Episode Report Card Jessica: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Rock Bottom
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.28.2003
Finally, Joey, Oliver, and the gang arrive in Los Angeles. They pull up in front of Audrey's house, an attractive estate on a palm tree-lined street. Yay, Los Angeles! My hometown. Oliver hands Audrey her knapsack, and she apologizes for being such a horrible bitch to him. Oliver lies that she hasn't been that bad. Audrey shrugs and tells him that Joey loves him. "You're going to go down in the books as one of the great loves of Joey Potter's life, which, trust me, doesn't suck," she tells him. Oh, Jesus. Isn't it a little early to say who the great loves of Joey's life are going to be? She's nineteen! When I was nineteen, I though Ralph Fiennes was the great love of my life, and now he doesn't even crack the top ten. "It most certainly does not," Oliver agrees. They smile at each other until Audrey gets bored of looking at him and turns to Joey. Joey asks if Audrey needs her to come inside, but Audrey shakes her head. "I need to face the firing squad alone," she says. Nice coat -- again! -- Joey, but it's about eighty degrees in Los Angeles right now. Although, in all honesty, we usually do need coats in January. And -- full disclosure -- I myself own, um, eight coats. Yes, in this instance, I am a hypocrite. I'm so ashamed! So, Audrey tells Joey that she's finally realized that she has to get her head on straight and figure out why she's so unhappy, why she can't stop pickling her liver with the booze. Joey and her gray undereye circles hug Audrey and remind her that "everyone in Beantown loves [her] to death." Audrey, in her turn, says that Joey is her best friend in the entire world. Joey blushes, and Audrey tells her to "let [Oliver] go." Joey pulls away and nods, as Oliver comes over and tells her that he's got to go if he wants to get to his meeting at The Writer's Program Of Great Convenience. Joey agrees, but wonders what they're going to do about Bob. What about Bob, indeed? Audrey grabs Bob from the back seat and tells him that they're going to tell her parents that they got married in Vegas. To distract them from the fact that she's a booze hound. Bob is down with this little scheme. "Can we have sex again?" he asks. "No," Audrey tells him. "What kind of honeymoon is that? Besides, I got to work on my hang time, sugar," Bob tells her. I love Bob. I'm sure that means that, should Bob appear in future episodes, he will have been transformed in a horrible, unpleasant shell of his former self. Audrey promises to "think about it," and they go inside.