Episode Report Card Jessica: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.05.2002
Over at the bar, Jen tells David that she has no idea what's keeping Jack. "I'm sure it's a hair-related issue," she giggles. There's only one person in this scene with hair-related issues, actually, and it's Jen. Her one scrawny side-ponytail is so Glitter. David snarks that he likes to think that each strand of Jack's carefully misplaced hair is for him. He heads over to the bar to refill their drinks, leaving Jen to twitter mindlessly at Blandy some more, saying that she knows "this isn't [his] thing." Blandy raises a brow and says that he doesn’t know why she'd think that; he has nothing against good company, though he can't speak to the quality of the music. Jen says Audrey is "nothing if not a solid performer." They both look over toward the bar, where Audrey is busy getting utterly trashed. Blandy wonders how Audrey is doing. Jen chirps that Audrey is "great." She and Blandy watch Audrey lurch around drunkenly, and Jen downgrades her to "a solid good." Blandy shrugs that Audrey seems a little depressed. Jen says she doesn't look depressed. "It's easy not to look it when you're doing your damnest not to feel it," Blandy says. "Or anything for that matter." Jen just looks confused, which confuses me. Shouldn't Jen "Bad Girl" Lindley, of all people, recognize the fact that sometimes people who are depressed or sad or screwed up drink to conceal that? I mean, we learned that with Jack, just last year, when he was falling off buildings! ["We learned it with Jen herself several times in Seasons Two and Three. She didn't go to Tom Frost for kicks; the school made her because she got busted boozing on a school trip. Hello -- try watching your own damn show, writers." -- Sars] Poor Michelle Williams. I think she's really talented, but they give her absolutely nothing to work with.
Jack calls David and apologizes for his absence. David shrugs pleasantly. "Don't worry about it," he says. "Are you on your way?" David is so normal and angst-free. They'll probably have him run over by a bus in short order. "Not exactly, no," Jack says hesitantly. David wonders if he ought to alert the authorities. "Is there something you can't say in front of the kidnappers?" he asks. Jack chuckles and promises that he'll be there soon. "I just got sucked into this nightmare academic schmooze-fest. I've got two more profound things to say, then I'm out of here, I swear." David says he'll be okay. "[Blandy's] here, and your friends have all mastered the art of polite conversation," he assures him. Sweet, normal, doomed little David goes back to the table. Jack goes back to the party.
Not New Orleans. Pacey and Bobby Briggs approach a blonde at a small round table. "How YOU doing?" Bobby Briggs asks, in all seriousness. "Fine," the hooker responds. For it is she, The Hooker Of The Previews. "I didn't ask how you looked, I asked how you're doing," Bobby Briggs replies. Pacey almost vomits on the floor as Bobby Briggs continues with his sad and retarded pick-up lines, which include "you have breasts that are begging to be touched." That's just…an eternity of ew. "That's a coincidence, as you have testicles that are begging to be castrated," the hooker responds. My God, what a terrible line. I would have used the phrase "an ass that is begging to be kicked," but then again, I'm not a high-class call girl. And with that, Bobby Briggs leaves Pacey alone with the hooker, who immediately informs him that she thinks he's charming, classy, and attractive.