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Trivia: Ben Barnes based his Spanish accent on Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride.

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Trivia: The Telmarines' battle armor is based on Spanish conquistadors.

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Trivia: According to Michael Bay in the DVD commentary, Optimus Prime's body language was inspired by Liam Neeson.

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Trivia: Peter Frampton makes a cameo as Reg, the road manager of Humble Pie. Frampton was that band's guitarist before he launched his solo career.

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Trivia: James Gandolfini and Aida Turturro, who play siblings Tony and Janice, played father and daughter in the film Romance & Cigarettes. That film was written and directed by her cousin John.

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You're Welcome - S5-E12

Trivia: David Boreanaz was suffering knee problems during production. To keep him off his feet, a lot of his scenes were shot with him sitting down.

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Trivia: In "Mr. & Mrs. Sacrimoni Request," Johnny Sack's daughter is played by Caitlin Van Zandt. While she shares the surname, she is not related to Steven and Maureen Van Zandt (Silvio and Gabby Dante).

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Trivia: Warwick Davis, who plays Nikabrik, played Reepicheep the mouse and Glimfeather the owl in the BBC productions Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair respectively.

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Earshot - S3-E18

Trivia: The Columbine school massacre happened about a week before the episode was originally supposed to air. Since the episode dealt with a potential school shooting, the producers felt it was respectful and necessary to postpone the episode's airdate. Coincidentally, a similar event later happened to David Boreanaz when the Bones episode "Player Under Pressure" was postponed following the Virginia Tech massacre.

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Trivia: As Mater, Larry the Cable Guy uses both of his trademark phrases: "Get-R-Done" and "I don't care who you are, that's funny right there."

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Trivia: By the series finale, Angel lost and regained his soul a total of three times: (1) in flashbacks to when he was sired and cursed, (2) after he slept with Buffy on her 17^th birthday and re-ensouled by Willow, and (3) when Angel Investigations battled The Beast in season four (again re-ensouled by Willow). And while he didn't lose his soul in the episode "Eternity," he did briefly turn into Angelus; he also pretended to become Angelus in the Buffy episode "Enemies."

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Bad Girls - S3-E14

Trivia: Upon meeting Alexis Denisof, Alyson Hannigan was attracted to him. He initally declined when she first asked him out, but in time they began seeing each other and were married in 2003.

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Trivia: A lot of the Scooby Gang's dialogue was based on how Joss Whedon really talks.

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Season 7 generally

Trivia: The First Evil first appeared in the season three episode "Amends," in which it taunted Angel and nearly drove him to kill himself.

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Touched - S7-E20

Trivia: This episode featured the first lesbian sex scene aired on a prime-time television network. UPN was more lenient than the WB; when the show was still aired on the latter, Willow and Tara weren't allowed to be shown in any situation even remotely sexual.

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Season 2 generally

Trivia: While planning the Angelus arc near the end of the season, Joss Whedon was unsure if David Boreanaz could pull off the character's personality. Boreanaz's interpretation was so good, he ended up completely creeping out Whedon.

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Trivia: Real counterfeit bills were printed during principal photography. The prop master got in some hot water for this, even though the bills were created specifically for a scene in which Willem Dafoe burns them in a fireplace.

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Welcome To The Hellmouth (1) - S1-E1

Trivia: The boy who Darla kills in the first scene is played by Carmine Giovinazzo, who currently plays Danny Messer on "CSI: NY." This episode was Gioniazzo's first major acting job in Hollywood.

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Lineage - S5-E7

Trivia: In one scene, Wesley's father mentions the destruction of the Watcher's Council building, which happened in the Buffy episode "Never Leave Me."

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Trivia: After the "Hey Hamm, I'm Picasso" gag, Mr. Potato Head says to a toy hockey puck, "What are you looking at, you hockey puck?" As an insult comic, Don Rickles (who voices Potato Head) was famous for calling people a "hockey puck" in his routines. (00:04:20)

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