Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crossroads
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.13.1998
Then we're outside Bessie's Bastard Barn, then inside where Dawson and Joey are on Joey's bed presumably pretending to do homework but really are talking about the morning's events, about which Joey comments that she'll never be as embarrassed as long as she lives, and Dawson opines that his parents live for "Wonder Years moments" like that and adds that his mother has probably had R&R in a drawer since he was born (alongside Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina and The Awakening, maybe, or at least the Cliff's Notes thereof) and expresses relief that the victim of their half-assed over-parenting was Joey and not some "unsuspecting date" that he brought home and Joey says she has to write down the Flash's "no hat, no love" line before she forgets it (and too late, because she says "no hat, no glove") and reaches for her journal on the floor, at which point Dawson reaches for her and pulls her across his lap and gazes at her with his calf-eyed gaze of great awe, and starts telling her how great it is that they've gotten together since there's none of that "pretentious, getting-to-know-you crap"; after all, Dawson already knows everything about Joey: "how you think, how you feel" and she coquettishly answers that what he doesn't know about her "could fill a book," and kisses him, and then Bessie's baby starts crying along with AMERICA as some Lilith Fair refugee (tm Sars) yodels in the background.
So Joey goes out to tend to the baby and Dawson and his tiny boner (tm xix) sit up and he gazes at the space where she was, smiling dorquettishly, and then looks askance at Joey's journal and then decides to pick it up, open it at a random page and take a gander since we've never seen conflict about that scenario on TV before, no sir, and as he reads his face grows grave and the soundtrack turns to a minor key of Great Foreboding and then Dawson hears Joey approach and puts the book back and she comes in ready to resume their outmaking and as she sits down (saying she though the baby was smiling but he just had gas), he stands up and starts collecting his things and making his feeble excuses and Joey of course is confused by the 180 and says she thought he had a lot of reading to do, to which he replies, "I've done enough reading for today" with a healthy dollop of dramatic irony as the camera zooms in on a dumbfounded Joey, staring at his departing figure and we finally, thank God, cut to a commercial.
The commercials were not especially noteworthy except for an anti-drug PSA featuring such WB luminaries as Zach from Hyperion Bay, the sister on Charmed who used to be on Picket Fences, Angel from Buffy (who is, in my opinion, not good-looking), and three of the Fearsome Foursome (tm Sars). Who is the no-show? Jen. I guess maybe her hard-partying cred really is legit. Perhaps, one might even say, too legit to quit?