Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 6 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Show Me Love
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.09.2000
I'd like to comment on Road Trip, but words fail me. So why not check out what what Gwen said?
Joey morosely flips pancakes. Bessie comes up behind her saying, "Before you get mad at me --" but Joey cuts her off: "You know what? You're about three hundred pancakes and one sponsored sailboat too late for that, Bessie." I hate to back Joey over Bessie, but except for the pancake part, she's right. Bessie says, "He begged to enter the race on our behalf, and are we really in a position to turn down free advertising?" Joey replies, "It's not free! Okay, Dawson may have put down the cash, but you're obligating me --" "What? To appreciate his friendship?" Bessie asks. Okay, someone who reads Dawson's Desktop will have to tell me: Are Bessie and Aunt Gwen email pals or something? Joey explains the obvious: "This isn't about friendship! Dawson wants to beat Pacey." Bessie smirks, "Well, if two boys want to compete on our behalf, I say let 'em race!" How sensitive of you, Bessie!
Joey, brandishing her spatula like a weapon, says, "This was supposed to stop. I mean, we broke it off, and it was all just supposed to stop!" Bessie says, "What did you expect, Jo? That you would end things with Pacey and then all of a sudden things would just go back to the way they were? It's the hardest part of being an adult, sis. Your actions have consequences, forcing life to constantly move forward. Why do you think they call it growing up?" What? I didn't get any of that, and as far as I can tell, the only consequence Joey's had to deal with is Dawson's whiny bitchery, which no mortal can possibly assuage. Sullenly, Joey asks Bessie what her advice in this situation would be, and Bessie says, "Accept the consequences, and do something to make things better." See what I mean? That sounds a lot like Dawson's advice. Joey muses.
At McPhee Manor, Andie works at her desk when she hears a knock at the door and invites the knocker in -- it's Kruddy. He says that Jack let him in. Andie asks whether Jack and Dawson are still downstairs "going over Sailing for Dummies." Kruddy says that the reason he came by is that he was able to find a rare edition of Sailing for Easter Island Statues and thought it would be perfect for Dawson. Just kidding. He says they're going out to get some "hands-on experience." Andie says that it looks like Kruddy and Pacey will have some competition after all. Kruddy says that's not why he came by: "I got some really good news. That scholarship to Raleigh? It came through." I guess that's the name of the school on Young Americans. She hugs him and says that "now [he] won't have to worry about [his] dad anymore." Kruddy says he's worried about Pacey. Hasn't he just started hanging out with Pacey again for the first time since like fourth grade? What does he care? Andie gets all pinched and says, "Yeah, well, Pacey and Joey brought this situation on themselves, all right?" Kruddy asks, "Why, because they developed feelings for each other and had the guts to do something about it?" Andie looks betrayed, and asks him if that's how he sees it, adding, "We were all friends." Oh, please. You went out with Joey, like, once. You have no friends. Kruddy tells her that Joey and Pacey didn't set out to hurt Andie. Andie says, "Yeah, well, once upon a time I 'didn't set out to hurt' Pacey, either, but he offered me no forgiveness, and our relationship came to an earth-shattering halt." Yeah, when he DUMPED YOU, because you were GOING OUT AT THE TIME -- that's the difference between then and now! MY GOD! Kruddy tells her that "if [she] can't let go of all this anger," she won't ever be able to be friends with Joey and Pacey again: "And instead of you being this warm-hearted, cheerful person that I met on spring break, you'll just end up being the kind of person that I feel sorry for." She looks away, and he adds, "And I know you're better than that." She pouts.
Oh, Lord. Angry's boat is called "Carpe Diem," which is why Andie kept going on about Dawson's "seizing the day" before. Anyway, Dawson and Jack work on it, and in the process, Dawson moves a sail and clocks Jack in the back of the head with it. Dawson solicitously asks if Jack's okay, and when Jack doesn't answer, Dawson says, "Okay, so that doesn't happen again, tie the rope to the thing." Jack sputters, "What the hell's 'the thing'?" Heh. Dawson explains, "The metal thing." Jack snaps, "Oh, that helps, Popeye." HA! From the dock, the voice of the Flash rings out: "It's called the aft winch. And if you don't tighten that jib sheet and secure your tiller, it's not going to be pretty." I say, "Ah, the Flash. Is there anything he can't do?" Kim offers, "Well, get a job. Or maintain his marriage. Or raise a tolerable child. But other than that, there isn't anything." More sailing crap follows, but I don't care, and I'm fairly sure y'all don't, either. Long story short, the Flash offers to be on Dawson's crew, and Dawson accepts. As Jack and the Flash loiter in the stern (heh) ["and I burst into a rendition of the Village People's 'In The Navy'" -- Sars], Dawson scampers up to the bow and runs up a Potter B&B flag. Okay, he had it made up the same day? Like Capeside even has a Kinko's, much less a place that puts iron-on transfers for polyester flags. Plus, who designed the logo? Knoll? Oh, god, whatever.