OK, so honestly I have a hard time picking my top 20 lines.  Then I wonder what lines me and my friends will be riffing on 10 (or 20) years from now, like we do now with "These aren't the droids you're looking for," or "Inconceivable" or "Mostly Dead."

I don't know if these are the best 10 lines, but they are the ones that I think I'll most likely remembering and be repeating (maybe even to myself) 10 years from now:

10. HAMMER: I might even sleep with the same girl twice/ I hear it’s better the second time/I hear you get to do the weird stuff.  This is a perfect misdirect, because for just a moment you think Hammer might have gained a glimpse or insight into human relationships.  But no.  "Don’t worry if it’s hard / If you’re not a friggin’ tard you will prevail." may actually be funnier, but not as jaw-dropping.

9.    HORRIBLE: What a crazy random happenstance.  This is just Joss being insufferably clever.  Or maybe Jed.  Or Maurissa.  But probably Joss.  It's a throwaway line, but what a throwaway.  Hard to pick between this and "Oh look at my wrist.  I gotta go."

8.  PENNY: The thoroughbred of sin?  The ridiculous juxtapositions that I savored in Buffy and Angel and Firefly are alive and well.  This is funny each time, but best just before the Gandhi line and just after the "achiever, like Bad Horse" line.  It's like, even Penny knows Bad Horse's cool nickname.

7.   Wonderflonium – Do Not Bounce.  No one but Joss could write this line. 

6. PENNY: … so they can buy rocket packs and go to the moon and become florists.  (or something like that). To complaints of Women in Refrigerators, Joss admitted in an interview "We should have given her more funny lines" or something.  But this one is just priceless.

5.  HORRIBLE: Smells like cumin. Yeah, like all demolecularized liquid gold ought to smell like.

4. REPORTER: It’s a good day to be homeless!  Yeah, I love Marti Noxon, but this line is not only hilarious but also points to the social critique which is actually embedded pretty deep here.

3. HORRIBLE: Did you notice that he threw you in the garbage? Kind of sums up how every guy feels when some jerk gets the best girl.  Balls!

2. HORRIBLE: The world is a mess and I just need to rule it. I wanna I wanna I wanna.  This is, after all, what the whole story is kinda sorta about.

1. HAMMER: The hammer is my penis.  What else is there to say?

ALMOST MADE THE LIST: Driving a spork into your leg … shiny new Australia … not a perfect metaphor … is that the new catchphrase? …  every poser in a parka .. next up, who's gay?

So what's the line that you'll say to a buddy 10 years from now to evoke a knowing chuckle?  Enquiring minds want to know!

Cheers,

daroj

Yes, I debated putting the Gandhi line in as well.  It's a nice bookend for Buffy's line in the Anne ep from Season 2.  She says she's doing an imitation of Gandhi, just before impaling an evil demon preacher's legs. Gandhi?  "If he was really pissed off," Buffy quips.

I realize that I left out a line that I truly adore: "Captain Hammer threw a car at my head."  Oh well, I left out a bunch of other great lines too!

cheers

Picking favourites is really hard, there are so many.  The end of Act 1, where the three leads harmonise different lyrics leading to Horrible's "What-ev-er" is one of my favourites, but for sheer comic relief I'd nominate the Groupie's "we do the wierd stuff".   Just think about it.

Definitely:

HAMMER: "I know you from the gym? The gym? I don't go to the gym, I'm naturally like this" (whole sentence said in a row to remark how  he is naturally like that ).

Ing.