Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Song Remains The Same (2)
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.01.2002
Joey's dorm room. Dawson examines the Snow Globe of Sex. I will never be able to look at a snow globe the same way again. Snow globes are officially ruined for me. Oh, except I still want the one I saw in Las Vegas the last time I was there. It was, officially, the worst snow globe ever: Jesus Christ, on the cross. In a snow globe. How sacrilegious is that? Oh! Or an Elvis snow globe, because that's kitschy delight. I'd still want an Elvis -- okay, so maybe this show hasn't ruined snow globes for me. It has, however, blinded me, and I think that's bad enough. Joey finally emerges from the bathroom, looking all glowy and I-Just-Got-Laidy. They beam at each other. Aw, that's almost sort of sweet.
"You look beautiful," Dawson says. Joey blushes and thanks him. She does look very pretty here, albeit a bit orange. Dawson tells her that he has to work, but they'll get together later. "I'll call you," he says, then hurries to say that he doesn't mean that like, you know, the bad cliché. Joey smiles. "Not like the standard blow-off you get from a frat guy trying to make a graceful exit from the world's most embarrassing hookup?" she asks. "Yes! I mean not like that," Dawson says. "Not embarrassing?" Joey asks. "Not like that," he reiterates, sitting down on the bed. Joey wonders if he agrees that "since last night, words have lost all meaning." Dawson chuckles. "Because I just spent 15 minutes in the bathroom trying to think of something to say to you and all I could come up with is 'hi,'" Joey tells him. Dawson smiles at her. "I like it," he tells her. "It was heartfelt and sincere." Joey corrects him, and says that it was "idiotic." Dawson chuckles that he can top it. That note he left on her pillow? Took multiple drafts. They grin idiotically at each other in silence for a moment before Dawson's cell phone rings and Todd starts screaming in his ear. Dawson manages to squeak out a few words to Todd, then hangs up and looks vaguely put upon. Joey tells him to go, and call her later. But she has one thing to ask him first. "What happened to the other three drafts?" He tossed them when he went out to get coffee. "I thought that was a little suspicious," Joey grins. Dawson's face falls a little bit and he starts to say that, actually, he needs to tell her that -- and, of course, the phone rings, interrupting him. The LED readout indicates that it's "Satan" calling, which Joey correctly interprets as Todd. Todd screams that he needs a drink and a pastry and then slams the phone down. Todd is my idol. He's everything I would like to be. Anyway, Joey kicks Dawson out after a little more schmoopy vomit-inducing action. On opposite sides of the door, they both look somewhat stunned by the events of the evening.