon guide when her visions made her slip into a coma in 3.11 Birthday. He was responsible for showing her how her life could be without Angel, and making her part-demon when she refused to turn her back on her friend.
He assisted Cordelia to ascend and become a higher being, and later tried to further Jasmine’s coming by telling Angel to kill Cordelia in order to save the world. He was eventually shot and killed by Wesley.
So long, both
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The Angel episode 3.22 Tomorrow marks the final appearances of both Holtz and Groo.
The one you love is…
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In Angel’s season three finale, 3.22 Tomorrow, we hear the following dialogue between Cordelia and Groo:
Groo: “I am not the one you love. He is.”
Cordy: “He is? Who he?”
(Cut to AI’s office, where someone knocks on the door.)
Angel: “Yo! Hey, Lorne! Come on in!”
The word “Yo” is Spanish for “I”, “Me”. Perhaps the writers wrote the dialogue (and the very quick scene to scene transition) so that Angel would be, unknowingly, answering Cordy’s question.
Tom Sawyer
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In the episode 3.22 Tomorrow, Cordy and Angel have the following conversation:
Angel: “I don’t even own a TV. He’s gonna wanna watch TV. Not too much, I mean, after homework and chores. He’s gonna need clothes, weekly allowance… What’s good nowadays? Fifty cents, a dollar?”
Cordy: “Yeah. If you’re Tom Sawyer painting the fence.”
Tom Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. This is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the South.