Prawns Ahoy!

Script Excerpts From Superstar - Season 4 of BtVS

BUFFY: May I ask you something? Does it ever seem just a little strange that Jonathan is so good at everything?
ANYA: (shrugs) He's Jonathan.
ANYA: Hey! I was just at the part where he invented the Internet.
BUFFY: Anya, he fights better than I do and I'm the Slayer. The Slayer! That's supposed to mean something, right?
ANYA: (patronizing) Oh, buck up, you. You kill the best. Go, you. Kill, kill.
BUFFY: Actually not needing validation right now but thank you. He just seems too perfect. (a beat) I don't know.
ANYA: So I can have my book back?
BUFFY: Anya, when you were a demon, you granted wishes right?
ANYA: Vengeance wishes on ex-boyfriends. I'd wish he was a dog or ugly or in love with President McKinley or something.
BUFFY: But someone could wish the whole world to be different, right? That's possible?
ANYA: Sure, alternate realities. You could have like a world without shrimp. Or with, you know, nothing but shrimp. You could even make like a freaky world where Jonathan's some kind of not- perfect mouth-breather if that's what's blowing up your skirt these days. Just don't ask me to live there. Now if I could just have my book back you could be on your way
someplace else?

BUFFY: I'm just saying it doesn't make any sense. He starred in The Matrix but he never left town. And how'd he graduate from med school? He's only eighteen years old.
XANDER: Effective time management?
GILES: I'm sorry, Buffy, but I just don't understand what you're trying to say.
ANYA: Yeah, and when is Jonathan going to get here and start the meeting?
BUFFY: This is the meeting.
WILLOW: This is the meeting?
BUFFY: Well, I was just kind of wondering if maybe anyone thought that Jonathan was kind of too perfect?
XANDER: No he's not! He's just perfect enough! He crushed the bones of the Master, he blew up a big snake made out of Mayor and he coached the U.S. Women's Soccer Team to a stunning World Cup victory. We saw him doing those things!
BUFFY: But that's just it. I'm not entirely sure that we can trust our memories. Anya, tell them about the alternate universes.
ANYA: Oh, okay. Umm. Say you really like shrimp a lot. Or we could say you don't like shrimp at all. "Blah, I wish there weren't any shrimp," you would say to yourself.
BUFFY: Stop! You're saying it wrong! I think that Jonathan may be doing something so that he's manipulating the world and we're all like his pawns.
ANYA: Or prawns.
BUFFY: Stop with the shrimp. I am trying to do something here!

Script Excerpt From Triangle - Season 5 of BtVS

BUFFY: Where did you send him?
ANYA: The land of the trolls. He'll like it there. Full of trolls.
WILLOW: It's hard to be precise, though. Alternate universes don't stay put. Trying to send him to a specific place is sort of like... trying to hit a puppy by throwing a live bee at it. (off their looks) Which is a weird image and you should all just forget it.
ANYA: It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday... or the crazy melty land... or, you know, the world without shrimp.
TARA: There's a world without shrimp? (off Willow's look) I'm allergic.
WILLOW: He's probably in troll land.

Script Excerpt From Underneath - Season 5 of Angel

WESLEY: Are you telling me the great Illyria, idol of millions, was limited to one small dimension?
ILLYRIA: I traveled all of them as I pleased. I walked worlds of smoke and half-truths, intangible. Worlds of torment, and of unnameable beauty. Opaline towers as high as small moons. Glaciers that rippled with incensing lust. And one world with nothing but shrimp. I tired of that one quickly.
WESLEY: Then why stay in this one? Surely there's a world more appealing- maybe not the shrimp one- but one where you'll be welcome like you never will be here.