Buffy the Vampire Slayer

 

Buffy Summers: I’m Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. And you are?

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Willow Rosenberg: I knew it! I knew it! Well, not in the sense of having the slightest idea, but I knew there was something I didn’t know.

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Xander Harris: Danger? I laugh in the face of danger! And then I hide until it goes away.

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Spike: Who do you kill for fun around here?

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Principal Snyder: There are things I will not tolerate. Students loitering on campus after school. Horrible murders with hearts being removed. And also smoking.

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Rupert Giles: You should never be cowed by authority. Except, of course, in this instance where I am clearly right and you are clearly wrong.

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Willow: I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?
Giles:
Willow, I think we’re all a little too old to be spelling things out.
Xander: A “bitca”?

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Buffy: I didn’t jump to conclusions. I took a small step, and conclusions there were.

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Willow: I never do anything. I’m very seldom naughty.

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Xander: And they say that young people don’t learn anything in high school nowadays, but I’ve learned to be afraid.

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Spike: I did a couple of slayers in my time. I don’t like to brag. Who am I kidding? I love to brag.

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Harmony: So, Slayer, at last we meet.

Buffy: We’ve met, Harmony, you halfwit.

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Cordelia: I’m the dip.

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Anya: I’m thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.

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Buffy: Giles, are you breaking up with your car?
Giles: Well, it did seduce me, all red and sporty.
Buffy: Little two-door tramp.

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Buffy: Okay, this is beyond evil, this is insane troll logic.

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Willow: Why couldn’t Xander be possessed by a puppy? Or some ducks?

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Xander: You smell sin? Well let me tell you something, lady, she who smelled it dealt it!

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Spike: Haven’t you figured it all out yet, with your enormous squishy frontal lobes?

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Xander: You’re gonna be fine.
Anya: Better be. Because if I get vamped, I’m gonna bite your ass.

Xander: [mutters] Wouldn’t be the first time.

Anya: What was that?

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Riley Finn: When I’m around you, Buffy, I find myself needing to know the plural of apocalypse.

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Voice: [ultra calm] The demons have escaped. Please run for your lives.

Adam: This could be trouble.

Riley: We’d better make a fort.

Adam: I’ll get some pillows.

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Buffy: When he wakes up, tell him... I don’t know. Think of something cool, tell him I said it.

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Willow: Love makes you do the wacky.

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Xander: Hi, for those of you who just tuned in, everyone here is a crazy person.

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Spike: What, you think I’d come running over saying, “I’ve got a secret, beat me ‘til I talk”?

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Cordelia: You’re really campaigning for bitch of the year, aren’t you?
Buffy: As defending champion, you nervous?

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Giles: [sings] And Xander, help Willow. And try not to bleed on my couch, I’ve just had it steam-cleaned.

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Faith: Five by five.

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Buffy: Spike, what are you doing here? Five words or less.
Spike: [counting on fingers] Out. For. A. Walk...Bitch.

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Buffy: Xander!

Willow: Oh, wonderful Xander!

Buffy: You know we love you, right?

Willow: We totally do!

Xander: Oh, God, we’re gonna die, aren’t we.

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Buffy: I may be dead, but I’m still pretty.

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Willow: No. This is a dumb world. On my world, there are people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

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Xander: Calm may work for Locutus of the Borg here, but I’m freaked out, and I intend to stay that way.

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Spike: Well, then everything’s all right. And we all get to be not staked through the heart. Good work, team!

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Xander: You’re considered somewhat cool.
Oz: I am?
Xander: Is it because you always tend to express yourself in short, noncommittal sentences?
Oz: Could be.

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Angel: I wanna torture you. I used to love it, and it’s been such a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn’t even *have* chainsaws.

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Cordelia: Willow, nice dress. Good to know you’ve seen the softer side of Sears.

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Anya: Look, I know you find me attractive. I’ve seen you looking at my breasts.
Xander: Nothing personal, but when a guy does that, it just means his eyes are open.

