Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Gingerbread (1999)

Kristine Sutherland: Joyce Summers

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Quotes 

• [about to light their children on fire] 

  Joyce Summers : We should stay close, have lunch.

  Sheila Rosenberg : Oh, I'd like that. How nice.

• [first lines] 

  Joyce Summers : [entering]  Is it a vampire?

  Buffy Summers : Mom, what are you doing here?

  Joyce Summers : I brought you a snack... I thought it was about time for me to come out and watch. Yo-You know, the slaying.

  Buffy Summers : You know, the slaying is kind of an alone thing.

  Joyce Summers : But it's such a big part of your life, and I'd like to understand it. It's some, you know, something we could share.

  Buffy Summers : A-Actually, it's pretty dull, you know. It's... bam boom stick... poof.

• Joyce Summers : Are you embarrassed to be hanging out with your mother? I didn't hug you.

  Buffy Summers : No. It's just... This hall is about school, and you're about home. Mix them, my world dissolves.

• Joyce Summers : Mr. Mayor... you're dead wrong... This is *not* a good town. How many of us have-have lost someone who-who just disappeared...? Or-Or got skinned? Or suffered neck rupture? And how many of us have been too afraid to speak out? I-I was supposed to lead us in a moment of silence, but, silence is this town's disease. For too long we-we've been plagued by unnatural evils. This isn't our town anymore. It belongs to the monsters and-and the witches and the Slayers.