BUFFY: (holds up outfit to mirror) Hi! I'm an enormous slut! (holds up a blue floral dress) Hello! Would you like a copy of 'The Watchtower'? (lowers the dress) I used to be so good at this.

JOYCE: Hi, hon.

BUFFY: Hey!

JOYCE: Are you, uh, going out tonight?

BUFFY: Yeah, I'm going to a club.

JOYCE: Oh. Will there be boys there?

BUFFY: No, Mom. It's a nun club.

JOYCE: Well, just be careful.

BUFFY: I will.

JOYCE: You know, I think we can make it work here. I've got my positive energy flowing... I'm gonna get the Gallery on its feet... Oh, uh, we may have found a space today.

BUFFY: That's great.

JOYCE: Oh, and that school is a, a very nurturing environment, which is just what you need.

BUFFY: Well, actually...

JOYCE: Oh, not too nurturing. I know, you're sixteen, I've read all about the dangers of over-nurturing. It's hard. New town and everything... It is for me, too. I'm trying to make it work. I'm *going* to make it work.

BUFFY: I know.

JOYCE: Oh, you're a good girl, Buffy, you just fell in with the wrong crowd. But that is all behind us now.

BUFFY: It is. From now on I am only going to hang out with the living. I mean, lively. People.

JOYCE: Hmm. Okay. You have fun.

• Buffy & her mom

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
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