Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Pangs (1999)

Alyson Hannigan: Willow Rosenberg

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Quotes 

• Buffy Summers : Wil, you know how bad I feel about this. Okay? It's eating me up...

  [to Anya] 

  Buffy Summers : A quarter cup of brandy and let it simmer.

  [to Willow] 

  Buffy Summers : ... but even though it's hard, we have to end this. Yes, he's been wronged, and I personally would be ready to apologize, but I...

  Spike : Oh, someone put a stake in me.

  Xander Harris : You got a lot of volunteers in *here*.

  Spike : I just can't take all this namby-pamby boo-hooing about the bloody Indians.

  Willow Rosenberg : Uh, the preferred term is...

  Spike : You won. All right? You came in and you killed them, and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, "I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it." The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story.

  Buffy Summers : Well, I think the Spaniards actually did a lot of...

  [to Willow] 

  Buffy Summers : Not that I don't like Spaniards.

  Spike : Listen to you. How you gonna fight anyone with that attitude?

  Willow Rosenberg : We don't wanna fight anyone.

  Buffy Summers : I just wanna have Thanksgiving.

  Spike : [laughs]  Yeah... Good luck.

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, if we could talk to him...

  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 Harris : Maybe it's the syphilis talking, but... some of that made sense.

• [Buffy didn't know Angel was around] 

  Willow Rosenberg : But, at least we all worked together and it was like old times.

  Xander Harris : Well, maybe we started a new tradition this year...

  [Buffy looks at her] 

  Xander Harris : Maybe not. But at least we all worked together. It was like old times.

  Xander Harris : Yeah, especially with Angel being here and everything.

  [everyone stares at him for a long time] 

  Xander Harris : Oops.

• [Spike asks Buffy to invite him into Giles house to get out of the sunlight] 

  Spike : Come on, I'm-I'm parboiling out here.

  [Giles hands Buffy a stake] 

  Buffy Summers : Want me to help make it quicker?

  Spike : [pitifully]  Invite me in.

  Buffy Summers : No.

  Rupert Giles : Fairly unlikely.

  [Spike tries running in and is knocked back] 

  Spike : Oh, damn it! Look, I'm safe. I can't bite anyone. Willow, tell 'em what I did.

  Willow Rosenberg : You-You said you were gonna kill me, then Buffy.

  Spike : Yes, bad, but let's skip that part and get to the part where I couldn't bite you.

  Willow Rosenberg : It's true... He had trouble performing.

• Xander Harris : So what do we do now?

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, we could stay here and stand watch or I just...

  [Angel steps out of the dark next to them] 

  Angel : Willow.

  Xander Harris : Angel?

  Anya : So this is Angel. He's large and glowery, isn't he?

  Xander Harris : He's evil again.

  Angel : I-I-I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?

  Willow Rosenberg : Angel's here to protect Buffy.

  Angel : I haven't been evil for a long time.

• Angel : My friend had a vision. Buffy's in danger.

  Willow Rosenberg : So tell her. Help her.

  Angel : If she sees me, it'll be worse.

  Willow Rosenberg : See, I don't get that. All this "leaving for her own good" garbage. Because that's what it is. Y-You can't just give up because there's obstacles. Do you know? What kind...

  Angel : [Interrupting her tirade]  Willow.

  Willow Rosenberg : Sorry. My stuff.

• Willow Rosenberg : You mean...

  [whispers] 

  Willow Rosenberg : Angel? I saw him too.

  Rupert Giles : That's not terribly stealthy of him.

  Willow Rosenberg : I think he's lost his edge.

• Angel : Willow, I'm here to protect Buffy. I don't have a whole lot of time for personal stuff.

  Willow Rosenberg : Right. Well-Well, how can I help?

  Angel : Well, if you can just tell me...

  [sees Buffy and Riley chatting] 

  Angel : Who's that guy?

• Willow Rosenberg : But you have whipped cream. I saw it Giles' fridge.

  Buffy Summers : But that's whipped cream in a canister. Look, it's only right if you whip it yourself.

  Willow Rosenberg : Hey, and then later, we can churn our own butter and make sweaters out of sheep.

• [Buffy answers door to find Anya and a sick Xander] 

  Xander Harris : Happy Thanksgiving.

  Willow Rosenberg : Xander!

