Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Double Date
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 04.27.1998
Pacey and Joey wade through the water. Pacey tells her that the boat will wash ashore eventually. Joey says that the boat is not her main concern, and adds, "I should have known when you did in our snails that I wouldn't be far behind." Joey: Crack about Pacey's intellect, or lack thereof. Pacey: Crack about Joey's personality as the reason she doesn't have a boyfriend. Joey: Complaint about the cold water. They finally reach the shore, where Pacey's truck (?) is parked, and he tells her that he'll take her to her house to get some dry clothes, but in the meantime she should take off her clothes and wrap herself in the blanket he hands her. She starts to protest, but he says he's going to do the same thing with another blanket in the truck, so that they don't get sick. She reluctantly agrees. They walk around to opposite sides of the truck and start to undress. Pacey says, "No peeking." Joey says that she has no interest in seeing him naked. Pacey says, "Many people would consider you to be a very lucky woman." Joey says, "Many people would consider you to be a very deluded man." Hee! Pacey gets naked first and peers over the edge of the truck, asking, "How're you doing?" Joey threatens him with bodily harm if he gets any closer, so he gets in the cab and starts the engine, not without taking a good long look at her bare back in the rearview mirror. When she gets in the cab, he's still smiling. She asks why, and posits that it's because she looks ridiculous in the blanket, or because her misfortune amuses him, or because he enjoys putting her in awkward positions and watching her squirm. He says that it's none of those: "I was just thinking to myself that when you loosen up, you're not half-bad to be around. Bordering on fun, even." Joey glares at him, and then seems to consider this assessment, and smiles.
Dawson walks out to the carnival parking lot, where Mary Beth is sitting on the trunk of a car desultorily picking at a box of popcorn. Dawson calls her name, and she moans, "Oh, GAWD." My sentiments exactly. She says she's embarrassed: "Good old Mary Beth. Creating scenes wherever she goes." I assume that there was a cut scene here, since I didn't see her making any kind of scene, myself. Dawson tells her she has no reason to be embarrassed (other than being seen in public with him, and I assume that goes without saying), and tells her that she deserves an explanation that's true, for a change. Yeah, that might be refreshing. He admits that she was right the first time, and that he's not over Jen, and that he's on this date to try to get her back. He starts to apologize for hurting her, but she briskly cuts him off: "Dawson, you're a nice guy. I like you. Do I like you like you? No -- you're a little too neurotic for that." Dawson laughs, and asks why she went out with him. She says that she felt sorry for him at first, since he was clearly still in love with Jen, and "seemed harmless enough," and she didn't have anything else to do that day. He asks what upset her so much (see my "cut scene" theory above), if it wasn't his feelings for Jen. She eats a piece of popcorn without answering, so Dawson prompts her, "Mary Beth?" She says, "Do you ever notice the way Cliff's eyes sort of smile when he talks to you?" Dawson makes a face like Mary Beth just cut the cheese, and yells, "Oh my God. You have a crush on Cliff?" Hey, that's funny, because that's exactly how I sounded when I thought she had a crush on you. She says she hadn't really processed it until "that moment," which is either the moment at the milk bottle baseball game, or a moment in the scene that was cut. Anyway, she says that she was upset because just as she realized that she had a crush on Cliff, she could tell that he had one on Jen, and that she's "pretty hung up" on Cliff too. Dawson whines, "She is?" Mary Beth says she is, and then adds, "Of course, that doesn't mean that we still can't help each other out." Oh, Mary Beth, you little Machiavelli in pegged jeans! Come back to Capeside High, Mary Beth, Mary Beth!