Episode Report Card Sars: D | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT A Weekend In The Country
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.18.2000
If the KFC honey-barbecue sandwich looks that nasty in the commercial, how scary does it look in real life? I mean, ew.
Sounds of breakfast-making come from downstairs as Joey drifts awake. I like her sheets; I think I saw those in the Delia's catalog. She bumbles out of bed and towards the kitchen as "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" cues up on the soundtrack. Get it? Like in The Big Chill? Okay, just checking, because if that skillet catches you off-guard, you could get hurt. Anyhow, the rest of the gang is dancing around the kitchen, laughing and joking and completing breakfast-roll passes to one another; Joey looks on with a mixture of tenderness and confusion. We also get an inexplicable and disturbing shot of Andie's wiggling ass, and it is revealed that Jack can't really dance, but I still think he's the most on toast. Joey, arms folded over her WonderBra, asks mock-angrily, "So, is someone going to tell me what's going on?" Everyone greets her enthusiastically, and Pacey says to nobody in particular, "Can someone please get this lady a cup of coffee?" and Joey can't help smiling, saying shyly that she thought everyone was going home. Dawson tells her, "Well, you sleep late, you miss a lot." The clock in Joey's room said 7:20 -- since when does that qualify as sleeping late? For anyone besides Andie, I mean. Whatever -- Dawson herds Joey over to the breakfast table to sit down next to Bessie, and the camera pans down the table to Pacey, who hands a heaping plate of food to The Strange And Terrible Fricke. Silverware clanks as Joey wishes everyone good morning, and she singles out Mr. Fricke, who wishes her good morning in return. Joey tells him she knows they have "a few kinks to work out," and that they'll probably never have the fine linens and gourmet food he's used to. Silence. The other guests look expectantly at Fricke. Fricke catches his snap and observes that the heat didn't work last night, "but this is one of the warmest places I've ever stayed." Oh, yuck. Joey stares at him in disbelief as he goes on to say that "these pancakes may be the best in the county," and Andie squawks excitedly, "All right!" which was sort of sweet of her. Joey does a shrug-smile, but she smells a rat: "What am I missing?" "Why, whatever do you mean?" Bessie asks too innocently. Joey says that, for one thing, Bessie's pancakes aren't nearly as good as the ones on the table. Bessie mock-pouts, and Pacey says that perhaps they should pay their compliments to the chef. Everyone begins to chant, "Chef! Chef! Chef!" I have to give the writers credit -- I don't see this coming until a split second before he walks in, but right when the chanting of "Chef!" starts, I figure it out, and I get way too excited and yell at my TV, "Awww yeah -- where in the world is!" and then Joey turns around as Bodie walks in with Alexander and asks who wants seconds, and I yell at my TV, "BODIE SANDIEGO!" I never thought I'd type these words, but here I go -- nice one, writers. Now let Bodie stay, because he rules.