Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Barefoot At Capefest
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.11.2000
Has anyone organized a campaign yet to rescind Tom Green's Canadian citizenship? No? I should get on that. ["And stick us with him? No way, no how. You keep him." -- Sars]
Mmmmmm...Biiiiiiiig Maaaaaaaaaaac.
Dark has fallen over Capefest and Jen is sitting on the floor of her unpitched tent, with a sleeping bag wrapped around her head and shoulders like a shawl. Poor Jen. Not. Jack comes up and reaches out a hand to pull her up, whereupon she starts babbling at double-espresso speed about seeing Henry, before glancing to her right and seeing Ethan standing there. Jen abruptly shuts up so that Jack can introduce them. Ethan offers to help her with the tent and Jen accepts in a particularly sick-making way: "Relieve me of all of my feminist illusions about the equality of the sexes concerning spatial relations." Dude, if you can't assemble a tent, it's because you're lame, not because you're a girl, so just cram it. Ethan goes to work and Jack takes Jen aside to tell her about the theft of Ethan's gear, and to ask if she wouldn't mind if he stays in their tent. Jen is initially amenable to this plan, until Jack tells her to make herself scarce for a couple of hours -- say, until midnight. She makes outraged noises, and he brusquely tells her again to get lost. Jen angrily suggests that she and the car instead go back to Grams's house and pick Jack up in the morning, and adds, "Besides, Jack -- I thought you two were just getting to know each other." She flounces off. Jack looks distressed.
In another part of the forest, Jen is drawn to the sound of passable folky acoustic guitar-playing and pretty terrible singing. It's no surprise that Henry is responsible for both. I could transcribe the song (which Sars informs me is a real Springsteen number), but I just don't have the patience, besides which, I figure that a day without Teen Poetry is a good day. Jen looks enthralled.
At the school, Andie and Mr. Broderick preside over a rehearsal. After dark. On the same day as initial auditions. Whatever. Mr. Broderick gives Pacey some pretty terrible and incomprehensible direction that boils down to his wishing Pacey to act "louder and angrier." Andie tries to offer contradictory direction, but Mr. Broderick shouts her down. Pacey ends up giving an appalling performance, of course. The only noteworthy bit in this scene is when Mr. Broderick tells Pacey to quit gesticulating. As Mister Patrick Leswick said a looooong time ago, there really is too much "hand acting" on this show.