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Buffy: Sorry, but I’m an old-fashioned gal. I was raised to believe that men dig up the corpses and women have the babies.

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Willow: [imitating Anya]  I’m Anya. I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services.

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Xander: Did everybody take their crazy flakes today?

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Spike: If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there it would’ve been like Woodstock. I was at Woodstock. I fed off a flower person and I spent six hours watching my hand move.

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Principal Snyder: Dead? Of course not. Dead. What are you, ghouls? There are no dead students here. This week.

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Riley: We’re drawing up a plan for world domination.  The key element? Coffeemakers that think.

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Buffy: Add it up, it all spells duh.

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Willow: [to Riley]  And just remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel. A vague disclaimer’s nobody’s friend.

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Xander: A black eye heals, but cowardice has an unlimited shelf life.

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Spike: Wow. It’s a big rock. I can’t wait to tell my friends. They don’t have a rock this big.

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Xander: I’m just saying. Once you get back the soul, doesn’t that mean you start, like, picking up your own wet towels off the floor?
Willow: No, but maybe you start to feel really bad about leaving them there.

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Anya: [practicing her wedding vows]  I, Anya, promise to love you, to cherish you, to honor you, but NOT to obey you, because that’s anachronistic and misogynistic and who you do you think you are, like a sea captain or something?

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Jonathan: Of course I’m scared. Last time we were here, 33.3 bar percent of us were flayed alive.

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Buffy: I’m gonna give you all a nice, fun, normal evening if I have to kill every person on the face of the Earth to do it.

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Willow: Hello, gay now!

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Xander: It’s time for me to act like a man...and hide.

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Spike: Can I eat him now, love?

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Willow: Oz is a werewolf.
Buffy: It’s a long story.
Oz: Got bit.
Buffy: But obviously not that long.

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Principal Snyder: That Summers girl. I smell trouble. I smell expulsion. And just the faintest whiff of jail.

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Larry: I would love to get me some of that Buffy and Willow action, if you know what I mean.
Oz: That’s great, Larry, you’ve really mastered the single entendre.

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Giles: Sorry to barge in. We have a slight apocalypse.

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Buffy: What part of punching you in the face did you not understand?

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[Willow in the magic shop]
Willow: I feel like a witch in a magic shop!

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Xander: Well, ‘cause you never know if a girl’s gonna say yes or if she’s gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

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Spike: That’s right! I’m back, and I’m a bloody animal!

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Olaf: Come back, tiny man! You are small and toy-like!

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Spike: Oh! So that’s odd. You’ve just come to pump me for information?
Buffy: What else would I want to pump you for? I really just said that, didn’t I?

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Vamp: Buffy, I’m here to kill you, not to judge you.

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Buffy: I know Spike’s evil, but you should see him naked. I mean, *really.*

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Willow: The other night I dreamt that Xander-- [pause]  Uh...It wasn’t Xander. In fact, it wasn’t me, it was a friend’s dream and...she doesn’t remember it.

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Xander: Angel’s our friend, except I don’t like him.

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Spike: That’s right, Big Bad is back and looking for a little death!

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Buffy: Do you remember that demon that almost got out the night I died?
Willow: Every nightmare I have that doesn’t revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.

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Principal Snyder: A lot of educators tell students, “Think of your principal as your pal.” I say, “Think of me as your judge, jury, and executioner.”

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[on children]
Joyce: They’re such a... Oh, I don’t want to say burden, but... Actually, I kind of *do* want to say burden.

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Anya: We’re just kinda thrown by the you having sex with Spike.
Buffy: The who whatting how with huh?
Anya: Okay, that’s denial. That comes before anger.
Buffy: I am not having sex with Spike!
Anya: Anger.
Xander: No one is judging you. It’s understandable. Spike is strong and mysterious and sort of compact but well-muscled...
Buffy: I am not having sex with Spike, but I’m starting to think you are.

