Joyce

• Joyce: think positive, try not to get kicked out
• Buffy preps for her first evening at the Bronze

• Joyce: You're not going anywhere

• Buffy to Joyce: your platitudes are good for all occasions
• Joyce to herself: Great parenting form! Little shaky on the dismount.
• Buffy: Macho, macho, man! I want to be a macho man
• Joyce to Buffy: I don't get it; I'm not 16, so I *can't* get it

• Joyce: Nice meeting you Angel
• Joyce to Darla: would you like something to eat?
• Joyce: the teachers really *do* care in this town
• Giles to Joyce: Buffy lives very much in the 'now'

• Joyce: how's it going with the talent show?

• Buffy would rather go to school that have Master nightmares
• Joyce: Your father adores you

• Buffy to Joyce: Must be nice to have your whole life ahead of you

• Hank: I may have overcompensated with the shoes
• Joyce: any chance you'd tell me what was wrong?

• Buffy: my cream rinse is neither creamy nor rinsey
• Joyce: I don't want to be disappointed in you again
• Snyder to Joyce: I'm afraid we need to talk
• Snyder: It's a gang on PCP
• Snyder: Buffy's a student, what does she know?
• Joyce to Spike: get the hell away from my daughter!
• Joyce: I'll sleep better knowing you're brave & resourceful in a crisis

• Joyce: I'm glad someone else sees that Buffy is stubborn

• Joyce: Buffy, this is Ted
• Buffy to Joyce: smooching new people in my kitchen
• Ted: *we* want you to be OK with this
• Willow: we call her 'Book-cracker Buffy'!
• Joyce: Ted said no such thing!
• Buffy: Are you two engaged?
• Buffy 'kills' Ted
• Detective Stein interrogates Buffy
• Buffy: I didn't mean to hurt him.
• Ted: Husband and wife is forever.
• Buffy: I guess we're 'Thelma and Louise'ing it again

• Joyce: You're just too young to wear that!
• Joyce: A little responsibility is all I ask!
• Joyce: you're grounded!
• Joyce: children are such a burden!
• Joyce: you're not to leave your room at any time! clear?

• Buffy: responsible, mature, levelheaded licensed driver

• Joyce: So, did you have fun last night?
• Buffy: (re birthday candle) let it burn

• Joyce's mom-aged mitts

• Bufy to Joyce: don't invite Angel in
• Angelus to Joyce: Buffy tell you about us?
• Giles: perhaps I should intervene with Joyce?
• Joyce: Was he the first?

• delirious Buffy doesn't want a hospital stay
• Joyce: Buffy's cousin Celia died in a hospital
• Joyce to Giles: I appreciate the way you look out for Buffy
• Joyce: looks like I interrupted a secret meeting
• Xander: Your mom's Bogarting the chips!

• Los Angeles, 1996: Scenes from Joyce & Hank's marriage

• Joyce: there's been some terrible mistake
• Buffy: I'm in a rock band with Spike
• Buffy: Mom... I'm a Vampire Slayer
• Joyce to Spike: Have we met?
• Spike proposes a deal
• Joyce: you walk out, don't even *think* about coming back

• Joyce to Giles: I blame you

• Joyce to Buffy: are you going out?
• Snyder: the nearly physical sensation of pleasure
• Buffy: private school? how about home schooling?
• Joyce: let's invite everyone for dinner
• Buffy: thanks for stopping by & dying
• Joyce: why so secret? You're a superhero, no?
• Buffy: love art talk as much as the next
• Joyce: in some ways having Buffy back is worse
• talking about it isn't helping...
• Jouce: what if the zombies get in?
• Joyce: So, is this a typical day at the office?

• Joyce to Snynder: I think Buffy is trying to say: Nyah nyah-nyah-nyah, nyah
• Buffy: I'm getting single-white-femaled here

• Buffy: the best moms let their daughters drive
• Buffy: Giles, slay-study double feature
• Joyce: you made us into your alibis
• Joyce: Buffy drives me crazy!
• Joyce: Do you think she noticed anything?
• Giles: let's go out have some fun, tear things up
• Joyce to Giles: you're sooooo cool!
• Giles to Buffy: leave your mum alone & sod off
• Snyder: you two going steady?
• Buffy to Joyce: *Never* tell me why you have handcuffs
• Buffy: Giles I need grownups!
• fighting Lurconis
• Buffy: I got to you 2 before you *did* something

• Joyce: you belong at a good old-fashioned college
• Joyce: I overreacted before
• Spike to Joyce: our love was eternal! Got any marshmallows?
• Spike to Angel: you're not invited!

