Continuity
- In the opening scene, in the graveyard, a gravestone bears the name Snyder on it. This may be a reference to Principal Snyder, who was killed by Mayor Wilkins in Season 3.
- Prior to Buffy's date with Principal Wood, Anya attempts to remove a stain from the shirt Buffy wishes to wear. She remarks on it being a blood stain but on being unable to remove it suggests it could be pizza. This is a reference to the episode "Conversations with Dead People" in which Dawn makes a pizza stain on one of Buffy's shirts and dismisses it thinking Buffy will assume it's blood.
- Although we're introduced to Principal Wood's mother as a slayer in a flashback from "Fool For Love", when the Principal sees his mother in the final scene of "First Date" she is played by actress K.D. Aubert, but in "Fool For Love" the slayer who Spike kills on the subway is played by actress April Weeden-Washington. The change of actresses was probably due to Weeden-Washington's unavailability. Principal Wood does explain to Buffy that his memory of his mother is "fuzzy" since he was only a young boy when she died.
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