Episode Report Card Sars: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Future Tense
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.24.2000
HREF="http://www.dawsonscreek.com/" TARGET="_new">official DC site actually has a whole section -- linked from the homepage, no less -- devoted to the show's 'Logic Leaps.' Heh." -- Wing Chun], because Andie goes on to say that the woman Miss Watson spoke with told her that everything "looked good," and she remembered Andie's essay. Andie squeals about that for a bit; Jack arches a brow and says warily, "That's great, Andie." Just then, The Flash grumps at Jack that "break's over, let's go," so Jack has to go. Andie chirps nonsensically while I struggle to care, and fail. Jack returns to the scrimmage. Kerr Smith's body double sails through the air to catch a pass. Jack lands on his shoulder and dislocates it.In the hallway the next day, Jack has a sling on his left arm, and Andie -- clad in a pair of Capri pants scrounged from the bottom of Phyllis Diller's closet -- accidentally bumps into it. Ow, sorry, ow, sorry. Oh, the gifted physical comedy. Oh, not. Jen says that the shoulder looks a lot worse than Jack led her to believe, and Dawson says The Flash said Jack wasn't even coming to school that day, but Jack grumbles that "it's fine, it's nothing." He and Andie tell the others about the gross sound the shoulder made when they popped it back in, and Andie says that ER "does not prepare you" for that. Again, writers, don't tempt me to switch over to the rerun on TNT.
A random Mitch-from-Dazed & Confused clone comes up and tells Jack he's "sorry about the shoulder." Jack thanks him. Mitch and the gang just stand there. "Is there anything else we can help you with?" Dawson snips. Shut up, Dawson. And by the way, you don't want an answer to that. Mitch and his friends shift from foot to foot and wonder "if the party was still on." "What party?" Jen asks. Mitch worries that the party's actually "a surprise or somethin'." Andie asks, "Is what a surprise?" A scrawn comes up, slings an arm around Jen, and oozes, "Happy birthday, Lindley," and then high-fives his friend: "Party tonight, dude!" "You know it, dude!" Andie chastises Jen for not telling her about her birthday, and Jack and Jen explain to her that it's not actually Jen's birthday, and Dawson gets all superior and notes that, while it's not her birthday, "people who call each other 'dude' seem to be attending your birthday party. You might wanna look into that." I call everyone "dude," including my mother, and I know I should stop it with that, but still -- shut up, Dawson. And speaking of things to look into, how about "looking into" a bottle of Salon Selectives, Grease's Pieces? "Yeah, huh," Jen laughs before walking away. Weird shot of Dawson wiggling his mouth.