WILLOW: (re banana) I'm eating this now. It's not lunchtime, I don't even care.

BUFFY: Hey.

XANDER: Willow, did you remember to tape Biography last Friday?

WILLOW: (absently) Uh-huh.

BUFFY: See, I told you. Old Reliable.

WILLOW: (sourly) Oh, thanks.

BUFFY: (taken aback) What?

WILLOW: 'Old Reliable'? Yeah, great. *There's* a sexy nickname.

BUFFY: Well, I-I didn't mean it as...

WILLOW: No, it's fine. I'm 'Old Reliable'.

XANDER: She just means, you know, the geyser. You're like a geyser of fun that goes off at regular intervals.

WILLOW: (disgustedly) That's Old Faithful.

XANDER: Isn't that the dog that, that the guy had to shoot...

WILLOW: (incensed) That's Old Yeller.

BUFFY: Xander, I beg you not to help me. Will, I-I didn't mean it as a bad thing. I-I think it's good to be reliable.

WILLOW: Well, maybe I don't *wanna* be reliable all the time. Maybe I'm not just some doormat person. Homework Gal.

XANDER: I'm thinking nerve strike.

WILLOW: Maybe I'll change my look! Or cut class. You don't know.

Buffy and Xander just give her surprised looks.

WILLOW: (holds up her banana defiantly) And I'm eating this banana. Lunchtime be damned! (strides off)

BUFFY: (goes after her) Will, wait. I'm really sorry...

WILLOW: (interrupts, chiding gently) Buff, I'm storming off. It doesn't really work if you come with me.

BUFFY: (chastened) Oh.

written by: Joss Whedon; . Full transcript at:
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