NERD ALERT! #3 Wimps, Wusses & Whiners

[S'ewing S'cubie]

Well despite the cries and wails of "It's too HAAAARD!" (not in response to Spike's anatomy) NERD ALERT! #2 was a smashing success, showing that at least SOME Scubies are willing to rise to a challenge. I'm proud of you.

Wimps.
Wusses.
Whiners.

So, in response to the pathetic cries from the faint of heart, this week NERD ALERT! offers a simple list game.

Today you are to list the top 10 (or nine, or sixteen, or fifty, or however many) Buffy quotes from any season of Buffy ONLY (not Angel, we'll play that some other time.)

HOWEVER, because we can't have it TOO easy--you must include the episode, who said it, and for extra credit...what YOU say to the TV in response--and don't try to tell me you haven't got snappy comebacks to all your favorite lines. Other witty comments and sidebars are encouraged. And, as always, spelling doesn't count but creativity does.

Normally, I post my own entry first. However, this time I will refrain rather than risk stepping on someone else's favorite quote.

Sooo-o-o-o, who's brave enough to go first?

[Nan-S'cubie Mascot]

I decree that an exchange of dialogue counts as one (1) quote. 'Cause how can you separate them? In each case, my response is "Wow--the dialogue! I can't wait to tell my friends: nobody writes great dialogue like that!"

SECOND SEASON

School Hard

Spike: If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock. I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.


Halloween

Spike: Well! This is just... neat!


Lie to Me

Giles: You mean life?
Buffy: Yeah. Does it get easy?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.


What's My Line, Part 2

Buffy: Good. 'Cause I've had it. Spike is going down. You can attack me, you can send assassins after me, that's fine. But nobody messes with my boyfriend!


Surprise

Buffy: You think he's too old 'cause he's a senior? Please. My boyfriend had a bicentennial.

Oz: Yeah. Hey, did everybody see that guy just turn to dust?
Willow: Uh, well, uh... sort of.
Xander: Yep. Vampires are real. A lot of them live in Sunnydale. Willow will fill you in.
Willow: I know it's hard to accept at first.
Oz: Actually, it explains a *lot*.


Innocence

Cordelia: Well, does looking at guns make you wanna have sex?
Xander: I'm seventeen. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex.

Xander: Whoa. Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan...Now I'm having a wiggins.


Becoming, Part 1

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


Becoming, Part 2

Spike: We like to talk big. Vampires do. 'I'm going to destroy the world.' That's just tough guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I like this world. You've got... dog racing, Manchester United. And you've got people. Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here. But then someone comes along with a vision. With a real... passion for destruction. Angel could pull it off. Goodbye, Piccadilly. Farewell, Leicester Bloody Square. You know what I'm saying?

[S'ewing S'cubie]

Nan said:

I decree that an exchange of dialogue counts as one (1) quote. 'Cause how can you separate them? In each case, my response is "Wow--the dialogue! I can't wait to tell my friends: nobody writes great dialogue like that!"

Nan, I don't decree what happens in your stories, and you can't decree what happens in my Nerd Alerts!.

However, a quote means repeating anything inside a " ... "; and therefore, I will accept dialogue exchanges as quotes. However, you did not give me your response to the exchanges, and so you don't get the extra credit.

[LeeHollins]

Diane said:

Nan, I don't decree what happens in your stories, and you can't decree what happens in my Nerd Alerts!.

However, a quote means repeating anything inside a " ... "; and therefore, I will accept dialogue exchanges as quotes. However, you did not give me your response to the exchanges, and so you don't get the extra credit.

Still working on mine.....

[Nan-S'cubie Mascot]

Diane said:

Nan, I don't decree what happens in your stories, and you can't decree what happens in my Nerd Alerts!.

However, a quote means repeating anything inside a " ... "; and therefore, I will accept dialogue exchanges as quotes. However, you did not give me your response to the exchanges, and so you don't get the extra credit.

I graciously accept your ruling as it agrees with my ruling.

