Seeking wisdom from the Buffyverse.

July 9, 2008 11:28 AM

Help me find a line of Buffy dialogue!

There's a scene where Willow is complaining about something to Buffy and Buffy tries to offer advice or a solution. Willow gets upset and says she just wants someone to listen or empathize. And Buffy says something along the lines of, "Oh is this a feel my pain talk? I thought it was a help me find a solution talk. My bad." Except, you know, the actual line is much snappier.

This just happened with a friend of mine who got laid off and didn't want to hear about a job posting I saw, just wanted to mope. I managed to find this exact line of dialogue a couple of years ago when I had similarly misjudged the intent of a friend, but I remember it took forever and bugged the hell out of me in the meantime.

My memory of the line is too vague for good googling, and I don't have time now to watch all 7 seasons in a totally OCD search for the answer. (Although my instincts are telling me it was season 2-3.)

This is one of those things that is not important but will drive me insane until I figure it out.

posted by Mavri to media & arts (12 comments total)

Buffy: “This is an ‘encouragement’ talk? I thought it was ‘share my pain’.”
posted by amro at 11:34 AM on July 9, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

All of the Buffy scripts are available for download here one season at a time, so you could download the target seasons and then do a search.
posted by carmicha at 11:35 AM on July 9, 2008

Y'all are so fantastic.
posted by Mavri at 11:36 AM on July 9, 2008

Buffy: “Well, no one’s pushing. You know, if it’s too much don’t do it.”
Willow: “Don’t do it? What kind of encouragement is *that*?”
Buffy: “This is an ‘encouragement’ talk? I thought it was ‘share my pain’.”
Willow: “I don’t know. Then again, what is college for if not experimenting? You know, maybe I can handle it. I’ll know when I’ve reached my limit.”
Oz comes up to them: “Wine coolers?”
posted by Neiltupper at 11:44 AM on July 9, 2008

Damn! Not frist
posted by Neiltupper at 11:45 AM on July 9, 2008

It was the first hit when I googled. Not sure why you had difficulty.
posted by amro at 11:50 AM on July 9, 2008

(That was directed to OP, not Neiltupper.)
posted by amro at 11:51 AM on July 9, 2008

Me neither. I'm usually a pretty good googler. Oh well.
posted by Mavri at 11:52 AM on July 9, 2008

amro, what was the magic search phrase that turned it up?
posted by jjg at 12:21 PM on July 9, 2008

[feel my pain talk? I thought it was a help me find a solution talk. My bad buffy]

(Just copied and pasted most of what OP posted and added "buffy" on the end.)
posted by amro at 1:00 PM on July 9, 2008

And now the first hit is this question!
posted by amro at 1:01 PM on July 9, 2008

amro: "And now the first hit is this question!"

You know, I'm tempted to start an Ask Mefi question with the title "WCityMike has a very large penis", just so that becomes the first Google hit ...
posted by WCityMike at 1:56 PM on July 9, 2008