Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 2 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Four To Tango
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.30.1999
Cut to the Starlight Dance Studio. Long story short: Every year, the studio offers a $1500 scholarship to the high-school student who best exemplifies "the spirit and grace" of ballroom dancing, and Joey means to win it, but before she can, she must complete the course, and she needs a partner. Pacey asks why she didn't get Dawson or Jack to do this with her, and she says it's because they don't owe her the way Pacey will. The instructor appears to remind them that they must dance with their ribcages touching, and asks who's leading. Pacey makes a Janet Reno joke (also very 1996, in my view) alluding to Joey's bossiness. The instructor tells Pacey to lead, and takes off. Cue the comical bad-dancers-stepping-on-each-other's-feet scene. Whatever.
In the Sanctum Dawsonorum, the man himself tidies up and finds a condom on the floor. Ruh roh!
At school, Joey gives Pacey a Math assignment for him to complete in study hall, and harangues him about showing his work, and not just copying the answers out of the back of the book. He complains that if he'd known the "sadistic pleasure" she was going to take out of tutoring him, he "never would have let [her] have such free rein," which the closed captions misspell as "reign." She ignores his bitching and decrees that they'll spend an hour after school working on the math problems before heading back to the dance studio. Pacey agrees, and adds, "You do know how absolutely imperative it is that no one -- and I mean no one -- find out about our after-school activities [way to use the subjunctive mode correctly, Pacey!], because on a sliding scale of embarrassing and decidedly non-butch activities for a teenage male to be involved in, waltzing is right up there with painting your own pottery." Joey snippily replies that she is just as anxious as he that no one discover their secret. Pacey concludes that they're in "agreeance [sic]" that no one should find out, and says so just in time for Dawson to materialize behind them and ask what it is that no one should find out about.
Pacey and Joey briefly exchange stricken looks before Joey turns to Dawson with a big smile and says, "Nothing." Pacey tells her that they can tell him, because "it's Dawson." She glares and Pacey, who ignores her and tells Dawson that they were discussing the fact that Pacey is awful at "home improvement and decor." Joey nods slowly. Pacey asks how Dawson is with a roller, and Dawson replies, "I can hold my own." Babe -- that we know. Pacey tells him that they need painters and plasterers to work on the addition to the trailer-cum-B & B, and Dawson very suspiciously says that he'll be there. Joey thanks him. Pacey tells her they should go. They start to leave, but Dawson grabs Pacey and tells him he wants to talk to him. Pacey says he's trying to stay off Mr. Milo's "top ten most tardy list" (what is with the guidance office and the lists, already?) and nervously hurries away. Confusion is splashed all over Dawson's giant face -- imagine how much confusion it actually takes to cover it!