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* [[Art Shift]]: With better ratings came a bigger budget for the show; this episode was the first to be shot on larger-format 35mm film instead of the 16mm of the first two seasons, leading to a visible jump in image quality, particularly in nighttime scenes.

* [[An Axe to Grind]] / [[Drop the Hammer]]: The guards take swings at Buffy with hand axes and blacksmith hammers.

* [[Between My Legs]] / [[Closeup On Head]]: Willow getting her Slayer on.

* [[Big Damn Kiss]]: The gag from "What's My Line" of swelling music when Cordelia and Xander kiss is repeated.

{{quote| '''Larry:''' If we can focus, keep discipline, and not have quite as many mysterious deaths, Sunnydale is gonna ''rule!''}}

* [[Book Ends]]: Willow and Buffy's nonsensical one-liners.

** A knock at Joyce's door.

* [[Brutal Honesty]]: As Buffy is rifling through some files, the nefarious doctor enters and demands to know what she's doing. Buffy: "Breaking into your office and going through your private files." Hee.

* [[Call Back]]: Chantelle, one of the [[Vampire Vannabe|Vampire Vannabes]] from "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S2 E7 Lie to Me|Lie to Me]]".

** Cordelia suggesting that Xander might have got together with an "Inca Mummy Girl" while she was away.

* [[Dissimile]]: It seems Buffy has confused Gandhi with Teddy Roosevelt.

* [[Diving Save]]: Buffy pushing Old!Rickie out of a vehicle's path.

** Ken drops the [[Anvilicious|anvil]] with this line: "This is not a good place for a kid to be. [[Foreshadowing|You get old fast]] out here."

** At one point in the battle with Ken's henchmen, Buffy wields both a hammer and a sickle. The factory setting, hard labor and symbols from the old Soviet Union may be a visual play on the spirit of workers rising up against their oppressors.

* [[The Drifter|The Drifters]]: Lily, Rickie, and "Anne" herself.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The used-up slaves who get spit back into the real world.

* [[Environmental Symbolism]]: [[Punny Name|Helen's Kitchen]].

* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Cordy and Xander bickering at each other, unaware that the vamp has singled out Willow. [[Sarcasm Mode|Like a well-oiled machine]], these Scoobies.

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Ken.

* [[Greasy Spoon]]

'''Oz:''' Yeah, but...rhythmically. }}

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: As Buffy and Lily are stewing in a cell, Ken drops by to gloat through the prison bars. He taunts Lily about her boyfriend's suffering, then turns his attention to Buffy, ridiculing her for running away from her old identity -- to disappear. "Congratulations. [[Be Careful What You Wish For|You got your wish.]]"

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: When Buffy asks for their order, Rickie dumps some change on the table and asks what they can afford with that much.

{{quote| '''Lily:''' Can we get cake?<br />

* [[It Gets Easier]]: Buffy to Anne in the epilogue.

* [[Its Kind of a Funny Story]]: Oz prefacing his admission that he's repeating the 12th grade.

* [[Latex Perfection]]: Ken's rubber mask. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to glue that thing on?!"

* [[Linked List Clue Methodology]]: Buffy discovers that the runaways have all been stamped "<small>CANDIDATE</small>" by the blood bank.

* [[The Lost Lenore]]: Buffy for Angel; even the sight of Lily and Richie smooching makes her envious.

* [[Made a Slave]]

** At hearing news of Rickie's death, Lily says despairingly, "But -- he takes care of me." We can surmise that she's has spent years drifting from one 'protector' to the next. At the end, Lily (now "Anne") is resigned to standing on her own feet, but laments, "I'm not very good at taking care of myself."

** [[Characterization Marches On|We'll see]].

* [[Mythology Gag]]: "Lily" and her boyfriend attempting to buy lunch at a diner by dumping a bunch of change onto the table. David Arquette and Luke Perry did the exact same thing in the ''Buffy'' [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Film)|feature film]].

* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Oz, doomed to repeat his Senior year of high school. Oh well, his loss is our gain.

'''Joyce:''' I don't...I blame you. You've been this huge influence on her, guiding her. You had this whole relationship with her behind my back. I feel like you've taken her away from me. }}

* [[Perp Sweating]]: Buffy and the doc.

* [[Portal Pool]]: Ken's "cleansing" pool.

* [[Red Shirt]]: Rickie. Though his death was ultimately self-inflicted, the real cause was "Family House."

'''Xander:''' [[Ask a Stupid Question|The vampire kills you]]. [[And There Was Much Rejoicing|We watch. We rejoice]]. }}

* [[Shout Out]]: Lily wears a white t-shirt that says, "Dent" and has a red heart with the words "Home of" visible inside the heart. This is most likely a nod to ''[[Rocky Horror]]'', in which a billboard depicts a large red heart with the word "Denton" above it (Denton is the name of the town in which the film takes place) and the phrase "The Home of Happiness" inside it.

{{quote| '''Ken''': [to Lily] He forgot you. Took him a long time. He remembered your name years after he'd forgotten his own. But, in the end...}}

* [[Stock Footage]]: The montage depicting the teen runaways will be used again in the ''Angel'' pitch tape. The image of the teenage girl with the large skirt alone in the street will be used in the credits of ''Angel''.