Anthony Head credited as playing...
Rupert Giles
- Rupert Giles: [to himself] Unbelievable. "Do you like my mask? Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead."
- [seethes:]
- Rupert Giles: Americans!
- Oz: We should figure out what kinda deal this is. I mean, is it a-a gathering, a shindig or a hootenanny?
- Cordelia Chase: What's the difference?
- Oz: Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings. Shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
- Xander Harris: Well, I hate brie.
- Cordelia Chase: I know. It smells like Giles' cat.
- Rupert Giles: It's not my...
- Buffy Summers: I got in a few hours ago, but I went to go see my mom first.
- Rupert Giles: Yes. Yes, of course. How-How did you find her?
- Buffy Summers: Well, I pretty much remembered the address.
- Rupert Giles: You can't keep her out of this school.
- Principal Snyder: I think you'll find I can.
- Rupert Giles: You had no grounds for expelling her.
- Principal Snyder: I have grounds, I have precedent... and a tingly kind of feeling.
- Rupert Giles: Buffy Summers is a minor and is entitled to a public education. Your personal dislike of the girl doesn't legally entitle you to...
- Principal Snyder: Why don't you take it up with the city council?
- Rupert Giles: I thought I'd start wit the state Supreme Court... You're powerful in local circles, but I believe I can make life very difficult for you, professionally speaking... And Buffy will be allowed back in.
- Principal Snyder: Sorry. I'm not convinced.
- [Synder starts to leave and Giles grabs him then slams and holds him against file cabinets]
- Rupert Giles: Would you like me to convince you?
- Rupert Giles: As for school, Buffy, uh, you know you'll have to *talk* to Principal Snyder before...
- Buffy Summers: [nods] On it! Mom is making an appointment with His Ugliness.