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Trivia about Xendra includes:

Shout-Out: Many many. Part of the fun is how many and how rapid-fire they are, and the characters they confuse. Just to name a few:
- Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Blackadder: Multiple invocations of "I have a cunning plan".
- GURPS, Pathfinder, Vampire: The Masquerade and other RPGs played by Xander's gaming group.
- "Lestat", the would-be master vampire.
- The Wizard of Oz, when Andrew summons the flying monkey demons.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Xander's rapid-fire list of suggested names for Willow's/the Rosenbergs' car.
- His disguise during the research excursion to Sacramento in chapter 87 sounds very much like Kevin Lynch, the nerd character Nicholas Brendon played in Criminal Minds
- Kim Possible gets referenced in an exchange between Xander and Willow that leaves Buffy baffled.
- Xander and Buffy together get in a three-in-one in chapter 96:

Buffy wondered, "Xander, are you pondering what I'm pondering?”
He grinned at her and dropped down a few tones to his dopey voice. "Well sure Brain, but if we put the laser beams on the sharks' heads, how do we make the tornado toss 'em on top of the mayor?"

- At one point Willow says the Sunnydale cops make Gunther Toody look like Columbo. It's not the first Car 54 comparison she makes about the Sunnydale police.
- When Willow and Xander lead Faith down to Willow's basement workspace, Xander says, "So come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab!" (Faith, predictably, asks which one of them wears the corset and stockings.) He repeats the line several months later when they take Giles, Wesley and others down to the lab, only to have Willow object that she doesn't see anyone "shivering with antici..." "Pation!" Xander completes.
- During the Glory arc, Xander refers to the doctors at Sunnydale's hospital as having degrees from the Frank Burns School of Medicine.
- The Scoobies routinely refer to the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart as "Hokey, Lamb Chop and Bambi".

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 * [[Shout-Out]]:  Many many.  Part of the fun is how many and how rapid-fire they are, and the characters they confuse.  Just to name a few:
 ** ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', including ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''
-** ''[[Blackadder]]''
+** ''[[Blackadder]]'':  Multiple invocations of "I have a cunning plan".
+** ''[[GURPS]]'', ''[[Pathfinder]]'', ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' and other RPGs played by Xander's gaming group.
-** ''[[GURPS]]''
 ** [[The Vampire Chronicles|"Lestat"]], the would-be master vampire.
 ** ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'', when Andrew summons the flying monkey demons.
+** ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four (Literature)|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''
+** Xander's rapid-fire list of suggested names for Willow's/the Rosenbergs' car.
+** His disguise during the research excursion to Sacramento in chapter 87 sounds very much like Kevin Lynch, the nerd character [[Nicholas Brendon]] played in ''[[Criminal Minds]]''
 ** ''[[Kim Possible]]'' gets referenced in an exchange between Xander and Willow that leaves ''Buffy'' baffled.
 ** Xander and Buffy together get in a three-in-one in chapter 96:
 {{quote|Buffy wondered, [[Pinky and The Brain|"Xander, are you pondering what I'm pondering?”]]
 He grinned at her and dropped down a few tones to his dopey voice. "Well sure Brain, but if we put [[Austin Powers|the laser beams on the sharks' heads]], how do we make [[Sharknado|the tornado toss 'em on top of the mayor?"]]}}
-** At one point Willow says the Sunnydale cops make [[Car 54, Where Are You?|Gunther Toody]] look like [[Columbo]].
+** At one point Willow says the Sunnydale cops make [[Car 54, Where Are You?|Gunther Toody]] look like [[Columbo]]. It's not the first ''Car 54'' comparison she makes about the Sunnydale police.
 ** When Willow and Xander lead Faith down to Willow's basement workspace, Xander says, [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|"So come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab!"]]  (Faith, predictably, asks which one of them wears the corset and stockings.)  He repeats the line several months later when they take Giles, Wesley and others down to the lab, only to have Willow object that she doesn't see anyone "shivering with antici..."  "Pation!" Xander completes.
 ** During the Glory arc, Xander refers to the doctors at Sunnydale's hospital as having degrees from [[M*A*S*H (television)|the Frank Burns School of Medicine]].