I am cool with no extra credit: I don't talk back to my TV and therefore never say anything witty in response to excellent dialogue.

[LeeHollins]

Innocence

Buffy: Angel!
Angelus: Hey!
Buffy: Oh!
Angelus: Hey.
Buffy: Oh, my God! I was so worried!
Angelus: I didn't mean to frighten you.
Buffy: Where did you go?
Angelus: Been around.
Buffy: Ohhh. Oh, my God! I was freaking out! You just disappeared.
Angelus: What? I took off.
Buffy: But you didn't say anything. You just left.
Angelus: Yeah. Like I really wanted to stick around after that.
Buffy: What?
Angelus: You got a lot to learn about men, kiddo. Although I guess you proved that last night.
Buffy: What are you saying?
Angelus: Let's not make an issue out of it, okay? In fact, let's not talk about it at all. It happened.
Buffy: I, I don't understand. Was it m-me? Was I not good?
Angelus: You were great. Really. I thought you were a pro.
Buffy:: How can you say this to me?
Angelus: Lighten up. It was a good time. It doesn't mean like we have to make a big deal.
Buffy: It *is* a big deal!
Angelus: It's what? Bells ringing, fireworks, a dulcet choir of pretty little birdies? Come on, Buffy. It's not like I've never been there before.
Buffy: Don't touch me.
Angelus: I should've known you wouldn't be able to handle it.
Buffy: Angel! (teary-eyed) I love you.
Angelus: (points coolly at her) Love you, too. I'll call you.

My response:[/u] Not really fit to print. Suffice to say cuss words were hurled about, objects thrown at the TV, tears were shed... it was not pretty. Brought back some painful memories from an earlier relationship.
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Passion

Angelus: Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... ...waiting... And though unwanted... ...unbidden... it will stir...open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?.....

.....Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief.....

.....It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

My response:[/u] Don't really have one. Just heartily agree with it.
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The Prom

ANGEL: I've been thinking... about our future. And the more I do, the more I feel like us, you and me being together, is unfair to you.
BUFFY: Is this about what the Mayor said? Because he was just trying to shake us up.
ANGEL: He was right.
BUFFY: No. No, he wasn't. He's the bad guy.
ANGEL: You deserve more. You deserve something outside of demons and darkness. You should be with someone who can take you into the light. Someone who can make love to you.
BUFFY: I don't care about that.
ANGEL: You will. And children.
BUFFY: Children? Can you say jumping the gun? I kill my goldfish.
ANGEL: Today. But you have no idea how fast it goes, Buffy. Before you know it, you'll want it all, a normal life.
BUFFY: I'll never have a normal life.
ANGEL: Right, you'll always be a Slayer. But that's all the more reason why you should have a real relationship instead of this, this freak show. (Buffy is stunned.) I didn't mean that.
BUFFY: I'm gonna go.
ANGEL: (grabs her arm) I'm sorry. Buffy, you know how much I love you. It kills me to say this.
BUFFY: Then don't. Who are you to tell me what's right for me? You think I haven't thought about this?
ANGEL: Have you, rationally?
BUFFY: No. No, of course not. I'm just some swoony little schoolgirl, right?
ANGEL: I'm trying to do what's right here, okay? I'm trying to think with my head instead of my heart.
BUFFY: Heart? You have a heart? It isn't even beating!
ANGEL: Don't.
BUFFY: Don't what? Don't love you? I'm sorry. You know what? I didn't know that I got a choice in that. I'm never gonna change. I can't change. I want my life to be with you.
ANGEL: I don't.
BUFFY: You don't want to be with me? I can't believe you're breaking up with me.
ANGEL: It doesn't mean that I don't ...
BUFFY: How am I supposed to stay away from you?
ANGEL: I'm leaving. After the Ascension, after it's finished with the Mayor and Faith. If we survive, I'll go.
BUFFY: Where?
ANGEL: I don't know.
BUFFY: Is this really happening?