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Buffy: You can attack me, you can send assassins after me, that’s fine. But nobody messes with my boyfriend!

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Evil Willow: Bored now.

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Xander: Calvary’s here. Calvary’s a frightened guy with a rock, but it’s here.

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Spike: If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.

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Willow: I’ll give Xander a call. What’s his number? Oh, yeah, 1-800-I’m-Dating-A-Skanky-Ho.
Buffy: Meow!
Willow: Really? Thanks. I’ve never gotten a “meow” before.

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Anya: You know who else aren’t American? French people.

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Angel: You know, I never properly thanked you for sending me to Hell.
Buffy: No...
Angel: I’m wondering, where do I start? A card, fruit basket, hmm? Evisceration?

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Riley: Back to what I was saying before we were rudely attacked by nothing.

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Spike: How was your walk, pet?
Drusilla: I met an old man. I didn’t like him. He got stuck in my teeth.

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Buffy: Cordelia, your mouth is open, sound is coming from it. This is never good.

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Willow: Kiss Rocks? Why would anyone want to kiss rocks... Oh wait, I get it.

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Xander: We’re right behind you, only further back.

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Spike: So when do we destroy the world, already?

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Angel: “Dear Buffy...” Hmmm. I’m still trying to decide the best way to send my regards.
Spike: Why don’t you rip her lungs out? That might make an impression.
Angel: Lacks...poetry.
Spike: Doesn’t have to. What rhymes with lungs?

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Cordelia: Excuse me. Who gave you permission to exist?

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Principal Snyder: The first day back. It always gets me. I mean, it’s incredible. One day the campus is completely bare, empty. The next, there are children everywhere. Like locusts.  Crawling around, mindlessly bent on feeding and mating, destroying everything in sight in their relentless, pointless, desire to exist.

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Giles: I suppose there is a sort of Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgression.
Xander: I resent that. Or possibly thank you.

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Buffy: Harmony, when you tried to be head cheerleader, you were bad. When you tried to chair the homecoming committee, you were really bad. But when you try to be bad, you suck!

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Willow: Ooh, Buffy’s having lusty wrong thoughts.

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Xander: He’s primed. I’ll be pumping him in no time. [pause]  He’ll give us information soon.

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Spike: Ahhhh, my head. I think I’m sobering up. It’s horrible. Ah... God... I wish I was dead.

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Willow: My head. It feels big. Is it big?
Oz: No, it’s head size.

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Giles: Unbelievable. “Do you like my mask? Isn’t it pretty? It raises the dead.” Americans!

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Vamp: [to Spike]  So is that all I was to you?! A one-bite stand?

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Xander: Willow, did you remember to tape “Biography” last Friday?
Willow: Uh-huh.
Buffy: See? I told you. Old Reliable.
Willow: Oh, thanks.
Buffy: What?
Willow: “Old Reliable”? Yeah, there’s a sexy nickname.
Buffy: I-I didn’t mean it as--
Willow: No, it’s fine. I’m “Old Reliable.”
Xander: She just means, you know, the geyser. You’re like a geyser of fun that goes off at regular intervals.
Willow: That’s Old Faithful.
Xander: Isn’t that the dog that the guy had to shoot--
Willow: That’s Old *Yeller*.
Buffy: Xander, I beg you not to help me.

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Anya: Listen, I have this little project I’m working on, and I heard you were the person to ask if--
Willow: Yeah, that’s me. Reliable dog-geyser-person.

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Buffy: I think I speak for everyone here when I say, huh?

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Willow: When I’m with a boy I like I can’t say anything cool, or witty--or at all. I can usually make a few vowel sounds, and then I have to go away.

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Xander: Check this out, they put cheese on round bread. It’s gonna be big.

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Spike: Is everybody very stoned here?

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Principal Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It’s like a sixth sense.
Giles: No, actually, that would be one of the five.

