Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Living Dead Girl
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.29.2002
Over at the party, the shitty band continues to play. Was Joey even invited to this party? Do any of the regular characters even talk to each other anymore? Audrey and Pacey walk through the cavorting guests. Audrey says she's died and gone to hell. If only. She wants to dance, but Pacey doesn't feel like it. Audrey smacks him lightly. "When did you become such a dull normal?" she asks. "About the same time you started failing tests," Pacey retorts. "What's with the 'F,' Audrey?" he asks. Audrey gives him a pat, snarky answer about the American grading system, but assures him that she's got it totally under control. Pacey doesn't buy it, and tells her that "F"s tend to come in bunches. Audrey looks bored and suggests that they change the subject. Pacey insists that he's just worried. Audrey snits that she finds that hard to believe, and tells him that he's "too busy running around being Glengarry, Glen Loser" to worry about much of anything. Pacey looks hurt, and tells her that he really doesn't appreciate her giving him a hard time just because he has to work for a living. "Just don't lose yourself, is all," Audrey finally spits. Pacey looks around as if searching for heavenly guidance and simply says that he can't believe they're arguing about this again.
Finally, Audrey spits out the reason behind her poor grades: she isn't going to class because she's too depressed about their relationship. She thinks Pacey loves his job more than he loves her. And if she truly did care about her, he'd know that. And then she stomps off. That's the worst excuse for a bad grade ever. "My dog ate my homework" makes more sense than that does. It would make more sense for a dog to actually eat her homework. I'm not saying that people who are depressed don't stop going to class. I'm just saying that we haven't seen Audrey being depressed at all. Drunk? Yes. Bitchy? Sure. Down in the dumps? Not exactly. Maybe I'm biased, though -- when I had a broken heart, I got the best grades of my life because I threw myself into my schoolwork. The harder I worked, the less I had to think about my feelings. But maybe Audrey just can't deal with class. Whatever: their relationship is both stupid and doomed and I haven't cared for weeks, so why start now? I'm more concerned about sniffing out the asshat at work who ate the last Devil Dog than I am about the romantic future of Audrey and Pacey.
Elsewhere at the party, Dawson is talking to a girl dressed like a devil. A hot devil, of course. She's flirting with him, but he catches sight of "the ghost" again, and makes a series of scared faces and runs away from her to chase it. "This is the worst ghost story ever," the Mulder action figure says. "I don't believe it, and I believe everything."