During the scene where Oz is supposed to be turning into a werewolf, Joss Whedon wrote a special direction to Seth Green in the script. He told him to imagine he was "about to come onto acid".
In 1985, Lindsay Crouse played Seth Green's mother in I Want to Go Home (1985). Here, Oz attacks and tries to kill Crouse's character, Professor Walsh; Green laughingly called this coincidence "the circle of life".
In a BBC interview, writer Marti Noxon says she would have liked to have directed, as it was "close to [her] heart" - particularly the metaphor that "most of us have a creature inside of us that makes us do things that we wish we didn't do." She adds, "The whole issue of sexuality between men and women is kind of fraught because of the beast."
Scenes cut from the show:
- Willow and Buffy discuss Veruca:
- Willow: "And I don't want to be the kind of girl who freaks every time my boyfriend notices somebody else (and now cut) - even if she is throwing herself at him like a twenty dollar ho."
- Buffy: "Please. Ten dollar ho. Fifteen, max."
- Maggie is telling Buffy and Riley about the "dogs":
- Maggie: "I know how it sounds. But crazy is my specialty. And I definitely saw what I saw."
- Buffy discusses Maggie's "dogs" with Giles:
- Buffy: "Clearly we need to get you kicking some monster bootie, stat."
- Willow reacts to Veruca:
- Veruca: "Go ahead and cry - but you should have seen this coming. You can't tame a wild thing. He's not yours anymore. He's in you, he'd be thinking about me. No. Not thinking. It's deeper than that. Why don't you just try to relax now? In a minute or two, it'll all be over."
- Willow: "Love. It's a logic blocker."
Giles lives at number 4616.