Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Psychic Friends
By Sars | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.09.1999
Pacey, clad in official sheriff gear, talks about sex and protection in the Captain Skippy voice, saying, "Do it where you can't get caught, you know?" Andie tires of feigning amusement at this schtick and tries to get Pacey to have his fortune told. Pacey doesn't want to because he knows Madame Z will foretell "Armageddon, death, and destruction on a global level -- the end of the world as we know it." Andie wonders why he cares if he doesn't believe in that stuff anyway, and Pacey explains that he doesn't, but that "the power of suggestion is a very dangerous thing." Not surprisingly, Andie puts forth the idea that, if you know what's ahead, you can prepare for it. Pacey tells her to save her money because "The All-Powerful Pacey-dini will predict [her] future," and foretells a tall dark handsome man sweeping her off her feet, blah blah blah fishcakes. More good-natured ribbing follows as Sars reads the dosage instructions on a box of Vivarin and predicts that two pills just won't get it done. A shot of the sign on Madame Z's tent, which has a hand with a really short thumb on it.
Inside the tent, Madame Z grunts in a suitably Eastern European accent, "Five dollars," and stubs out a cigarette. Joey and Jack cough at the smoke; Joey hands over a finsky. Madame Z looks into her crystal ball and says she sees a "C." (Say that five times fast.) She guesses a few names but Joey doesn't know any of them. When she guesses "Caroline," Joey says she knows a Carol, but hasn't seen her since kindergarten. Madame Z says, "Yes. Carol." She says Carol borrowed something of Joey's and asks if that means anything to Joey, and Joey says she might have borrowed a pencil or something, and Madame Z says in a very bored tone of voice, "Yes, she has your pencil," and reaches for her pack of smokes. Joey and Jack make "huh?" faces at each other. A breeze blows through the tent, jingling the chimes and making Madame Z shudder. Madame Z finally gets into a groove and says while staring into the middle distance, "There has been much pain in your past -- too much loss for one so young. You put up walls to protect you from harm, but by doing so you cut yourself off from new possibilities, new adventures. You must say 'yes' to every opportunity that comes your way." Joey asks about the future, and Madame Z falls back on that old standby: "You will come to a fork in the road. You have to choose which path to take." Joey wants to know how to choose, and Madame Z tells her to follow her heart and fires up another cancer stick. Joey, apparently feeling gypped: "Anything else?" Madame Z, annoyed: "A tall dark man will come into your life." Joey, perking up: "When?" Madame Z, with as little enthusiasm as possible: "Soon."