(Giles goes through a door and is in the Bronze. )

GILES: I'm so sorry I'm late. There's a great deal going on. And all at once!

WILLOW: Don't we know it. Only at death's door over here, look at Xander!

(She pulls back Xander's jacket to show his ripped T-shirt and the bloody stain on his chest from having his heart pulled out.)

XANDER: Got the sucking chest wound swingin'. I promised Anya I'd be there for her big night. Now I'll probably be pushing up daisies, in the sense of being in the ground underneath them and fertilizing the soil with decomposition.

(Anya, on stage)

ANYA: Okay. A man ... walks into the office of a doctor. He's wearing on his head, um...

(Cut to Anya looking at her papers)

ANYA: Wait, there's, there's a, there's a duck. Is that right?

MAN IN CROWD: You suck!

ANYA: Quiet! You'll miss the humorous conclusion.

GILES: She's doing quite well.

WILLOW: Do you know this is your fault?

(While Giles talks, we still see Anya in the background telling her joke.)

GILES: We have to think of the facts, Willow. I'm very busy. I have a gig myself, you know.

WILLOW: (sighs) Something's after us. It's, uh, like some primal ... some animal force.

(In the background we see Anya doing a funny walk.)

GILES: That used to be us.

XANDER: Don't get linear on me now, man.

ANYA: And ... then the duck tells the doctor that there's a man, that's attached to my ass.

(Crowd laughs. Xander laughs)

ANYA: See, it was the duck, and not the man that spoke.

(Smiles proudly. Applause)

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcript by joan the english chick (pisces@englishchick.com). Full transcript at:
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