Episode Trivia
Activation
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Buffy’s death in 1.12 Prophecy Girl, albeit very brief, was enough to activate another Slayer, Kendra. The two met in season two’s 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One). Giles said in that episode that the event was unprecedented.
Bianca Lawson
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Bianca Lawson played the vampire Slayer Kendra in season two. Bianca’s other TV credits include: Saved By the Bell: The New Class, Sister, Sister, Goode Behaviour, Dawson’s Creek, The Division and The Big House. Bianca starred in Fearless (as Harmony) alongside Eric Balfour, who played Jesse in season one. She has been in the movies Pledge This!, Breakin’ All the Rules and Dead & Breakfast.
Buffy confuses herself
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A continuing joke for Buffy throughout the show is her misunderstanding of common phrases or sayings. In 3.11 Gingerbread, she and Angel have the following conversation:
Buffy: “Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.”
Angel: “Dike… It’s another word for dam.”
Buffy: “Oh. Okay, that story makes a lot more sense now.”
In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Buffy says:
“They had tools, flashlights, whole nine yards. What does that mean, anyway? ‘Whole nine yards’? Nine yards of what? Now it’s gonna bug me all day.”
And again in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One):
“They go together like chicken and… another chicken, or… two chickens, or… something, you know what I’m saying!”
In 5.05 No Place Like Home, she says to Giles:
“Yeah. You’ll be making money hand over fist” (holds her hand over her fist in a puzzled way) “…Which I guess is a good thing.”
In 7.21 End Of Days, Buffy says to Xander:
“Of course I’m not putting you out to pasture. …What does that even mean?”
In 3.17 Enemies:
“Just don’t like to rub your nose in it. Suddenly wondering where that expression comes from.”
In 3.20 The Prom:
“Right as rain, whatever that means.”
Buffy’s moving door
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The front door of Buffy’s house changes in different episodes. In the season one episode 1.07 Angel, when Buffy is trying to close her front door on The Three, you can see that the front door opens on Buffy’s right. In the season two episodes 2.04 Inca Mummy Girl and 2.06 Halloween, we see that Buffy’s door now opens on her left.
Later in season two, when Cordelia talks to Norman Pfister in Buffy’s hall in 2.10 What’s My Line? (Part Two), you can see that the door handle of Buffy’s front door is on the left. But when Xander let Cordelia in the house in the previous episode (2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One)) the handle was on the right!
Casting Cordelia
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Bianca Lawson (Kendra) was originally cast in the role of Cordelia but turned it down. She said:
“Well, there’s a period in a season where you audition for all the pilots, and you never know…so you kind of audition for everything. At the time I had done a lot for Sister, Sister and the writers of that told me they were going to write a new show and put me in it. A couple of years later they did, they wrote a part for me in this new show and named the character Bianca. I just felt a kind of loyalty to those writers. And who knew that Buffy was going to become the phenomenon that it did?”
The show Bianca went to instead of doing Buffy was called Goode Behaviour which filmed for only one series in 1996.
Sarah Michelle Gellar originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia, feeling that her past credit playing bitchy character Kendall Hart in soap All My Children would help her along. She instead was offered the part of Buffy.
Charisma Carpenter originally auditioned for the role of Buffy but was cast as Cordelia after Bianca turned the role down. At her audition, she was given only 15 minutes to prepare for Cordelia after she had prepared for Cordelia. Charisma was offered a screen test and was so late due to working on Malibu Shores that she almost missed the audition. Charisma says of the experience:
“I was auditioning for the role of Cordelia. It was the screen test with the whole network and I was running late for the audition because I was at work at [the show] Malibu Shores in Long Beach and I had to get to Burbank. It was raining and it was rush hour, so I borrowed clothes from Costume, and I’m high tailing it on the freeway, trying to be safe, trying not to get in an accident.
“I got these [cell phone] pages from my manager, and I was really broke at the time so I didn’t have a cell phone or anything. I’m just like, “I know this is my agent, please hang in there, please hang in there, I can’t get off [the freeway] yet, I can’t get off yet”.
“Finally I get off and I go to the Seven Eleven and my agent has paged me six times. I know what she’s telling me, “You’re late, they’re going to leave,” and it would just make me panic.
