Oh, God, I wish I could remember exactly how it went, and I’m fuzzy with episode titles…
Spike, after having escaped from the Initiative, heads for the dorm to kill Buffy, finds Willow alone and tries to put the bite on her. Nice, longish, hysterically funny exchange, which, when it comes out on DVD (or I can find a script) I intend to commit to memory…
Spike: I don’t understand it. This has never happened to me before.
Willow: Doesn’t it happen to all the vampires?
Spike: Not to me!
…
Willow: It’s me.
Spike: What do you mean?
Willow: It’s me. You came here looking for Buffy, and you settled. None of the vamps want to bite me. They always say, “We’re just good friends”, or “You’re like a sister to me.”
(coupla more lines I can’t remember)
Spike: Remember last year, when you were wearing that pink thing with the lavender? I wanted to then.
Willow: Really? I had no idea (or words to that effect)
Spike: Well, I don’t like to be all fangy and “grrrr”. It takes the mystery out of it.
Those rare moments when Spike and Willow are together sans Buffy and the rest of the Scoobies are priceless.
Buffy (to the First Evil): Alright, I get it, you’re evil.
Buffy (to Wesly) When Giles sends me on a mission, he always says “please”. And he gives me a cookie afterward.
Spike: There are a few American beers which are highly underrated. Sadly, this is not one of them.
Giles (after having been turned into a Fiorl demon, stabbed and recognized by Buffy, and changed back again): How did you recognize me.
Buffy: It was your eyes. Only you could look that annoyed with me.
Anya (in Thanksgiving): I love a ritual sacrifice!
Buffy: Ritual sacrifice?
Anya: You kill and animal and eat it to commemorate and event. It’s a ritual sacrifice.
Riley (finding Spike in Buffy’s room, smelling Buffy’s sweater, the morning Joyce goes to the hospital for the CAT scan) (brief exchange, in which Spike tells Riley about Joyce’s illness and tests, then) Were you smelling Buffy’s sweater?
Spike (flustered): Yeah. Got to know your enemy’s scent. (crushes sweater to his face) Arrgh. The musk of a Slayer.
Anya: Would you like to look at the money? I’ve found it calms me.
Then there was the scene when Buffy is sitting on the porch crying after Joyce tells her she’s going into the hospital for observation. Spike emerges from the bushes, levels shotgun at her, Buffy just looks at him all teary eyed and unable to react.
Spike (lowering shotgun) What’s the matter?
Buffy (teary silence)
Spike: Is there anything I can do?
Buffy (more teary silence)
Spike slowly walks to the porch, sits beside her, maintaining a respectful space between them, tentatively reaches over and gives her a couple of awkward pats on the shoulder, then pulls his hand away when she doesn’t respond, and sits beside her in silence, trying to be a comforting presence.
OK, not technically a line, but still a great scene.
erislover, the fan base doesn’t like Anya because, well she can be very annoying. She’s only been human for a coupla seasons, and, well, doesn’t quite know how to go about it. Makes for a character who is very difficult to care abbout. She is basically selfish, doesn’t do social graces very well, and most of her conversation comes off as stilted, awkward, and artificial. Which is exactly what I would expect from a demon who only relatively recently became human and doesn’t quite know how to go about being a human person. I personally like her character a lot. She’s basically an alien trying to fit into human society, and mostly bollixing it up. And, when it finally gets through to her that someone is hurting, scared, or otherwise in emotional distress, her awkward attempts at giving comfort are both deeply touching and hysterically funny.
