Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Road Trip
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 03.16.1998
Meanwhile, Nina is flirtatiously asking Dawson why he hit on her over all the other women in the bar. He tells her it was her shirt. She says, "This old thing? And not even any cleavage! So what are you, Dawson? Some sort of film buff?" And thus began the tale Nina would be telling her therapist for years to come, as she learned, as so many others have before her, never to ask Dawson if he's a film buff. He settles in.
Over at Grams Gate, Joey taps on the kitchen window. Jen invites her in and asks, "How's my favourite mother-to-be?" Joey tells her she thinks they should call the whole thing off, basically because it's gotten out-of-hand; in addition to Mrs. Tingle's invitation to what Joey terms "that Mommy and Me class," some "Adventist" kid with the equally uninventive name of Sherman Williams offered to marry Joey today: "And that's nothing compared to what they're doing to Warren." Jen says that they both know Warren deserves everything that's coming to him. Joey shrugs, and says she doesn't know. Jen reminds Joey that Warren treated Joey with no respect: "That hurts. I know." Realization dawns on Joey, who says: "Oh. So that's what this is about...You don't care about me. You're just looking for some convenient revenge scenario to dump all your residual male anger. Is that what Dawson was for you? Just some patsy to take the fall for all the guys who have done you wrong?" Jen starts to get agitated and tells Joey to stop, and not to turn this into "a Dawson thing." But Joey isn't finished: "You know, the real question is, why did I even listen to you in the first place? I mean, Dawson was probably the first decent guy you've ever even gone out with, and look what you did? You drove him right into the arms of a prostitute." Ref? Off-sides. Jen tells Joey she went too far with that one, and I have to agree. Jen adds that the truth is that ever since she and Dawson broke up, Joey has been scared to death. Joey scoffs. Jen says: "You've been scared because now there's no more excuses -- there's no one else to blame. And now when Dawson treats you like little ol' understanding Joey -- just one of the guys -- Joey, I'm not going to be around for you to hate. And that is how he'll treat you, Joey." Joey glares at her with a look that could melt steel, and books out of there. Ow.
Back at the bar, Dawson is still blathering on about "film" with Nina, who is telling him that Kubrick and Scorsese are real directors: "I can't believe you're a Spielberg man." Ugh. Okay, I can't transcribe this, because I don't need my eyes along with my ears bleeding all over my desk, but suffice it to say, we're then treated to "A Short Treatise on the Glory That Is Steven Spielberg, Part 4382 in a Series." At the end of it, Nina reveals that she's in film school. Just as Dawson is gasping, "You're in film school?"
Billy strides up to the table and tells Dawson that the chocolate milk he ordered is waiting at the bar. Nina starts to twig to the situation. Billy asks her name and calls her "beautiful." She tells him. Billy says, "You can call me Columbus." Good one. Not. Nina comments that this place is getting really crowded, and asks Dawson if he wants to get out of there. Joyfully, Dawson says he'd love to. Billy does the "you're the man" finger pistol thing. Dawson rolls his eyes.