“So I get to the Seven Eleven [call her and ask] “Why are you calling me so many times, like 13 pages in half an hour?” She goes, “You’ve got to get there, they’re going to leave,” and I go, “You tell them not to leave, you tell them to order a pizza, you tell them something but tell them to wait”. So they waited, and I got the part. That was my most exciting real personal audition.”
Changing sets
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The hold of the plane that Kendra arrived in, in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), was saved and changed so that it could be used as a sewer tunnel in later episodes.
Churches
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We discover in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) that there are forty-three churches in Sunnydale.
CliffsNotes
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CliffsNotes are a series of student study guides available primarily in the United States. The guides present and explain literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Endorsers say the guides help readers understand complex works, while detractors say they let students avoid even reading them. CliffsNotes have been referenced on the following occasions:
2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One)
Buffy: “Right. Well, then you know it’s a whole week of ‘what’s my line’, only… I don’t get to play. Sometimes I just want…”
Angel: “You want what?”
Buffy pauses
Angel: “It’s okay.”
Buffy: “The CliffsNotes version? I want a normal life. Like I had before.”
Xander: “Oh! Call of the Wild. Aren’t we reading the CliffsNotes to this for English?”
Anya: (holds up a notebook she was reading) “Nothing…and nothing. (holds up two other books, one in each hand) CliffsNotes to nothing. Nothing abridged…”
Cordelia: “I don’t know. I just get the visions, not the CliffsNotes.”
Lindsey: “Well, you get a little speechy, all right? And I breeze out. I got the CliffsNotes- honour and humanity. Absolute good. I heard it. So here’s the plot twist—I’m in.”
Crazy like a… florist
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On a few occasions (in both Buffy and Angel), a personality disorder test is mentioned and one of the questions to determine one’s sanity is if the subject ever wanted to be a florist. Additionally, whether you like shrubs or not seems to help determine your career aptitude, while a flower shop is a cover for the government conspiracy for which Riley Finn works.
Answering questions on their career aptitude tests during career week at school in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One):
Xander: “Is murder always a crime?”
Buffy: “Do I like shrubs?”
Xander: “That’s between you and your god.”
Buffy: (to Willow) “What’d you put?”
Willow: “I came down on the side of shrubs.”
Buffy: “The Watcher Council shrink is heavy into tests. He’s got tests for everything, T.A.T.s, Rorschach, associative logic. He even has that test to see if you’re crazy that asks if you ever hear voices or you ever wanted to be a florist.”
Willow: “Ooo, I used to want… Wait. Florist means crazy, right? I never wanted to do that.”
Buffy (on phone): “No, no, Finn is his last name. Yeah. Well, did he used to work there and then he got transferred Oh, is this actually a flower shop, or is this one of those things where I’m supposed to play along to show that I know it’s really secret ops? Oh, maybe I shouldn’t have said that. Oh, OK, right. Well, if some guy named Finn shows up to buy flowers � Yeah. Thanks.” (hangs up, turns to Spike) “Wrong number. Or a giant government conspiracy, one or the … Spike?”
Fred: “Don’t y’all think this is some kind of government conspiracy? ‘Cause my friend, Levon, says the government’s always taking kids and experimentin’ on ‘em. Did anybody else have to take a personality disorder test recently? They ask you about politics and your bowel movements and if you want to be a florist…”
Dalton
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Dalton was a bespectacled vampire who helped Spike and Drusilla to steal the Du Lac cross and translate the Du Lac manuscript in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) and 2.10 What’s My Line? (Part Two). He was destroyed by The Judge in 2.13 Surprise.
Darla’s prophecy
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In the episode 1.07 Angel, Darla asks Angel if he thought Buffy would see his face, his true face, and would give it a kiss. In other words, she highly doubted that Buffy would ever be able to accept Angel to the extent that she could kiss his demonic vampire-face, the person he truly was. However, this snickering and doubtful comment of Darla happens to come true in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One). After the assassin attacks Buffy and Angel at the ice skate rink, Buffy kisses Angel, who is wearing his demonic face, proving Darla’s thought to come true.
David Solomon
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David Solomon was a co-executive producer and director on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. David was a writer on Hart to Hart, and has directed episodes of Tru Calling, Firefly and Matlock. David was the executive producer of the movie Paycheck.
