Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Road Trip
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 03.16.1998
Jen and Joey turn a corner as Jen starts to tell Joey something she thinks Joey should know, and then spots Billy standing with Pacey at Pacey's locker. Jen stops dead and says, "At the risk of sounding redundant, what the hell are you doing here?" Billy says the boys had a few things to wrap up before they left. Pacey can barely contain his excitement. Jen asks what the hell he's talking about. Billy says, "I'm taking Pacey and your boy on a little road trip. Funny, but in the midst of all the confusion, Dawson and I actually stumbled upon some common ground." Evincing the instincts Dawson evidently lacks, Jen says, "I don't think I like the sound of this, Billy. The last thing Dawson needs is to be pulled down by you." Billy says, "I swear to you, Dawson was simply complaining about how a guy can't seem to get any around here, so I told him about this little place I know." Suspiciously, Joey asks, "What kind of place?" Billy says, "Well, let's just say the women take cash and are remarkably friendly." Incredulously, Joey demands, "You're taking him to a whorehouse?" Even Pacey looks concerned at this revelation.
Dawson appears down the hall, gesticulating in Billy's direction, who says, "Ah, there's his Holiness now. Well, girls, gotta run; I see St. Dawson's chomping at the bit." He starts to go, and Pacey pushes past Joey and Jen and quietly asks Billy, "We're not really going to --" Billy says, "Nah, I'm just kidding around." Jen tells Joey, "I know I've never really had a whole lot of faith in guys, but, I don't know, I just thought Dawson was different." Joey ruefully replies, "Yeah, he's different. Unfortunately, he's just not as different as we thought." This reminds Jen of what she was going to tell Joey earlier: "Joey, you know that football player, Warren?" Steeling herself for bad news, Joey says, "What?" Jen asks, "You didn't sleep with him, did you?" Joey says, "Yeah, I had sex with Warren Garry, right after I gave the sponge bath to the Navy pilots. Why would you even ask me that?" Jen tells her what we all could have guessed already: "He's telling everyone you did." The bell rings. Joey looks stunned.
On the ferry to the mainland, a dubbed-in Billy says he's going to get a drink, and Pacey tells Dawson that Dawson is not the type of person who does something bad just because it feels good. Dawson says, "That's an oxymoron to live by." Pacey asks if Dawson wants examples, and Dawson inarticulately flaps his arms in response. Pacey reminds Dawson that the first thing he did after announcing this road trip was to hand in his math homework, which is not exactly the action of a rebel. Pacey adds that there's nothing wrong with that: "You just care about what people think about you. You're 'that nice Leery boy' -- you like being the nice Leery boy." Pacey adds that Dawson is "a regular Richie Cunningham," and, "Billy -- he's the Fonz." "Congratulations," says Dawson drily, "that makes you Potsie." No, I don't know the point of that scene either.