• Joyce: Let's invite Faith for Christmas. Not Giles though!
• Joyce: Angel's on top?

• Joyce: maybe slaying is something we can share?
• Buffy to Joyce: I'll take care of everything
• Mother-daughter bonding
• Joyce: I called everyone I know
• Sheila: there's a rumor going around...
• Joyce to crowd: we've been silent too long
• Joyce: Does your slaying make Sunnydale getting better?
• Girl & Boy: we can't sleep until you hurt the bad people
• Hansel: make the bad girls go away, forever
• Joyce: wanted a normal daughter, got a Slayer
• Joyce to Sheila: we should keep in touch
• Joyce: what kind of mother would I be?
• Buffy: Not as convincing in that outfit

• Joyce: your dad can't take time off right now
• Buffy: If I was full strength, I'd be punning
• Buffy: My special birthday tradition

• Joyce: what did you & Faith do last night?

• Buffy to Joyce: you had sex with Giles?!?!
• Giles: Buffy can't pick one thought out anymore

• Buffy: Can't decide about school right now...

• Joyce to Angel: you'll have to make the hard choices Buffy can't

• Buffy to Joyce: I can't do this & worry about you

• Buffy: you filled my room with packing crates

• Buffy: paved right over memory lane, huh?

• Faith to Joyce: Buffy was over us a long time ago
• Faith in Buffy: five-by-five

• Detective: dangerous Faith chick
• Joyce: is that Harlot?

• Joyce: Nice finally meeting Riley
• Xander: Let the vid-fest begin.

• Joyce to Buffy: I'm gonna have to get used to this place without you again. It gets so quiet.
• Joyce: giving up on men altogether

• Joyce: So Buffy, what are your plans today?
• Riley: I'm here to violate your firstborn
• Dawn: Xander in an acceptable babysitter
• Buffy: you're going to be in so much trouble

• Joyce: work it out

• Joyce to Dawn: Who are you?
• Joyce: take this pincushion home

• Buffy & Dawn: Mom! What's wrong?
• Dawn: Want tea, mom? I made it for you.
• Buffy: Sister Stuff

• Joyce: fine, chipper & obnoxious
• Dawn: doomed nail polish experiments
• Joyce: I'm going to be fine

• Joyce: Just a shadow
• Joyce: stay close

• Joyce: really no more exhausted to get
• Buffy: I'll do anything
• Joyce: Oh, let's get the hell outta here.
• Joyce to Dawn: you're a shadow
• Joyce to the Queller Demon: You are *not* supposed to be here.
• Joyce: Dawn's not mine, is she?

• Buffy: wigs are fun
• Buffy: Gave Riley the day off

• Buffy to Joyce: You! You with the actual clothing, who are you?
• Dawn overhears

• Buffy: Dawn was listening!

• Dawn: won't accidentally get exposed to, like, words.
• Dawn: Am I real? Am I anything?
• Dawn: Get out, get out, get out!
• Joyce to Dawn: chicken & stars soup?
• Buffy: can't force her to be okay

• Giles: not an adequate substitute for the Slayer
• Joyce: Dawn didn't come home from school today.
• Spike: don't get us laughing again Joyce
• Buffy: well, I do beat him up a lot
• Willow & Joyce: Better to nip this Spike thing in the bud before the bud nips you

• Buffy to Joyce: tell me about this Brian
• Love Doctor Buffy is not in
• Giles: only so much I can take!
• Buffy to Joyce: no more! I can't hear you!

• Too much to eat at Christmas dinner
• Buffy: daughter's duty to torment

• Doctor: she believes she's some type of hero, a Slayer
• Buffy: I want to be healthy again
• Buffy to Joyce: Thank you. Good-bye.

• Dawn: I will cast you out

• Joyce appears to Buffy
• Joyce: evil is everywhere, it's a part of us