WILLOW: What a load of horse hooey.
BUFFY: We have a counterpoint?
WILLOW: Yeah. Thanksgiving isn't about blending of 2 cultures. It's about one culture wiping out another. And then they make animated specials about the part where, with the maize and the big, big belt buckles. They don't show you the next scene, where all the bison die and squanto takes a musket ball in the stomach.
BUFFY: Ok. Now, for some of that, you were channeling your mother?
WILLOW: Well, yeah, sort of. That's why she doesn't celebrate thanksgiving or columbus day-- You know, the destruction of the indigenous peoples. I know it sounds a little overwrought, but really, she's...She's right.
BUFFY: Yeah. I guess I never really thought about it that way. With mom at aunt darlene's this year, I'm not getting a thanksgiving. Maybe it's just as well.
ANYA: Well, I think that's a shame. I love a ritual sacrifice.
BUFFY: It's not really a one of those.
ANYA: To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.
--Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Pangs"
Happy ritual sacrifice and pie day, y'all.
1 comment:
i liked her shrimp and bunny obsessions.
the history of Anya episode in S7 was one my favorites ever. the Olaf sequence...frigging genius.
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