Episode Report Card Jessica: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spiderwebs
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.12.2002
The next day...or maybe just later in this day...Oliver and Joey confab at the bar. After repeating the word "Worcester" to one another nine times -- so as to show off the one Bostonian pronunciation they've mastered, if they've even mastered it, as I have no idea what it's really supposed to sound like -- Joey finally gets around to asking him to go to the concert with her. He balks at all the driving and the meeting of the friends. "How is that a date?" he asks. Um, because she asked you to go with her to the concert and you're not buying your own ticket? Sounds like a date to me. "I'm there, you're there and if you play your cards right, you might just get a kiss at the end of the evening," is how Joey explains it. Now, see, to me, that sounds less like a date than my scenario. She could be describing, say, a party. Or a night at the local pub. Or office hours with one of her professors. "A kiss?" Oliver parrots. "Yeah, that's usually how the whole first-date thing shakes out," Joey says. That shameless hussy, planning on kissing on the first date! What if he chews with his mouth open? Or doesn't own a television set? Or tells you that he got rid of his refrigerator because it was "too loud next to [his] head." (All true stories, by the way.) I guess Joey hasn't been on as many bad first dates as I have. Oliver points out that he's already kissed her twice. Joey smirks that there is another option for the end of the evening: she shakes his hand and reimburses him for gas money. "You in or out?" she asks. What a romantic she is! Oliver assures her that he is in.
Cut to the set of The Most Boring Movie In The Whole Wide World. Against all odds, they've finished early with their day work and Dawson talks Todd into giving the crew the weekend off. Like that ever happens. Also, there's apparently a pool running regarding how early, exactly, Todd will let them go. I don't want to ruin the suspense here, but at the end of this scene, Dawson wins the pool. Todd also gives Dawson his own No Doubt tickets -- better than the ones he gave the gang, apparently -- and some backstage passes. Dawson is pleased, but surprised that Todd isn't going to the concert himself. "Between you and me? I'm old. And tired. And if we're going to wrap four hours and thirty-five minutes early, all I want to do is go home and get some sleep," Todd eyebrows. Bless you, Todd. You're now an honorary member of the OLP. Todd winks, pats Dawson on the shoulder, and bails with a cheery "go get 'em, tiger."