Episode Report Card Jessica: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Day Out Of Days
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.14.2003
Upstairs, Harley wonders if she can't talk about sex just because she's fifteen. "No, you can talk about it," Joey tells her. "Then, when you're nineteen, you can have the unadulterated joy of looking back and realizing what an idiot you sounded like." Heh. Well played, writers. Well played. Joey raps on Oliver's door. Nothing doing. She tries it, and finds it open. And the place is totally empty. Harley yammers on and on about how Joey is a big old stalker and she should try skulking around in the bushes with a mask on. Finally, she realizes that Joey's pretty upset. Katie Holmes has only been, like, sobbing and dry-heaving in the corner for twenty minutes. Harley sputters that she thought this was the wrong apartment. Joey mouth-breathes for fifteen more minutes as Harley makes a sympathetic face in the background.
Friday. At last! Pacey has come in to the office in a particularly hiddy Hawaiian top. He's trying to go to lunch when Bobby Briggs, Capitalist Pigg, loads him down with a pile of extra work. Pacey protests, but Bobby Briggs doesn't care. So Pacey just buckles down and does it. Welcome to the real world, Pacey. Your job makes you want to slice your jugular open with a paper clip? Quit. But you can't have it both ways. Bobby Briggs then gives Pacey his W-2 form, conveniently reminding those of us in the studio audience that Pacey Is Selling Out and that Loving Money Is Wrong. And then he tells Pacey that he expects to see a big change in Pacey's attitude, but quick.
While Pacey kisses and strokes his W-2 at the office, Emma sleeps with the fishes. Okay, she's sitting with them. But did you think I wasn't going to use that line? She looks up hopefully when she spies a doofy-looking guy in Pacey's old hair and wardrobe. Her face falls when she realizes that it's merely Joshua Jackson's stand-in. Pacey has stood her up. And for what? The demon dollar! Seriously, I don't get this show's attitude about money. There's nothing wrong with relishing the ability to pay your bills.
Help Me Learn To Live Without You Help Line, where Jen and Blandy are waiting for the phone to ring. Blandy explains that it gets quiet sometimes, because it's tough for people to get up the urge to call, to admit that they're wrong about something. Jen just looks at him and seems about to say something, but he gets up and announces that he's going across the street to fetch some coffee. Jen is stunned that he's leaving her alone. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yesnoyesnoyes. Blandy finally tells Jen that he thinks she can handle the phones for ten minutes. "A few days ago, you couldn't stand to be in the same room with me. Now you don't want me to go," Blandy says, with a -- all right, I'll admit it -- charming lift of his brow. Jen points out that this was a week ago. "Can't a person change in a week?" she asks. Blandy grins wryly. "I don't know. Can she?" he asks. Jen laughs in spite of herself as he trots out to fetch some caffeine. Okay, okay: I get it. He's sort of cute. His hair is still too greasy for me, and I kind of feel like his face is overly flat, but…yeah, he's cute. Fine! He's cute! UNCLE!