Episode Report Card Sars: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Future Tense
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.24.2000
me." -- Wing Chun] "Like?" Plink. Dawson doesn't want to answer. Gretchen won't budge, so he confesses that he's seen "how much [Joey] loves [Pacey]." He's seen it in her face. He's seen them hold hands, he's seen them kiss, and tonight he saw them fight, and he's used to seeing that -- "but not like this," Gretchen finishes. "I think it was actually worse than the kissing," he mumbles. Gretchen sighs, sad for him. Then she relates that she took a film class in college; when Dawson asks if it "was…a monumental waste of time," she says no, and then tells him what her professor called "the most bogus line in Hollywood cinema [sic]," namely "there's no place like home." She goes on to say that it's what everyone remembers about The Wizard Of Oz, but "it doesn't resonate" because, in the film, home sucked. Oz has its problems, she says, "but along the way you make friends, good friends, with people that you never knew existed when you were growing up." As she unfolds this explication, Dawson stares at her all crushy-like. Blah blah blah "all the things you wanna be, you already are. And it's fun." "Well, if it's so much fun," Dawson says, "then what are you doing here?" For the record, Wing Chun is voting that she failed out of school, while I think that she got pregnant and dumped by her boyfriend. We've got a lot of snack food riding on the bet, but nobody wins this week, because Gretchen says she doesn't recall Dawson getting to ask any questions, and Dawson asks what if he can bounce a quarter into the glass, and Gretchen is confident that that will "never happen." More icky flirtatious banter about the quarters as we dissolve to the exterior of the IHOF and then fade out.Next time, Pacey and Joey consider having sex. With each other. But they won't. Trust me.