Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day (1) Episode Trivia

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day (1)

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Although Buffy knew that Angel needed to drain the blood of a slayer, she stabs Faith which would cause Faith to loose most of the blood that Angel needed to be cured. edit »
In all other episodes there is a brick wall between the bank and Sunnydale Cinema, with Main Street making a right angle turn to the left. Yet as Faith stands on the ledge after Buffy stabbed her a truck drives straight down Main Street and the brick wall is now gone. edit »
When Giles puts the sword into the Mayor, it look like he puts it right where his shirt buttons are (in the middle of the shirt). But in the next shot, the hole is a bit more to the left. edit »
During Faith and Buffy's fight Faith falls on the concrete floor and gets some white dust on her pants, but a few shots later it is gone. edit »
When Angel enters the apartment just before he says "Not my best entrance", the boom mic is visible right over his head for just a couple of frames. edit »
When Joyce annnounces "Buffy, I'm Home", the boom mic swings down and then up again just at the right side of the doorway. edit »

Wesley: Buffy, they're very firm. We are talking about laws that have existed longer than civilization.
Buffy: I'm talking about watching my lover die. edit »
Buffy: Mom, graduation is a pointless ceremony where you sit around and listen to a bunch of boring speeches until someone hands you a little piece of paper that says you graduated, which you already know, and maroon does nothing for my complexion so don't argue, okay? edit »
Faith: Well, look at you. All dressed up in big sister's clothes.
Buffy: You told me I was just like you. That I was holding it in.
Faith: Ready to cut loose?
Buffy: Try me.
Faith: Okay then. Give us a kiss. edit »
Buffy: I'm just glad Faith is such a suck shot.
Giles: We're sure it was her?
Buffy: Well, I've narrowed down my list of one suspect. edit »
Angel: Anything in there that connects him to the mayor?
Buffy: I looked through it, but the only thing I understood were the commas. edit »
The Mayor: "The several races of man will be as one in their terror and destruction." Oh, that's kind of sweet. Different races coming together.
Buffy: You never get even a little tired of hearing yourself speak, do you?
The Mayor: That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
(Giles puts a sword in The Mayor's chest)
The Mayor: Whoa! Now, that was a little thoughtless. (takes out the sword) Violent outbursts like that, in front of the children. edit »
Buffy: If the mayor's trying to hide, I say we go seek.
Wesley: Ah, by attempting to keep a valuable clue from us, the mayor may have inadvertently led us right to it.
Buffy: What page are you on, Wes? 'Cause we already got there. edit »
Xander: Guess who our commencement speaker is?
Willow: Siegfried?
Xander: No.
Willow: Roy?
Xander: No.
Willow: One of the tigers?
Xander: Come out of the fantasy, Will. edit »
Harmony: I hope we don't lose touch.
Willow: No, we'll hang out. Oh, I'm gonna miss her.
Buffy: Don't you hate her?
Willow: Yes, with a fiery vengeance. She picked on me for 10 years. The vacuous tramp. It's like a sickness, Buffy. I'm just missing everything. I miss P.E.
Buffy: I think it's contagious. The whole senior class has turned into the 60's. Or what I would have imagined the 60's would have been like, you know, without the war and the hairy armpits. edit »
Cordelia: Well, you've really mastered the power of positive giving up.
Xander: I've been lucky too many times. My number's coming up. And I was short. One more rotation and I'm shipping stateside. You know what I mean?
Cordelia: Seldom, if ever. edit »
Xander: Come on guys, the suspense is killing Angel. edit »
Anya: Men like sports... I'm sure of it.
Xander: Yes, men like sports. Men watch the action movie. They eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's ALL you've learned? edit »
Harmony: You know, I really wish we would've got to know each other better... I mean, you're so smart, I always wanted to be like that. edit »
Buffy: I just love it when you take charge, you man you. edit »
Willow: Ugh, this is so frustrating
Oz: Nothing useful?
Willow: No, it's great. If we wanna make ferns invisible or communicate with shrimp, I've got the goods right here.
Oz: ... our lives are... different than other people's edit »
Buffy: I don't need you crowding me.
Angel: I didn't think I was.
Buffy: No, of course you don't. You just show up at the prom and then you disappear into the ozone. For all I know, you left town.
Angel: Are you mad at me for being around too much or not being around enough?
Buffy: Duh! Yes! edit »

This is the second time Faith tries to kill Angel. The first time is earlier in season 3 in the episode "Revelations". edit »
We learn that Willow rides a bike to school. Apparently she lives rather close to the school. edit »
Joss said the part that Angel slips while entering in the professor's office was put as kind of a homage to David Boreanaz, who is pretty clumsy. Also, they wanted to do a funny entering, not only the incredible-out-of-nowhere ones. edit »
When the Mayor confronts the Scoobies in the library, he picks up a random book and reads, "The Beast will walk upon the earth and darkness will follow. The several races of man will be as one in their terror and destruction." This is the arc that took place in Season 4 of Angel. edit »
It is unclear where Anya lives, how she gets money, and how she could afford a car. Perhaps D'Hoffryn compromised (since he would not give her her powers back) and agreed to give her money. She could have a job, but it would be hard for a high school student to find one that pays enough to buy a car and pay rent, bills, etc.. Still, such things have never been explained in the actual show. edit »
The motto on the SHS yearbook is "The Future is Ours." edit »
During their fight, Buffy repeats Faith's line from Enemies: "Stick around." Only, she means literally. edit »
Willow loses her virginity in this episode. edit »
In this episode, Buffy says that Angel will be her last "office romance". She contradicts herself only a few months later, in season 4, and years, in season 6. edit »
At the start, Cordelia complains that she wanted the graduation robes to be teal and not maroon in colour. In the original script it was the other way around, she wanted the red but the school went with the blue. edit »
Although Angel is able to come into the Professor's home uninvited, it is explained in the Angel episode "Lonely Hearts" that the invitation rule no longer applies when the owner of a home is dead. edit »

Teacher: (while playing hangman with his students) Heh, they always go for the 'E'.
Of course they do: "E" appears more in the English lexicon than any other letter. It has roughly a 12% share and is trailed by "T" (9%), "N" (8%), and "R" (7%). edit »
Buffy: Take a beat to love the synergy.
Most likely, Buffy is referring to the term "beat" as it is used in screenplays and other scripts to refers to a pause in the dialog. edit »
Xander: We're going to need a bigger boat.
Xander quotes a line from the movie Jaws when they saw how big the shark was. The picture of the demon that the Mayor will become is so large it takes up three pages of the book. edit »
Oz: But you got the swinging Habitrail going.
Habitrail is a brand of plastic tubes and such used for hamster (or other pet rodent) housing. edit »
Buffy: The Box of... I want to say gravlox.
Gravlox is a type of cured salmon. edit »
Buffy: The Mayor's trying to hide. I say we go seek.
Hide and go seek is a children's game where all but one of the participants hides (say behind a tree) and one tries to find the others. edit »
Willow: Siegfried?... Roy?... One of the tigers?
Siegfried and Roy are a famous Las Vegas act featuring trained white tigers. edit »
Cordelia: Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
A play on the book The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. The book is a famous, early, self-help book that promotes self-esteem and feelings of success. Cordelia mocks Xander and his doomed feelings by contrast with the ideas of the book. edit »