Episode Trivia
Amber Tamblyn
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Amber played Dawn’s friend Janice Penshaw in the episode 6.06 All The Way. Amber is best known as Joan in Joan of Arcadia, and has been in The Ring, Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard, General Hospital (as Emily Quartermaine) and Live Nude Girls. Amber writes poetry and has been published in Cups and Poetry USA. She presented an award at the Grammy Awards in 2004 and has appeared on The Wayne Brady Show, The Sharon Osbourne Show, Late Show with David Letterman and Punk’d. Amber is the daughter of actor and dancer Russ Tamblyn, who appeared in Twin Peaks (as Dr. Jacoby), Ghost Dog, West Side Story (as Riff), Tom Thumb, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Fame. Russ also acted alongside Amber in Joan of Arcadia and Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard.
Bell around the neck
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In 6.06 All The Way, Buffy is startled when she runs into Spike in the Magic Shop basement. She says:
“Bell. Neck. Look into it.”
In 2.03 School Hard, Xander says the same thing about Angel:
“Okay, that’s it. I’m puttin’ a collar with a little bell on that guy.”
In 2.15 Phases, Larry says to Xander:
“Harris. Sheesh. Next time wear a bell.”
Burba weed
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Spike says in 6.06 All The Way that he likes to put burba weed in his blood to make it “all hot and spicy.” We heard in 4.10 Hush that he likes to crumble up Weetabix in blood as it “gives it a little texture.” Whilst in his crypt in 6.13 Dead Things, Spike puts some kind of herb in a glass of blood which could be burba weed.
Charles Duckworth
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Charles Duckworth, who played Glenn in 6.06 All The Way (the vampire who says, “Excuse me! Can we fight now?”), can also be seen in Fat Albert, Thirteen, Cold Case and Wanda at Large.
Charlie Brown
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Willow and Xander have a Christmas tradition of watching A Charlie Brown Christmas together. This was first mentioned in 2.17 Passion. The cartoon features the Snoopy Dance, which is something we see Xander do in 5.03 The Replacement.
In 6.06 All The Way, Spike says:
“Great Pumpkin’s on in twenty.”
He’s referring to Charles Schultz’s animated Peanuts Halloween special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
Cleaning cover-up
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We finally discover in 6.06 All The Way why Giles spends a lot of his time cleaning his glasses:
Buffy: “Is that why you’re always taking off your glasses? So you don’t have to watch what we’re doing?”
Giles: “Tell no one.”
Costuming fun
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For Halloween in 6.06 All The Way, Xander dresses as a pirate, Anya as a Charlie’s Angel and Giles as a wizard. Other costumes seen include: a fireman; a bee; the Queen of Hearts; three witches; a demon; a prisoner; Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker; a milkmaid; a gorilla; Flash Gordon; a 1920s ‘Flapper’ girl; Raggedy Ann; Cleopatra; a skeleton; a Mexican; a medieval princess; a hippie; a rock star and a slave.
Crass
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In 6.06 All The Way, Giles tells Buffy that the undead don’t usually come out on Halloween. She reminds him of the events of season two’s 2.06 Halloween (”costumes that take you over”) and season four’s 4.04 Fear, Itself (”wee little Irish fear-demony thingies”).
Dave Power
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Dave Power, who played Janice’s date Zack in 6.06 All The Way, can also be seen in Latter Days, Frailty, Band of Brothers (as Private Dietrich), Malcolm in the Middle, One Tree Hill, ER, Boston Public, That ’70s Show and Becker.
Fantasia
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The animated movie Fantasia has been mentioned twice in Buffy. In 4.04 Fear, Itself, Xander brings home Phantasm from the video shop but discovers he’s been given Fantasia instead. In 6.06 All The Way, the Scoobies discuss cleaning the Magic Shop. Willow says, “I could whip up a jaunty self-cleaning incantation, it’ll be like Fantasia.” The movie was made in 1940 and features Mickey Mouse in dramatic animated sequences to classical music.
Farrah Fawcett
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In 1.03 The Witch, Buffy says:
“Mom, I’ve accepted that you’ve had sex. I am not ready to know that you had Farrah hair.”
She’s referring to the star of the TV show Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett, whose flicked out hair became popular in the 1970s.