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Cordelia: People who think their problems are so huge craze me. Like this time I sort of ran over this girl on her bike.  It was the most traumatizing event of my life, and she’s trying to make it about her leg. Like my pain meant nothing.

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Angel: Don’t worry. I’m not here to eat.

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Xander: So, Buffy, how’d the slaying go last night?
Buffy: Xander!
Xander: I mean, how’d the *laying* go? No, I don’t mean that either.

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Buffy: When the apocalypse comes, beep me.

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Xander: [to Spike]  Fine. I invite you in... Nimrod.

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Spike: The Ring of Amara. Official sponsor of my killing you.

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[Spike offers Buffy his flask]
Buffy: Eww.
Spike: It’s not blood. It’s bourbon.
Buffy: Ewww!

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Giles: Rugged. American football. [chuckles] I just think it’s rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

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Whistler: You know, raiding an Englishman’s fridge is like dating a nun. You’re never gonna get the good stuff.

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Buffy: Have I ever let you down?
Giles: Do you want me to answer that, or shall I just glare?

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Anya: Anybody else feel that?
Willow: What?
Anya: Cold draft of paralyzing fear?

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Buffy: Cool! Crossbow! Check out these babies. Goodbye stakes, hello flying fatality.

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Xander: Just because you’re better than us doesn’t mean you can be all superior!

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Spike: [seeing Angel’s new lair]  Nice garden, great big windows, perfect for when we want the sun to kill us all.

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Willow: And I don’t wanna be the kind of girl who freaks every time my boyfriend notices somebody else. I mean, I have wrong feelings about other guys sometimes, but I feel guilty, and I flog and punish.
Buffy: Exactly. I’m sure Oz is flogging and punishing himself right-- This is sounding wrong before I even finish.

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Angel: Looking in the mirror every day and seeing nothing there. It’s an overrated pleasure.

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Giles: Since Angel lost his soul, he’s regained his sense of whimsy.

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Dawn: [diary entry]  [Tara] and Willow are both witches. They do spells and stuff, which is so much cooler than slaying. I told Mom one time I wished they’d teach me some of the things they do together. Then she got really quiet and made me go upstairs.

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Buffy: Can you vague that up for me?

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Xander: Spike’s working for Adam? After all we’ve done for-- Nah, I can’t even pretend to act surprised.

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[after Xander’s basement leaks]
Spike: My soddin’ chairs all...sodden.

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Xander: Yeah, I’m gonna have to go with deadboy on this one.
Angel: Could you not call me that?

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Giles: Yes, Xander, once again you’ve managed to boil a complex thought down to its simplest possible form.

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Willow: What happened?!

Xander: What do you think happened? Another demon woman was attracted to me. I’m going gay. I’ve decided I’m turning gay. Willow? Gay me up. Come on, let’s gay!

Willow: What?

Xander: You heard me. Just tell me what to do. I’m mentally undressing Scott Bakula. That’s a start, isn’t it?

Andrew: [sigh]  Captain Archer...

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Angel: I lurk.

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Dawn: Lurk much?
Spike: I wasn’t lurking, I was standin’ about. It’s a totally different vibe.

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Buffy: We saved the world. I say we party.

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Xander: The glorified bricklayer picks up a spare.

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Giles: We’ll get our memory back, and it will all be right as rain.
Spike: Oh, listen to Mary Poppins. He’s got his crust all stiff and upper with that
nancy boy accent. You Englishmen are always so...bloody hell.
[counting on his fingers]
Spike: Sodding, blimey, shaggin, knickers, bollocks. Oh, God. I’m English.
Giles: Welcome to the
nancy boy tribe.

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Xander: Great plan. That’s right up there with ‘duck and cover.’

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Spike: No tricks?
Adam Walsh: Scout’s honor.
Spike: You were a boy scout?
Adam: Parts of me.

