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.

Noumenon: Wouldn't Angelus make a great prosecutor? He'd just take the witnesses apart with sarcasm. And intimidate the jury, no problem.

Victor Infante: Of course, he'd eat the jury. And the judge. No, he'd torture the judge, and make the jury watch. And then kill 'em.

On the other hand, he's probably already a candidate for governor.

Context? Whatever for?

billytea in Bitches:

Bush: (looking through binoculars) "Ah don't get it. Is it a dance in mah honor or somethin'?"
Cheney: (dies)

(edited because for some reason, basic brackets disappear when I post them. Bother.)

ita, in Bitches. No context.

Dear Interviewer,

Beth adores black people.

Signed, Black Herself. And Not Even American. So There.

In Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.

-t after watching the final UPN broadcast of BtVS:

Sigh. Watched Chosen last night.

I've been getting all nostalgic, remembering the beginning. For me, it was the movie. Actually, an ad for the movie. Pike and Buffy are dancing, and he says "You aren't like other girls," and she answers "Yes, I am." It's a sad, poignant moment, and it got me. I watched the movie. I got excited when I found out about the series, especially, since it was going to star Kendall from All My Children. I faithfully taped my snowy broadcasts out of Sacramento - watching the first season on DVD was quite a revelation of detail for me. I made my boyfriend watch, until he started insisting on it himself. I bought two VCR's so I didn't have to choose between Buffy and my other TV addictions. I named my feral porch cat Patches. I screamed when the Breeders played the theme song to open their show. I eventually found the Buffistas, where I am like other girls.

And now it's all history. The text is complete. I'm back at the sad moment, dancing in the dark. But Buffy left me with a smile. What are we going to do now?

In Bitches, not feeling the Stevie Nicks love.

Sophia Brooks: I just leapt up from almost falling asleep as I just flipped channels and Charlie Rose is on PBS talking to Lindsey Buckingham, who is talking about Stevie Nicks. It is very weird!

Beth's DH: And Lindsay's on the cover of one of my magazines this month. It's a conspiracy to get us all to sing Rhiannon!