Episode Report Card Sars: C- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Future Shock
By Sars | Season 6 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.13.2003
More defensiveness from Joey about liking "a teen soap -- so what?" "The way it possesses" her is what frightens Sisto. Another meta reference, and then Joey claims to have an "emotional connection to" the show that he wouldn't understand. I don't get that -- does he not know already that Faux-ey is based on her? Sisto makes fun of it some more, especially the love triangle part: "Find out next week as we continue to beat a dead dog all the way into syndication!" See? My point, writers. The expression is "dead horse," for God's sack. How can you "abuse" the English language if you don't even have a speaking relationship with it? Joey says she thinks that, subconsciously, Sisto likes the show just as much as she does. Sisto responds that that sounds like Faux-ey on the show. "How dare you?" Joey mock-glares at him. Sisto grabs the manuscript out of her hands and mauls her for about a week as a Snuffy-Walden-esque guitar mutters in the background, "Get on with it." Then Joey interrupts and asks all worriedly, "Do you really think I sound like her?"
Credits. A cat furtively approaches Paula Cole's bedside, leaps up onto the pillow beside her, and steals her breath.
In L.A., it's all Hollywood hectic at The Creek HQ. Dawson "Forehead: Reloaded" Leery strides down a hall, an assistant snapping at his heels about "network notes" -- namely, that "they did not clear 'masturbate' as acceptable dialogue." What euphemism is Dawson to use instead? "They suggested 'walking your dog.'" Dawson whatevers, "'Walking your dog'?" It's one thing to think it's a stupid euphemism, because, well, it is a stupid euphemism. It's another thing not to remember that it's your stupid euphemism, "writers." Blech. Anyway, yeah, ha ha, moving on to a reference to an actor on the show not knowing that his character is coming out of the closet, and "he's going to lose it!" Oh, all right: Hee! I'll take any dig at Kerr Smith, even if it's clumsy. Dawson escapes from the assistant and into the writers' room, which we enter in medias debate with one guy grousing, "They're soulmates, they have to end up together." Oh, barf. Another guy metas that that's all well and good, but "not in the first season, you got nowhere to go after that." A guy who looks like Andy Richter's cousin brings Dawson up to speed, and a woman at the table argues that if Faux-ey chooses Fake-cey, "it will break convention and surprise the audience." "Surprise, not satisfy," the first writer argues, and uses the word "soulmate" again: "It's destiny!" Richter, claiming that the show is about breaking convention (bwa! Pull the other one, Williamson), wants to discard the "notion of destiny and fate." The writers ask for Dawson's input. A long silence as he furrows his gigantic brow. "I think you guys are onto something," he finally non-answers before grabbing a couple of props and bolting from the room in a big old Hollywood hurry. Out in the hall, more exposition business with the assistant about the wedding and blowing off a woman named Rebecca and late for editing and bleh.