Dorothy Hamill
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Ice-skating fan Buffy Summers had a “Dorothy Hamill phase”, first mentioned in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One). Dorothy Hamill was an American figure skater who became famous when she won a gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Her “wedge” hairstyle became popular with many girls.
Du Lac
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In the Buffyverse, Josephus du Lac was a theologian and mathematician. He belonged to a religious sect that was excommunicated by the Vatican at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He invented the du Lac cross, which was used to decipher hidden meanings and encrypted texts, and wrote the du Lac manuscripts which contained evil rituals and spells.
In 2.07 Lie To Me, Spike got one of his vampires to steal the du Lac manuscript from the school library. This became crucial in the episode 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One). We discovered then that the manuscript included a way in which Spike can cure Drusilla’s weakness.
The name du Lac may be a reference to the Anne Rice character Louis from her Vampire Chronicles. His full name is Louis de Pont du Lac.
Eric Saiet
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Eric Saiet played the bespectacled vampire Dalton in the episodes 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), 2.10 What’s My Line? (Part Two) and 2.13 Surprise. He has been in Godzilla, Ugly Naked People, Groundhog Day and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off.
Frog fear
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In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Willow revealed to Giles that she has frog fear (”don’t warn the tadpoles”). This is a phobia known as ranidaphobia. It was used to Buffy’s advantage in 2.18 Killed By Death when Willow created a distraction for Buffy to get away by screaming that she had frogs all over her. In 2.04 Inca Mummy Girl, Willow has a toy stuffed frog, so her fear obviously only relates to the real thing!
Howard Gordon
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Howard Gordon co-wrote the episode 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) with Marti Noxon, and was consulting producer on the show. He was also a consulting producer and writer on Angel. He wrote the Angel episodes 1.09 Hero, 1.12 Expecting and 1.16 The Ring. Howard worked with Buffy’s executive producer David Greenwalt before, on an episode of The X-Files. He wrote many episodes and was co-executive producer of both 24 and The X-Files.
Ice rink
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The ice rink seen in the episode 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) is called Iceland, and is located at 8041 Jackson Street in Paramount, California. This is fairly close (about 25 miles) from where Buffy is filmed on set. In that episode, Angel invites Buffy to go ice skating by saying:
“There’s a rink out past Route 17, it’s… closed on Tuesdays.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar enjoys ice skating in real life so her skills were put to the test on Buffy.
Kendra
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Kendra was chosen as a vampire Slayer when Buffy died briefly in 1.12 Prophecy Girl. The two Slayers had different styles - Kendra was considered a model Slayer as she had been training with her watcher Sam Zabuto since she was tiny. She and Giles hit it off straight away, much to Buffy’s annoyance. Buffy eventually taught Kendra that human emotion wasn’t necessarily a hindrance to being a Slayer and the two began to respect each other. Kendra presented Buffy with Mr. Pointy - her favourite stake, as well as the sword which Buffy would eventually use to kill Angel with. Kendra was killed by Drusilla in 2.21 Becoming (Part One) whilst trying to protect the other Scoobies. Dru hypnotised her then slashed her throat. Her death led to Faith being chosen as a vampire Slayer.
Microsoft
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The software recruiter says to Willow in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One),
“The jet was delayed by fog at Sea Tac but he should be here any minute.”
Sea Tac is the abbreviated name of the Seattle Tacoma Airport. The “worlds largest software company” must be Microsoft as they are based in Seattle.
Miss Edith
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Drusilla’s favourite doll is called Miss Edith. In 2.03 School Hard, Miss Edith was punished by Dru who said:
“Miss Edith speaks out of turn. She’s a bad example, and will have no cakes today.”
In 2.06 Halloween, Dru says:
“Miss Edith needs her tea”
In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), she tells Spike:
“I need to change Miss Edith”.
In the Angel episode 2.10 Reunion, Drusilla is seen carrying a doll which could be Miss Edith.
Mr. Gordo
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Buffy owns a cuddly toy pig called Mr. Gordo. He was first seen in the episode 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One):
Buffy: “Just dropping by for some quality time with Mr. Gordo?”
Angel: (confused) “Excuse me?”
Buffy: “The pig.”
The pig was mentioned by Willow in 4.07 The Initiative:
“She has a stuffed piggy named Mr. Gordo, loves Ice Capades without the irony and she’s dragging me to this party tonight at Lowell House.”
