Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Like A Virgin
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.28.1999
Sars: "Not! Line."
Wing Chun: "Not."
Sars: "What is with Dawson's hair?"
Wing Chun: "I nearly had to go soak my head after that 'sheets' remark from Pacey."
Sars: "I really don't know how we're going to do it this year. I'm not joking."
Wing Chun: "You think I think you're joking? I'm watching the same show. Which is back on. I'll call you later."
Pacey and Dawson walk up to the Estrangement Estate after the second day of school. We know it's the second day of school because Pacey is remarking upon Dawson's ability to avoid Joey two days running. He adds that he is starting to question Dawson's commitment to "la vida loca" (at which point I perceived that something in the room was very tired, but after taking a short nap, realized it was not me but that expression) because he didn't put the moves on Bus Girl last night. Dawson reminds Pacey that, first, she was working at the time, and second, Pacey saw Dawson give Bus Girl his phone number, and that it's up to her to use it, and moreover, she won't: "What is the likelihood that a woman with that degree of life experience and sexual liberation is going to regard seriously the interest of someone who hasn't even taken his PSATs?" They both go into the house and see Bus Girl seated rather smugly in an armchair, with her legs thrown over the side. Pacey says that likelihood is at least as great as the chances of her being here in Dawson's living room. Dawson stammers out a few inarticulate phrases which Pacey translates as his asking how she got in. She says she thought she'd surprise Dawson by taking him up on his offer of a date, and that it was hot out, and the door was open, so she let herself in. Dawson concedes that they don't have much call to lock up in Capeside. She purrs, "Hmm. Interesting. What else don't you do?"
Once again, I don't feel like going into the fact that a woman of thirty -- as Bus Girl clearly is -- would have no reason to come on so strong to a high school boy, and at this point the name I'd be most inclined to give her is Amaya.
Pacey takes Dawson into the kitchen and tells him how good Dawson's chances are at getting some, and advises Dawson to take her out in the Flash's boat.
At school, cheerleading tryouts are being held in the school auditorium. A girl in glasses and the very unforgiving ensemble of white sports bra and iridescent blue bike shorts is doing a cheer to the DC theme song but only gets as far as "We don't want to wait / For this game to be over!" before Belinda blasts her with an air horn and tells her she's done. The girl says she didn't get a chance to finish her cheer, which is Belinda's cue to tell her a bunch of shit about, again, how fat she is and that this is the third year she's tried out unsuccessfully for the Minutegirls, and that the only reason they let her try out this time was to see what lame song she'd pick to cheer to. How self-referential. Whatever. Jen is next, and as she starts to get up, Jack asks her if she still wants to "do this," and Jen says, "Now more than ever." When she gets on stage, there's a weak remark from Belinda about how "flexible" they all know Jen is, and then Jen launches into her Erica Bogosian routine predicting Belinda's bleak and empty future winding up with an exhortation that the crowd "screw these auditions, screw cheerleading, and screw Belinda McGovern." This causes the whole cheerleading squad to break out in wild applause and hooting and ultimately a standing ovation. Who cares? No one? Thought so.
Joey's boss walks in on her while she changes her shirt in an office at the dock. She yells at him and quickly pulls her shirt back on without buttoning it, because he says he just came in to get a drink and she's clearly waiting for him to go back out again. She is suspicious that he happened to get thirsty right when he knew she was changing. Basically, he takes his sweet time taking his pop, and his ass, out again to allow her to finish changing, and is extremely skeevy throughout the exchange. He says he'll knock next time. She says she'll lock the door next time. A scene like this normally would sway me to the "sexual harassment/assault" prediction, but since it ends with the peppy piano music of opposites-attract screwball comedy, rather than, say, the knowing electric guitar of inappropriate sexual attention, I don't know how to call it.