My response:[/u] Three guesses as to my response... tears, tears, and throwing things at the TV. Even now, I still cry at this scene (though I don't throw things at the TV now when I watch this episode).
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Something Blue:

Giles: Please stop whatever you're doing. You smell like fruit roll-ups.
Spike: This is the crack team that foils my every plan? I am deeply shamed.
Buffy: (Hanging on Spike's arm) Spike's right. We really should get organized.
Anya: Why are you holding hands?
Spike: They have to hear it sooner or later..
Buffy: (Excitedly) Spike and I are getting married!
Xander: (Baffled) How? What? How?
Giles: Three excellent questions.
Spike: (To Buffy) What are you lookin' at?
Buffy: The man I love.
Xander: Can I be blind, too?

My response:[/u] Again, don’t really have one - this is just one of the funniest exchanges in the entire episode.
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[LeeHollins]

(continued from previous post)

The Gift:

Buffy: Dawn listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will *always* love you. This is the work I have to do. Tell Giles... Tell Giles I figured it out. And... I'm okay. Give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now -- you have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.

My response:[/u] Total meltdown - tears, wailing..... again, not a pretty picture. Every time I see this episode, I still get extremely choked up at this part.
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Him:

WILLOW: But you don't even know him!
ANYA: Yes, I do. I looked into him and saw his soul.
WILLOW: He was walking away, so unless his soul was in his ass—
ANYA:: A.J. is my best friend and my dearest darling—
WILLOW It's R.J. And what you were picking up on was his deep caring and devotion to me.
DAWN: What's going on?
ANYA: Willow thinks she's in love with my boyfriend, R.J.
DAWN: What? No! You two can't do this.
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!
DAWN: This isn't fair! How can you all be doing this to me?
BUFFY: OK, wait. Everyone wait. Just calm down, OK? I-I think I know what this is. Clearly, you've both been affected by the same love spell that got Dawn.
DAWN: Uh! This isn't a spell. He owns my heart.
BUFFY: Dawn, be quiet. We're trying to work this out. We don't need you interfering.
WILLOW: There's a simple answer to this. Just think about who loves him the most. Clearly I do, since I'm willing to look past the whole orientation thing.
DAWN: I need him.
ANYA: Well, you're gonna have to do better than that—I'd kill for him.
WILLOW: You'd kill for a chocolate bar.
BUFFY: No. Yes! Kill for him. I'm the slayer. Slayer means kill. Oh, I'll kill the principal.
ANYA: Ooh, that is hard to top.
WILLOW: Yeah, well I have skills. I can prove my love with magic.
ANYA: Yeah, right. What're you gonna do—use magic to make him into a girl? (realizes Willow's gonna do it) Damn. Ooh, I know what he'll like.

My response:[/u] I know a lot of people didn’t like this episode but I loved it! I thought it was a laugh-out-loud-til-you-cry episode. This exchange had me rolling on the floor!
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Bring on the Night:

BUFFY: (entering from adjacent room) You're right. We don't know how to fight it. We don't know when it'll come. We can't run, can't hide, can't pretend it's not the end, 'cause it is. Something's always been there to try and destroy the world. We've beaten them back, but we're not dealing with them anymore. We're dealing with the reason they exist. Evil. The strongest. The First. ....I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. (defiant) And it'll choke on me. We're not ready? They're not ready. They think we're gonna wait for the end to come, like we always do. I'm done waiting. They want an apocalypse? Oh, we'll give 'em one. Anyone else who wants to run, do it now. 'Cause we just became an army. We just declared war. From now on, we won't just face our worst fears, we will seek them out. We will find them, and cut out their hearts one by one, until The First shows itself for what it really is. And I'll kill it myself. There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil, and that's us. Any questions?

