Fay and billytea in Bitches about Killer Ant Reality TV:
Billy: They're posing the challenge: could the army ants of Latin America attack and devour a human?
Fay: See, I'm envisioning the TV crew proposing this to the ants, and the ants listening earnestly, and looking at the tropical holiday/fabulous car/blahblahblah prize on offer, and discussing it amongst themselves, and then saying they're up for it, and the audience applauding, and then ravenous ant death happening to the TV crew. With added salsa music.
Billy: Hee. No, see, you're thinking of Japanese nature programs. This is an American program, so
a. The ants are presented with a variety of culinary options representing all walks of American life (if America consisted entirely of elderly curmudgeons with surprising survival skills, feisty mothers of four, remarkably photogenic twentysomethings with at least four pairs of additional teeth, a couple of token minorities, and a sprinkling of whiny bitches); and
b. The last person uneaten wins a million dollars. Oh, and the whole idea was ripped off an idea developed three years ago by a Dutch presenter, David Aatenbreugher.
With added salsa music.
In Buffy, spoilery bits whitefonted:
Allyson: The TV Guide interview with Joss says that he took the scythe.
Jon B.:You mean as a memento?
Allyson: No, he's mailing it to the Iraqi's so he can prove they have a weapon of mass destruction.
Just call me Mr. Moronic Set-up guy...
In context, the question wasn't so dumb, dammit
No, but you have to admit, you were just so damned irresistable, Jon.
I'm always irresistable. It's what I am.
Steph and Lyra, in Bitches, non-spoilery
Steph L.
Hell, how many dead people have already come back on Angel? It wouldn't surprise me at all if dead!Clem (for instance) showed up on Angel.
Lyra Jane
Steph, you're close. Next season, Angel launches an all-female, all-ressurrected detective agency, with Darla, Tara, and Ms. Calendar reporting to Joyce. It's called "Angel's Angels."
From Buffy, non-spoilery:
Trudy: I don't mean to be a Spoiler William Bennett, but, frankly, I'm appalled.
Wenda: I bet you don't really mean that.
(On edit) But wait! There's more!
Trudy: That I'm appalled or that I have a soft-spot for the slots?
Cindy: I'm giving even odds on that answer.
Wenda: 20-to-1 says I don't really know.
Narrator: I bet it's both.
Cindy: Are you trying to trump my answer that stated the same thing? Heh. Upping the ante, I see.
Madrigal, on Jossverse vampires breathing:
Well, they have to breathe in order to talk and smoke. That's the thing about when they choke each other, it's not to kill or even render unconscious, but to make them faint from being made to shut up so forcefully.
