Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Living Dead Girl
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.29.2002
Over to Liberty Hell's Kitchen! Joey leans against the bar. She shoots Oliver her crooked smiley face and announces that she talked Flip-Flops into letting him come back to class. "You talked to [Flip-Flops] about me?" Oliver parrots, sounding less than thrilled. Joey quickly realizes the error of her ways -- for once -- and admits that this was clearly a bad idea. "My bad," she offers. She explains that Oliver just seemed to go to a lot of trouble to attend class, so she thought it might have meant something to him. She apologizes again, then turns to go and runs right into this evening's Adorable Moppet, who is played by the actress who was the little sister in the best movie about girl surfers who also work in the hotel industry, like, ever: Blue Crush. The moppet also looks very much like Lucy on 7th Heaven. "Could you maybe watch where you're going?" she snaps. Joey narrows her eyes and asks the moppet how old she is. The moppet shrugs that she just wants to know where she can find "some girl with the unfortunate name of Joey." Joey's mid-brow-cock when Flip-Flops runs up behind them. See, it turns out that Joey made this deal with Flip-Flops: he lets Oliver back in class if she agrees to baby-sit his child. Apparently, Flip-Flops has a hot date, and he'd rather try to get some ass than take the moppet to the movies, despite the fact that going to the movies is their Halloween tradition. Why, you ask? Because he is a bad, bad dad. Sadly, I don't think there's any way that Joey will be able to relate to the moppet at all, do you? And speaking of unfortunate names, the moppet goes by "Harley." As in "Davidson." She's got no right to snark. So, Joey tells Flip-Flops that she thought Harley was five. Flip-Flops ignores this and just thanks her for baby-sitting. Why does the kid need a babysitter? She's, like, fifteen. Harley takes this moment to have an adolescent hissyfit about her dad bailing on her. "You're foregoing tradition to go out with some skank!" she cries. Flip-Flops sighs and points out that his date isn't "the bad kind of skank." And he promises to take Harley out the very next evening. Then he leaves. Joey looks thoughtful. I can't wait until she tells Harley that she just ought to be grateful Flip-Flops isn't dealing drugs and cheating on her dying mother.
Dawson walks onto the "haunted" "movie" set, checking on last minute preparations for the party. He's costumed either as a Man In Black or one of the Reservoir Dogs. As he's checking out the party preparations, he hears someone whisper his name. Except, you know, all in ghostly tones and shit. Then he catches a glimpse of the allegedly dead and not at all fictional Melanie Ray, wandering around the set in a rain coat, a blonde wig, and giant sunglasses. And she couldn't possibly be someone in a costume. Especially on Halloween. Dawson makes a twitchy face.