Episode Report Card Jessica: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hotel New Hampshire
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.27.2001
And we go to commercial. Hang on while I go bathe in lye. Be right back.
Blissful post-coital music swells as Jen smiles beatifically and strokes the sleeping Dawson's weave. Heh -- the way the sheets are arranged, he just looks like a severed head. That would have been awesome! Alas, he opens his eyes and gazes at her. "Look at you, smiling," Jen purrs. "So, that's what everyone's talking about," Dawson says. It's not what he imagined. It's even better. I am going to vomit. Again. "You were…" he begins. "We," Jen corrects him. "We were." They kiss. Dawson blinds me with his bare chest and patchy-ass chest hair. Jen lays her head on said chest. He pats her and smiles peacefully. I think I can still see. Well, out of this one eye, anyway.
Liberty Hell. Pacey marches in, stomps right up to Chef Danny, and quits. "This is about [SWSNBR]?" Chef Danny asks wearily. Pacey tells him that "things are complicated." He didn't "mean for it to happen," he says. Chef Danny grits his teeth and tells Pacey that he, Pacey, did mean for it to happen. "You don't have to lie to me about it," he says, turning a page in his account book angrily. Pacey gets all self-righteous here about the whole cheating thing, and accuses Chef Danny of putting him in the middle of things. I guess the boat-borrowing did bring Pacey into the mix, but he could have simply asked Chef Danny not to use his place for a love nest and then kept his big mouth shut. Just a suggestion. Also, lay off the gel, Pace. Chef Danny rolls his eyes and tells Pacey that You Know Who already quit. He apologizes for borrowing the boat, and for "shattering [Pacey's] image of [him]." Then he tells him that the job is still Pacey's, if he wants it. Pacey just walks out. Could Pacey's storylines be any more boring? I wish he'd get a job as, like, an Elvis impersonator or a male stripper or something.
The next day. Worthington. Joey opens her dorm-room door to find Jack begging for Audrey's forgiveness. She's the nicest person in the world, so she hugs him and tells him there are no hard feelings, "just a lot of making up to do." Jack looks somewhat guilty and somewhat relieved. "And the next time you set me up? Better be with someone secure enough with girls not to resort to muscle and fitness talk. Really. What was that about?" Jack sort of shrugs and looks pleadingly at Joey. Audrey takes her coat and leaves. "Go easy on him, bunny," she tells Joey as she goes. Joey sits on her bed and looks at Jack for a long moment. "Okay. Ah. The thing is, Joey," he begins. Blah blah defensive blah blah balancing the old friends with the new blah blah blah. "It probably doesn't help when the old friends are quick to judge something they know nothing about," Joey admits. Which is true. But the whole pimping thing? Yeah, it's okay to judge that. Jack tells Joey that he needs her to judge him, "to keep from being such an ass." Joey smiles, and tells him that she used to think she had "the most open mind," but there are "so many surprises" in the big, big city, "sometimes in places you wouldn't have even thought." Jack looks at her thoughtfully. "If a fraternity is what you need, we need to learn to accept that," Joey tells him. And he admits that he needs to learn to be less extreme. They hug.