Funnel Cakes: Geeky gourmet Andrew has been baking funnel cakes, a tasty and unhealthy treat created by pouring the cake ingredients from a funnel into ho fat. The trick is to make spirals or other cool patterns as you pour. Funnel cakes are best served hot with syrup. Yummy!

Look's Familiar: Buffy's encounter with the Shadow Men was filmed in the same New Mexico desert location as her encounter with the first Slayer in Restless. Also, the Slayer bag that once belonged to Nikki Wood is the one full of mud seen in Buffy's Restless dream.

Talk Buffy: The Shadow Men speak Swahili, an East African language of Bantu (African) origin. It borrows words from other languages such as Arabic probably as a result of the Swahili people using the Arabic Koran. For more info, check out the Brief History of the Swahili Language. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.

By the way, Dawn has become quite the little linguistics expert, having developed an understanding of Ancient Sumerian.

May be trouble: Buffy notes that, "The Hellmouth has begun its semi-annual percolation. Usually, it blows around May." This is an in-joke, refering to the fact that, in America, Buffy's season finales, usually involving Hellmouth-related horror, are shown in May.

Exchange Student: Xander's comment: "Ah, this must be the exchange student," when the demon appears is probably a reference to Inca Mummy Girl. In the Season Two episode, he hooked up with with an ancient South American horror who had swapped places with a real exchange student.

Kraken's Tooth: Willow refers to a Kraken's tooth. The Kraken was a horned sea monster so huge that it was sometimes mistaken for a group of islands by unsuspecting sailors. But when curious mariners drew near, the islands erupted into a mass of multiple heads, horns, and tentacles that could sink even the largest of ships.

The first recorded mention of the Kraken appears to be in Homer's Odyssey, but the creature has subsequently been associated with Scandanavian mythology.