Episode Report Card Jessica: F | 1 USERS: F YOU GRADE IT Lovelines
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.15.2003
Backstage after the show, Joey and Oliver bicker. Adam steps in and basically tells Oliver to give Joey a break, because she's so damn hot. Poor Adam; he's infected with the IT. Maybe Dr. Drew can write him a prescription for that. Oliver then reveals that he's twenty-five, and Adam yammers that, when he was twenty-five, he lived in his parents' basement and only dreamt of girls as awe-inspiringly hot as the utterly perfect and completely flawless Joey Potter. He adds that today's co-eds dress a lot sluttier, and that Oliver ought to be grateful, dammit! Then he gets Joey to admit that she doesn't trust Oliver, and that little factoid makes the fact that she just broke up with Pacey so very much clearer! Except totally not. "Well, my work is done here. I'm going to get some cheese," Adam announces, as the Idiot Couple stares at each other.
Oliver tells Joey that he doesn't blame her for not trusting him. Well, that's big of him. Joey sniffles that they're "living in a fantasy," and now they have to start living in the real world. What does that even mean? At long last, Oliver apologizes for giving her such a hard time about not wanting to have sex with him. He tells her that he knows there's nothing he can say to earn her trust, but that it's time for her to "take a leap of faith and know that [he] loves [her] more than anything in this world." And, as easy as that, Joey starts making out with him. Whatever. The two of them deserve each other at this point.
Meanwhile, towards the front of the auditorium, TGED and Jack break up over the seat-saving issue. Yes. Yes, over SEAT-SAVING. I don't even know what to say about that. I guess, technically, TGED just tells Jack to either apologize with him or break up with him, and Jack brats, "Fine! Sorry!" and TGED yelps that he "deserves better" and stomps off, and Jack just looks at the ground and bites his lip. I would have loved to have been in the story meeting when this episode was pitched. Were they all, "And Jack and TGED break up! Because of a misunderstanding about seat-saving," and the Powers That Be were all, "Yes! Seat-saving is a phenomenon that we haven't yet explored! The youth of today must learn about the delicate etiquette of saving seats! Let's do a PSA to follow this episode, warning America about the danger of not saving a seat for your boyfriend! Clear a spot on my desk for my Peabody!"
To wrap it up with our third idiotic couple: Jen and Blandy meet outside, and they do this bit where she pretends to call the Andrea Zuckerman Memorial Helpline, and he pretends to answer it, and then he tells her that she needs to trust him enough to confide in him, and I must admit that he seems somewhat less bland to me. In fact, I think that I might rather like him. And in honor of that, I'm going to restore his actual name and start calling him CJ. And that has nothing to do with the fact that "CJ" is a lot quicker to type than "Blandy." Anyhoo, at long last, Jen sniffles that Grams is real sick and she's totally freaked out! CJ makes a very sympathetic face and wraps her in his arms and tells her she's allowed to have as many freak-outs as she needs. Aw. I wish these two would make a go of it. But I assume that, next week, Jen will dump him because he accidentally brought her regular Coke instead of Diet, as things tend to go that way on this show.