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* [[Pastiche]]: Chapter 131 is a deliberate pastiche of ''[[Dragnet]]'' (with a little ''[[Adam-12]]'' thrown in). Castle explicitly describes it as such.
* [[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 (because there are so many it's impossible to list them all):
** Many from ''[[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.
** [[The Vampire Chronicles|"Lestat"]], the would-be master vampire.
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** 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]].
** Joyce's hospital food is described as tasting like [[Ranma ½|Akane Tendo]] made it.
** The Scoobies routinely refer to the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart as "[[Hokey Wolf|Hokey]], [[Lamb Chop's Play-Along|Lamb Chop]] and [[Bambi]]".
** Chapter 190 has a large collection in the form of a list of Wolfram & Hart clients.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: As is usual for one of her fics, Diane Castle has done all the research necessary to make the jargon used by specialists correct and accurate, such as when Willow worries about a [[w:Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction|Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction]] when treating human!Darla for advanced syphilis.
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