In 6.06 All The Way, Anya dressed as Farrah in Charlie’s Angels for Halloween, but was confused as she thought her name was Charlie:
“I’m an Angel. We look sexy roller-skating and have cool hair. My name is Charlie.”
Firefly
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In 6.06 All The Way, Xander gives children sweets at the Magic Box. He says,
“These be fireflies spat from a volcano off the coast of Katmandu.”
This may be a nod towards Joss Whedon’s TV show Firefly.
In 5.05 Life Of The Party, Lorne says:
“Yes. It’s Grapes of Wrath in outer space. Uh-huh. Oh, it’s got heart… Yes, it’s got laser battles. It’s got a timely message of interstellar poverty”
This could also be a reference to Firefly.
Go boom
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In 6.06 All The Way, Xander says, “Store. Go boom.” In 5.08 Shadow, Willow said, “Tomb. Go boom” after Riley blew up a tomb in the graveyard.
Halloween
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Halloween gets its name from the Catholic celebration of All Hallow’s Eve, a day when all the saints, not just those with their own feast day, were honoured. Its real origins go back much further, to the ancient festival of Samhain, the Celtic new year. On that day it was believed that the boundaries between the worlds of the living and dead were weakened. Thus spirits were able to cause trouble on earth, and humans to gain otherworldly knowledge. According to Giles, Halloween is traditionally a quiet night for undead activity as they think it’s corny. Halloween is celebrated in the Buffy episodes 2.06 Halloween, 4.04 Fear, Itself and 6.06 All The Way.
Henry V
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In 5.22 The Gift, Giles says, “We few… we happy few…” to which Spike replies, “We band ‘o buggered”, paraphrasing the famous “St. Crispin’s Day” speech in Shakespeare’s Henry V. The actual quote is, “We few, we happy few. We band of brothers.”
In 6.06 All The Way, Xander misquotes Henry V, “So, one more into the breach?” The line is actually “Once more unto the breach”.
Indiana Jones
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Warren calls Jonathan “Short Round” in 7.07 Conversations With Dead People and 6.18 Entropy. He was Indiana Jones’ partner, played by Jonathan Ke Quan, in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
In 6.06 All The Way, Zach says to Janice:
“Pumpkins, very dangerous, you go first”.
This is a reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark in which Indiana Jones sees snakes in his way. His friend Salla says “Asps, very dangerous, you go first”.
In 4.10 Awakening, after he sets off the booby trap, Angel says:
“Wood. Why did it have to be wood?”
This is a paraphrase of Indiana Jones’s famous line “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?” from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Much of the action in Angel’s fantasy in 4.10 Awakening is inspired by Indiana Jones movies. In 4.11 Soulless, Angelus says to Wesley,
“Here’s one for you. What’s the deal with Angel and Raiders of the Lost Ark?”
It’s a loop
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In 6.06 All The Way, Buffy says:
“Don’t blame me if we keep having this conversation over and over…”
She’s referring to 6.05 Life Serial in which she was placed in a time flux by the nerds.
In 7.10 Bring On The Night, Xander says:
“It’s a loop… like the Mummy hand.”
Janice Penshaw
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Janice Penshaw was the rebellious friend of Dawn who sneaked out on a double date with Zack, Dawn and Justin at Halloween in 6.06 All The Way. She was also mentioned by Dawn in the episodes 6.12 Doublemeat Palace, 6.13 Dead Things, 6.17 Normal Again and 6.19 Seeing Red.
John O’Leary
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John O’Leary, who played one of the Watchers in 5.12 Checkpoint, also appeared as Kaltenbach in the season six Buffy episode 6.06 All The Way.
Justin
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Justin went on a date with Dawn, Janice and Zack. He was really a vampire and intended on making Dawn into a vampire. She kissed him, realised what he was and, eventually, staked him in 6.06 All The Way.
Kavan Reece
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Kavan Reece, who played Dawn’s vampire date Justin in 6.06 All The Way, has also been in The Rules of Attraction, All About Us and That ’70s Show.
Klepto Dawn
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After her mother died, Dawn started stealing things to try and get attention. She took some of Anya’s earrings in 5.18 Intervention, a necklace in 6.06 All The Way and an amulet in 6.07 Once More, With Feeling. She told Justin in 6.06 All The Way that
“I haven’t paid for lipstick since forever”
and in 6.14 Older And Far Away she stole a leather jacket for Buffy’s birthday. Dawn’s kleptomania was discovered in 6.14 Older And Far Away when Anya found stolen jewellery in Dawn’s room. In 6.17 Normal Again, Buffy tells Dawn she has to try harder and stop stealing things.