Sunday and her gang of vampires stole Buffy’s belongings in 4.01 The Freshman and she saw them throwing Mr. Gordo around:
“I don’t see my weapons trunk down there. It was right by my bed. Mr. Gordo? (to Xander: cold, hard) Go to my room. If it’s not there, try Willow’s.”
Gordo means “fat” in Spanish.
Buffy seems to have a thing with pigs, as she manages to capture the school’s mascot - a piglet - in 1.06 The Pack.
My Fair Lady
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In the episode 3.01 Anne, Buffy says,
“I don’t want any trouble. I just want to be alone and quiet in a room with a chair and a fire place and a tea cozy. I don’t even know what a tea cozy is, but I want one.”
This may be a reference to the 1964 musical My Fair Lady, based upon the play Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw. In the song “Wouldn’t it Be Loverly” Eliza Doolittle sings, “All I want is a room somewhere far away from the cold night air with one enormous chair. Oh, wouldn’t it be loverly? Lots of chocolate for me to eat. Lots of coal making lots of ‘eat. Warm ‘ands, warm face, warm feet. Oh wouldn’t it be loverly?”
In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Spike says:
“By George, I think he’s got it!”
This is a paraphrase of the line said by Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.
Octarus
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Octarus was a one-eyed demon who was a member of the Order of Taraka. He stalked Buffy to the ice-skating rink in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), and grabbed her. Buffy killed him by slashing his throat using her ice skate.
One down… one gone
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In the episode 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Spike’s vampires steal the DuLac cross from a tomb in the graveyard. Buffy stakes one of the two vampires and then watches Dalton (the other vamp) running away for his life, saying:
“One down, one… gone.”
In 3.18 Earshot, Buffy fights two telepathic demons at the beginning of the episode. She kills one of the two, and then says:
“One down, one… gone.”
Order of Taraka
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The Order of Taraka are assassins, or bounty hunters. Giles says about them:
“Unlike vampires, they have no earthly desires except to collect their bounty. They find their target and eliminate it. You can kill as many of them as you like. It won’t make a difference - where there is one, there will be another. And another. They won’t stop coming until the job is done. Each of them works alone. His own way. Some of them are human. Some are not. We don’t know who they are…until they strike.”
Members of the Order wear a ring which identifies them. Spike sends the Order after Buffy to get her out of the way in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) The Order included Octarus, Patrice and the Bug Man, who pretended to be Norman Pfister.
P.B. Hutton
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P.B. Hutton, who played Mrs. Kalish in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), also played Mrs. Ruzaove in the Angel episode 3.18 Double Or Nothing. She has also been in Gilmore Girls, CSI, Malcolm in the Middle, The Norm Show, Beverley Hills 90210, Seinfeld and The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Reliquary
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A reliquary is a place used to house items of religious significance. Seen in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), when items were stolen from the Du Lac tomb:
Giles: “It’s a reliquary, used to house items of religious significance. Most commonly a finger or some other body part from a saint.”
Buffy: “Note to self… Religion: freaky.”
Saverio Guerra
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Saverio Guerra, who played Willy the Snitch, appeared in five episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is best known as Bob in Becker, and has also appeared in EZ Streets (as Sammy), Mad About You, Bad Boys, and Summer of Sam. Saverio was the voice of Pontrelli in Shark Tale.
Scooby Doo
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The cartoon Scooby Doo has several ties with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Xander calls Buffy’s group of friends the “Scooby Gang” for the first time in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) as they have similarities with the young crime-fighting sleuths in the Scooby Doo cartoon. He says to Cordelia:
“C’mon, Cordelia. You want to be a member of the Scooby Gang you gotta be willing to be inconvenienced every now and then.”
In 1.11 Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight, Willow wears a white Scooby Doo t-shirt in this episode and in 3.04 Beauty And The Beasts we see that she keeps her forensic tools in a Scooby Doo lunch box.
In 2.01 When She Was Bad, Xander wears a red Scooby Doo t-shirt.
Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared in two Scooby Doo movies, and Seth Green (Oz) appeared with Sarah in Scooby Doo: Monsters 5.03 Unleashed. Sarah’s Buffy stunt double, Michele Waitman, also doubled for Sarah in Scooby Doo: Monsters 5.03 Unleashed.
