Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Psychic Friends
By Sars | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.09.1999
Joey can't decide which costume on the rack to wear. Colin tells her she can wear whatever she wants, and says something about trying on "a different side of [her] personality." Jack appears, invades Joey's and Colin's personal spaces, and points to an outfit involving a black boa. In the next shot, Joey -- now attired in a strapless gold lamé number and the black boa, with her hair swept up -- slumps miserably and complains that she feels like a drag queen. The boys compliment her. Colin does his stereotypical photographer "give me attitude" schtick and starts snapping away. Then the Joey-the-sexual-being-montage music starts up, and we have to endure several minutes of Joey mugging in her Marilyn get-up, Joey mugging in her Pretty Woman get-up, and Joey mugging in her Annie Hall get-up. Meanwhile, Colin asks Jack if he (Jack) and Joey "are just friends," and Jack says, "Oh yeah," and Colin says, "Good," thus setting up the non-sexual non-tension non-mix-up later in the show. Colin calls Joey "fabulous" and "a born diva." Joey motions Jack out of the room as she and Colin hug, and they almost kiss, but don't. Snore.
Jen sorts through Grams's clothes and tosses them over her shoulder, adjudging them "no, no, no," as Grams demurs from under her towel turban. Fade to Jen making up Grams's face and comparing dating to riding a bike. Jen finishes and tells Grams as she turns Grams toward the mirror, "[W]hen he takes one look at you, believe me, he won't want to do much talking." Grams looks in the mirror; she doesn't seem to know quite what to do with the results of the makeover. New And Improved Grams looks like a Park Avenue matron, and I think she looked better before.
Pacey walks and drinks hot chocolate. He runs into Madame Z, who tells him he should come and have his fortune told. In a veiled reference to Andie's reading, Pacey asks her why she can't just "say something nice, something reassuring" to the people who visit her, adding, "I guarantee you, that's all they want to hear." Madame Z says that if they ask for the truth, "then they must hear the answer." Pacey growls, "Well, I'm not asking," and walks away to a bench, but Madame Z joins him and says, "I think I tell you anyway." Pacey sort of shrugs as she says, "I see a young man who wears a mask that is not his own," but then he lowers his cup to watch her face as she continues, "To the world, he is strong and confident; beneath the mask is a little boy, afraid of the world, afraid of everything. He knows all he has is resting on a house of cards. Even the tiniest gust of wind, pshoo -- knock it all down." Evidently this hits close to home, because Pacey frowns and gets up; as he goes, Madame Z smirks.