Lethe’s Bramble
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In 6.06 All The Way, Willow uses Lethe’s Bramble to perform a forgetting spell on Tara (and herself and her friends, by accident, in 6.08 Tabula Rasa). Tara discovered what Willow had done in 6.07 Once More, With Feeling when she researched Lethe’s Bramble in a book at the Magic Box. It said: “Lethe’s Bramble: Used for augmenting spells of forgetting and mind control”.
Lipstick larceny
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In 2.21 Becoming (Part One), Buffy is seen in a flashback saying to her new Watcher:
“I meant to pay for that lipstick.”
In 6.06 All The Way, Dawn says to the vampire Justin:
“I haven’t paid for lipstick since forever.”
Mandrake root
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In 6.06 All The Way, Buffy is sent by Anya to get some mandrake root. It is a traditional magical ingredient which is said to look like a person, and would scream when pulled from the ground. Spike says mandrake root should be kept three to a jar to avoid cramping.
Marti on Dawn’s romance
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Marti Noxon said of the episode 6.06 All The Way:
“That one was interesting, but there were two things wrong with it. The romance between Dawn and the vampire never took off. We’d hoped it would be bittersweet, but they didn’t quite make the connection. So in some ways it wasn’t quite as resonant as we’d hoped it would be. And the other thing is that Joss felt that we should have shored up Dawn’s character more at the beginning. If we’d been into Dawn’s space in the beginning, then the rest of it might have played better. I tend to agree. We sort of boned that one a little bit. What I did like about it was that it was sort of old school Buffy. You go out with these guys and, guess what? They’re vampires. Not very complicated in the metaphor, but very dead on. So I liked the simplicity of it. It we’d only made a few adjustments, it would have been better.”
Moby Dick
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Xander dresses as a pirate in 6.06 All The Way. Giles calls him “Ahab” after the captain in the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville. In 4.01 Deep Down, Gunn says that Wesley has “been playing a little Ahab”.
Night Of The Living Dead
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In 6.06 All The Way, the film playing on Spike’s TV when Buffy enters his cellar is Night Of The Living Dead, a classic horror film directed by George A. Romero in 1968 about a group of people trapped inside a house sieged by hordes of zombies.
Later on, Dawn and her vampire date, Justin, have the following dialogue:
Dawn: “I didn’t know he was dead!”
Justin: “Living dead”.
Dawn: “Shut up!”
Pop Goes The Weasel
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In 6.06 All The Way, Kaltenbach hums the tune of ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’. The rhyme has several versions, but the most well-known stanza goes:
Half a pound of tuppenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle.
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop goes the weasel.
Remedial Magic
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When Willow is arguing with the lady who’s dressed as a stereotypical witch in 6.06 All The Way, she’s holding up a purple book called Remedial Magic.
Skater girl
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Emma Caulfield told a group of Buffy fans at the Starfury Fusion Event (Blackpool, England, 2004) about her experience filming the episode 6.06 All The Way:
“I actually roller blade, well I haven’t in a while, I used to roller blade all the time and I was an avid skater when I was a kid. I’m sure they were all terrified because I just sort of went around between takes and I was constantly spinning around and doing stuff. And I actually managed to not knock anything over, which was great, but it was fun. I wasn’t too keen on the shorts, I wasn’t working out then.”
Star Wars
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George Lucas’s Star Wars films are a cult phenomenon. They are referenced numerous times in the Buffyverse. The original trilogy included the movies Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return Of The Jedi (1983) and the movies The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005) were made later on.
- 2.01 When She Was Bad: when Xander and Willow play Guess the Movie from the tag line:
Willow: “Use the Force, Luke.”,
Xander: “Do I even have to dignify that with a guess?” - 2.03 School Hard: Spike told Angel that, “You were my Yoda!” Yoda was the ancient Jedi master who became the mentor and teacher for both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker.
- 3.13 The Zeppo: A visual reference to Star Wars is seen when Xander runs into the corridor and runs back out with the gang members chasing him. Han Solo does the same thing in Star Wars.
