0:10 : Buffy enters the Master’s lair and is approached by him. He takes her by the throat and goes to bite – and then she wakes up. Considering the dreamer, it can be considered prophetic, since it’s almost step by step what she goes through in the Season Finale.

3:10 : Despite Buffy saying that ‘sometimes’ Hank comes down on the weekend, we never see him do this again in the series.

3:16 : Spider-loving Wendell Sears (who’s surname can be found in the Sunnydale High Yearbook) is played by actor Justin Urich who went on to secure roles in JAG, CSI and Gilmore Girls.

4:17 : Another one off teacher for the series, this time named Ms. Tishler. Xander has to be told her name too. She’s played by Terry Cain, who also guest starred on Bones and Body of Proof before hitting the big screen in La La Land.

4:28 : Buffy’s pencil rolls off her book and onto the floor. She reaches down for it. In Becoming, she’ll do the same and remark she’s feeling Deja vu.

4:34 : Billy Palmer, the link to the nightmares. Jeremy Foley had already appeared in VR Troopers and soap opera Chicago Hope. These days his true vocation lies behind the camera in producing and directing, as well as a resume full of voice work.

9:08 : Xander inadvertently gives Buffy a quote that’ll she paraphrase in the finale: “We’ll find, you’ll slay, we’ll party.”

12:22 : Buffy says she thinks she was in history class on her first day (she was) and again in The Puppet Show. She asked Willow to help her tutor her in Welcome to the Hellmouth, and we saw them working on it in Angel.

13:24 : Buffy has a different problem with time speeding up on her in Season Six’s Life Serial.

14:48 : This is the personification of Billy’s fears, known in the episode as the ‘Ugly Man’. No actor is credited as playing him on the credits however.

14:48 : Laura Egler (another Yearbook addition) is briefly played by J. Robin Miller, who later went on to play Lisa Karenin on General Hospital.

18:04 : Once again we see the picture of Giles and Willow in her locker.

18:31 : Although Xander is embarrassed to be undressed in front of his classmates in his nightmare come to life, in Go Fish, he won’t mind wearing even less in front of the entire student body.

20:37 : We meet Hank Summers, tv’s worst offender for absent dad. Hank barely features in Buffy’s post-Los Angeles life, and three of his four upcoming appearances on the show are either flashbacks or hallucinations. He’s played by Dean Butler, best known for his role in Little House on the Prairie, where he played Almanzo James Wilder for over 60 episodes.

21:47 : In Buffy’s chat with her father, he denies that there was anyone else involved in his marriage to Joyce disintegrating. We find out in Season 10 that Hank did indeed have an affair with his secretary.

22:00 : Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s performance in this scene, where her father tells her she was responsible for the divorce and is a disappointment to him, is superb. She stays on the verge of tears right until the best moment. It’s a masterclass in emotive expression. She even quivers in shock, a lone tear rolling down her cheek. Gellar’s acting is always on top form, but the fact that she never won an Emmy for her work on this show defies all logical reasoning.

25:06 : Cordelia’s nightmare is a really, really, really bad hair day. She freaked out in The Puppet Show when Giles told her there was something wrong with her curly locks.

29:22 : Xander’s dream is full of Nazi imagery. Earlier in the episode he mentions he was frightened of them.

31:40 : Willow will have a similarly rushed backstage moment in her dream in Restless.

32:05 : Willow’s stage fright, first mentioned in The Puppet Show, automatically takes control when she’s shoved on the stage. It’s ironic that Willow can’t sing, especially considering Alyson Hannigan was the only non-solo singer in Once More, With Feeling.

33:56 : It’s unclear in this scene whether the Master has been legitimately freed because the nightmare realm is merging with our reality or whether he’s a figment of Buffy’s nightmares. Facing the Master was her nightmare earlier in the episode. He also claims to have met the last Slayer and also meets Buffy for the first time, although she knows him by instinct.

34:52 : Buffy’s other greatest fear is also seen: being buried alive. Since this is Buffy’s nightmare, like the one in the teaser, this can be seen as prophetic, as Buffy has to face this fear in Bargaining.

36:37 : Giles tells Xander and Willow that Buffy dying is his nightmare. He’ll question his entire life after her death in The Gift and leave America as a result in Bargaining.

37:37 : Even though we never see her being bitten, Buffy rises as a vampire. It’s unclear whether she has literally become one or whether it’s a nightmare-creation illusion.

39:15 : The daylight in Billy’s room indicates again that Buffy may not be a true vampire: she either takes a different route to the hospital to the others or had a rather crispy time. Since she’s not flash-fried, we can make the assumption that she doesn’t have the same weakness as normal vampires – indeed, at one point she steps into direct sunlight with no effect.

41:50 : The moment Billy wakes up from his coma, the entire nightmare realm vanishes, along with all the effects as everything is returned to normal. This is another suggestion that Buffy’s transformation wasn’t completely real.

44:44 : Hank greets Buffy enthusiastically after school. She will spend the summer with him and visit him again in season four, but by season five their relationship has almost completely deteriorated. By the time she’s in her late-twenties in Season 10, they only have contact through Dawn.