Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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LESLEY: Television. What do you like to watch on TV?

GAIL: My all-time favorite program in my entire life was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

LESLEY: No! No! No, no, no.

GAIL: I’m sorry.

LESLEY: It can’t be.

GAIL: It is.

LESLEY: Yeah, you’re apologizing. I heard that. I’m sorry. That’s extraordinary.

GAIL: I love that program so much; I can’t tell you.

LESLEY: Why?

GAIL: I would love to say it was only because of the powerful woman thing. Certainly Buffy did save the world every other day. But it was the funniest, best take on adolescence that I ever saw. Basically the conceit of the whole thing was all the things that you actually go through in adolescence were happening, except it was all about monsters. So, you know, when she went to college and she kept insisting that her roommate was a demon, her roommate really was a demon, as it turned out. And every time they tried to have sex, you know, any of them, something horrible happened. Especially the guy character; when he tried to have sex with anybody, when he was in high school, the girl turned out to be a praying mantis or a mummy or something else horrible. And when poor Buffy finally had sex the first time with her vampire lover, it turned out there was a special curse that turned him into this maniac monster forever.

LESLEY: You did watch.

GAIL: I loved it. I loved it so much. This is like my favorite program. You know, "Mary Tyler Moore" would have been second. But "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" I just adore.