Trivia / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S3E5 "Homecoming"

• Completely Different Title:
  • French: Le bal de fin d'année (The end of the year dance)
  • German: Die Qual der Wahl (The Agony of Choice)
  • Portuguese: A Volta às Aulas (Back to Classes)
• Deleted Scene: This exchange was cut for length:
  Buffy: Okay, how 'bout...you vote for me and I don't beat the living crap out of you.
  Jonathan: That works good for me.
  Buffy: Tell your friends!
• Development Gag: Sarah Michelle Gellar originally auditioned to be Cordelia and Charisma Carpenter originally auditioned to be the title Slayer before they were made to switch roles. In this episode, we are reminded that Buffy was the Cordelia of her old school (first mentioned in "Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight", sort of seen in "Becoming, Part 1" and "Helpless"), and Cordelia has to impersonate the second Slayer to scare of one of the hunters.
• Written-In Infirmity: When Buffy is standing in front of the white board in the library, you can see a bandage on her left hand. Sarah Michelle Gellar cracked a bone while filming an earlier scene, and had to take it easy with that hand for much of the episode.