My response:[/u] I literally stood up and cheered when the episode aired. My roommate at the time looked at me like I was nuts but I didn’t care. To me, this was Buffy’s best speech in Season 7.
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Chosen:

BUFFY: So… what do you guys want to do tomorrow?
WILLOW: Nothing strenuous.
XANDER: Well, mini-golf is always the first thing that comes to mind.
GILES: I think we can do better than that.
BUFFY: I was thinking about shopping— as per usual.
WILLOW: There’s an Agnes B in the new mall!
XANDER: Good. I could use a few items.
GILES: Aren’t we going to discuss this? Save the world and go to the mall?
BUFFY: I’m having a wicked shoe craving.
XANDER: Aren’t you on the patch?
WILLOW: Those never work.
GILES: And here I am, invisible to the eye, not having any say…
XANDER: See, I need a new look. It’s this whole eye patch thing.
BUFFY: Oh! You could go with the full black secret agent look.
WILLOW: Or the puffy shirt, pirate-slash-poet feel. Sensitive yet manly…
XANDER: Now you’re getting a little renaissance fair on me.
BUFFY: It’s a fine line.
GILES: (to himself) The earth is definitely doomed.

My response:[/u] I started tearing up during this part because: (A) it was getting close to the end of the episode and (B) it reminded me so much of the end scene of “The Harvest” (I know that was the point) and I started thinking about the Scoobies and all that they had been through together and separately and how, in the end, no matter how far apart they might drift, they are still family. Something that I felt was missing in Season 7 but this scene helped me remember why I fell in love with this show.

[Nickim]

At last one I can participate in. I guess that makes me a W cubed.

School Hard
Spike: So who do you want me to be?
My reply: Anyone you want, honey.

Becoming, Part 1
Spike: Someone wasn't worthy.
My reply: Heh, Heh

Becoming, Part 2
Spike: Hello, cutie.
My reply: Pick me, pick me.

Lover's Walk
Spike: I'll be out of your life in a few short hours. No trouble at all.
My reply: Yeah, right.

Earshot
Buffy: You had sex, with Giles, on the hood of a police car, TWICE??!!
My reply: Yeah, Buffy, you mom has had sex.

Something Blue
Xander: Can I be blind, too?
My reply: Be careful what you wish for.

Grave
Willow: Buckle up Rupert...'cause I've turned pro.
My reply: Rupert, huh? Kinda lost some respect for the ole librarian, haven't we?

[Karen]

Nicki said:

At last one I can participate in. I guess that makes me a W cubed.

Ditto to that!


Who Are You? Season 3

FAITH: 'Cause I could do anything I want, and instead I choose to pout and whine and feel the burden of Slayerness? I mean, I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have anything. Anyone. Even you, Spike. I could ride you at a gallop until your legs buckled and your eyes rolled up. I've got muscles you've never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you until you pop like warm champagne and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more. And you know why I don't? (Their lips very close, Spike doesn't say anything but seems *very* interested in the answer.) Because it's wrong. (laughs, leaves)

Me: 'If I was a smoker I would say I needed a smoke after that Spike and Faith-in-Buffy exchange.'

PANGS - Season 4

SPIKE: You exterminated his race. What could you possibly say that would make him feel better? It's kill or be killed here. Take your bloody pick.
XANDER: Maybe it's the syphilis talking, but... Some of that made sense.

Me: Aw, Xander agreeing with Spike - I like it. Maybe they'll be buds.


FEAR ITSELF – SEASON 4
BUFFY: This is Gachnar?
XANDER: Big overture. Little show.
Gachnar: I am the dark lord of nightmares! (Buffy tries not to laugh) The bringer of terror! Tremble before me. Fear me!
WILLOW: He - he’s no cute!
Gachnar: Tremble!
XANDER: Who’s a little fear demon? Come on! Who’s a little fear demon!
GILES: Don’t taunt the fear demon.
XANDER: Why, can he hurt me?
GILES: No, it’s just - tacky. Be that as it may, Buffy, when it comes to slaying...
BUFFY: Size doesn’t matter?
Gachnar: They’re all going to abandon you, you know.
BUFFY: Yeah, Yeah.
We get a shot of Buffy’s huge foot as she stomps down and squishes the fear demon.

