In Previously:

Matt the Bruins fan: Man, when I think back on it... we had the advent of Dawn's "my pain is deeper than everyone else's" whining and BuffyWhipped!Spike, Joyce's illness, Riley deciding that the season's metaphor should consist of vamp feedings in place of back alley blowjobs, Glory's adventures in bubblebathing, the abandonment of Buffy's inner darkness/Slayer origin storyline, and Xander's relevance pulling a disappearing act all within a relatively short run of episodes. It's as if someone shook the entire WB run of the show and most of the suckitude settled into early Season 5.

helentm: But then in later season six, we've got Xander leaving Anya at the altar, magic!crack, Giles leaving, Riley coming back, and that thing with Spike and Buffy.

Emlah: Hmmm. It's like trying to decide whether a lemon or some sea salt is a better chaser for a glass of razor blades.

OK, so technically, it's Jacqueline in Natter, but...

Emmett: I'm going to be the ring-bearer, which is THE MOST IMPORTANT part in the whole wedding. Because if you don't have the rings, you CAN'T GET MARRIED. Hey, if A. [son of EM's current boyfriend] is in the wedding, he can be the leaf boy! (David and I, caught between "Leaf boy? Whafuck?" and "Oh, yeah, EM will be delighted to have her BF's son in her ex-husband's wedding," make small baffled noises. Emmett audibly rolls his eyes at our stupidity.) The leaf boy. He's like the flower girl, only he throws leaves. You know.

Betsy in Natter, proving that even in dreams punsters are unappreciated:

First day of school.

Ellen: "I had really weird dreams last night."

Me: "Oh?"

Ellen: "Yeah. We were being chased by this guy wearing all green and carrying asparagus, and I said 'We're being stalked' and you hit me over the head."

Erin G.: Theres something about poultry shears that makee me happy

More Betsy:

Nothing says 'party' like 'comatose capybara speedbumps'.

Betsy, en fuego!

Betsy [re: the happy ending in the movie version of Our Town]: It's like having Evelyn pop back up alive at the end of *Chinatown*. "It was only a flesh wound!"

Ken Buddha: Of course Polanski changed the original end of the screenplay to make it more nihilistic.

Betsy: Yeah, but Polanski was right.

waves hands as attempts to make some logical consistency out of her positions

fails

pretends she's doing the Lambada

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Trudy Booth [again, re happy endings tacked on in movies]:

I believe you, Scrappy, on an intellectual level...

But if Charlotte hadn't died I don't know if I'd have become a vegetarian each time I finished Charlotte's Web.

Betsy HP - You can come back to the carnivore side, Trudy. McDonalds has stopped serving Spider McNuggets in response to widespread protest.

Madrigal:

Babies basically are just little emissaries of all the bodily fluids. It makes one wonder why there aren't more baby clothes made of vinyl.

There was no coffee on my monitor from this one, but it induced a big gasp for air, and thus I thought it COMM worthy.

Daniel C. Jensen in Press:

Tonight is likely the last Buffy on UPN in the United States.

Chosen will be shown.

Next week UPN will be showing "UPN's Funky Flubs" in the timeslot.

Be very afraid.

Matt the Bruins Fan:

There has to be some point at which guilt by association tapers off—otherwise every person in the world who works in the food industry has served a murderer, rapist, or record company executive at some point and therefore deserves to die.

Madrigal, in Natter (context? There was this whole capybara thing... don't ask):

Egad. Anyone ever asks me what the leading cause of alcoholism among capybaras is, I'm gonna say it's you guys.