Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cinderella Story
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.29.2000
I know John Frankenheimer's a good director and stuff, but I don't know why he made Madonna try to deliver lines with two Chiclets jutting out of her mouth. Or maybe she got her front teeth capped. It's hard to tell.
Various establishing shots of morning in Capeside bring us to the exterior of a restaurant, which is sporting a large banner reading "Opening Soon." Some random person unloads some random items from the bed of a pickup truck, and drops one of said items on the ground. Inside, Gale "Weathers" Leery carries a tray with practiced ease and announces, "We could have a winner here." She sets the tray down on the bar in front of Dawson "Anthony Whingella" Leery, who says he hopes she's right. They each take a mug off the tray as Gale sarcastically asks, "Why? Just because my restaurant opens in less than a week and I still haven't found a chef?" "Or waiters. Or menus," Dawson adds. Gale, panicked, asks him if he means that the menus still haven't arrived from the printer. Dawson reminds her that they sent them back yesterday due to a typo. Gale asks Dawson to keep screening the wait staff applicants (because he's qualified to do that), and that she hopes that they've finally found their kitchen talent. They each take a taste from their mugs and make disgusted faces; the consensus seems to be that the chowder sucks. Sort of like -- nah, too easy. Gale suggests that they "steal Bodie from the Potters," and Dawson reminds her that Bessie and Alexander kind of need him more than Gale does. Gale breezily says that chowder is "hard to master" (in which case she may want to re-think the theme of her restaurant, and move...you know...away from seafood -- although I'm really looking forward to the day someone comes in and orders fishcakes) and that she has to go to the printer. She tells Dawson not to worry, that everything's going to be fine.
As soon as she's out of earshot, Dawson scoffs, but gets a break from judging his mother's business acumen due to the arrival behind him of Jack "Invisible Man" and Andie "Cheat and Run" McPhee. Dawson thanks Jack for picking up the sign (which is in his hands) but Jack tells him that seeing it may "exacerbate the insanity" because the sign is only half-finished, and lacks any lettering; it seems the sign dude told Gale he needed the restaurant's name by today, and didn't get it, and now has another job. Andie unhelpfully suggests that they position the restaurant as a place too cool even to have a name. Before Dawson can shoot down this idea, a comical (not) foreigner appears in the door and, in an indeterminate eastern European accent, says he's here about the chef job. Dawson asks Jack and Andie, "You guys hungry?"