Popular Culture Review Vol. 12, No. 1, February 2001 | Page 96

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Popular Culture Review

B u ff y s fr i e nd s g a th e r to try to help h e r f i nd ou t w h a ts affecting h e r

Xander: You know, maybe we’re on the wrong track with the whole spell, curse,

and whammy thing. Maybe what we should be looking for is something like, um.
Slayer kryptonite.
Oz: Faulty metaphor. Kryptonite kills.
Xander: You’re assuming I meant the green kryptonite. I was referring, of course,
to the red
kryptonite, which drains Superman of his powers.
Oz: Wrong. The gold kryptonite’s the power-sucker. The red kryptonite mutates
Superman into some sort of weird . . .
B uffy w orries a bou t becom ing powerless.
Buffy: Or what if I just become pathetic? Hanging out at the Old Slayer’s Home,
talking people’s ears off about my glory days, showing them Mr. Pointy, the stake
I had bronzed?
Buffy: Before I was a Slayer, I was ...well, I, I don’t wanna say shallow, but let’s
Just say a certain person, who will remain nameless, we’ll just call her Spordelia
[Cordelia], looked like a classical philosopher next to me.
In a m eeting b etw een Buffy a nd Angel, he d escribes the f i r s t time he saw her.
Angel: It was a bright afternoon out in front of school. You walked down the steps.
And I loved you.
Buffy: Why?
Angel: ‘Cause I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see.
And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life
I wanted to keep it safe, to warm it with my own.
Buffy: That’s beautiful . . Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Angel: I was just thinking that.
L a te r when things approach a clim atic showdown:
Cordelia: Oh God, Is the world ending? I have to research a paper on Bosnia for
tomorrow, but if the world’s ending. I’m not going to bother.
B uffy fa ce s a dem on in spite o f h e r reduced strength.
Buffy: If I was at full Slayer power. I’d be punning about now.
When the S la yer's pow ers-to-be, hea d ed by Quentin, reveal the trial to Buffy, they
congra tulate h e r on pa ssing the rites-of-pas sage.
Quentin: Congratulations again.
Buffy: Bite me.
Quentin: Yes, well, colorful girl.
Giles reveals his p a rt in the d ece it to Buffy, bu t in the end, he disob eys his Watcher
du ties a nd is f i r e d by the pow ers-to-be.
Willow: Now, now when you say “fired,” you mean “fired”?
Xander: You’re not cruising past that concept any time soon, are you?
Willow: Well, it’s just...I mean, he’s been “fired”! He’s unemployed! He’s.. .between