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Willow: Nervous?
Xander: No way! I’m full of that good ol’ kamikaze spirit.
Giles: Xander, just because this is never going to work, there’s no need to be negative.

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Buffy: Well, that works out great. You won’t tell anyone that I’m the Slayer, and I won’t tell anyone you’re a moron.

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Buffy: Willow, you’re a gay woman. And he isn’t.
Willow: This isn’t about his physical presence. It’s about his heart.
Anya: His physical presence has a penis!
Willow: I can work around it!

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Willow: Yeah, well, I have skills. I can prove my love with magic!
Anya: Yeah, right. What are you going to do, use magic to make him into a girl?
[
Willow’s face lights up]
Anya: Damn!

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Xander: It’s funny if you’re me.

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Psych Vamp: It’s not exactly like you have the patent on bad relationships.

Buffy: Wouldn’t it be cool if I did?

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Anya: I know how you talk about me behind my back. “I dislike that Anya. She’s newly human, and strangely literal.”
Willow: Okay – No, cause no one talks like that.

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Buffy: Your logic does not resemble our Earth logic.

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Ampata: You are strange.
Xander: Girls always tell me that...right before they run away.

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Mayor Wilkins: There’s more than one way to skin a cat. And I happen to know that factually that’s true.

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Angel: Why are you riding me?
Buffy: Because I don’t trust you. You’re a vampire. Oh, I’m sorry, is that an offensive term? Should I say ‘undead-American’?

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Nancy: I thought you were Xander’s ex-girlfriend.
Anya: I am.
Nancy: But you and Spike--

Anya: Had a thing.
Spike: Didn’t last.
Nancy: But you’re Buffy’s-- 
Spike: Briefly.
Buffy: NEVER serious.
Nancy: Is there anyone here that hasn’t slept together?
[Xander and Spike look at each other]
Anya: At least we’re all bipeds, which is more than I can say about Ronnie the worm boy.

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Buffy: Love makes you do the wacky.

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Vampire: Oh my God!
Buffy: Oh your God, what?
Vampire: Well, not my  God because I defy him and all of his works. Does he exist? Is there word on that, by the way?
Buffy: Nothing solid.

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Xander: Dorkhead? You lash me with your words!

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Willow: You have to help me figure this out, you know.

Xander: But I never help. I get in trouble and Buffy saves me.

Willow: That’s not true! Sometimes we all help to save you.

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Buffy: I don’t play well with others.

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Xander: I’m a conquistador.

Joyce: Are you sure it isn’t comfort?

Xander: I’m a comfortador, also.

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Xander: Sometimes I think about two women doing a spell. And then I do a spell by myself.

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Spike: Get up, get out, get drunk. Repeat as needed.

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Willow: She’s possessed! That’s the only explanation that makes any sense.  I mean, you should have seen her last night. That wasn’t Buffy.

Xander: Are we overlooking the idea that she may be very attracted to me? [long pause]  She’s possessed.

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Xander: I don’t handle rejection well.

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Giles: They came after me, but I was more than a match for them.
Buffy: Meaning?
Giles: I hid.

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Buffy: You need a personality, stat.

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Xander: You were looking at my neck.
Angel: What?
Xander: You were checking out my neck. I saw that.
Angel: No, I wasn’t.
Xander: Just keep your distance, pal.
Angel: I wasn’t looking at your neck.
Xander: I told you to eat before we left.

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Xander: Is there something more emphatic than hate? Can I revile the plan?

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Buffy: Who are you?
Angel: Let’s just say, I’m a friend.
Buffy: Yeah, maybe I don’t want a friend.
Angel: I didn’t say I was yours.

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Buffy: Are you crazy? You just don’t sneak up on people in a graveyard. You make noise when you walk, you stomp, or... yodel.

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Buffy: Remember: The ritual starts, we all die; and I’ll kill anyone who comes near Dawn. [exits]
Spike: Well, not exactly the St. Crispin’s Day speech, was it?
Giles: We few, we happy few...
Spike: ...we band of buggered.

