Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Song Remains The Same (2)
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.01.2002
Joey stands outside a warehouse talking to Dawson on her cell phone. "I think I made a huge mistake," she says into the phone. "Excuse me?" Dawson asks, worried. But, see, Joey just thinks she made a wrong turn! Not that their having sex was a mistake! Not to worry! "There's no here here," Joey whines, looking around the warehouses. Thank you, Gertrude Stein. Behind her, Dawson swings a door open. "Wrong again," he says. Yes, the first time she was wrong was when…oh, heavens, I can't think back that far anymore.
Dawson leads Joey inside the warehouse, which doubles as a soundstage, and what follows next is basically a long, very filler-y segment about Dawson's Great and Unwavering Love for the Art of Film and whatnot, which is a trait of his I've always found insufferably dull so I'm going to skip most of what happens here, telling you only that he has somehow talked the set designer into designing a set that looks exactly like Casa Leery and Joey equates this with winning the Nobel prize for curing cancer and discovering cold fusion all in one day instead of simply saying, "Wow, this looks just like your house! Cool," like a normal person.
Dawson and Joey pretend they've never seen a movie set for the next seventy-eleven years. Joey is still yelping about how brilliant Dawson is and how amazing it is that he's been allowed to design the entire set of the film and how incredible it is that the production designer hasn't run him down with a truck yet and blah blah magic of the movies blah blah spectacle blah blah blah blah the writers realized they had ten minutes to fill and wrote this scene sitting at a stop light on the way into the office. At long last, Todd catches them canoodling and comes over to chat and give Joey the old lecherous hairy eyeball. Dawson makes the introductions, somewhat reluctantly, as Todd hilariously gives Joey a completely inappropriate once-over. They engage in excruciatingly dull small talk for bit, until Todd finally escapes, tossing Joey a little wink as Dawson finally drags him away to get back to work. Seriously, what was the point of that scene?
Emma's flat. Jack, predictably, loves the place. And Emma and her totally tasteless belly shirt tries to kick Pacey out of her pad six or seven more times. Yes, again. Mid-kick-out, two girls (who I presume are the lesbian couple mentioned in part one) come down the spiral staircase to coo that they'll take the place. Emma tells Pacey for the one-thousandth time to get lost. I can't believe she hasn't called the police yet.