  Rupert Giles : You look like death.

  Willow Rosenberg : Are you okay?

  Buffy Summers : You didn't bring rolls?

• Willow Rosenberg : Buffy, earlier you agreed with me about Thanksgiving. It's a sham. It's all about death.

  Buffy Summers : It *is* a sham... but it's a sham with yams. It's a yam sham.

  Willow Rosenberg : You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.

• [thinking of possible murder scenarios] 

  Willow Rosenberg : Or... Or maybe an ear-harvesting demon that... It's, like, building another demon completely out of ears. Or... ooh. Thought. We're-We're just assuming someone else cut off the ear. What if it was self-inflicted, like van Gogh?

  Buffy Summers : So, she brutally stabbed herself, dumped the body, and then cut off her own ear?

  Willow Rosenberg : No. She cut off her ear, then killed herself, then dumped the body... I'm really off my game, aren't I?

• [after trying to warn the dean] 

  Xander Harris : Well, that was a waste of time.

  Willow Rosenberg : I think he thought we were crazy.

  Xander Harris : Well, maybe if Anya hadn't opened the conversation with, "Everybody got both ears?"

  Anya : I liked his wife. She gave me pie.

• Rupert Giles : Well, that's good, but this is why I think we should all keep a level head in this.

  Willow Rosenberg : And I happen to think mine is the level head and yours is the one things would roll off of.

• Willow Rosenberg : The coroner's office said she was missing an ear. So I'm thinking, maybe we're looking for a witch. There's some *great* spells that work much better with an ear in the mix.

  Buffy Summers : That's one fun little hobby you've got there, Will.

• Willow Rosenberg : [about the old Sunnydale Mission that was found]  Doesn't it make you wonder what else is there, like, right under our feet?

  Buffy Summers : Mostly, I've just found sewers full of demons.

• Buffy Summers : Fine, okay? But someone still has to go warn the dean.

  Willow Rosenberg : I'll go. I need the air.

  Buffy Summers : Not alone.

  Anya : I'll go.

  Xander Harris : Me, too.

  Buffy Summers : You sure you're up to it?

  Spike : Oh, leave that one. He looks like he's ready to drop any minute, and I think I can eat someone if he's already dead.

  Xander Harris : I'm up to it.

• [Willow bought frozen peas instead of fresh ones] 

  Willow Rosenberg : They're gonna be mushy.

  Rupert Giles : They won't be mushy.

  Buffy Summers : I like mushy peas.

  Buffy Summers : You're the reason we had to have Pilgrims in the first place.

• Anya : [about Xander]  Look at him. Have you ever *seen* anything so masculine?

  Buffy Summers : Dean Guerrero or his wife?

  Willow Rosenberg : I think she means...

  [shows Xander in a sleeveless t-shirt as a construction worker] 

  Buffy Summers : Oh. Very manly. Not at all Village People.

• Willow Rosenberg : [about Hus]  Are you sure we shouldn't be helping him?

  Rupert Giles : No, I think perhaps we won't help the angry spirit with his rape and pillage and murder.

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, okay, no, but we should be helping him redress his wrongs. Bring the atrocities to light.

  Rupert Giles : Well, if the history books are full of them, I'd say they already are.

  Willow Rosenberg : Giving his land back.

  Rupert Giles : It's not exactly ours to give.

  Willow Rosenberg : You know, I don't think you wanna help. I-I think you just wanna slay the demon, then go, la la la

  Rupert Giles : And I think your sympathy for his plight has blinded you to certain urgent facts. We have to stop this thing.

  Willow Rosenberg : Okay, Unfeeling Guy.

• Willow Rosenberg : Well, maybe there's a Wiccan spell that can cure it. You know, something regular medicine doesn't know. Ooh, there-there was a potion.

  [she looks through a book and pulls out a piece of paper and begins reading] 

  Willow Rosenberg : Sage, salt... onion?

  Buffy Summers : That's the stuffing

• Buffy Summers : Will, didn't you say the Chumash got all diseased when they were all holed up in the mission?

  Willow Rosenberg : Yeah. Uh, this has a better account of everything. It lists the various...

  Xander Harris : Various? As in...

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, the important thing is not to panic.

  Xander Harris : Wil, you just recited the mystical panic-causing incantation, so little hope there.