Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Beauty Contest
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 05.11.1998
At the Leery hearth, Dawson asks Pacey whether he's talked to Joey lately. Pacey says, "Not since our torrid night of naked face-sucking." Dawson looks alarmed, and Pacey says he's kidding, and asks why Dawson asks. Dawson says, "Well, she says we're cool [well, she is], but she's been avoiding me." See? Joey was better before! Pacey rolls his eyes, "And...?" Dawson murmurs, "I don't know what to do. I miss her when she's not around." Pacey groans in relief: "Ah, at last, the moment of truth. Well, thank God, Dawson. Maybe we can all go home now." Ha! If only! Dawson says, "Pacey, I know you're obsessed with this little theory of yours, but the truth is that I've never thought of Joey in a romantic context. You know, I mean, I've always thought of her as like a...you know, a sister. I just don't think I could ever get past that. If Joey and I got together, it'd be a little incestuous." Yes. It would. And was. And will be. Pacey says, "So what you're saying is you don't want her but you don't want anyone else to have her either?" Yes, that is exactly what he's saying, and will continue to say for the next TWO YEARS, because he wants to be the girl with the most cake.
At the site of the pageant, a girl in pink sweats is tap-dancing and we hear Dawson's voice asking someone to tell him about herself. A girl's voice answers that she'd like to study early education, or work with children with special needs. The camera continues to pan across a vista of contestants warming up and bumping into each other. Just when the audience thinks that this girl's ambition is quite laudable, she explains, "That means like when they're crippled or retarded, or something. Or maybe I'll become an actress or a model, because a lot of people keep telling me I'm pretty enough." The contestant yammers on as Jen and Joey appear in the doorway. Joey hisses at Jen, "Wait a minute, Dawson's doing the interviews?" Jen confidently assures her that it's just a pre-interview for the judges to see. She adds that the real contest takes place live, on the stage.
A pretty but simply dressed girl settles into the hot seat and says her name is Roberta Crump, and she's a senior at Capeside.
In another part of the room, Hannah -- wearing a very smart and quite becoming brown suit -- reviews her notes and comes upon Pacey, who asks if she'd like to see "the great Pacedini pull a rabbit out of his hat." She replies that a magic act is "appropriately juvenile" of him. Pacey says, "You know, all this sexual tension can't be good for your complexion. What do you say you and I go backstage and do something about it?" "Please, I just ate," she snots.