Episode Report Card Sars: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dear old golden rule days
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.10.2001
Inside, Pacey -- oh my god, I can't even deal with Joey right now. Get ready, because here comes what might qualify as the single bitchiest moment in Joey history. All set? Okay, here we go. Pacey greets Joey happily and asks how it went, and he comes over to give her a kiss, and she sets her face all coldly and leans away from him like it's his fault. Instead of walking away from her, forever, because he will never, ever please her, because she's SO FUCKED UP, Pacey says mildly, "That good, huh?" Joey, fighting tears, goes on about "the cruel irony" that "[the PB&B] is making too much money," and when Pacey says there must be something they can do, Joey whinges that "there's nothing to be done," and in a way, she's right, because things just happen to Joey. Joey never does anything. She just lets things get done to her, and then she glowers until someone else does something to let her feel happy. She is merely a vessel, an instrument of other people's actions and emotions. She is, in short, the most disgustingly passive, bitchy, self-obsessed example of womanhood available on broadcast television. I loathe everything about her, not least her revolting sense of entitlement which has, against all odds, exceeded even Dawson's. Anyway, the principessa then announces all teary and put-upon that she has to go celebrate this achievement that she worked so hard for, and when Pacey tries to comfort her, she tells him there's nothing he can do: "It is what it is, and no one can change that." Except by taking a loan. Which she refuses to do. Because she sucks. Pacey asks what she's going to tell people, and she snaps, "Nothing," adding that she doesn't want anyone to feel sorry for her. Which is a lie. Because she's always wanted that. Because she sucks. Then she gives him a bitchy snort and stomps outside. God, I fucking hate her.
Outside, Jack and Jen argue the merits and debits of New York City living. Gretchen says loyally that she hates New York, and Dawson squeezes her shoulders. Okay, that's kind of cute. Kind of! Calm down. Joey comes out to the picnic table, and Jack fusses over her while she makes that I'm-fine-no-really-no-not-really-please-pity-me face, and Jen proposes a toast. Joey smiles tightly. Gretchen sees Pacey heading towards the grill and excuses herself to go "help" him while Jack enlists Joey to "settle the debate," which Joey doesn't want any part of. Jen tells Joey to tell Jack that New York sucks. Jack says that nobody can tell him New York sucks, especially since Jen's "been telling [him] how great it is for two years," and Jen's response is that, if she tells him that it sucks now, he should then listen to her, and he's gotten really insensitive. Dawson and Joey exchange an "oh, Alice" look as Jen bitches Jack out for making fun of her in front of the others, and Jack calls her a lunatic, and Jen stomps off, and the other three all make "uh, the hell?" faces.