More Buffy/Scooby Doo trivia: In the movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back there is a spoof scene of Scooby Doo’s gang. The part of Fred was played by Marc Blucas (Riley Finn), Shaggy was played by Matthew James (who played the demon Merl in Angel) and Velma was played by Jane Silvia (who played the ‘conservative woman’ in 4.01 The Freshman).
Snack job
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In What’s My Line? (Part One), Buffy excuses herself from research, so that she can go ice-skating with Angel:
Buffy: “Well, you have to admit, I kinda lack in the book area. I mean, you guys are the brains, I’d only be here for moral support anyway.”
Xander: “That’s untrue, Buffy. You totally contribute. You go for snacks!”
In 3.13 The Zeppo, we see that their roles have been reversed and Xander is relegated to the go-for-snacks (doughnuts, specifically) role in the Scooby gang.
Stealthy Angel
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Angel’s “stealthy” behaviour has been noted on the following occasions…
2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One):
Angel: “Buffy! You scared me.”
Buffy: “Now you know what it feels like, Stealth Guy.”
3.21 Graduation Day (Part One):
Angel (slips as he enters room): “Ow.”
Buffy: “Stealthy.”
Angel: “Not my best entrance. I think they were mopping in the halls.”
Giles: “Willow, I– I have reason to believe Buffy herself may be in particular danger from this menace. ”
Willow: “You mean… Angel? I saw him, too.
Giles: That’s not terribly stealthy of him.”
Willow: “I think he’s lost his edge.”
Gwen to Angel: “Jeez! Where were you when they taught stealth in superpower school?”
Tarot cards
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Tarot cards have been used twice in the show - Tara uses them in The Magic Box in 5.04 Out Of My Mind and Drusilla used them in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One).
The Factory
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Spike, Drusilla and, later, Angel’s, lair during season two was an old abandoned factory in Sunnydale. It was burned down in 2.17 Passion when Giles tried to kill Angelus for murdering Jenny. The vampires then moved to a mansion on Crawford Street. The set itself was torn down to make room for the vampires’ mansion set on a Buffy soundstage.
The many faces of the Whedonverse
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In order to describe the state or reaction of a character, there have been several variations using the word ‘face’:
2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One):
Buffy: What’s up?
Angel: Nothing.
Buffy: Only you don’t have a nothing face. You have a something face. And you don’t have to whisper. Mom’s in L.A. till Thursday. Art buying, or something.
Buffy: “Then what? What’s with the dire?”
Angel: “It’s uh, it’s nothing.”
Buffy: “No, you have ’something’ face.”
Joyce: “I’m just glad I could find it. There. Try it now. I let down the hem and loosened it a little around the hood.”
Buffy: “Oh, it feels better. Oh, no. Someone is getting nostalgic face.”
Joyce: “I’m sorry. I’m thinking about the little girl who wore that. What is it? Five? Six years ago.”
Cordy: “Wait you’ve got pensive face.”
Angel: “I’ve always got pensive face.”
Cordy: “Well, pensive-r face.”
Giles: “Buffy, I don’t want to ask you to betray any confidences, and I certainly don’t want to interfere–”
Buffy: “Uh-oh, you have ‘but-face.’” (Off his look) “You look like you’re gonna say ‘but.’”
Dawn: “Great. Now I look like a wet rat.”
Lisa: “Yeah, you know you can’t go out there looking all cry-faced. That’ll just give Kirsty more ammo.”
Dawn: “So Giles is blaming Giles, and we’re blaming us. Is anyone gonna blame Willow? (to Buffy) Oh, don’t give me shock face. I mean, will anyone around here ever start asking for help when they need it?”
The Simpsons
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Buffy says in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One):
“Have a cow Giles.”
This is a play on the phrase “Don’t have a cow”, made popular by Bart in the TV show The Simpsons. It means don’t get excited/worked up.
In 3.08 Lover’s Walk, Willow compares herself to Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel. This is a reference to the stupid hick who is a recurring character on The Simpsons.
An episode of The Simpsons called ‘Treehouse of Horror 16′ (which aired on November 6, 2005) contained a reference to the season two Buffy episode 2.06 Halloween. In that episode, everyone in town is turned into their costumes - which included Principal Skinner turning into a GI Joe, and his mother turning into a 17th century woman (like Xander and Buffy in 2.06 Halloween).
