Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Notes

Seems like Giles knows Buffy pretty well. He tells Angel the Buffy wouldn’t think it was fair, that Angel was there without telling Buffy. "It’s not fair. You know that’s what she’d say. You can see her and she can’t see you." This is, in fact, exactly what Buffy says to Angel when she sees him in the Angel episode "I Will Remember You." "What is it? You can see me, but I can’t see you? What are we playing here?".

Doyle’s vision, which sends Angel to Sunnydale, happens at the very end of the Angel episode, ‘‘Bachelor Party’‘ (1x07). That episode originally aired the week before ‘‘Pangs’‘, and the story continued in the next Angel episode, ‘‘I Will Remember You’‘ (1x08) which aired immediately after this episode.

This is the last time Xander and Angel share screentime together.

Xander apparently spent a very short time, presumably between last week’s episode and this one, working at Hot Dog on a Stick, a hot dog joint common in malls.

When Buffy and Willow are talking about Thanksgiving and Buffy says "Everything’s different," she looks out the window toward where Angel is hiding right before she says it. Later angel says the same thing to Willow referring to Buffy and him, so Buffy’s comment was probably about Angel more than about Thanksgiving.

Since in the episode of Angel called "I Will Remember You" they say Angel was in Sunnydale for three days, and because the last day was Thanksgiving, the events of this episode probably take place from the early morning of November 23th to the night of November 25th, 1999.

Trivia

In this episode it seems that the bond between Buffy and Angel is still strong because every time Angel is near Buffy she seems to sense his presence, despite his being hidden from her sight.

When Anya goes to get the brandy, she has to walk past Willow and Buffy. In that first shot, it is seen that she is reaching up for the brandy but in the next shot from a different angle, she has not yet reached up for the brandy and that her arm is still down. A second or two later, she raises her arm up to reach for the brandy on the shelf. So it looked as though she tried to grab something that was in the air.

Buffy gets cut on her upper right arm when she is fighting one of the Native Americans. There is a line of blood on her shirt that is there throughout the fight scene, but when Angel sees Buffy through the window just before he leaves, there is clearly no blood on her sleeve.

When Xander is getting up after falling into the pit, you can see the boom mic moving from left to right across the screen.

In this episode Anya reacts as though she’s never met or seen Angel before, even though they were in the same room together at the end of "Dopplegangland" (when they send Vampire Willow back to her alternate dimension).

When Buffy and the gang are fighting off the Native Americans, Spike is shot with several arrows however when they’re all eating dinner afterwards there’s no holes in Spike’s shirt where the arrows were.

Spike complains that throughout "an entire siege... you’d think one of you would bleed a little." In fact, Buffy bled twice, she was shot with an arrow and cut with a knife.