Episode Report Card Sars: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Failing Down
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.10.2000
a new school, he's got girls flirting with him, and, well, "Henry's a great guy, but -- he's sixteen." "Guys are maddening creatures," Andie grumbles. "Heh. Tell me about it," Jack says. Well, it looks as though we'll have to, Jackers, since the writers won't let you find out for yourself. What did Jack tell Henry? Jack told Henry he'd talk to Jen. Andie thinks that idea "borders on the terrible," and when Jack asks why, she says that what's between Jen and Henry should stay between Jen and Henry (ew, not like that), and that if a guy broke up with her, she'd hope he'd have the stones to do it himself. No argument here.Moving on to the marina, where Pacey and Joey eat pizza al fresco; smooooooth jazz tootles in the background. Joey cracks unfunny non-jokes about making reservations, loving the atmosphere, blah dee blah. Pacey slumps in silence. Joey asks, "So, how was your day, honey?" "Oh, it was just swell," Pacey grumps. Joey teases him that he's just out of sorts "because we're not in the middle of the Atlantic anymore." Pacey gets up and says that he could have the boat packed and out of there in fifteen minutes if Joey says the word. Joey pretty much says "that was then, this is now," only a lot more wordily, and then flings a skillet in Pacey's direction by saying, "It's our senior year -- do you have any idea what that means?" Pacey comments in a monotone that, if he had a car, he could park it in the senior lot. Joey tells Pacey to read her lips: "No more teachers, no more books --" "No more Dawson's dirty looks?" Pacey finishes. I think he meant to say "Dawson's dirty LOCKS," but whatever. Joey shoots him a glare, then shrugs it off and asks what happened with the "guidance counselor office thing." Pacey asks if they can spend the rest of the meal "in blissfully dysfunctional silence." Joey is momentarily taken aback, then shrugs this off too and asks if Pacey wants to hear about her new job, announcing with a mixture of pride and embarrassment that she's "Capeside Yacht Club's newest serving wench." "Congratulations," Pacey says flatly, sipping a root beer. "Don't sound too excited for me there, Pacey," Joey says with an eye-roll. Pacey passive-aggressives that he didn't know she'd planned to get a job. Joey reminds him that he of all people should know how much she needs the extra money, "doomed to roam the streets of Capeside" yadda yadda yadda; Pacey swigs his root beer as though it's a real one as she continues that that's "unacceptable" and she's "not gonna end up some townie." Pacey gets his back up about that, asking when she became "a snob" and wanting to know "what's wrong with being a townie," and Joey tries to defend herself, but he talks right over her, wondering what if he wound up a townie. "You're not that kind of a person," Joey sputters, and Pacey snaps that that's not what he's asking, and if he did become a townie, "would that somehow make me less desirable to you?" Joey, befuddled, makes an "uch" sound and blinks a lot. "I guess that's my answer," Pacey grouses. Joey stares at him for a moment, then asks what's going on with him. "Nothing." "Then why are you trying to pick a fight with me all of a sudden?" Because he has to drive you back into Dawson's arms, silly girl. Read the contract. Pacey denies it, but Joey says he is too picking a fight with her, and if he doesn't want to talk about whatever's going on, that's okay with her, but he shouldn't start arguments "just to make [himself] feel better." Pacey doesn't look at her; nor does he answer. She sighs. We fade out on them eating pizza in…all together now…blissfully dysfunctional silence. Except for the "blissfully" part.
Dunna na na na na na na na na dunna na na na na -- MYYY CHALUPA! I love that shit.