In an episode of The Simpsons called ‘The Homer of Seville’, the family are looking for somewhere to eat and pass a restaurant called “Buffet the Hunger Slayer”.
The whole nine yards
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In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Buffy says:
“They had tools, flashlights, whole nine yards. What does that mean, anyway? ‘Whole nine yards’? Nine yards of what? Now it’s gonna bug me all day.”
There are many explanations for the origin of this phrase, but none are definitive. Here’s the most interesting from the perspective of the Whedonverse, from The Straight Dope:
“Based on discussions with my grandfathers, both World War II veterans, and confirmed by several military sources, here is the definitive answer for where “the whole nine yards” came from. The whole nine yards refers to the length of one ammunition belt from a belly-gunner’s machine gun. When a target was overly resilient and the gunner was forced to expend all his ammunition to bring it down, it was said to have taken the “whole nine yards.”
Vivaldi
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Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ from Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) plays in the background when Willow first meets Oz at the Career Fair in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One).
What’s My Line?
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The title of the two-part episode What’s My Line? comes from an American game show which ran from 1950 to 1963. Contestants had to guess the unusual jobs or products associated with mystery guests from clues provided by host John Charles Daly. In the UK version, the mystery guests just mimed their jobs.
Who’s that girl?
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Oz first noticed Willow in 2.04 Inca Mummy Girl when she wore an eskimo costume to the dance. In 2.06 Halloween, Cordelia bosses Oz around, then when she walks away, Oz says (sarcastically):
“Why can’t I meet a nice girl like that?”
He then turns and bumps into Willow, wearing her ghost costume so he doesn’t recognise her. At the end of 2.06 Halloween, Oz saw Willow once again, this time in her very non-Willow Halloween costume. They didn’t meet properly until 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), in which they are both picked out for special treatment by software recruiters, and bonded over finger food.
Willy the Snitch
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Willy was a human bartender who owned Willy’s Place, a demon bar in Sunnydale. Various Scoobies beat Willy up, threatened to beat him, or paid him money, to get information about new demons in town. Willy usually knew what was going on in town, but pretended not to.
Willy’s Place
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Sunnydale had a bar called Willy’s Place which catered for the vampire and demon population. It was first seen in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) when Angel went there to question the bartender, Willy the Snitch. The bar was also seen in 3.10 Amends, 3.13 The Zeppo, 4.14 Goodbye Iowa and 5.06 Family. In 7.03 Same Time, Same Place, Xander suggests trying to get information at Willy’s place.
[Goof] Angel’s reflection
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Angel’s reflection is briefly seen in a frame in Buffy’s room in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), above the blue light.
[Goof] Angel’s stunt double
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Angel’s stunt double can clearly be seen in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) - he has much bigger hair than Angel’s.
[Goof] Buffy’s hand
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When Buffy lies down on Angel’s bed in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), she tucks both hands up near her face, but in the next shot she’s just moving one hand from her knee to her face.
[Goof] Buffy’s shade
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When Buffy climbs in her window to find Angel in her bedroom in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), her window-shade is up but when they talk about her love of ice skating, it’s down.
[Goof] Bus steps
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When the one-eyed assassin gets off the bus in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), the colour of the steps changes from grey to red in different shots.
[Goof] Cordy’s hand
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Cordelia leans on Buffy’s door frame with her left hand in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), but when we see Cordy from Xander’s point of view, she’s leaning with her right hand.
[Goof] Dalton’s glasses
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Vampires are supposed to have excellent vision so why does the vampire Dalton need glasses?
[Goof] No blood
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In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Buffy slashes the assassin’s throat but there’s no blood on her ice skate. In fact, there’s no blood at all, considering the assassin bled to death.
[Goof] Table pieces
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When Buffy and Kendra fight in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Kendra throws Buffy into a table and the table breaks. But in the next shot, the pieces are gone.
[Goof] Time error
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In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Buffy leaves the school in broad daylight but gets home at night. She can’t have been wandering the streets as she is nervous of meeting the Order of Taraka - so where did the time go?
[Goof] Tiny padlock
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With his vampire strength, Angel should easily be able to smash through the tiny padlock which is locking him in the cage in 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One) - but he doesn’t.
[Goof] Window
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In 2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One), Xander opens a window in Buffy’s house so he can get in to let Cordelia in, but when Cordy goes through to the living room, the window is closed.