- 3.19 Choices: Buffy says that Faith has turned to ‘the dark side’.
- 4.01 The Freshman: Xander confuses the Star Wars Jedi code quoted by Yoda in The Phantom Menace.
“Hate leads to anger…no wait…Fear leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side.”
Also in that episode, the old frat house that the vampires are holed up in is the Psi Theta house. If you write those two greek letters together, and pronounce them together, you get Sith.
- 4.04 Fear, Itself: Xander says to Oz, “Sensing a disturbance in the Force, Master?”
- 5.08 Shadow: Buffy using the chain to choke Sobek the snake-demon is reminiscent of Princess Leia killing Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi.
- 5.17 Forever: Ben calls Glory’s minions “Jawa rejects” after the small hooded and robed creatures in Star Wars.
- 6.05 Life Serial: Andrew paints a Death Star from Star Wars on the side of the gang’s van. It’s the Empire’s revised design from Return of the Jedi, which Jonathan says is flawed.
- 6.21 Two To Go: Andrew says:
“We’ve got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds us all into to Jawa burgers and not one of you bunch has the Midichlorians to stop her.”
These are all Star Wars references: Darth is a title given to a Sith Warrior (such as Darth Vader); Jawas are the hooded creatures who live on Tatooine, and Midichlorians are micro-organisms which exist in all living things.
In that episode, Andrew says another two Star Wars quotes:“Laugh it up, Fuzzball.”
“…in a galaxy far, far away…”
- 6.06 All The Way: Tara and Willow see a couple dressed as Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker kissing in the Bronze. Willow asks:
“Do they know they’re brother and sister?”
- 6.09 Smashed: we see that the three nerds own a mint condition (though out of its packaging) 1979 Boba Fett action figure. Though Boba Fett was first introduced in The Empire Strikes Back (made in 1980), the earliest Boba Fett figure was made in 1979, before the film was released.
- 6.13 Dead Things: Jonathan and Andrew play fight with green light sabres.
- 6.18 Entropy: Warren calls Jonathan “Padawan”.
- 7.07 Conversations With Dead People: Jonathan and Warren have the following conversation, all quotes from Star Wars:
Warren: “Come on, “If you strike me down…”
Andrew: “I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine…That boy is our last hope.”
Warren: “No, there is another.” - 7.12 Potential: Xander says to Andrew:
“Say Skywalker, and I smack you.”
- 7.11 Showtime: Andrew says, “I’m bored. Episode I bored.” He’s referring to George Lucas’s disappointing movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. He also says: “Um, deflector shields - deflector shields up!”
- 7.09 Never Leave Me: Warren/The First says, “I’m like Obi Wan”. He also says to Andrew, “We’re right in the trench, and the exhaust port’s in sight.” This is a reference to the scene in Star Wars in which the Death Star is under attack.
- 7.10 Bring On The Night: Andrew says:
“I’m like Vader in the last 5 minutes of Jedi with redemptive powers minus a redemptive struggle of epic redemption which chronicles…”
He’s referring to the last scenes of the final Star Wars movie Return of the Jedi. He also says:
“I admit I went over to the dark side, but just to pick up a few things, and now I’m back.”
- 7.16 Storyteller: there are two framed Star Wars comics on the wall in Andrew’s opening scene.
- 7.18 Dirty Girls: Andrew says:
“But like so many tragic heroes, Faith was seduced by the lure of the dark side.”
- 1.06 Sense And Sensitivity: Cordelia’s line “Jar Jar is getting his own talk show” is another reference to Star Wars.
- 1.05 Rm W/A Vu: Cordy says to her ghost, “Hey, hey - Phantom Dennis, put that back.” Jane Espenson says in her commentary fo the episode that she insisted the ghost be called Dennis to be able to pun the title of The Phantom Menace which was in cinemas at the time.
- 1.11 Somnambulist: Cordelia references Star Wars again when she calls Penn “Psycho-Wan Kenobi”.
- 2.03 First Impressions: Gunn says to Cordelia and Wesley,
“You two? I find Deevak, I’m gonna need more than C-3PO and Stick Figure Barbie backin’ me up, no offence.”
C-3PO was a droid in the Star Wars films, designed to assist with etiquette, customs, and translation so that meetings of different cultures run smoothly.
