Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.23.1999
Oh, for god's sake, Target, enough with the damn Blair Witch parodies.
As Pacey and Jack walk around the house in sociable silence, Andie wanders out onto The Ryan Home's front porch. Joey comes up beside her and says, "It gets easier, you know." "What does?" Andie asks. "Being in the same room with him," Joey says.
Meanwhile, Pacey and Jack set the table, and Pacey asks Jack if Andie ever asks about him. "What do you think?" Jack replies. Pacey says he thinks Andie hates him now. "Ah, only every other day," Jack jokes. Pacey looks up at the porch and stops mid-plate-stack when he sees Andie.
Back on the porch, Joey tells Andie that, "as a veteran of multiple break-ups with the same boy," she can empathize with Andie, and she just wanted to let Andie know that "the dark nights will pass. Eventually, you will find peace." Oh, lord -- who wrote this dialogue, George Lucas? Give the Yoda-of-Capeside routine a rest, Joey. Andie says she wishes she could believe Joey, and she describes her broken heart, and how she has to keep busy or she'll think about hurting Pacey and getting hurt and so on, and she says she doesn't feel comfortable in her own skin sometimes, and I don't like Andie and she had the hurt coming, but the writers actually nailed a description for once.
Back to the picnic table, where Jack says, "Well, it's not a judgment, it's a fact. You broke my sister's heart." Um, okay -- hello. Andie. Slept. WITH SOMEONE ELSE! Andie has no right, no claim, no grounds to act as the injured party -- NONE! Andie must now take what Pacey dishes out, because hey, PAYBACK'S A BITCH! I have played all three points of this sordid little triangle in my life, and I'm not proud of cheating, but I never expected sympathy when the guy found out and dumped my ass. Why? BECAUSE I DESERVED IT! I deserved to get dumped, I deserved to get cut dead by his friends, I deserved to have him get drunk and call me up and yell at me some more, because I cheated on him, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND! I know people make mistakes they wish they could take back, and I know how shitty Andie feels because I've felt that exact way myself, but really, the cheater does NOT set the rules of engagement. ANYHOW. Pacey mutters, "She broke mine." Jack sets glasses on the table and says, "Okay, so -- imagine how much pain she's in." Imagine how little credence anyone who has ever conducted a relationship in real life would give that argument. Done imagining? Okay, let's move on.