Episode Report Card Sars: D+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Boyfriend
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 03.09.1998
At Bessie’s Bastard Barn, Joey tries to get "Where In The World Is" Bodie "Sandiego" out of the bathroom, pounding on the door and crabbing, "I need to dry my hair." Bessie "Future Single Parent" Potter croons to the baby as she puts him in his crib. The sisters fight for space in front of the bedroom mirror, and Bessie comments, "You look like hell," and Joey snarls, "Yeah, well, the human alarm clock kept me up all night," and yanks a brush through her wet hair. She overslept, she adds, and now she won’t have time to cram for her Spanish test. Joey throws her things together, and Bessie apologizes for the disruption but promises that things will settle down once she and Bodie "get through this adjustment period," and Joey asks when she can expect that to happen, and Bessie jokes, "Two, three years, max," and Joey grumbles, "Wonderful," and pulls on a cardigan over her midriff top.
Capeside High. Dawson and Joey sit on the steps inside. Dawson quizzes Joey in Spanish, and Joey thanks him for doing that, and then she asks, "So where’s the girlfriend this morning?" and Dawson says, "Don’t know, I haven’t seen her. Pay attention," and throws another phrase at Joey, and she translates it and veers back to the subject of Jen with as much subtlety as a professional wrestler: "It was just that you haven’t said much lately -- things between you and Jen okay? I mean, everything going swimmingly?" Dawson says, "Yeah, great. I mean, I admit it got a little bit rough there for a little while, but everything’s going great," and Joey generously says, "Good, that’s really good." The bell rings. Joey and Dawson get up, and Jen "Th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-that’s All, Folks!" Lindley appears and she and Dawson kiss hello all dramatically and Dawson gives Joey her Spanish book back, and Dawson and Jen take each other’s hand all dramatically and Jen compliments Dawson on his XXXL sweater vest. Good thing Dawson didn’t borrow it from the dad on ALF. Oh, wait, he did. Dawson asks Jen if she still wants to go bowling that night, and Jen says she "can’t wait," and Joey curls her lip and takes off, and as Joey leaves them, Jen spots her thirty-year-old ex-boyfriend loitering around in his oh-so-New York leather top-coat and oh-so-New York crazy-patterned shirt and oh-so-Miami Vice stubble. Dawson offers to walk her to lab, and Jen begins stammering an excuse, and Joey pauses before going into class to watch, and Jen asks Dawson if she can "catch up with" him later, and Dawson smells a rat thanks to his gigantic nostrils, but he goes on his way.