Episode Report Card Jessica: C | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Use Your Disillusion
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.06.2001
/I>. Jen provides the basics: Othello thinks his wife is cheating on him, so he kills her and then himself. Pacey makes a face like he's profoundly sorry he asked. They sit there in silence a moment before Jen leaps out of her seat and scrambles past Pacey to get out of there. Pacey sighs and gives chase.Professor Wilder's House Of Inappropriate Behavior Toward Freshmen. Enter Joey and Dawson. Joey attempts to introduce Dawson to Wilder, but Dawson begs off and runs to the bathroom, where he splashes water on his face and stares at himself in the mirror. He looks like the protagonist in a teen movie about the dangers of drug use who's just hit rock bottom and realizes that if he doesn't get help soon, he'll lose everything he's worked so hard to accomplish. Or something. Whatever. You know what strikes me most in this scene, though? Those crazy bangs Dawson is sporting now. They look like the wiglet Courteney Cox wore in Scream III.
Elsewhere in Boston -- and despite Pacey's seasoned advice to the contrary -- Jen runs pell-mell into the restaurant to confront Charlie. Pacey follows at a discreet distance as she races right over to Charlie's table, where he's sharing a fancy coffee drink with the non-Jen companion. Jen feigns surprise at seeing him there, and borrows a chair from another table in order to join the two of them. He's about to introduce her to his lady companion, but Jen won't let him get a word in edgewise. She's chattering about coffee drinks and how much she loves them, and she takes the glass in front of Charlie and, in the grand tradition of second-rate, predictable entertainment everywhere, pours the drink into his lap. Charlie yelps. Jen grabs a spoon and starts flinging the whipped cream from the other drink onto Charlie's pants. "How about some whipped cream, huh?" she asks, angrily. "That is really! Tasty! Stuff!" Charlie manages, finally, to say something. The girl? His sister. Wow, if I'd never watched television before, that really would have surprised me. Behind them, Pacey bursts out laughing. "Your sister?" Jen asks. "Oh. I…" she trails off, and smiles sheepishly.
So, Jack is still hanging at the frat house with Red and Caesar. They complain about how long this particular task -- whatever it is -- is taking. Caesar thinks they're getting fitted for their blazers, and says that he heard that their initiation is the next day. Jack's surprised that it's so soon, and tells his friends that if he has to bail on Tobey again, he's really going to be in the doghouse. "Man troubles?" Caesar asks. "Let me guess. He's not really digging you spending all your time with the fellows. He's wanting to know where you've been and what you're up to." Jack admits that this is so; Red and Caesar explain that their girlfriends are very much the same way. Red complains that his girlfriend is always pestering him to tell her what they do in the house, and he's all, "If I told you, you'd be one of my brothers." Ew. I don't exactly know why, but: ew. Caesar drawls that they have to "draw the line somewhere." Jack agrees, but points out that Tobey came all the way across the country to see him. Caesar dismisses this as a "hostile takeover," and tells him that Tobey should have called. You know what I just noticed? Jack's lost the flippy mullet! Praise God. "Maybe he just wanted to surprise me," Jack offers. "What kind of weak-ass move is that?" Caesar asks, adding that Tobey is keeping Jack from meeting new people. Jack says that there's "no way" Tobey came out there to "check on" him. "He's a clever dude, man. He is well aware of the hot-guy quotient of this campus. Do you think Tobey doesn't know you could have your pick of the litter?" Caesar asks. Jack thinks about this. "You do dress well," Red points out. "Dump the chump and get on with your life," Caesar says. "Plenty of other fish in the sea, dude," Red tells him. "Time to go swimming," Caesar says. "Be the shark," Red says. Jack sits back and makes a thoughtful face.
Over at Professor Creepy's House Party, Dawson mopes in the kitchen and watches Joey chat with Wilder and some other old professor-type dude. He looks sick; all pasty and breathing hard. A pretty girl wanders into the kitchen, and, against all odds, starts flirting with him, telling him he looks thirsty. He sort of blows her off, asking if she feels hot. Because he's hot. Heat hot, not, like, good-looking hot. Although the hair is an improvement. The girl turns and opens a window for him, but when she turns to back to Dawson, he's running out of the kitchen. Her face falls.