Episode Report Card Jessica: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spiderwebs
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.12.2002
No Doubt? Still singing. Pacey notices that Audrey is AWOL and goes to find her.
Yeah, then there's a whole bit here that's just a ton of singing. If you want to recreate it, go turn on your radio, because this isn't Music Without Pity.
Finally, Pacey catches up with Audrey and Blandy. "What's going on?" he asks. "Is there a problem?" Audrey shakes her head and tells Pacey that she and Blandy barely know each other. "Yeah, right," Blandy snorts, which makes Pacey get all defensive, which makes Blandy tell Pacey that he needs to "take better care of [his] girlfriend," like she's a parakeet or something. Audrey pleads with Blandy to leave. "Do you really want me to leave you alone with this guy who makes you so miserable?" Blandy asks. "Yes. Now," Audrey directs him. Pacey, looking perplexed, wonders if this is all some kind of very unfunny joke. Audrey doesn't even look at him, but tells Blandy that he needs to leave and "forget about the other night." Pacey makes a "huh?" face, as Blandy asks Audrey if she really thinks she can be happier with Pacey than she obviously was with him. So Pacey decks him. They wrestle around on the ground for a while. If I were Audrey, I would just walk away. Instead, she stands there and watches them fight for about twenty minutes before uttering an anemic "you guys!"
Finally, security comes along and breaks it up. Audrey makes a face like she just lost her favorite lip gloss. I have so many complaints about that scene, and yet no energy to enumerate them. My primary complaint, however, is that the line that finally provoked Pacey to punch Blandy was so basically inoffensive. I mean, I guess you could interpret it as Blandy indicating that he's better in the sack than Pacey is, but even then, it's not like he insulted Audrey's honor, which is really the only thing that I can see Pacey getting mad enough about to start a fight over. Not to mention the fact that Pacey really doesn't have a leg to stand on here, since he would have slept with the New Orleans hooker if she hadn't mentioned that she was professional. Maybe I should just take a nap.
Inside, more singing.
Joey and Oliver watch the show from the rafters. She comments that his dad "seems nice." Oliver grins at her. "He said four words to you and he thinks your name is Josie," he tells her. But Joey doesn't mind. Oliver nods and agrees that his dad is nice: he works hard, provides for his family, is always there for them, blah. Joey tells him that this sounds "great." Oliver shrugs that the only problem is that his dad "isn't really into higher education." Which is why Oliver dropped out of college after one semester. Joey finds this perplexing, but Oliver tells her that "things have to happen to you at the exact right time in your life, or they're meaningless." He touches her hand affectionately. "Like right now, for example," he says. She smiles at him, and agrees that this moment certainly isn't meaningless. This non-meaningless moment is sponsored by Dramamine. Dramamine: For when crappy teen shows that you used to like make you want to vomit all over your own neck.