Dawson's Creek"Detention" (formerly "The Breakfast Club") - Season 1
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The opening of this episode, like the opening of almost every other episode this season, is fraught with Joey/Dawson awkwardness, but in this episode, they actually share their first kiss.
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Theresa - TwoCents Reviewer
theresa@thetwocentscorp.com
The opening of this episode, like the opening of almost every other episode this season, is fraught with Joey/Dawson awkwardness, but in this episode, they actually share their first kiss.
We start off in Dawson's bedroom, of course, where they discuss the shallow reasons people have for who they're attracted to. Dawson defends his attraction to Jen as more than just her blonde hair and big chest, then Joey comments that Pacey has bigger biceps and Dawson gets all sullen about it.
After the credits, we meet Abby Morgan when she interrupts Joey's presentation on ancient Japanese history by coming late to class. Joey also gets heckled by a classmate named Grant, who only wants to talk about the shogun's concubines. Later on in the lunch line, she punches him when he suggests she be his concubine. Well worth the detention she gets.
Dawson gets all pissy again when Pacey tells Jen that other kids used to call him "Oompa Loompa". When Pacey makes fun of his basketball skills in a one-on-one game in front of the cheerleaders and then uses the nickname, Dawson throws the ball at his face. That gets him the same Saturday detention as Joey and Jen, whose crime was saying "life's a bitch" in a euthanasia discussion with a teacher who apparently has a grudge against anyone from New York.
When Dawson and Jen get to detention, they also find a badly bruised Pacey, but they don't find out the very embarrassing reason he's there until later. Soon, Abby joins them all, and they clearly don't get along, but she proves to be a very important catalyst for the group's drama. She tells everyone she's in detention for an ecstasy-fueled orgy in the boys' locker room, but that's decidedly less than true: at the end, the group finds out she's actually just been tardy too many times. Such is Abby, who becomes Jen's partner-in-crime later on in the series before she dies from a drunken fall.
But back to live Abby, who suggests a game of Truth or Dare to pass the time. Joey gets a smug thrill out of Pacey having to kiss Jen, until Pacey dares her to kiss Dawson. Can of worms, open. To escape the awkwardness of Jen calling Joey on her Dawson fixation, Dawson dares the whole group to escape detention. When another fight breaks out with Pacey accusing Dawson of being jealous of him, Dawson challenges Pacey to another basketball game, which Dawson wins while Pacey is caught off-guard. Speaking of caught, they all are when the librarian finds them rushing back from the gym and orders them to fix the catalog cards that she (oops!) dumps all over the floor.
When they're done, Dawson lashes out at Pacey again thinking he wants to steal Jen, because Pacey is the "big sex stud" and Dawson is a virgin. Pacey corrects him by confessing why he's in detention: he was "relieving some tension" in the bathroom after having his bruises attended to by the cheerleaders. Other heartfelt conversations in detention include why Jen and Dawson's relationship transcends the desire for sex, and how Joey is bottling up lots of only-cryptic-to-Dawson feelings.
This is a pretty classic episode, and not just because Josh makes an awesome Mighty Ducks reference. What do you think of the episode, and Abby? Leave your Two Cents in the comments.