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Nick Brendon kicks off his run in Lobster Alice at the Blank Theatre Co. in Los Angeles tonight. If you're so inclined and want to help me look like a webmaster who gets results, you can send your best wishes via the NickBrendon.com boards.

Lots of people are looking at the thread, but few are posting.

The unpopular characters? Forgot Falsone. He was the Poochie of detective characters.

So, we get to meet our students on Saturday, and my principal has suggested that it might be nice if each of the teachers perform something, since it's a performing arts school. Now, normally, I'd be fine with singing something, and that's probably what I'll end up doing. I have two minor caveats with that, though: first, it's likely that several of the other teachers will also sing, and variety would be nice. Second, well, our principal sang in an off-broadway musical last year, and our special ed teacher was an opera singer at juilliard.

I'm a good karaoke voice, but if they go too... I'm losing out.

So. I'm thinking it would be fun, and a good way to introduce myself, if I could act out a short scene from Buffy. A short, funny, self-contained scene that requres only the most basic background knowledge (so that I can set it up in 60 seconds). I don't mind playing a couple of characters, though something with longish monologues would be nice so I'm not switching character over 2 words.

Ideas?

You could scare the crap out of them and do Giles' monologue as he kills Ben.

They're fourteen and in a new place. That would be mean. Thus why I'm thinking amusing.

Which would almost certainly require multiple characters, I know, as Buffy humor is all about the repartee.

Oh! I could do Buffy's fake death of a salesman monologue in Restless. That could be kind of funny.

The unpopular characters? Forgot Falsone. He was the Poochie of detective characters.

Falsone (who didn't bother me that much) and The Woman Who Killed Homicide, who I can't think of in any other way no matter what she shows up on. (The Beatdown!, which was always spoken in capital letters.)

The unpopular characters? Forgot Falsone. He was the Poochie of detective characters.

I was eh about Falsone, except for one scene. He was eating a peach and talking about sex with the other detective he'd been sleeping with, and it was Teh Hott.

Are they too young to care about Buffy, or get the reference? I mean, it went off the air when they were 11ish.

The only thing I can think of is Whistler's monologue from Becoming. It might resonate. It's not cheery and light, but it can be kind of inspiring. It's split up over a few lines in the episode, but you could cobble it together, into one monologue.

Here's the thing. There's moments in your life that make you, that set the course of who you're gonna be. Sometimes they're little, subtle moments. Sometimes—they're not. I'll show you what I mean.

Bottom line is even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does.

So, what, are we helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come, can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

There's Angelus's monologue from Passion, but erm...it might mark you as 'creepy guy with the vampire thing'.

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping. Waiting, And though unwanted—unbidden—it will stir, open its jaws, and howls. 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.

Yeah. I think that would end with you tagged as creepy, and probably more so, if you followed up with, "I want you to have a passion with math." t /go school, it's your birthday

There's the scene from Checkpoint, where Buffy puts the C.o.W. in its place. It's mostly a Buffy monologue, but there are a lot of characters who burst in with lines, here and there, so it might not be ideal.

You could read them some Pooh. You should read them this: [link]

Of course, they might think it was lame (but there are even FACTORS in it).

Fourteen is awful. Hmmm. I don't know. Can you do any stupid human sort of tricks? For example, I can play the William Tell Overture with my fingers, on my cheeks.

Oh, yeah, Sheppard the Series Killer and The "I got beat down, and got my gun took," ep which is fucking legendary. In a bad way. I've seen totally rational fangirls go completely apeshit about that.