Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

The Freshman (1999)

Alyson Hannigan: Willow Rosenberg

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• Willow Rosenberg : He said he wasn't coming back until he'd driven to all fifty states.

  Buffy Summers : Did you explain about Hawaii?

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, he seemed so determined.

• Willow Rosenberg : It's just in high school, knowledge was pretty much frowned upon. You really had to *work* to learn anything. But here, the energy, the-the collective intelligence, it's like this force, t-this penetrating force, an-and I can just feel my mind opening up, you know, an-and letting this place just thrust into and-and spurt knowledge into... That sentence ended up in a different place than it started out in.

• Willow Rosenberg : How can you be so calm?

  Oz : Long, arduous hours of practice.

• Buffy Summers : How do you get to be renowned? I mean, like, do you have to be "nowned" first?

  Willow Rosenberg : Yes, first there's the painful "nowning" process.

• Buffy Summers : It's too bad Giles couldn't be librarian here. Be convenient.

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, he says he's enjoying being a gentleman of leisure.

  Buffy Summers : Gentleman of leisure? Isn't that just British for unemployed?

  Willow Rosenberg : Uh-huh. He's a slacker now.

• Willow Rosenberg : Ooh, boyfriend! It's my on-campus boyfriend.

  Buffy Summers : Oh no, I forgot to pick mine up. Line's probably really long now, too.

• [first lines] 

  Buffy Summers : [sighs]  Anything?

  Willow Rosenberg : Ah!

  [reading] 

  Willow Rosenberg : "Introduction to the Modern Novel. A survey study of 20th century novelists." Open to freshmen. You might like that.

  Buffy Summers : Introduction to the Modern Novel...? I'm guessing I'd probably have to read the modern novel.

  Willow Rosenberg : Maybe more than one.

  Buffy Summers : I like books... I just don't want to take on too much... Do they have an Introduction to the Modern Blurb?

  Willow Rosenberg : Oh! "Short Story."