Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Neverland
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.04.2000
The woman who sings the Kohl's theme song really needs to look into a different career. Like, say, sitting very quietly and not singing.
At a restaurant in Capeside, Ethan enthuses, "You had a '57 Ford Thunderbird? I can't believe it -- that's my dream car!" I don't like Ethan, but I've driven a '57 T-bird, and the guy's got good taste in cars. Anyway, Angry describes the T-bird to Ethan in loving tones and asks Jack if he remembers the picture his mother took of the two of them with the car when Jack was a baby. Jack says sourly that he must have "blocked it out." Angry, taken aback, falls silent. Ethan jumps in to ask why Angry got rid of the T-bird, and Angry says that, with kids and everything, it was an "impractical" car, but oh, how he loved it; Jack seethes in Angry's direction. More car talk. Angry says Jack used to beg him for rides in the T-bird and asks Jack if he remembers that; Jack says coldly, "I think I already said 'no.'" Angry sips his coffee awkwardly before suggesting that they all hit the classic car museum down the road. Ethan says it sounds great. Angry turns to Jack. "Great," Jack says, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Ethan looks down at his plate.
Campfire. Pacey, digging a break around the fire, finds a metal box buried in the dirt. He hauls it up and calls out to Dawson, and Dawson cuts short a brood session by the water and jogs over, chuckling that he "completely forgot" about the box. They open it up and start taking things out, like the ticket stubs for Dawson's first viewing of Jurassic Park, and the second viewing, and the third. Pacey: "That's just sad, man." Dawson: "Tell me about it." Everyone else on earth: "Where would we start?" Pacey finds Deputy Doug's pocket knife, for the theft of which he apparently took a spanking even though his father never found the evidence. Then Dawson unearths a photo of him and "Little Joey Potter." Please stop calling her that, Giant Headed Leery. It's patronizing, it's annoying, and she's not that little. "God, look how beautiful she was, even then. We had no idea," Dawson says wistfully, holding up a photo of two gnome-like children for Pacey's perusal. Pacey says quietly, "You must have been deaf, dumb, and blind not to notice." Then they find The Secret Code Of Pacey Witter And Dawson Leery, which they apparently drew up the day they became blood brothers and swore an oath of loyalty. I had to take cover beneath my desk to avoid a hail of skillets, but I think Dawson said something like, "Isn't it weird how you can just put your friendship with somebody in a box, bury it, and just completely forget about it?" Whatever, Selfish McAbsorption -- like you haven't blown Pacey off a hundred times since this show began. Pacey looks ashamed and mutters, "Yeah."