Guess who just got mean.

The Pack

Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting.
Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
Buffy: And I missed it. Yet somehow I'll find the courage to live on.

Xander: I'm feeling that you're not in the field trip spirit here.
Buffy: Well, it would... It's nothing, I... We do the same zoo trip at my old school every year. Same old, same old.
Xander: Buffy, this isn't just about looking at a bunch of animals. This is about not being in class!
Buffy: You know, you're right! Suddenly the animals look shiny and new.
Xander: Gotta have perspective.

Willow: What are Kyle and his buds doing with Lance?
Xander: Oh, playing with him as a cat plays with a mouse.
Buffy: What is it with those guys?
Willow: They're obnoxious. Professionally.
Xander: Well, every school has 'em. So, you start a new school, you get your desks, some blackboards and some mean kids.

Xander: Why don't you pick on somebody your own species?

Buffy: I didn't notice anything. But then again I'm not as hyperaware of him as, oh, say, for example, you.
Willow: Hyperaware?
Buffy: Well, I'm not constantly monitoring his health, his moods, his blood pressure...
Willow: 130 over 80!
Buffy: You got it bad, girl!
Willow: He makes my head go tingly. You know what I mean?
Buffy: I dimly recall.
Willow: But it hasn't happened to you lately?
Buffy: Not of late.
Willow: Not even for a dangerous and mysterious older man whose leather jacket you're wearing right now?
Buffy: Goes with the shoes!
Willow: Come on, Angel pushes your buttons. You know he does.
Buffy: I suppose some girls might find him good looking... if they have eyes, all right, he's a honey, but... it's just he's never around, and when he is all he wants to do is talk about vampires, and... I, I just can't have a relationship.

Xander: You took a bath.
Buffy: Yeah, I often do, I'm actually known for it.
Xander: That's okay.
Buffy: And the weird behavior award goes to...

Mr. Flutie: Lordy, Herbert! Gave Mr. Flutie quite a scare, didn't he? Students, I'd like you all to met Herbert, our new mascot for the Sunnydale High Razorbacks!
Buffy: He's so cute!
Mr. Flutie: He's not cute. No! He's a fierce Razorback!

Xander: Why do I need to learn this?
Willow: Cause otherwise you'll flunk math?
Xander: Explain the part where that's bad.
Willow: You remember, you fail math, you flunk out of school, you end up being the guy at the pizza place that sweeps the floor and says, "Hey, kids, where's the cool parties this weekend?" We've been through this. Do you have a headache?
Xander: Yeah, and I think I know what's causing it. (throws his math book into the garbage) Ah! That's better, it goes right to the source of the pain.

Coach Harrold: All right, it's raining, all regular gym classes have been postponed, so you know what that means: dodgeball! Now, for those of you that may have forgotten, the rules are as follows: you dodge.

Coach Harrold: God, this game is brutal. I love it!

Xander: I guess you've noticed that I've been different around you lately.
Willow: Yes.
Xander: I think, um... I think it's because my feelings for you have been changing. And, well, we've been friends for such a long time that I feel like I need to tell you something. I've, um... I've decided to drop geometry. So I won't be needing your math help anymore. Which means I won't have to look at your pasty face again.

Giles: Xander's taken to teasing the less fortunate?
Buffy: Uh-huh.
Giles: And, there's been a noticeable change in both clothing and demeanor?
Buffy: Yes.
Giles: And, well, otherwise all his spare time is spent lounging about with imbeciles.
Buffy: It's bad, isn't it.
Giles: It's devastating. He's turned into a sixteen-year-old boy. Course, you'll have to kill him.
Buffy: Giles, I'm serious.
Giles: So am I. Except for the part about killing him. Testosterone is a great equalizer. It turns all men into morons. He will, however, get over it.
Buffy: I cannot believe that you, of all people, are trying to Scully me. There is something supernatural at work here. Get your books! Look stuff up!
Giles: Look under what?
Buffy: I don't know! That's your department.

Rhonda: How is Herbert?
Heidi: Crunchy!

Buffy: Wow! Apparently Noah rejected the hyenas from the ark because he thought they were an evil impure mixture of dogs and cats.
Willow: Hyenas aren't well liked.
Buffy: They do seem to be the schmoes of the animal kingdom.
Willow: Why couldn't Xander be possessed by a puppy or, or some ducks?

Xander: Is that what you really want? We both know what you really want. You want danger, don't cha? You like your men dangerous.
Buffy: You're in trouble, Xander. You are infected with some hyena thing, it's like a demonic possession!
Xander: Dangerous and mean, right? Like Angel. Your mystery guy. Well, guess who just got mean.

Xander: Come on, Slayer. I like it when you're scared. The more I scare you, the better you smell.

Willow: Oh, my God, Xander! What happened?
Buffy: I hit him.
Willow: With what?
Buffy: A desk. He tried his hand at felony sexual assault.
Willow: Oh, Buffy, the hyena in him didn't...
Buffy: No. No, but it's safe to say that in his animal state his idea of wooing doesn't involve a Yanni CD and a bottle of Chianti.

Giles: The rest of the pack were spotted outside Herbert the mascot's cage. They were sent to the principal's office.
Willow: Good! That'll show 'em. ... Did it show 'em?
Buffy: They didn't hurt him, did they?
Giles: They, uh... ate him.

Buffy: Didn't your mom teach you? Don't play with your food.

Buffy: It shouldn't be too hard to find a new principal. Unless they ask what happened to the last one.
Xander: Okay, but I had nothing to do with that, right?
Buffy: Oh, right.
Willow: You only ate the pig.
Xander: I ate a pig? Was it cooked and called bacon or... Oh, my God! I ate a pig? I mean, the whole trichinosis issue aside, yuck!

Buffy: This is definitely the superior Xander. Accept no substitutes.
Xander: I didn't do anything else, did I, around you guys or anything embarrassing?
Buffy, after a pause: Nah!

Giles: I've been reading up on my, uh, animal possession, and I cannot find anything anywhere about memory loss afterwards.
Xander: Did you tell them that?
Giles: Your secret dies with me.

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