Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Neverland
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.04.2000
Andie observes that Joey seems "a little -- I don't know, weird or something." Joey drinks her product-placed Diet Coke and says fakely, "No, I'm fine," glancing over at Dawson and Pacey. Andie asks, "So, how was your weekend? Anything interesting happen?" Looking over at the boys' table again, Joey says, "Um . . . nah." Whatever. She could have at least mentioned that she broke up with AJ even if she didn't go into detail about the thing with Pacey.
At the boys' table, Pacey nervously suggests that the two of them go camping in the woods that weekend "to give the fort one last hurrah," and to make it more appealing to Dawson's chronically overdeveloped sense of nostalgia, Pacey blathers on about "Pacey and Dawson, paying homage to their swiftly disappearing childhood," and he pronounces the "h" in "homage," which really bugged me. Dawson, whose hair looks like a risotto experiment gone horribly wrong, thinks it's "a really good idea. Let's do it. Let's go camping." "Great. Okay," Pacey sort of gasps, taking a large swallow of lemonade to calm his nerves.
Before I can sink into a highly enjoyable daydream in which Dawson and his E.T. sleeping bag become bear kibble, we cut back to the girls' table. Jen joins Andie and Joey with a gusty sigh. Joey asks what's wrong, and Jen grumbles, "Well, my boyfriend is ashamed of me, and a weaselly little liar, but other than that, I'm just peachy," and begins peeling a banana. Coincidence? I think not. Andie and Joey express their condolences; Jen says, "Well, given the pathetic track record of my love life, why would I expect any less?" Andie gets fed up and announces, "Okay, you know what, friends? Other girls don't have these problems like we do, and you want to know why? Because they actually hang out together." Um, WORD. Thank you, writers, for finally, FINALLY acknowledging what we on the DC forums have said a hundred thousand times. Jen asks what she means. Andie, getting her girl power on: "I mean, this mood of yours is in clear need of a little estrogen energy boost. Not to mention that there's this mysterious black cloud hanging over Joey's head." Joey looks doubtful while sipping her Diet Coke. Andie suggests a girls' night out, and when Joey repeats, "Girls' night out?" all skeptically, Andie perks, "Yeah!" before pointing out, "Okay, don't you guys think it's a little abnormal that the two of you never hang out with anybody who doesn't have a penis?" More yammering about female bonding, followed by singularly tired and unfunny repartee about Thelma & Louise, and I'd like to remind the television industry that other films exist in which the female protagonists bond, and perhaps, maybe, just once in a while, you could refer to one of those other films instead of always using T & L -- I mean, I liked the movie, but please, buy a Videohound and broaden your knowledge base, will you? Anyway, Andie continues with her chicks-before-dicks pitch, and Jen looks over to see Henry gazing at her from the entrance to the caf, then taking off all flustered, and she tells Andie firmly that she's in. Joey says she's in too. Andie claps her hands excitedly and tells them that they "aren't gonna regret it."