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* [[Blood Magic]]: To awaken Acathla
* [[Bookshelf Dominoes]]: In the library melee, a vampire pushes a bookshelf onto the screaming Willow, who is knocked out. The following episode reveals that she has [[Convenient Coma|slipped into a coma]] from her injuries.
* [[Book Ends]] / [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: As Buffy dusts her last vamp in the [[Batman Cold Open|cold open]], she gives a hand up to Xander, who has been conked out and hidden behind a headstone for this whole scene. He insists he was [[Half Truth|doing okay]] in the fight until "they resorted to fisticuffs." Later, Xander's arm is broken by a vampire, but surprisingly, he manages to fight on anyway. Ironically, he ends up being the most victorious of the non-superpowered Scoobies.
** This may [[Always Save the Girl|have something to do with Cordelia]], who was attacked by the same vamp whom Xander grapples with.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In "Passions" the shop owner mentions that somebody had purchased a couple Orbs of Thesulah and was using them as new age paperweights. We find out Giles was the one who bought them when he moved to Sunnydale the previous year.
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* [[Call Forward]]: Buffy is revealed to be quite [[The Ditz]] (like Cordelia, even down to the [[Girl Posse]]) before she found her destiny. This will be mentioned in a later episode in which Buffy confesses she once made Cordy [[Up to Eleven|look deep by comparison]].
** Joyce's marriage is already hitting the rocks in 1997. Following Buffy's first vampire kill, Joyce reproaches Buffy for not phoning. Downstairs, Dad's on the warpath. After her mother departs, Buffy turns on her bathroom faucet to drown out the sound of her parents arguing at the top of their lungs.
* [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]: Liam's siring in a Galway alleyway. Best. Anti-drinking PSA. ''Ever.''
* [[Continuity Nod]]: When asked about the Orb of Thessulah by Willow, Giles says he has one, saying "I've been using it as a paperweight." This references Ms.Calendar's visit to the gypsy store in "Passion", in which the shopkeeper tells her that tourists have been buying them as New Age paperweights.
** When Buffy realizes that Angelus has lured her away from the library so that Giles can be captured, he gleefully points out that "you fall for it ''every time''!" This is a reference to "When She Was Bad", in which Buffy followed a false lead, leaving Willow, Cordelia, Jenny and Giles to be abducted for the Master's resurrection.
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** On her way out, Buffy gets stopped by Kendra, who lends her a distinctive-looking stake nicknamed "Mr. Pointy." Buffy is amused yet touched by the gift.
** Buffy borrows the nickname for her own stake in later episodes, though the original stake never appears again.
* [[Laser
* [[Last Request]]: A posthumous version. For his part, Giles submits that restoring Angel was Jenny's last wish.
* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: Upon her arrival at the scene, Drusilla claps her hands smartly and calls off the rest of her gang: "Enough." The vamps surrounding Kendra automatically withdraw. This can't end well.
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* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]]: Inverted, as the bad guys are the ones trying to unsheathe it.
* [[Origins Episode]]
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Perennial mustachioed [[Hey
* [[Oral Fixation Fixation]]: SMG as pre-Sunnydale Buffy.
* [[Our Wormholes Are Different]]
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* [[Reduced to Ratburgers]]: By the time Whistler found him, Angel was homeless and scrounging off of rat blood. (To add insult to injury, he has difficulty catching one.)
* [[Recycled Set]]: The scene of young Buffy staking her first vamp takes place in a cemetery that is obviously the same as the one in Sunnydale.
* [[Red Shirt]]: Doug the curator picked a bad day to work late. As he inspects the runes, Angelus brings in a gang of henchvamps to steal the obelisk. "[[Pre
* [[Resigned to The Call]]
* [[Retcon]]: The flashback to Los Angeles is taken directly from Joss Whedon's original script for the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Film)|Buffy feature film]]. It is later published in comic format.
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