Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 1 USERS: D YOU GRADE IT Four To Tango
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.30.1999
In the school library, Andie is doing too broad a search on the term "democracy," resulting in 40,000 hits. Jack, sitting next to her, advises her to place some restrictions on her search. Andie ingenuously says that it's like if she were "searching for, say, a boyfriend," in which case she would "want to meet a lot of people, and get to know them, and eliminate the truly incompatible ones." Jack smiles at the transparency of her ruse, and says, "You know, you really should have your own website: www.annoyingsister.com." Jack, you know I love you. But the dot-com joke? Very 1996. Andie ignores him and tells him she really thinks that he should write Ben Street back, since he seems really nice, and that, since he only lives "two towns over," they "could end up being friends, or..." Jack asks, "Or what?" Andie says, "Or whatever!" Jack scoffs, which Andie interprets as his being worried that Ben may have a boyfriend, and answers, "Believe me, a lot can happen between May and November." Andie: PLEASE give up the wounded-bird routine. She adds that "prom guy" could be "completely out of the picture by now." Jack tells her sternly to stop it, and turns back to his monitor. As Andie yammers on about his having to seize the day, he stares at an instant message from "BenStreet" reading, "Hello? Anybody out there?" "Out" -- geddit? When Jack doesn't respond, Andie rolls her chair over and starts to explain to Jack how to answer an intant message when she finally notices who sent it. She gasps. He asks how to "make this thing go away." She tells him he doesn't make it go away, and that he has to answer. Jack makes anxious noises while she keeps exhorting him, "Type! Type!" He finally writes back, "Hi." Aw!
Joey "I've been cheated, been mistreated, when will I be loved?" Potter mopes down the hall. Pacey jogs up to her and starts laying on the too-rhapsodic compliments. She cuts to the chase and determines that he needs her notes from today's class. Pacey says, "You missed me, huh?" Joey says, "Oh, how could I miss you? It's so much easier to see the board without your big, fat head in the way!" and adds that she needs her notes back the next morning. Looking them over, Pacey asks, "What's a cosine?" With barely suppressed horror, Joey asks, "You don't know what a cosine is? You're never going to catch up by mid-terms." Pacey follows her as she goes, telling her (again, too enthusiastically) that she's right, and she cuts him off by saying that she isn't going to help him: "I have been busting my butt all semester while you've been...well, who knows what the hell you've been doing lately." He defensively says that he's been busy, at which Joey bitterly replies that he has "a very undemanding part-time job, your only familial obligation is to feed the dog every day, and your social life is basically a triangle consisting of you, me, and Dawson." Pacey drops all pretense and confesses that he's failing Math, so that if she can find it in her heart to explain "all this Trig stuff" to him, he'll do anything she wants. Joey cocks an eyebrow and asks, "Anything?"