Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Dead Man's Party (1998)

Nicholas Brendon: Xander Harris

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Quotes 

• Oz : We should figure out what kinda deal this is. I mean, is it a-a gathering, a shindig or a hootenanny?

  Cordelia Chase : What's the difference?

  Oz : Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings. Shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.

  Xander Harris : Well, I hate brie.

  Cordelia Chase : I know. It smells like Giles' cat.

  Rupert Giles : It's not my...

• Buffy Summers : As if I even could've gone to you, Xander. You made your feelings about Angel and I perfectly clear.

  Xander Harris : Look, I'm sorry that your honey was a demon, but most girls don't hop a Greyhound over boy troubles.

  Cordelia Chase : Time out, Xander. Put yourself in Buffy's shoes for just a minute. Okay? I'm Buffy, freak of nature, right? Naturally I pick a freak for a boyfriend, and then he turns into Mr. Killing Spree, which is pretty much my fault...

  Buffy Summers : Cordy... get out of my shoes.

• Xander Harris : Let her finish. You at least owe her that.

  Buffy Summers : God, Xander... do you think you could at least stick to annoying me on you own behalf?

  Xander Harris : Fine. Oh, you stop acting like an idiot, and I'll stop annoying you.

  Buffy Summers : You want to talk acting like an idiot... Nighthawk?

  Oz : Okay. I'm gonna step in now, being Referee Guy.

  Willow Rosenberg : No, let 'em go, Oz. Talking about it isn't helping. We might as well try some violence.

  [suddenly the zombies break into the house from all directions and start attacking the party guests] 

  Willow Rosenberg : I was being sarcastic!

• Xander Harris : Generally speaking, when scary things get scared, not good.

• Cordelia Chase : I'm the dip.

  [everyone looks at her] 

  Xander Harris : Uh, you gotta admire the purity of it.

  Cordelia Chase : What? Onion dip. Stirring, not cooking. It's what I bring.

• Xander Harris : So where were you? Did you go to Belgium?

  Buffy Summers : Why would I go to Belgium?

  Xander Harris : I think the relevant question is why wouldn't ya? Belgium!

• Xander Harris : Check it out. The Watcher's back on the clock. And just when you're thinking career change, maybe becoming a... a looker or a... a seer.

• Joyce Summers : You now what? That's it. You and I are gonna have a talk.

  Buffy Summers : Mom, please.

  Joyce Summers : You know what? I don't care! I don't care what your friends think of me or you for that matter, because you put me through the ringer, Buffy. I mean it. And I've had schnapps. Do you have any idea what it's been like?

  Buffy Summers : Mom, this isn't the place...

  Joyce Summers : You can't imagine months of not knowing, not knowing whether you're lying dead in a ditch somewhere or, I don't know, living it up!

  Buffy Summers : But you told me! You're the one who said I should go! You said if I leave this house, don't come back! You found out who I really was and you couldn't deal! Don't you remember?

  Joyce Summers : [more angry]  Buffy, you didn't give me time! You just dump this thing on me and you expected me to get it? Well, guess what. Mom's not perfect, okay? I handled it badly! But that doesn't give you the right to punish me by running away!

  Buffy Summers : Punish you? I didn't do this to punish you.

  Xander Harris : Well, you did. You should've seen what you put her through.

  Buffy Summers : Great. Thanks. Anybody else want to weigh in here? How about you by the dip?

  Jonathan Levinson : No, thanks... I'm good.

  Xander Harris : You know, maybe you don't want to hear it, Buffy... but taking off like you did was incredibly selfish and stupid!

  Buffy Summers : Okay. Okay! I screwed up! I know this! But you have no idea! You have... you have no idea what happened to me or what I was feeling!

  Xander Harris : Did you even try talking to anybody?

  Buffy Summers : No. There was nothing anybody could do. Okay? I just had to deal with this on my own!

  Xander Harris : Yeah, and you see how well that one worked out. You can't just bury stuff, Buffy. It'll come right back up to get you.

• Willow Rosenberg : Maybe we shouldn't be too couply around her.

  Cordelia Chase : Oh, you mean because the only guy that ever liked her turned into a vicious killer and had to be put down like a dog?

  Xander Harris : Can she cram complex issues into a nutshell or what?