Me: Surprise! I love the humor and the surprise of this scene. I also love the layers of meaning in the whole episode.


DEAD MAN’S PARTY – SEASON 3

BUFFY: (smiles) You're really enjoying this whole moral superiority thing, aren't you?
WILLOW: (smiles) It's like a drug!
BUFFY: Fine! Okay. I'm the bad. I can take my lumps... for a while.
WILLOW: All right. I'll stop giving you a hard time. (pauses) Runaway.
BUFFY: Will!
WILLOW: (smiles and giggles) I'm sorry! Quitter.
BUFFY: Whiner.
WILLOW: Bailer.
BUFFY: Harpy.
WILLOW: Delinquent.
BUFFY: Tramp.
WILLOW: Bad seed.
BUFFY: Witch.
WILLOW: Freak.

Me: Can really relate to their friendship - had me chuckling for days - still gives me the giggles.


Plus, all of the previous poster's quotes, especially the Angel/Angelus one's that Lee quoted.

[John G]

I've used only one season. I thought that was the rule. Anyway, here goes the funny:

SEASON 3

Anne Cordelia: What's the plan?
Xander: The vampire attacks you.
Cordelia: And then what?
Xander: The vapire kills you. We watch. We rejoice.
My response: Then she can be my Darla and I can be her Angel!

Faith, Hope & Trick Xander: (after hearing Faith's nude slaying story): The should film that story and show it every Christmas.
My response: I'd buy that for a dollar!

Homecoming Mr. Trick: If this is the part where you tell me I don't fit in your quiet little neighborhood you can skip it, 'cause that all got old long before I became a vampire, you know what I'm saying.
My response: At least you're not Canadian! (sorry missbuffy and any others. Just a joke)

The Wish Buffy: Your logic doesn't resemble our Earth-logic.
My response: A cheating man's logic is in a world of its own!

Amends Giles [to Angel]: To be blunt, the last time you became complacent about your existence, it turned out rather badly.
My response: Yeah, but this time, you're single!

The Zeppo Jack: Are you retarded?
Xander: No! I mean, I had to do that test when I was seven, a little slow in some stuff, mostly math and spacial relations, but certainly not 'challenged' or anything.
My response: Hey, I had the same thing said to me!

Bad Girls Wesley [reading Giles' diary]: ..her abuse of the English language is such that I understand only every other sentence.
My response: Hey, you Brits don't be speakin' good English neither!

Dopplegangland Willow: Old reliabe? There's a sexy nickname.
Buffy: Will, I didn't mean..
Willow: No, it's fine. I'm old reliable.
Xander: She just mean, 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 was Old Yeller
Buffy: Xander, I beg you not to help me.
My response: None. This is too perfect.

Earshot Xander: What am I going to do? I think about sex all the time. Sex. Help! Four times five is thirty. Five times six is thirty-two. Naked girls. Naked women. Naked Buffy. Oh, stop me!
My response: Xander, I feel your pain!

Graduation Day II Giles: There is a certain dramatic irony in the way things turned out. A synchronicity that almost borders on predestination,
one might say.
Buffy: Fire bad. Tree pretty.
My response: What she said!

[LadyDi]

This will require some thought. Spike will feature largely. I only get 10?

[S'ewing S'cubie]

LadyDi said:

This will require some thought. Spike will feature largely. I only get 10?

You get as many or as few as you want. You just have to name the episode, the speaker and for extra credit, your personal reply to the TV.

And you can do any or all seasons. But it's just Buffy this week. We'll do Angel some other time.

[LadyDi]

Here we go....should I actually bother to quote them? Y'all know 'em as well as I do (maybe better).

