The Buffy episode 5.07 Fool For Love and the Angel episode 2.07 Darla aired in the same week in US. Both shows covered the 1880 turning of William to Spike, and how …

In 5.10 Into The Woods when Riley comes and stakes Spike with the plastic woodgrain stake, as he turns to leave and Spike begins laughing, when he says “Oh, man”, his …

In 5.10 Into The Woods, Spike says “Ain’t love grand?” which he also says to Dawn in 6.19 Seeing Red.

In 7.22 Chosen, Spike is jealous of Angel, after seeing him kiss Buffy. We see him punching a bag with a crude drawing of a spiky-haired vampire on it. Joss Whedon …

Spike’s mother’s first name was Anne, seen in 7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me. She was a sickly woman who doted on her only son. When Spike was sired by Drusilla, …

In 6.14 Older And Far Away, Spike is still bruised from the beating Buffy gave him in 6.13 Dead Things.

During season four, the Government captured Spike and implanted a Behavioural Modification Chip in his head in 4.07 The Initiative. It rendered him incapable of attacking humans without intense neurological pain, …

In 7.02 Beneath You, Buffy finds out that Spike has earned himself a soul in an attempt to be worthy of her. The title could hark back to the episode …

In 5.07 Fool For Love, Spike says the night he killed his first Slayer was the best night of his life. In 7.21 End Of Days he tells Buffy that the night …

Spike makes his final appearance as a vampire who is able to kill in 4.06 Wild At Heart. From that episode on he’s disabled by either a chip or love.

Three characters have painted their fingernails black on the show: Oz, Spike (seen painting them in 5.13 Blood Ties, as well as various other episodes) and Dawn (in 6.05 Life Serial).

James Marsters had to bleach his hair to play Spike. James swears that putting packets of Sweet and Low in the bleach lessens the stinging on his scalp when he …

Spike’s jealousy over his fellow vampire Angel is shown again in 5.18 Intervention as he has asked Warren to programme the Buffybot to say:

“Angel’s lame. His hair grows straight up …

A flashback to Spike’s past in 5.07 Fool For Love reveals that his original vampire name ‘William the Bloody’ (first mentioned in 2.03 School Hard) was actually given to him when he …

In the Angel episode 5.07 Lineage, Spike says:

“So you’re not ruling out that a human being could’ve boffed a robot. Sex with robots is more common than most people think”. …

Spike’s look from his very first episode (season two’s 2.03 School Hard) until 4.09 Something Blue in season four was a red shirt over his black t-shirt (and under his trademark black …

We see Spike stealing some of Buffy’s underwear in the episode 5.08 Shadow, and in 5.09 Listening To Fear, Spike steals photographs of the Slayer. In 5.14 Crush, we see he has a …

In 7.14 First Date, Buffy says,

“Why does everyone in this house think I’m still in love with Spike?”

She’s never said before that she was in love with him, just …

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 …

We see in 4.17 Superstar that Spike now has to buy blood from the butcher, just as Angel used to (such as in 3.20 The Prom).