Giles: This is the S.A.T.s,
Buffy, not connect the dots.
The Scholastic Aptitude Test is a standard
test given to high school students and used by colleges as part of the
admissions process.
Buffy: It's like being in the Real
World house only real.
The MTV show The Real World places a group
of unrelated people in a house and films their every move. Buffy compares
her supervision to living her life in the Real World house.
Xander: You weren't visited by the Ghost
of Christmas Past, by any chance?
In the Dickens novel A Christmas Carol, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge
is turned into a generous man after the terrifying visit with three ghosts.
Xander suggests that Snyder's apparent generosity in handing out candy
is a similar character change.
Buffy: I'm sure we love the idea of going
all Willy Loman, but we're not in the band.
Buffy argues against become a salesman by evoking the name of the title
character from Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman.
Buffy: Let's do the
time warp again.
Buffy uses a line from the Rocky Horror Picture Show song to indicate
her confusion at all the adults acting like drunken, rowdy teens.
The line is probably also a bit of an inside joke at Anthony Stewart
Head (Giles) who played the lead character in a london stage version of
Rocky Horror.
Snyder: Call me Snyder ... just a last name
... like Barbarino.
Vinnie Barbarino was the John Travolta
character in the sitcom Welcome Back Kotter.