Compiled for students and fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the book is an exhaustive listing of the pop-culture references that pop up throughout the show, peppered with trivia, music, episode cross-references, and much more. It provides hours of trivia-obsession for fans of Buffy, Willow, Xander, Spike, Angel, and the rest of the Sunnydale residents.

This book gives you all the answers to questions like:

• In which episode is Xander’s reference to the film Cannibal: the Musical (Shpadoinkle!)?
• In which episode does Spike first come to Sunnydale?
• In which episode does Buffy finally tells the Watcher’s Council that without her, they might as well be watching Masterpiece Theater?

New in the second edition is a listing of the music heard in the show — the music performed in the Bronze and the background music. There were a few attempts at soundtracks for the show, but there’s no single source for all the music. Visit the next best thing to a soundtrack: my page of links to Buffy Music MP3s available from Amazon and iTunes.

The second edition adds a section on the unaired “Pitch Pilot,” episode arcs for character relationships, and about 30% more pop-culture references.

Inside this book are 314 pages of:

Huge index – Topping off this guide is a robust, academic-quality 43-page index with more than 2,500 entries on episodes, bands, cultural references, episode cross references, and more.

Episode arcs – 13 pages of episode arcs, showing viewing maps of the minimum episodes to watch to get the stories for Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Angel, Spike, Anya, and various relationships.

Overviews – One-page overviews of each season plus brief overviews of each episode.

Pop-culture references – Per-episode documentation of the show’s more than 1000 pop-culture references: who said it, what they said, and what the heck they were referring to.

Cross references – 190 cross-references to other episodes, including references to “Angel.”

Music – 140 listings of the music heard in the episodes and performed in The Bronze (Here are some links to Buffy Music MP3s).

Trivia – 70 trivia items listed with their respective episodes.

Character tables (1 for each season) – Tables listing the characters in each season, showing in which episodes the characters are introduced, appear, or leave the series.

Writers and directors – Tables listing the writers and directors and the episodes they worked on.

Characters and actors – Alphabetized table of all the characters and actors, with over 200 entries.