Episode Report Card Jessica: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spiderwebs
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.12.2002
Inside the arena, No Doubt sings. Jen joins her friends (including Emma) and bops around anemically, until the power and the glory of the music possesses her and she starts dancing with abandon. No Doubt: Healing heartbreak all over the world. I mean, I like No Doubt and all. But this is really just too much.
Meanwhile, Oliver and Joey wander the bowels of the arena. Joey's pretty sure that they're lost, but Oliver assures her that he knows exactly where they are. She just has to trust him. "Why, have you done anything to demonstrate that you're the least bit trustworthy?" Joey asks. Oliver, no fool he, takes this to mean that Joey must have some deep-seated "trust issues." And this boy isn't in college…why? He tells her to wait for him, right where they are, and starts to head off into the darkness. "No," Joey yelps. "I'm pretty sure Freddy Krueger's second home is right around the corner." Oliver smiles and promises that he'll only be gone for two seconds. Joey heaves a bratty sigh. "I'm sorry, Jo, but you're just going to have to trust me on this one," Oliver tells her. "Fine," Joey finally says. Oliver takes off across the basement, and she discreetly trails him. Oliver goes inside a small room and talks to an older man, who looks like he's an electrician or something. The man smiles at him and follows him outside. "Okay, we're all set," Oliver tells her. "Are you ready to go?" the man asks. "Joey, this is my dad. Dad, Joey," Oliver says. Joey gives Oliver an impressed little half-smile as she shakes Mr. Oliver's hand. "What?" Oliver asks. "Nothing," Joey smirks. Cute.
Dawson and Natasha stand outside the arena. Dawson is waving around the six hundred bucks he won in the How Early Will Todd Let Us Out? pool, trying to attract the attention of a scalper. Somehow, however, instead of making a deal, he and Natasha end up making out on the top of a nearby car, attracting the attention of a policeman. When questioned, Natasha jokes that she's a hooker -- to a cop! Because apparently, she's insane! -- and he takes them down to the station. There's also some hoo-ha about how the cop thinks Dawson is a scalper, because he has all this cash. Whatever. That was mind-numbingly dull. I'd rather reread my high school geometry book than watch that scene again. Not to mention the fact that it included Heavy Beek Tongue Action and -- I'm sorry, we're at that bad mental place again, aren't we?
Next, we get way too much singing for a show that's not on MTV. Hell, even MTV doesn't show this much singing.