- 5.11 Damage: Andrew says (about Dana): “Driven insane by Yoda-knows-who.”
- 5.10 Soul Purpose: Spike references Star Wars, when he says “Sorry Mr Vader, but I don’t have an itch to join the evil Empire.”
- 4.15 Orpheus:
Wesley: “Sorry. I think my sense of humor’s trapped in a jar somewhere.”
Willow: “It does seem like you’ve given in to the grumpy side of the Force.”
Steven Anthony Lawrence
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Steven Anthony Lawrence, who played the kid harassing Xander in the Magic Box in 6.06 All The Way, has also appeared in Cheaper by the Dozen, The Cat in the Hat, Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, My Favorite Martian, Frasier, ER, The Amanda Show, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Married… with Children. Steven played a mentally retarded boy in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (which features Eliza Dushku), but his scene was cut as it was deemed too offensive.
Steven DeKnight
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Steven DeKnight was a writer on Buffy and a writer and director on Angel. He was also a supervising producer and writer on Smallville. Steven met Joss Whedon originally to talk about the animated version of Buffy, but eventually Joss asked him to write for the show itself.
That old trick
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Both Dawn and Janice tell their families in 6.05 Life Serial that they are staying at each others’ houses. Buffy should have checked with Janice’s mother as she and her friends did this in 2.13 Surprise when researching the Judge.
The Terminator
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The conversation in 4.02 Living Conditions about Parker’s interest in Buffy, (Xander says “Hasta” and “Buffinator” and Oz says “He’ll be back”) is a reference to The Terminator movies, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by James Cameron.
In 4.15 This Year’s Girl, Buffy called Adam:
“the Terminator without the bashful charm.”
In 2.01 When She Was Bad, Willow and Xander referenced the movie when playing “Guess the Movie”.
In 4.21 Primeval, Adam has an arm-gun (”I’ve been upgrading”). This is reminiscent of the gun the Terminator has in the movie trilogy.
In 6.06 All The Way, Janice calls her mother “The Mominator”.
In 3.06 Billy, Cordelia says,
“You can’t barge into a police precinct and go all Terminator.”
At one point in the original Terminator movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character drives into a police station and shoots up the place killing most of the police inside.
Treasure Island
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After her first kiss in 6.06 All The Way, Dawn says, “Shiver me timbers”. This is a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1881 novel Treasure Island, and was also used in a 1934 Popeye cartoon going by the same name. Dawn originally heard the phrase from Anya, who said:
“But you get to dress up and play games! Xander’s going to teach me a new one after work called Shiver Me Timbers. Ever play?”
Here, Anya is hinting at the (most likely adult) game she will be playing with Xander later, while he’s dressed as a pirate.
Workaholics
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Whilst the episode 6.06 All The Way was being filmed, the cast were simultaneously learning and recording their musical numbers for 6.07 Once More, With Feeling, so the scenes of the exhausted Scoobies in the Magic Box are pretty realistic.
Xander’s patch
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Xander wears an eye patch when he is dressed as a pirate in 6.06 All The Way. Xander’s eye was removed by Caleb in season seven’s 7.18 Dirty Girls and he then had to wear an eye patch. He even references the costume when he’s in hospital in 7.19 Empty Places:
“Well, to go with the eye patch, to really complete the look. I think I still have that costume from Halloween.”
Zack
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Zack was a vampire who pretended to be a human when he went on a double date with Janice, Dawn and Justin. He and Justin planned to turn the two girls into vampires, but Zack was staked by Giles in 6.06 All The Way.
[Goof] Buffy’s stuntwoman
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Buffy’s stunt double can be clearly seen when she fights the vampire near the car in 6.06 All The Way.
[Goof] Car window
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When Buffy is fighting a vampire in 6.06 All The Way they smash the window of a car. You can see that the glass breaks a second before it is hit. You may need to pause your DVD to see this one.
[Goof] Giles’s stuntman
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When Giles fights the vampire after finding Janice in 6.06 All The Way, you can see his stunt double clearly.
[Goof] How long?
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Buffy tells Xander in 6.06 All The Way that she was only out of commission for 3 months. In 6.03 After Life, Spike tells Buffy she was dead for 147 days - which is about 5 months.
[Goof] Spike’s stuntman
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Spike’s stunt double can be seen in the big fight with the vampires in 6.06 All The Way.