Buffy the Vampire Slayer

There is an easter egg on the DVD of this episode. Select "Once More With Feeling", and then in the following screen go to the "Language Selection" and there highlight the menu entry "English for the hearing-impaired." Now press the "Left" arrow key on your remote control and the Buffy "B" will be highlighted giving you access to 3-minutes worth of footage from the soundtrack signing at Tower Records in Los Angeles.

This episode is number two in Joss Whedon's list of his top ten favorite episodes according to The Last Sundown featurette in the season seven DVD box set.

Michelle Trachtenberg asked Joss Whedon not to give her too much to sing, and that she'd rather dance instead. That is why she has the dancing scene when she is in the Bronze with Sweet.

When this originally aired on the UPN network in the US they aired the entire episode, even though it ran 8 minutes over the alloted hour. Subsequent airings were edited to make it fit into the time format.

This episode ranked #44 on TV Land's The 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments.

The purple backpack that Dawn dumps her stuff out of in her bedroom belongs to Joss Whedon, according to his audio commentary in the DVD.

The man who sings the song The Mustard is David Fury, the co-executive producer.

This episode and Hush (4x10)were both nominated for Emmy awards. Neither won. This episode, however, was left off the official ballot sent out to voters due to a misprint. The error was fixed with an addendum, but it was too late as many voters had already returned their ballots.

This episode is the first to have its title shown on screen, but not the last. Season seven's Conversations With Dead People also had its title displayed during the teaser.

Alyson Hannigan stated in an interview that she asked not to have much to sing, but regretted it afterwards because of how good the songs were (and the fact that Willow could have had a bigger part in the episode). The two songs she most wanted to sing more in were, Walk Through the Fire (her and Sarah's favorite song) and Under Your Spell, sung by Amber Benson.

As Giles, Anya and Xander are walking down the street talking (passing the lady singing about her parking ticket and the dancing street sweepers) they pass a man and woman doing a ballet in the street. This is the shows choreographer and his assistant, they were added to the scene at the last minute and basically improvised the dance.

In Walk Through the Fire, Tara sings the line, "What can't we face, if we're together" but it seems to have been intended for Willow as it is she who is given the line in the sheet music.

From the Once More With Feeling commentary: Joss Whedon had written a completely different song for Something to Sing About that he called My Girl. It was basically Buffy telling Sweet to take her instead of Dawn and trying to convince him that she is "his girl". Joss then changed this because he believed he had covered this idea before the song, and so he wrote Something to Sing About.

From the Once More With Feeling commentary: In early drafts of Xander and Anya's song I'll Never Tell, several lines were different. For example, "Will I look good when I've gotten old" was "Will he look at me when I've gotten old." Joss decided on the present line as it worked better with Xander's "Is she looking for a pot of gold" line.

From the Once More With Feeling commentary, in early drafts of Spike's song Rest In Peace, several lines were different including "Whisper in a dead man's to" was "Whisper it in a dead man's ear."

Joss Whedon spent his entire summer vacation from the show (the first one he'd taken since the show started production) writing this episode.

This episode took four months in total to write, film, and produce.

The two vampires and the demon from the opening scene, the dancing street cleaners, and Sweet's minions are all played by the same people. Joss Whedon mentioned this on the DVD commentary.

This episode originally aired in Australia on April 15th 2002. Due to it's overwhelming popularity it was rerun on April 15th 2003 in Australia thus being the only ever episode (to date) to have ever been rerun during new episodes of Buffy. This also caused Angel to rerun Waiting in the Wings, the only other Joss Whedon written episode of Buffy or Angel for that season, the very next day.

This is the only episode of season six that Joss Whedon either wrote or directed.

In Anya and Xander's song ("I'll Never Tell"), Anya says Xander's "penis got diseases from a Chumash tribe" referring to his experience in season 4's 'Pangs'.

Tara makes reference to when Glory altered her mind in 'Tough Love', when she sings "you know I've been through Hell", in the 'Under Your Spell-Standing Reprise.'

This is the first ever episode to air in widescreen (it would only be used for this one episode).

For the first time since the show began, the closing credit music is replaced. The dance of the Road-Sweepers is played.

The soundtrack for this episode is available on CD.

Tara's song to Willow is literal as she is still under Willow's amnesia spell.

Willow makes reference to a theory of how "some kid is dreaming and we're all stuck inside his wacky Broadway nightmare." This is a sort of culmination of the Scoobies experience with nightmare realms seen in other episodes, starting with Season 1's 'Nightmares'.

This episode has been voted as the 13th greatest musical ever in a poll conducted by the Channel 4 of the UK.

The Mutant Enemy logo sings the "grr... arg..." at the end of the episode. Joss Whedon provided the vocals.

Sarah Michelle Gellar was about to have someone else sing her songs and she was going to sing in the background, until she realized how emotional they were and didn't want anyone else to sing them.

The "Parking Ticket Woman" was played by Executive Producer Marti Noxon.