Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Like A Virgin
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.28.1999
Pacey and Dawson come out of the auditorium as Pacey tells Dawson he likes Principal Green, since he seems to have a good sense of humour, and does Dawson think he was kidding about Saturday detention? Dawson starts to answer but is struck dumb (again) at the sight of Joey signing up for some club. Dawson tells Pacey that he was right, and that he (Dawson) is going to crumble, and points Joey out. He asks Pacey to take him anywhere he won't see Joey. Pacey says that, for $25, he has just the place. Joey glances up just in time to see their departing figures. She looks curious, and sad.
Bessie "Oh where, oh where can my Bodie be? Stupin took him away from me!" Potter cooks up some vittles and, hearing the door open, brightly says, "It's Joey!" Joey says it's not her, but only the "shell of her exhausted remains," and drops heavily into a chair at the kitchen table. Bessie assures her that she'll only have to keep working for her jerk boss until the insurance cheque comes (only she pronounces it "IN-surance" instead of "in-SUR-ance"), and then Bessie will have enough to pay a babysitter and will be able to return to work herself. Seems to me Grams might have been a likely candidate to do some babysitting at a considerable discount, but what do I know? Bessie excitedly asks Joey to tell her everything. Joey plays dumb and says they got a new principal. Bessie, of course, wants to know about Dawson, and says that since most of her conversations these days are with a teething baby, she's starved for vicarious thrills. Joey tells her it was great: "Well, he looked at me, and I looked at him, and in that split second, it was like, we forgave each other for everything. And then, of course, we talked about it until we were blue in the face, just like old times." Bessie says she's glad, because if she's sure of anything, it's that Dawson and Joey were meant to be with each other. Joey looks mournful.
Dawson, on the other hand, is beaming up at a stripper and says he thinks he's having a religious experience. I'm not going to even address the fact that these two got into a peeler bar at age sixteen, because what's the point? A waitress in a bad brown wig, and who has the shoulders of a linebacker and really weirdly-proportioned breasts, takes their drink order: Pacey asks for "a couple of beers," and orders a glass of milk for Dawson, and then watches the waitress strut off in the skirt that barely covers her ass. Pacey says it occurs to him, as they sit there, that Dawson's going to get laid this year. Dawson just grins like a moron. Pacey says it's in keeping with Dawson's new attitude: "You met that girl on the bus, didn't you?" Dawson reminds Pacey that he put Bus Girl to sleep by talking about his ex-girlfriend, and that it's thus safe to assume he won't be hearing from her anytime soon. The waitress returns and sets down their drinks. As Pacey takes a sip of his and says, "This is actually root beer," the waitress leans over with her face inches from Dawson's and says, "You don't remember me, do you?" Dawson is evidently totally thrown by the hair colour change and says, "Should I?" He looks closer, and at his eventual expression of shock, she says, "That's right," straightens up, and takes off her wig. Dawson looks enthralled at his implausibly good luck. Bus Girl, I knew Emily Valentine. Emily Valentine was a friend of mine. And you, ma'am, are no Emily Valentine.