Episode Trivia
Bonita Friedericy
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Bonita Friedericy, who played the manager of the Sunnydale clothes shop April Fools, Mrs Finkle, appeared in the Buffyverse once more as Patience in the Angel episode 4.21 Peace Out. She has also been in Scrubs, Malcolm in the Middle, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Judging Amy.
Erik Betts
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Erik was a regular Buffy and Angel stuntman and is married to Melissa Barker, who played one of Buffy’s stunt doubles from season five onwards. Erik appeared in many Buffy episodes including 5.04 Out Of My Mind (as Agent Brown), 5.12 Checkpoint (as a Knight of Byzantium), 6.05 Life Serial (Predator Demon), 6.08 Tabula Rasa (as a vampire), 7.08 Sleeper (as a vampire), 7.16 Storyteller (as a vampire), 7.15 Get It Done (as a demon), 7.21 End Of Days (as a Turok-Han) and 7.22 Chosen (as a Turok-Han). Erik also played The Keeper in the Angel episode 4.21 Peace Out.
He has been a regular stuntman for Alias, She Spies, The Shield, V.I.P., Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, The Jamie Foxx Show (stunt double for Jamie Foxx) and Martial Law. Erik was a stuntman for the movies 18 Fingers of Death!, Crash, Torque (stunt double for Ice Cube), Bringing Down the House and Cradle 2 the Grave. He was the gymnastics trainer for Wild Wild West.
In 1996, Erik broke his right hip and thigh whilst taping a kids TV show. He was in intensive care for two weeks, had five surgeries and almost three years of rehab to get fit again. Erik was director Sam Raimi’s choice for doubling actor Tobey Maquire for Spider-Man, but was told by the costume designer that his shoulders were too large for the costume.
Jasmine
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Jasmine was a once higher being who manipulated herself into human form, using Cordelia and Connor as her parents. A seemingly beautiful woman, Jasmine gave those who came in contact with her a feeling of complete peace and serenity. She had the ability to control the minds and hearts of her ’subjects’. In order to sustain herself she had to feed on the people who worshipped her, by devouring them whole. Whilst devouring people she gave off a vibrant green light, and extended tentacles to engulf her victims, absorbing them within her own flesh. With each human she consumed, her body becomes stronger and less susceptible to harm.
When Fred was touched with Jasmine’s blood, and saw her in her true form - a maggot-ridden manifestation. Fred managed to infect her friends with Jasmine’s blood so they could see the truth and the group set about stopping Jasmine from taking over the minds of the world’s population. Jasmine’s goal was end to war, disease, and poverty in the world but the price was too high for Angel Investigations - the loss of personal choice by the human race.
They discovered that her true name was her weakness. Angel found and defeated the Keeper of the Name, who spoke the name out loud, causing Jasmine’s subjects to see her in her true form, thus ending world peace. Jasmine was killed by Connor.
Twilight Zone
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In 6.14 Older And Far Away, Xander says:
“The only thing missing is a cornfield”.
This could be a reference to an episode of Twilight Zone called ‘It’s A Good Life‘ which starred Billy Mumy as a little boy called Anthony, who wished people into a cornfield when they made him mad. The episode was adapted from a short 1953 horror story by Jerome Bixby.
In 7.01 Lessons, Dawn says,
“To serve humans is a cookbook”.
This is from a short story by Damon Knight called To Serve Man, made into an episode of the Twilight Zone - in which a group of aliens claim to trying to help humans. They write a book called To Serve Man which is later discovered to be a cookbook.
In the Angel episode 4.21 Peace Out, Gunn says:
“To Serve Man! It’s To Serve Man all over again.”