Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Psychic Friends
By Sars | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.09.1999
As Dawson's back retreats down the hall, we hear Joey say, "Loser." Word. Cut to Joey and Jack eating lunch together. Joey rates the guys in the lunch line; Jack appreciates the bonding effort on Joey's part, but doesn't want to go there. Joey tells him to lighten up, and expresses boredom with all the elements of her life. She continues to classify the male students of Capeside as if she has never seen them before, although she has probably known all of them since nursery school, calling them either Frank ("as in 'Stein'") or Leo ("as in 'DiCaprio'"). Like, ha ha. Not. Jack laughs, they discuss the weirdness of the fact that they used to date only a month ago, they both admit that it doesn't bother them, and they fiddle with product-placed Diet Coke cans. Whatever.
Pacey "Scourge Of The English Teacher" Witter and Andie "Suicide Watch" McPhee walk down the street. Pacey doesn't want to deal with the Capeside Police Department safety booth at the fair (held outside. In Cape Cod. In the late fall). Andie "looked up to" her safety mascot as a child. Pacey says, "And you wonder why they called you 'Andie McGeek' on the playground." Ouch. They argue over whether Captain Skippy the safety dog will deter kids from doing drugs, and then they argue over the fortune teller at the fair; Andie really wants to go, but Pacey grumpily calls it "mumbo-jumbo crystals crap" and doesn't understand why she buys into it. Andie promises Pacey sexual favors if he'll do the Captain Skippy booth. Pacey reverts to teen horndog stereotype by agreeing, and tries out the bad, yet indeterminate, accent he'll use for Captain Skippy as he slings an arm around Andie's shoulders. Whatever.
Cut to the fair as an extremely annoying Blues Traveler song plays in the background. At the art booth, Jack teases Joey about getting lost in thought -- she won't tell him about what, so he assumes he "lost another X-rated thought," but Joey still won't tell him until he promises not to laugh, and then she says, "I was thinking about -- kisses," and Jack promptly giggles, then apologizes and points out the irony of Joey thinking about kisses when she "thr[e]w away relationships while in pursuit of her true self." Joey confesses that she misses "the kissing part" and hopes to get kissed again "before the millennium comes." Jack assures her that "it'll happen." (Okay, sidebar. I know I called him a pinhead and stuff, but Kerr Smith actually looks pretty cute now, even though his head is still on the small side. I just had to get that off my chest. Carry on.) Dawson walks up and says "what's up?" Jack and Joey say, "Nothing," and Dawson feels awkward and starts to leave again, and they invite him to stay and help set up, but he says he has to help Miss Kennedy with the silent film exhibit and he takes off. Jack elbows Joey and asks, "Frank? Leo?" To my horror, Joey replies, "Dawson is definitely a Leo." Jack observes, "Dawson seems a little moody lately." Joey says that she knows and that she can always tell "when he has something wrong with him" (no comment), but that he doesn't seem to want her help right now. Joey misses Dawson, and Jack advises her to give it time: "I'm sure he'll want you back in his life, trust me." Then Jack suggests that they find out "when that elusive next kiss is gonna find its way to your lips" by visiting Madame Zenovich the fortune teller. Jack does not say when he decided to become Mr. Gregarious. Jack does not explain why, when they had spent quite some time in the art booth already, he had just noticed Madame Zenovich's tent.