Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Road Trip
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 03.16.1998
Outside the bar, Dawson starts babbling about the weather and the fact that Billy's a jerk and he brought Dawson here and he's from New York and Nina breaks in to ask if they're doing something Dawson doesn't want to do, because he's launched into "a pretty convincing Rain Man impression," and all they're doing is walking to her car. "And after that?" Dawson asks. "Well, after that I'm driving home," she says. "Notice the first person singular. I'm not in the habit of being a sexual facilitator for men with something to prove." Dawson splutters, "It's not like that!" Nina says that actually, it's exactly like that: "I saw your friends over your shoulder. They did everything but hold up score cards." Dawson, for once, has no response to that, but to admit that she may be right: "I just got dumped." Nina says, "And the evening snaps into focus." Dawson explains that he let Billy and Pacey convince him that the way to get over it was to go out and pick up. Nina says that's not exactly healthy. Dawson says he knows she's right, and adds that it stopped being about that for nearly an hour while he was in there talking to her, and that for the first time in three days, he doesn't feel so bad. Nina asks if it would impress his friends if he didn't reappear until morning. Ew. Dawson's entire face lights up with his completely unlikely good fortune, and he tells her that he thinks they'd erect a statue. She tells him he can come over and fall asleep watching TV: "I mean, you're a Spielberg fan. It's not like I'd be in any danger, right?" He grins, and hesitates. She tells him to hurry up and decide before she changes her mind. Dawson tells her that he still likes the girl who dumped him, and that it wouldn't be right. Nina says she doesn't know whether she should be offended or if he's just restored her faith in the male sex. Two words that should not be used with reference to Dawson: "male." "Sex." They kiss. Nina gets in her car and tells Dawson to call her if his girl doesn't come to her senses. Dawson smugly watches her go. Please excuse me while I go up the CN Tower and affix a banner emblazoned with the word "WHATEVER."
At the college fair, Joey studies a brochure. Abby smirks at her from a few paces off, then strolls up to Jen, who is studying Joey. Abby follows Jen's gaze, and asks, "Imagining what she'll look like with a bowling ball in her uterus? Don't bother." Jen, trying to stick with Joey's cover story, says, "I thought she was --" Abby cuts her off: "Not a chance. That girl's comic relief. Speaking of which, Warren Garry was called into the nurse's office this afternoon for a lecture on contraception." Jen says, "Well, good. He could use--" Again, Abby interrupts her: "You don't get it. Warren is the last person that needs that lecture. What you heard was a lie made up by a pathetic sophomore trying to land a popular boyfriend. " The camera cuts back to Joey, looking weary and embarassed. "Besides," Abby adds, "Warren couldn't fertilize a garden....I had a chat with my friend Elise today. She used to date Warren. She dated him for six months. She used to bake him spirit cookies before every game. She bought a $400 dress for a dance he failed to show up for....According to Elise, Warren had one other significant failure as a boyfriend. Let's just say he had a soft spot for the ladies in a very unfortunate location." Jen looks stunned, and hurries over to Joey, evidently giving her the 411. Joey's face lights up at the possibilities inherent in this knowledge.