Episode Report Card Sars: D | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT A Weekend In The Country
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.18.2000
The PB&B living room. Joey and Bessie suck up to Fricke, and when Bessie puts her hand on Fricke's knee, both Joey and Fricke stare down at said hand in dismay. Pacey calls down from on high, "Bathroom's almost fixed." Joey and Bessie gush about their "on-site handyman, Pacey Witter," who comes in moments later to assure everyone that he has "everything under control now." Predictably, a puff of plaster-y smoke issues from an overhead heating vent just as he finishes speaking. Fricke suggests that Handyman Witter "check the furnace." Pacey goes to do just that, muttering to himself. Joey cringes.
I like Angelina Jolie okay, but if I see her licking that maraschino cherry one more time, I'll have to have her killed.
Joey tinkers with the furnace. Bessie sticks her head in and says excitedly that they've caught a break -- Fricke went into town to grab dinner. Joey hisses, "Shhhhoot!" and Bessie says mildly that swearing at the furnace won't help; Joey looks up at Bessie with her eyes slitted and sneers, "Oh, and flirting with it might?" Joey, honey, step off. Bessie wants to know what that means, and Joey mutters, "Nothing. I'm just a child, remember?" and flounces into the kitchen to slam cupboard doors, continuing, "I'll just think of the little things -- you know, like how we're going to prevent everyone we know from freezing to death on what's supposed to be the coldest night of the year?" Bessie says acerbically that Joey certainly is behaving like a child and asks, "What is your problem?" Joey asks if Bessie even remembers what it's like to be sixteen, or if it's "like, some far-off planet." Bessie can't believe what she's hearing and says in a dangerous tone, "I remember," but Joey hasn't finished, and she stomps over to the furnace with what looks like a box of matches, whining that teenagers have all the responsibilities of adults but none of the authority -- they can't vote, they can't drive, they can't make any decisions for themselves. As Joey kneels in front of the furnace again, Bessie asks her, "You think getting older automatically gives you more say in your life? Get real, Joey! You think I wanted to be stuck here at twenty-six, taking care of two kids by myself?" Ouch. Joey comes back with a low blow of her own: "Well, I guess I missed the part where you begged and pleaded with Bodie to stay." For some reason, Bessie doesn't stuff Joey head-first into the boiler, telling her instead that she asks Bodie to come home every chance she gets, but Bodie knows they can't afford it, and she adds, "Trust me, this is not how I planned for my life to turn out." Joey apologizes very sarcastically on behalf of herself and Alexander for cramping Bessie's style, but says that "with any luck I won't be here much longer to trouble you." Bessie half-rolls her eyes: "That's not what I meant, and you know it." Joey lights a match and leans into the furnace, grumbling that that's what it sounded like, and Bessie remarks that, for a girl who wants to leave Capeside so badly, Joey's putting "a hell of a lot of effort into this place." Joey pauses, slams down the matches, and stands up: "You're right. Maybe it's just time I stopped." She pushes past Bessie and storms out of the room. Bessie rolls her eyes for real.