Episode Report Card Jessica: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Highway To Hell
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.02.2002
Grams's Premarital Sex Shoppe. Dawson's wrapping a gift while Jen is trying to decide what to wear. "We're going to Capeside for a one-year-old's birthday. Who am I trying to impress?" she wonders, buttoning up a very small black shiny cowboy-style shirt. "You got me," Dawson says mildly, looking at his package. The one he's wrapping, you perv. Also: ew. "You mean, I've got you, or you're stumped?" Jen snaps. And Dawson is all, huh? Furthermore, and I hate to say this, but Michelle Williams looks very thin here. I think she's just about ready for a seat at the Joey, Eat A Sandwich Lunch Table Café in Wilmington, North Carolina. "I don't know. Getting dressed. Carry on," Jen tells him.
Grams cracks the door open a smidge, her hands over her eyes. "Jennifah, Dawson, I hope you're decent, as I've already entered the room," she says. And they so are. "Sorry. I thought you were…um, let's move on," she says. Dear, dear Grams: if you thought they were, "um," then why did you open the door without knocking? Don't do that! She tells Dawson and her greasy-haired granddaughter that Joey's downstairs. And then she leaves. "Wow, I feel really old and boring all of a sudden," Dawson chuckles. "Not every morning has to begin with an embarrassing Grams encounter," Jen snaps. This, inexplicably and despite the fact that Joey is waiting for them downstairs, makes Dawson want to Do It. Jen sputters that she doesn't want to "be away from [her] clothes" so soon after deciding on an outfit. "Okay," Dawson says, and heads for the door. "That was easy," Jen snarks. And Dawson is all, excuse me? "Aren't you supposed to want to have sex with me all the time?" she snips. Dawson explains that he pretty much does, but reminds her that she just said she wasn't in the mood, and she's also really cranky, which makes him cranky, and he really doesn't want to give into this fight she's picking and then have to listen to her talk about him on the radio, so he's going downstairs. And he does. "Smart-ass," Jen breathes. "Are you okay? Seriously?" Dawson says, sticking his head back in the door. She says she is. And then she starts to change clothes again. Because she needs a change. She needs to change something in her life. Something. Needs. To be changed. Just in case you didn't get that she totally wants to dump his ass.
Dawson greets Joey on the sidewalk, telling her that they're leaving in ten minutes. Joey grins and tells him that she can't make it because she's