Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 2 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT None Of The Above
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.1999
Andie trudges down the hall reading yet another flashcard (this time it's "belligerent" -- ruh roh!). She runs into Pacey -- literally, and scatters books and flashcards all over. When they both lean down to pick them up, Pacey smacks his head against hers. Andie tells Pacey "this isn't going to be one of those horribly awkward hope-boy-didn't-mean-all-those-hurtful-things-he-said-during-the-breakup moments." Pacey says that's a relief, since he doesn't want to play "the guy-feels-guilty-about-breakup-even-though-it-was-girl-who-had-an-affair-with-the-mental-patient scene." Andie ruefully says, "Fair enough." Looking at all the detritus, Pacey asks Andie if she's ever heard of over-preparing for a test. She asks if he means "as opposed to not preparing at all?" He says he means "as opposed to making yourself crazy over something with the word 'Practice' in front of it." She switches over to her censorious, pre-Pacey tone and says, "If you want to throw away everything we've...I mean you've worked for, that's fine by me." She concludes by saying that she's not going to let their "little bump in the road" throw her off her chosen course and perks off on her merry way.
Principal Green tells Joey that she has a shot at a National Merit Scholarship. Joey says everyone keeps telling her that, and that she's feeling as if her whole future depends on her doing well on the PSAT. He tells her to take a night off to relax, and that she'll do "better than fine." To lay it on just a little bit thicker, some alterna-loser on the soundtrack sings, "This is the story of a girl / Who cried a river and drowned the whole world / And though she looked so sad in photographs / I absolutely love her when she smiles." ["And couldn't someone, anyone, have yelled 'cut' instead of forcing us to look at Joey half-smiling and having bad posture for another full minute?" -- Sars]
Joey heads over to Dawson's locker to suggest that they spend an evening hanging out and watching some crappy escapist movie to take her mind off the test. He says she should name her time. She suggests they do it that night. At that moment, Eve comes skanking along in a halter top. She greets them, and when Dawson turns Joey puts her hand on his arm and suggests nine o'clock. Dawson says, "Uh. Tonight, she [indicating Eve] and I were thinking..." and then remembers he's wearing his XXXXXL Bad Idea Jeans and invites her to join them for whatever undefined activity they'll be enjoying. Joey looks stricken and then quickly recovers to say, "I might. On another planet, in a different universe," and adds, to Eve, "No offense." Eve asks what that was about. Dawson rolls his eyes. Dude, you couldn't possibly be rolling your eyes at Joey with as much force as I am rolling mine at you.