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Principal Snyder: I know Principal Flutie would have said, “Kids need understanding; kids are human beings.”  It’s the kind wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.

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Xander: I don’t get this. The candy is supposed to make you feel all immature and stuff, but I’ve had a ton and I don’t feel any diff--  Never mind.

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Andrew: You think after she kills us she’s going to stop with us? You saw her, she’s a truck-driving magic mama! It’ll be seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everyone into Jawa burgers and none of you will have the mediclorines to even stop her!
Xander: You’ve never had the tiniest bit of sex have you?

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The Master: You were destined to die. It was written.
Buffy: What can I say? I flunked the written.

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Willow: You just don’t like him ‘cause of that time he beat you up every day for five years.
Xander: Yeah, I’m irrational that way.

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Xander: Buffy and Faith are in the library getting all sweaty.
Cordelia: You mean training?
Xander: I stand by my phrase.

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Spike: No need to thank me. I’m just the one who beat him off! [pause]  Repelled him would perhaps be the better phrase.

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Xander: What’s taking you so long?
Spike: Give me a second. I’m packing.
[Spike starts loading things into a bag]
Xander: Hey! That’s my lamp, you can’t steal my lamp!
Spike: You’re what, shocked and surprised? Do I have to remind you that I am Evil?

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Buffy: So let me get this straight.  You’re Dracula. The guy? The count?

Dracula: I am.

Buffy: And you’re sure this isn’t just some fan-boy thing? Cause I’ve fought more than a couple pimply overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.

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Xander: This totally adds to my ‘old people are crazy’ theorem.

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Spike: Okay. Is it bigger than a breadbox?
Harmony: No. Four left.
Spike: So it’s smaller than a breadbox.
Harmony: Heh heh! No, only three.
Spike: Harmony. Is it a sodding breadbox?
Harmony: Yes! Oh, my God. Someone’s blondie bear is a Twenty Questions genius!

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Xander: You know what?!  I’m sick of this crap. I’m sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis! As of this moment it’s over. I am finished being everybody’s butt-monkey!
Buffy: Check. No more butt-monkey.

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Xander: The band, yeah. They’re great. They march.
Willow: Like an army. Except with music instead of bullets, and usually no one dies.

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Buffy: Being called an idiot tends to take people out of the dating mood.
Xander: That actually kinda turns me on.
Buffy: I fear you.

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Xander: We’re in the Crime Club, which is kind of like the Chess Club. Only with Crime. And no Chess.

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Xander: And speaking of love...

Willow: We were talking about the reanimation of dead tissue.

Xander: Do I deconstruct your segues?

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Buffy: Are you mad at me?
Riley: No, no. Not at all. I’m plotting your death, but in a happy way.

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Dawn: I feel safe with you.
Spike: Take that back!

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Xander: Yep, vampires are real. A lot of ‘em live in Sunnydale. Willow’ll fill you in.
Willow: I know it’s hard to accept at first.
Oz: Actually, it explains a lot.

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[about Angel]
Xander: Man, that guy got major neck in his day.

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Giles: You might have let me in on your plan while he throttled me.
Spike: Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes? Cup o’ tea, cup o’ tea, almost got shagged, cup o’ tea.

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Willow: The hell with Giles!

Giles: I can hear you, Willow!

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Xander: Giles lived for school. He’s still bitter there were only twelve grades.
Buffy: He probably sat in math class thinking, “There should be more math! This could be mathier.”
Xander: Come on. You don’t think he ever got restless as a kid?
Buffy: Are you kidding? His diapers were tweed.

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Buffy: How bored were you last year?
Giles: I’ve watched Passions with Spike. Let us never speak of it.

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Spike: I wish I was dead.
Buffy: Well, if you close your eyes and wish real hard...

~~~

Harmony: Being a vampire sucks!

 

   

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