Slayerisms (aka Slayer Speak)

ANNE RICE ROUTINE Vampire-with-a-tortured-soul actor Episode
 
ANYWHERE BUT HERE Fantasy game where players imagine an Elsewhere to Be (e.g., Buffy fantasizes about Bush singer Gavin Rossdale massaging her feet on a beach at sunset; Willow would be eating ziti in Italy with John Cusack)

ASCENTION A ritual which happens once every century causing a human to turn into 100% pure demon

AWKWARD SILENCE THING, THE Dating hazard
 
BACKSEAT MOTHERING Unsolicited advice from non-parent

BAT SIGNAL Slayer code for distress signal, a la Batman and Robin
 
BREAK-AND-ENTERISH Comfortable slay wear
 
COME AS YOU AREN'T NIGHT Halloween

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT Vampires
 
DEBARGE Dorky, rolled-up-sleeves look of person (or vampire) stuck in the '80s; reference to defunct Motown act

DECAF LAND Calm realm between Comaville and Speedtown

DEMON Can be good or evil.  Some are useful members to society.  Others cause destruction

DUST What vampires turn in to after being staked

DUSTING To eliminate vampires
 
ELSEWHERE TO BE, AN Another engagement far away
 
FANG GANG Vampires; also, Nasty-Pointy-Bitey Ones

FIRE BAD, TREE PRETTY Buffy demonstrating her low-level brain function after a draining battle

FIVE BY FIVE Feeling no pain; aviation radio term favored by Faith

FULL-ON EXORCIST TWIST Ability to turn one's head 360 degrees, a la praying mantises or Linda Blair

GEEK MACHINE Joyce Summers' totally uncool Jeep
 
GEEKER JOY Effusive feeling nerdy Willow gets when she's happy
 
GO WILD BUNCH Become violent vigilante group; reference to bloody 1969 Western
 
HOOP-OF-THE-WEEK Obligatory yet needless task ("Principal Snyder's not happy unless I'm jumping through his hoop-of-the-week")

HOOTENANNY A party chock full o'hoot with a little bit of nanny
 
HORMONES ON PARADE Teenagers obsessed with kissing and groping

IDIOT JED Xander's twin.  He's glutton for punishment
 
JOHN TESH The devil

KAKISTOS A vampire so old that it's hands are cloven together

KEY, THE Opens a portal bringing down the walls of all dimentions
 
KIND OF SENSE THAT'S NOT, THE Making no sense
 
KINKS OR VANILLA? Query regarding someone's preference for naughty or nice sex

KISS OF DEATH The words 'Have a nice summer' written in a high school yearbook
 
KISSING DAYLIGHT Vampire death by sunrise
 
LOCKER-DOOR MATERIAL Serious boyfriend who's earned spot in metal high school storage compartment

MASTER An old vampire with great power

MINIONS A group of vampies following a supreme vampire
 
MR. POINTY Good-luck slayer stake Kendra gives Buffy
 
MUSIC OF PAIN Tunes to sulk by; country music (e.g., Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces")
 
NA-NA-NA-NA-NA APPROACH TO BATTLE Taunting to victory
 
OFFICE ROMANCE Illicit vampire/slayer love affair

OOGY Funky feeling aften associated with flu symptoms

ORDER OF TYRAKA A group of assassins for hire.  They don't stop until the target is destroyed

OVERACHIEVER One who no one likes
 
OVERLY Excessively ("You're acting a little overly, aren't you?")
 
PATHETIC MUCH? Feeling sorry for yourself?
 
PINK RANGER Overzealous fighter (e.g., Kendra); reference to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
 
POWER-FREAKED Exponentially scared; see also

RIFF Problem

ROUND ROBIN Group process of phoning individual member's parents to say each is staying at another's house for an alibi.  Esp when used in vampire slaying
 
SARCASTIC QUOTE MARKS In which the gang turns a visual cliche into a verbal one (e.g., mocking organized fun: "And I use sarcastic quote marks")
 
SCOOBY GANG Buffy and her slaying pals; reference to '70s TV cartoon Scooby-Doo

SHE GILES Females with Watcher's knowledge of the supernatural and Slayer history

SHINDIG Medium intensity with less mellow song stylings where dip and malt beverages are often served
 
SINGLE WHITE FEMALED Have existence duplicated by an obsessive acquaintance in manner of Jennifer Jason Leigh/Bridget Fonda film (e.g., new-slayer-in-town Faith to Buffy)

SLAYER A girl with the strength and skill to hunt demons and forces of darkness
 
SOCK PUPPET OF LOVE Xander's right hand, which often fills in as his date on special occasions
 
SPARKAGE Romantic electricity
 
SPIDER SENSE Tingling sensation Buffy gets when something's up in demonville; reference to SpiderMan's intuition

STUPID LITTLE TROLL Mr Snyder put in bad terms by Buffy
 
TALENTLESS SHOW High school talent show

THE LONELY ONES Vampires
 
TWOSOME OF CUTENESS Good couple (e.g., Miss Calendar and Giles)
 
UNDEAD AMERICAN Politically correct term for vampire
 
UNLIFE Living (to the undead)
 
VAMPIRE MEALS-ON-WHEELS Medical transport blood delivery

VAMPIRE SLAYER Refer to 'slayer'

VESSEL A vampire who feeds for the Master
 
WACKY, THE Crazy things ("Love makes you do the wacky")

WATCHER Someone sent to train the Slayer

WATCHER'S COUNCIL The higher power.  Those who have control over both Slayer and Watcher.  Mainly a bunch of supreme Watchers
 
WHAT, THE Obvious problem ("What's the what?")
 
WHIGGINS A freak out

WOW POTENTIAL Possible sparkage
 
ZEPPO, THE Useless member of a group, in spirit of forgotten Marx Brother (e.g., Xander, according to Cordelia--like she's ever seen a Marx Brothers movie)

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