The exchange that sold me on the show was from “Some Assembly Required:”
Xander: And speaking of love…
Willow: We were talking about the reanimation of dead tissue.
Xander: Do I deconstruct your segues? Yeesh!
Right then I turned to the cat and proclaimed “This show is written by English majors!”
Jayne: If wishes were horses, we’d all be eating steak.
I looked up the episode and it seems my favorite Buffy line was written by Jane Espenson, so I got nuthin’.
I misquote is somewhat, but I love to use the line “Seriously…how did your brain even learn human speech?”
From Firefly.
More of a scene than a line, but…
I adore you, shove but I need the other guy.
From the Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie:
“You ruined my new jacket! Kill him a lot.”
This is a paraphrase, but I’m pretty close
Principal Snyder. “There’s something going on here, I can smell it. Like a 6th sense”
Giles, “No, that would be one of the five”
Willow: “I’m so evil and… skanky. And I think I’m kinda gay.”
My favorite moment in the series. Giles as the quiet badass who does the things the Buffy should never do.
Obviously I disagree. I don’t feel it was overused. I think the way Whedon kept having different characters make the joke was what made it work. Having different characters participating in the same inside joke quietly illustrating how close the team had gotten. It made it obvious that they hung out together and talked between the onscreen scenes without belaboring the point.
Did you find Avengers: Age of Ultron as consistently engaging and entertaining as the original Avengers? Because if you did, you are (in my experience) in the minority. Avengers was Whedon in peak form; Age of Ultron was Whedon in formulaic mode, which even he admitted to being creatively drained by the process along with all of the other work and doubtless some script doctoring he was doing for the other MCU films and the lackluster Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
I look forward to future good work from Joss Whedon; he’s certainly demonstrated that he is capable of it, especially when he has full creative control of a project. But Age of Ultron does not reflect that, either in the dialogue or plotting. It’s a fairly by the numbers and neutral flim only occasionally punctuated by the kind of wit that is usually a highlight of his other work.
Stranger
Buffy: Willow, what are you doing for Christmas?
Willow: Being Jewish. Hello!
Cap: …but if you put the hammer in an elevator…
Stark: It would still go up.
Cap: Elevator’s not worthy.
Thor: I’m going to miss these little talks of ours.
I’ll allow it … it’s from Whedon’s show, so have it.
I’d imagine that despite the credits, most shows had input from all the writers. So that line may well be a Whedon line. Or, conversely, half the lines in this thread may actually be Espenson lines for all we know.
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I gotta say Joss’s shows are responsible for a good bit of my favorite lines (Aaron Sorkin’s created a bunch too) but my all-time favorite bit of dialog is this scene:
[/QUOTE]…did you see this back when it happened?
That scene was literally inspirational.
“He’s gotta be old. I heard him say ‘newfangled’ once.”
“We’ll split up and search - it’ll be faster.” Everyone rushes off but Willow, who mutters “…but not safer.”
“He said he was going through all these changes - then he went through all these changes, and he’s a werewolf!”
“Are you not used to being given orders?”
“When Giles sends me on a mission, he says ‘Please.’ And when I get back, I get a cookie!”
“You’re not helping.”
“I know. I feel just sick about it.”
“Bit of sunlight, stake though the heart. It’s like falling off a log.”
“Buffy. Seriously. You need every square inch of your ass kicked.”
From* Buffy*
Willow : He said he wasn’t coming back until he’d driven to all fifty states.
Buffy : Did you explain about Hawaii?
Willow : Well, he seemed so determined.
If you say so. :rolleyes:
No, I don’t feel the second movie was as good as the first one. But I also don’t feel it was as bad as you seem to.
May I ask how many times you saw it? Personally, I found it worked a lot better the second time I watched it. The first time I watched it, it seemed chaotic and unstructured. But the second time, I knew the overall plot going in and I noticed it actually held up pretty well with a lot of apparently meaningless details that fit together to support the story. So the structure is there.