The odd couple: Talking about the episode's reaction on the Posting Board, Joss maintained that Living Conditions was a "totally accurate portrayal of roomies - I almost hired a man to kill him when he straightened his rug one time." Best to give Mr Whedon his space, we think.

Picking Parker: Oz and Xander's discussion of Buffy�s flirty encounter with Parker contains several references to the two Terminator movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. These include allusions to famous quotes from the films, including �hasta la vista, baby� and the ominous promise �I�ll be back�.

Home but not alone: For a different kind of treatment of the 'roommate from Hell' story check out Barbet Schroeder�s 1992 film Single White Female, starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Wolf in...: How many of you noticed that Oz was wearing a sheepskin coat...?

Staying old gracefully: There's a reference to season three's Band Candy when Buffy tells Giles that she's "still ick from the last time he tried to recapture his youth."

DJ disaster: Kathy's musical taste is characterised by Buffy as being like VH1, a fairly soft, poppy music video channel. Her particular favourite is Cher's 1998 vocoder-voiced hit "I Believe"

Home, bitter home: Buffy's room at University is 214 Stevenson Hall. Stevenson was, probably not co-incidentally, the name of a college at Marti Noxon's University, Santa Cruz.