Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Perfect Wedding
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.17.1999
Elsewhere, Dawson stumbles upon clichéd wedding-related plotline number two: Bride has cold feet! Yep, there she is, sitting in a chair in the lounge outside the bathroom, crying her pretty face off. "Are you okay?" Dawson asks unnecessarily. Pam, the bride, goes toward the window as if to crawl out, and says she isn't sure she wants to get married at all, and what if her fiancé isn't the one? Dawson looks at her with a particularly bovine expression of incomprehension, and admits, "I don't know what to say." Well, that's a first.
In Jen's room, Abby and Jen are clad in some comfy-looking sweats and t-shirts, looking, for once, like actual teenagers and goofily dancing to some teenybopper music. Off-screen, someone impersonating Grams yells, "Jennifah, could you please turn that down?" Abby mimics her and flops down on the bed. Jen asks what they're going to do tonight, since she's in the mood for some "serious fun." Abby says they're in desperate need for the three B's and then can only think of two: booze and boys. Abby asks what the other kids are doing. Jen tells her that they're all working at this wedding, and then grouses that they didn't ask her. Abby gets the brilliant idea to crash the wedding. Wow, is it clichéd wedding-related plotline number three already?
Back at the wedding, all the guests are seated and looking restless. The man who is presumably the father of the bride is looking at his watch and huffing -- yet no one from her family actually goes to look for her.
Back in the bathroom, Pam is sobbing in loud, exaggerated, moaning breaths. Dawson reminds her that people are waiting for her. Jack knocks on the door asking what's going on, and Dawson tells Pam he'll take care of it. Jack offers to go talk to her. Dawson says he doubts Jack would be able to do any good. When they open the door again, Pam has evidently locked herself in the bathroom.
Joey, going into meltdown in the kitchen, neatly recapping for Bessie the evening's events, particularly the fact that most of her wait staff has gone AWOL. Bessie tells her everything's going to be okay. Joey is not convinced and starts squealing at her: "Bessie, we have enough to deal with now that Dad's back without taking on this wedding. We were blinded by the fantasy of paying off all our debts that we overlooked the now painfully obvious reality that we have no idea what we're doing." Bessie, getting irritated now, says, "It's not that bad! Everything's under control. We're just experiencing a few glitches." Joey screeches, "'A few glitches'? Bessie, we are going to ruin this wedding and humiliate ourselves yet again in front of all of Capeside. It's the story of our lives." Bessie insists, "No, it's not over yet, and we can do this. And I don't think we should get Dad all worked up about it." Joey yelps, "Why not? This was his bright idea in the first place." Bessie looks over Joey's shoulder, saying nothing. Joey goes on as, of course, her father comes in and overhears: "I mean, he tore our family apart, and he thinks he can just put it back together in a day. Well, he can't." Mr. Pothead walks by looking very sad. Way to go, Joey!