1. Spike's stirring speech at the end of Doomed
...Oh, *come on*
No response but uncontrolable fits of laughter

2. Spike insults Glory in Intervention
...your skanky, lopsided ass
You tell 'em, Boyo!

3. The church scene btwn Spike and Buffy at the end of Beneath You
...to be a kind of man
Tears (useless buckets of salt)

4. The exchange btwn Giles and Buffy in Innocence
...all you'll get from me is my respect
One of Giles' finest moments

5 & 6. Spike in Lovers Walk
...it makes me want to heave
...I'll find her, wherever she is. Tie her up, torture her, 'til she likes me again.
I could do 10 favorite quotes from this ep alone.
honorable mention for the exchange btwn Spike and Joyce at the table
...She sounds quite unreasonable.
...She is. She's out of her mind. It's what I miss most about her.
No one this evil should be so adorable.

7. Xander to Dawn in Potential
...You're not special. You're extraordinary.
Xander grows up.
honorable mention to Xander in The Zeppo
...This isn't walkin' around drinkin' with your buddies dead.

8. Spike to Buffy in After Life
...Every night I save you.
Bad boyfriend my a$$

9. Buffy to Spike in Sleeper
...I'll help you.
Buffy grows up

10. Spike, re: Angelus, in Becoming, part I
...Someone wasn't worthy.
I don't miss evil!Spike, but I do miss that wonderfully irritating sing-song delivery
honorable mention to Spike in School Hard
...Slay-er. Here, Kitty, Kitty.

The blooming onion conversation btwn Spike and Andrew is also fun.

[SpringSummers]

Diane! You are such a brat. And you know what I mean.

I offer this wimpy offering to this week's nerd alert, from Season 6, Entropy:

ANYA: Wait, you know I'm only doing this because I'm lonely and drunk and you smell really good.

ME(with my mouth open, trying to keep the drool from spilling down my chin): Oh, oh, oh! I bet he does smell really good! Really, really good! Better than bacon frying and coffee-perking on a cold winter morning. Better than a lilac bush, heavy with blooms. Better than sunshine on freshly line-dried cotton sheets. Better than a salty Carribean sea-breeze. Soooo good. Go, Anya, go!!

[makd]

As earlier stated: finally a Nerd Alert I can response to!

All of my quotes are from the same episode:

School Hard

Sheila: Guy's a serious rodent. (about Principal Schneider)
Response: laughed out loud.

SPIKE:Nice work, love.
BUFFY: Who are you?
SPIKE: You'll find out on Saturday.
BUFFY: What happens on Saturday?
SPIKE: I kill you.
Response: Holy Sh__!

Sheila: Who are you?
SPIKE: Who do you want me to be?
Response: No words. Intake of air.

XANDER: Does anybody remember when Saturday night meant date night?
CORDELIA: You sure don't.
Response: Laughed out loud.

SPIKE: I'm a veal kind of guy. You're too old to eat. (grabs his head and snaps his neck) But not to kill. I feel better.
Response: Whoa. That line, I will remember!

SPIKE:Slaaayer! Here, kitty, kittyyy.
Response: He's playing with her. Sh--!

PRINCIPAL SCHNEIDER:She's a student. What does she know?
Response: Yet another idiot.

SPIKE: Fe, fi, fo fum. I smell the blood of a nice ripe (turns to face Buffy) girl.
BUFFY: Do we really need weapons for this?
SPIKE: I just like them. They make me feel all manly. The last Slayer I killed... she begged for her life. You don't strike me as the begging kind.
BUFFY: You shouldn'ta come here.
SPIKE: No. I've messed up your doilies and stuff. But I just got so bored. I'll tell you what. As a personal favor from me to you I'll make it quick. It won't hurt a bit.
BUFFY: No, Spike. It's gonna hurt a lot.
Response: I stopped breathing, I think, for about 15 seconds. way too much chemistry there.

SPIKE: From now on, we're gonna have a little less ritual...and a little more fun around here. (hoists cage up into the sunlight, Collin screams, dusts) (to Dru) Let's see what's on TV.
Response: Whoops and yells and laughs! Lots of glee.

XANDER: What's a sire?
Response: stupid boy! and a whoo-hoo