Episode Report Card Sars: D+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Boyfriend
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 03.09.1998
rches in and announces that she needs to rent The English Patient, and Pacey asks if he might suggest a movie "that does not completely blow," and Joey goes off on a rant to the effect that only The English Patient will put the baby to sleep, and if the baby doesn’t sleep, she doesn’t sleep, fishcakes. Pacey shrugs and says she doesn’t need a video store but rather a pharmacy, and goes to get the video, and Joey says a little too casually, "Anyway -- I hear Jen’s ex has been lurking around Capeside. Met the strapping young fellow yet?" Pacey sarcastically calls Billy "a real charmer" and says he nearly lost three toes to Billy’s tires, and Joey asks if Pacey thinks Jen will go back to Billy, and Pacey says he doesn’t know, but "if Jen did ditch Dawson for Billy the Kid, wouldn’t that please a certain someone we both know?" Joey blushes and says that she wouldn’t stand in the way of true love, and she natters on in this vein for a moment before Pacey lays it out for her: "Look, Joey, I’ve never really taken a particular interest in your life, ‘cause frankly your life has never been particularly interesting, but there is one thing I need to know." Joey rolls her eyes before Pacey asks, "You’re really, really enjoying the fact that Jen’s ex is in town, aren’t you?" Joey parries with, "Well, it’s intriguing, Pacey, even you have to admit that," but Pacey describes Billy as "the wedge you’ve been waiting for that’s gonna drive Jen and Dawson apart," and Joey doesn’t like that and tries to deny it, but Pacey won’t let up, saying, "The three of us, we’ve been friends too long, and up until now I’ve just kinda stood idly by and watched this all go down, but it’s time to lay this on the line, okay -- you have some raging hormonal obsession for [sic] our friend Dawson, and you just can’t wait to get your hooks into him but good, can ya? Huh?" Joey glares at him with a hatred hotter than the fire of a thousand suns and hisses, "Bite me, Pacey," and Pacey singsongs, "Bus-ted," and when she shoots another glare over her shoulder at him on her way out, he calls, "Hey, be kind, rewind!"I think I’ll skip the Sensor Excel Challenge, but thanks anyway.
Enter The Flash and the Faithless Hussy, sniping at each other after their bungled scuba-diving lesson; FH carps on The Flash for not following the buddy-system instructions and staying within three feet of her, and The Flash carps back, "Oh, now that’s ironic -- me getting bitched at for floating away from you." Dawson overhears, and as FH continues to cavil, he walks to the door of his room to eavesdrop more clearly as his mother shouts tearfully, "Look, I can’t do this by myself, so if you’re going to fight this therapy every step of the way, then we’re both just wasting our time, so let me know, Mitch, because if that is the case, then we might as well --" and Dawson closes the door of his room and flares his nostrils aggrievedly.
The marina. At the Icehouse, Joey rushes to and fro trying to write down orders while customers get on her nerves and Bessie nags her. Enter Pacey, and Joey rolls her eyes and thanks Satan aloud for sending one of his disciples to make her "night of horrors" complete. Pacey smiles as Joey heads for a table and asks, "What are you doing tonight?" and she eyes him strangely, and Pacey says, "Forget I said that -- I was just out looking for a date, and since I couldn’t find one, I thought of you." In the background, an extra gripes, "Miss, I didn’t order this," and Joey more or less says to Pacey, "Like, ha ha. Not," and Pacey asks if she wants to crash a beach party with him, and she sarcastically answers that, much though she’d love to, she has to work, and he wheedles, and she clears a table and stacks the dishes in Pacey’s arms while enumerating the reasons she can’t go out that night. She takes off towards the dish station, and Pacey trails behind her with an armful of dirty plates and asks, "When was the last time you went out and had some fun, huh?" and Joey growls, "Don’t ask," and Pacey dumps the plates in a heap and says, "Besides, Dawson’s gonna be there, all right?" and Joey says sulkily, "Big whoop." Pacey sighs and adds, "Alone, Joey," and Bessie appears behind Joey and smiles and says, "Go," and unties Joey’s serving apron, and Joey can’t help grinning, but she protests anyway, and Bessie says that she has someone coming in to cover, and when Joey keeps protesting, Bessie says, "Goodbye," and Pacey grabs Joey’s hand and pulls her after him, and Bessie waves. Aw. Memo to the writers: give Bessie a creek already, will you please?