Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Living Dead Girl
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.29.2002
Jack, Jen, and Emma hang out at Jack and Emma's joint. Jack is dressed as a vampire of some sort. I believe he is, in fact, a Lost Boy, which is nothing if not a culturally relevant and timely costume here in 2002. According to the show's official site, Jen is dressed as Wednesday Addams, but it's a really horrible Wednesday Addams costume. I mean, the costume is cute, but it's not recognizable as Wednesday Addams. She looks like a Dark Angel, to me -- which makes sense as a shout-out to Jensen Ackles, since he was in Dark Angel -- if only because everyone knows that Wednesday Addams doesn't have wings. No matter what her costume is, however, Jen looks very cute. Michelle Williams looks lovely with dark hair, although it's a sad day when a Halloween fright wig looks better than someone's actual hair. Finally, Emma is…Kelly Osbourne? A 1950s punk? I don't know. These are some very obscure costumes. Anyway, Jack wants Jen to invite Blandy to this party they're going to -- it's the party Dawson's organizing for Todd, but it's not like you'd ever know it, since the only people James Van Der Beek interacts with in this episode are Todd and Natasha. Which is weird, now that I think about it, and it's been like that for the past few episodes. I wonder if there's trouble on the set. Even if there isn't, let's just tell people that there is anyway, for laughs! Jen tells Jack that she thinks it might be safer to "crush from afar." Emma tells Jack that "the girl has a point." Jack twists his mouth up, disgusted. "No, she doesn't. She just thinks he's too good for her," he says, and tosses to phone to Jen. "Dial," he tells her. Oooh, like I bossy Jack. He's sort of hot this way. Boss me around, Jack! Whoops, where did that come from? I'm very sorry. Moving along.
Jen yelps that Blandy's probably working, "doing good for others and whatnot, which is annoying, but undeniably charming." Jack bares his phony fangs. "Call the help line," he finally growls. Jen is convinced by the teeth, and does so. We go to split screen as Blandy answers the help line. She twitters through her introduction, wondering if he remembers her. He does, he says, and wants to know what he can do for her. She sputters that she just wanted to know what he's doing that evening. "But you're working, aren't you?" she asks. Blandy tells her that he's only on the clock for another hour, so Jen stutters and stammers and finally asks if he has plans for later. "If going back to the dorms and watching Halloween H2O on cable counts, then, yeah, I'm booked up." Yes, we know, producers: Michelle Williams was in Halloween H2O. Unlike some of her other choices, however -- like, say, Dick, which I love. Hee. That joke never gets old -- Halloween H2O is a horrible, horrible movie. Horrible. There are literally thousands of other, scarier, better movies to watch on Halloween. Anyhoo, Jen wonders if Blandy wants to come to this party. He agrees, and Jen nods excitedly at Jack and Emma, who clap like enthusiastic but stupid children. "Wait a minute, did you just call the help line to ask me to a party?" Blandy asks. "Yeah, is that wrong?" Jen offers. Aw, Blandy is sort of cute. I feel bad saying he's bland. Even though he really sort of is. It's not his fault, though. He's just written that way. A little shampoo and a personality, and we'd have ourselves a hottie.