Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Perfect Wedding
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.17.1999
Back in the kitchen, Mr. Pothead says they're all caught up, and that "where there's a will, the Potters will find a way." Okay, we know your name. Quit saying it. After she pays lip service to how good it looks (whatever it is), Mr. Pothead remarks in the flatliner voice to end all flatliner voices, "Joey, when you spend three years alone in a prison cell, it can make you monstrously self-absorbed, and I never even considered how my presence here would adversely affect you." Joey says, "Dad, I'm really stressed out. I didn't mean any of those things." Mr. Pothead says, "Well, whether you did or didn't, you were completely right. You two have been so strong. And you've done so well. And here comes your criminal father, coming back to Capeside to bring you more shame and scandal." Joey says, "Daddy, you can't expect to come back and have everything be normal again. Things have changed. I think we need to deal with them as a family before we invite in the [inaudible] scrutiny of total strangers." Mr. Pothead says, "I'm the father. I'm the one that's supposed to be protecting you from all the harsh realities of the world, and here you are protecting me. Yet again, I'm failing in my parental duties." Joey gasps, "Please don't say that!" Mr. Pothead says, "I better go check on that salmon." Ouch, all around.
Out on the floor, Mrs. Flash takes a glass of champagne and asks Dawson who the woman is with the Flash. Dawson tells her it's his film teacher: "the notorious one who told me my film was insipid." Yes, because it's all about you. Mrs. Flash asks how long the Flash has been seeing her. Dawson answers he doesn't know, just in time for Flash and La Filmette to walk over. The Flash introduces La Filmette to Mrs. Flash. La Filmette chirps that it was a lovely wedding. Mrs. Flash excuses herself to find her seat. Dawson asks to speak to the Flash alone. The Flash apologizes for making it awkward for Dawson, and says that he didn't know Dawson was going to be there. Dawson says that isn't the point, since the Flash knew that Mrs. Flash would be. The Flash says that La Filmette is a colleague, and that she's smart and funny and that he enjoys spending time with her, and finally that if Mrs. Flash has a problem with it, she's going to have to deal with it, since the Flash has to live his life. Then he lowers his voice and adds that he didn't want to put Dawson in the middle. Dawson actually gets off a good line at this: "That's exactly what you're doing by dating teachers from my school." Hello!
By now Jen and Abby have gotten all dolled up and crashed the wedding, champagne in hand and all. Jen notes that there are no cute guys and that it's "totally the middle-aged set." Abby says that Jen needs a father figure: "Someone with more sexual experience than you. If that's possible." Jen tells her, without much conviction, to shut up, and adds that they're probably all married anyway. Abby says, "Maybe it's time to graduate from nymphette to homewrecker. Cheers!" Just then Andie comes over and kicks them out. Abby makes a few comments about Andie's need to up her dosage, Andie gets increasingly angry, and Jen suggests that they go to the boardwalk and come back "when everybody's a little more toasted and not quite so uptight." Abby takes a bottle of champagne from an ice-bucket and they go.