Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Beauty Contest
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 05.11.1998
Night falls on Capeside. At Grams's House of Discipline, Jen is telling Joey that "walking in heels is probably the hardest part." Joey walks tentatively across the kitchen with a dictionary balanced on her head -- at least for a few steps, whereupon it falls. Joey, exasperated, sinks into a kitchen chair and exhales, "Why are you doing this?" Jen starts telling her about poise and grace, and Joey clarifies, "No, I mean, what's in it for you? I mean, the fact that I've been a first-class bitch to you since the day you got here is pretty much public knowledge." Jen says that in New York she didn't hang out with a lot of girls, and has never had close girlfriends and believes the case is the same for Joey: "I don't know, don't you ever feel like you're missing out on something?" Joey very seriously says, "Why don't you just go hang out with the Capeside Pep Squad? [Because that's two seasons away!] I mean, associating with me won't exactly send your popularity points soaring up the social Richter scale." Jen says, "For the same reason you don't, all right? Because they're a bunch of mentally arrested airheads." Joey looks pleased. Jen goes on: "You know, your perception of me is almost as misguided as your perception of yourself. If you want to win, we're going to have to work on the self-esteem issue, but first --" she pulls Joey up and moves her back to the doorway with the dictionary, "back to the basics."
At Casa Leery, Pacey croons "New York, New York" for a non-plussed Dawson and The Flash. After a couple of lines, The Flash diplomatically asks, "Pacey, can you...um, do you do anything else?" Dawson says that they can return to the talent portion later, and asks what Pacey plans to do about evening wear. Pacey says, "Well, actually, I could get my hands on this tasty little red polyester number that my sister wore as a bridesmaid." Heh. Dawson admonishes him, "Pacey, if you want to win this thing, you've got to take it seriously. If you win, the Associated Press could be all over this. Not to mention CNN -- I mean, this could be international news!" Because it's all about Dawson's ambitions, y'all, in case you had any doubt. The Flash declaims, "By braving this experiment, you become a political activist challenging social stereotypes." Pacey feebly says, "I kind of just wanted to make some extra cash." The Flash laughs, and then storms over to Pacey and sticks his tongue down the boy's throat. Well, in his dreams, he does.
Back at Grams's, Joey looks out the window and asks Jen, "So, what's going on with you two?" Jen says she and Dawson are "just figuring things out," explaining, "It was a little rough for a while, but we've got time. I mean, it's not like he's going anywhere." Joey weakly agrees, "No, I guess not." Jen asks, "So what about you and Dawson?" Joey snorts, "What about us?" Jen says, "Well, you know, I was just wondering, because, you know, now that he's available and everything --" Joey says, "Dawson will always see me as the gawky little girl down the creek with band-aids on her knees and the one braid falling out. I don't know, maybe that's just how it's meant to be. Maybe it's just how we see each other." Jen says, "You know what they say. Plenty of fish in the sea, right?" "Yeah," Joey says wistfully.