Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Stolen Kisses
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.25.2000
Aunt Gwen has set out a truly humbling spread of food. Mmm, breakfast food. She babbles on about the great plans she has for their dinner, but says that, first, she needs to shop, and that she will need Dawson and Joey to help her. She encourages Will, Pacey, and Andie to "explore the somewhat limited charms of [her] humble little podunk town" (because they're used to the metropolis that is Capeside, I guess), cautioning them that there's neither a multiplex nor a "monster truck show," but that there is a "kick-ass little pool hall." Will says he loves to play pool, and Pacey concurs. Andie asks, "What is it with guys and pool? It's a phallic thing, right?" Shut up, Andie. Will murmurs, "I'll teach you," and she says, "Okay, you're gonna teach me how to hit a ball with a stick?" Shut UP, Andie! Blah blah blah bantercakes, pool it is.
The Flash putters around in the restaurant kitchen. Mrs. Flash asks him how he feels, he puts on a brave face and says "it royally sucks" that the BEST MAN AT THEIR WEDDING DIED but that he doesn't think there's anything to talk about. She prods him until he admits he wishes he'd called Tom more: "I wish a lot of things." She hands him the speech and suggests that he read it, saying that it was nice to see herself and The Flash through Tom's eyes. The Flash hesitates, then says he doesn't "feel like taking a trip down memory lane," and flounces out past the poor chef trying to pretend he isn't totally overhearing this whole conversation.
Jen takes a seating chart to the door of the restaurant and spies Shelly the waitress flirting her ass off with Henry. She strolls up and, passive-aggressively saying things like "hon" and "team player," demands that Shelly cover two sections instead of one. Jen watches Shelly go, and then lies (to Henry) that she's not jealous. Henry's hurt that Jen isn't at all jealous. Whatever.
In the pool hall, Will is having a crappy enough game that Andie is gloating. Long story short, Pacey and Will make a big show of looking like they suck, attracting the attention of two other burly pool-hall patrons, who challenge them to a game. Will and Pacey accept the challenge.
In a totally typical tourist-town Twee Shoppe o' Crafts and Tchotchkes, Dawson flicks through a rack of unframed art. Aunt Gwen asks what he's looking for, and he tells her he wants something for his wall. She recalls that his walls are covered in movie posters, and pulling one piece out, sarcastically opines that it wouldn't go with his "film-geek aesthetic." Dawson quietly informs her that he took down all his posters, and she jokes, "Amistad wasn't that bad, honey." He tells her it was more like "a crisis of faith" blah blah "tired of having this larger-than-life dream"cakes. By this point Joey has wandered over in time to hear Aunt Gwen comment on the lack of physical affection between Dawson and Joey. She asks them to tell her why, and they do, each taking a sentence in turn in that way that's supposed to make us see that they know each other so well, they should be together, that they're soulmates and not, say, BROTHER AND SISTER. Joey concludes by saying, "And then he asked Pacey to look out for me..." Quizzically, Aunt Gwen asks what Pacey has to do with anything, and Joey hesitates, then guiltily chirps, "Uh. Nothing. But. Just. There you have it." Aunt Gwen asks why Dawson and Joey aren't together now. Aunt Gwen...no, I don't have the energy. Suffice it to say that they just couldn't produce Pepcid AC fast enough to meet the demand.