Episode Report Card Jessica: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Everything Put Together Falls Apart
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.19.2002
Anyway. "What is your problem, man?" Oliver asks. "Could you try to be human, for once?" Flip-Flops ignore this query and instead wonders where, exactly, Oliver thinks his relationship with Joey is going. "Believe me, it's not going to be a pretty picture," he says, and explains that Joey -- her little final exam snafu notwithstanding -- is "going places that [Oliver] can never hope to go." Oliver sneers and balls his hands into fists and turns to go. "Don't tell me it doesn't make you just a little crazy knowing that she's got the life you tried to fake for yourself?" Flip-Flops asks, getting up and following him. So Oliver decks him. In the background, Joey looks thrilled and horrified all at the same time. Flip-Flops rolls on the ground, gripping his face and looking appalled. Oliver just walks away. Joey runs over and gives Flip-Flops a totally dirty look, like he smashed his head into Oliver's fist on purpose.
Later. Joey sits on a parked car outside Liberty Hell's Kitchen. Oliver trudges out in full-on Marty McFly mode. "Hey," she says. "Hey," he replies. Joey announces that she's been waiting for him. He slides onto the car. "I just got fired," he tells her. Joey tells him that she's so, so sorry. Oliver shrugs that Flip-Flops isn't suing, at least. "So, no, it's not so bad," he says. Joey apologizes again. "Joey, Joey, Joey, Joey," Oliver sighs. "You don't have to [apologize]. I understand. And I'm sorry I called you melodramatic." Joey admits that she was melodramatic. She has a tendency to "escalate" things, she says, while he "downplays them." But together, they still make sense, she says. "So the Potter Path Less Traveled? Not so bad?" Oliver asks. Joey simpers that it's had a "rocky start" but "so far, so good." They gaze at each other moonily until Joey tells him he has a hell of a "right hook." He kisses her. She rests her head on his shoulder. Oh, whatever. Oliver tells her that he knows what they can do to get their minds off their troubles. Joey shoots him a lascivious eyeball. "No, not that, dirty girl," he says, and takes her hand to pull her off the car.
Dawson's Hotel New Crapshire. Dawson walks sadly down the hallway to his room. In the distance, he spies Tag and Natasha, standing in front of her door. They hug. Dawson frowns. Hey, this is just like the episode of 90210 where Donna discovers that Felice is having an affair, except for the part where Dawson isn't wearing black and red argyle-print hot pants, and also, it doesn't really look like Natasha is even having an affair. Tag heads down the hallway toward Dawson as Natasha goes into her own room. "Hey, man," Tag offers genially. Dawson flares and glares and looks like he's going to say something, but instead just goes into his own room and closes the door and crosses his eyes and breathes really, really hard. Natasha knocks on the door, so he lets her inside. She lies that she missed him and blah blah blah and basically he just lets her get away with lying to him in order to keep having hot sex.