Wendell: Do you guys want something?

BUFFY: We just thought you might wanna talk about what happened.

WILLOW: You know, yesterday? With the spiders?

Wendell: I don't know what to say about that.

XANDER: There's nothing *to* say. You saw two hundred insects, you Gonzoed, anybody would have.

Wendell: They're not insects. They're arachnids.

XANDER: They're from the Middle East?

Wendell: Spiders are arachnids. They have eight legs. Insects only have six. Why does everyone make that mistake?

BUFFY: Don't know. Has anything like this ever happened before? (Wendell nods) When?

Wendell: Lots of times.

WILLOW: Ew! You must hate spiders more than I do.

Wendell: I don't hate spiders. I love 'em. They hate me.

(Cordelia walks by behind Wendell and turns to Buffy.)

CORDELIA: I hope you studied for the history test.

BUFFY: What history test?

CORDELIA: The one we're having in fourth period right now.

BUFFY: There's a history test? Nobody told me there was a history test! I haven't... I... Okay, I will catch up with you guys later. (runs off)

WILLOW: What do you mean, you love spiders?

XANDER: It is platonic, right?

Wendell: I had the best collection in the tri-county area. Browns and tarantulas and black widows... Then my folks shipped me off to wilderness camp. All my brother had to do was maintain their habitats. Instead he left their heat lamp on for a week. When I came home they were all dead. That's when the nightmares started.

WILLOW: The nightmares?

Wendell: It's always the same. I'm sitting in the classroom, teacher asks me to read something, I open up my book and then there they are. They're comin' after me. God, can you blame them after what I did?

XANDER: And that's how it happens? Every time?

Wendell: Yesterday in class I thought I'd just nodded off again. But then everyone else started screaming, too.

written by: David Greenwalt; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/10nightmares.html