Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cinderella Story
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.29.2000
In her dorm room, Morgan explains to Joey that A.J.'s dad's name is Arthur, and that "A.J." stands for "Arthur Junior." Well, isn't that...well, twee. Let's not gild the lily, here. Joey perches awkwardly on the edge of Morgan's bed as Morgan putters around. Joey says she can't believe A.J. never told her what his initials stood for (and I can't believe she never asked), but Morgan assures her, "You would've gotten it eventually." Glancing around, Joey's gaze alights on a picture, and she points to it and asks, "Who's that?" "A -- a friend," Morgan says. Joey opines that the friend is "gorgeous," and Morgan sort of laughs and keeps puttering. Joey gets up to get a closer look at Morgan's bulletin board, which is festooned with photos of chalk drawings; Joey says she "can't believe people just draw [them] on the sidewalk." Morgan informs her that sidewalk chalk drawing is a classic Parisian tradition. Joey snarks, "Yeah, but who does this kind of work?" and Morgan admits, "Uh. Me," and tells Joey a little background about one particular drawing to cover the awkward moment. She concludes by saying that this semester she's taking photography: "I guess I was wanting something more substantial in my life." She hands Joey a coat to wear the night of the award ceremony, and Joey thanks her. Morgan says that A.J. may yet chicken out and not show up at all, and that "sometimes you really have to kick his butt." She sits down and says that once she gave him this particular kind of paper and told him he couldn't talk to her until he'd filled it up with words: "He didn't talk to me for two weeks." Nice strategy to get yourself a little A.J. vacation, there, Morgan.
Joey says there are so many things she's learning about A.J., every day. Morgan tells Joey that A.J. eats all the peanuts out of Chex Mix, and makes a lame joke about his being banned from parties over it (as if his objectionable personality weren't reason enough not to invite him anywhere). They move on to A.J.'s pasta slurping, and his habit of conjugating Latin verbs under his breath when he gets nervous (DORK), and then Joey opines, "He can kiss." This pulls Morgan up short, and she says, "Yeah, well...." "You don't have to --" Joey says, but Morgan says it's okay and tells Joey that she and A.J. kissed once, and felt weird and silly afterward, and realized that they knew each other too well: "There's just no mystery, so, um, there's absolutely and positively nothing there." Joey crosses her arms and asks Morgan if she has any plans for the next night. Morgan starts to say that she's going to do her favourite thing, which is get the early Sunday New York Times, and Joey interrupts to tell her she should come to the ceremony. I had just assumed all along that she was coming, but Morgan demurs, since Joey is A.J.'s girlfriend. Joey insists, saying that Morgan is A.J.'s best friend, and should be there, and that it should be possible for both of them to be part of A.J.'s life. I don't think there's that much A.J. to go around, but then, I guess we'll see.