Spike's interview originally began with more talking:
- Lydia: "You can't hurt anyone?"
- Spike: "That's right."
- Lydia: "But you are a vampire."
- Spike: "If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood."
- Lydia: "So it's this chip in your head that keeps you from hurting people."
- Spike: "My goodness, you put that together all on your own? That's right. Leastways that's what I've got 'em all believing. Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant."
- Lydia: "The chip. Assuming it exists. It takes away the... ability. But it leaves... leaves the..."
- Spike: "Desire? Yeah, I've got tons of that."
Anya's false story was a little longer: "And when I was seven, I had a pet dachshund that died from choking on a wiener, which I find ironic."
Willow had some rhyming fun in this line cut due to length: "I didn't create the troll. I didn't date the troll. In fact, I hate the troll. I helped deflate the troll."
Anya reveals her second alias as a human, "Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins", after being first undercover as "Anya Emerson" (Sunnydale High Yearbook, The Watcher's Guide, Volume Two). She mentions this full name again in Selfless (2002).
The karate instructions Buffy is given in Japanese are "shoumen ni rei" (bow to the front), "shoumen-zuki" (front punch), and "ushiro-geri, empi-uchi" (back kick, elbow-strike).