DC S05.E05: Use Your Disillusion

Having apparently exhausted his usefulness at home, Gale sends him to Worthington to hang out with Joey for a couple of days. Given Dawson's lack of interest in her when she was home for the funeral, she is nervous as hell about how the visit's going to go. Once he gets there, he doesn't seem especially psyched to watch a movie on her tiny TV even before they get to a scene that too closely mirrors recent events in his life. When she mentions a party at Professor Wilder's house, he's eager to go...until he actually gets there and immediately feels trapped. What is happening to Dawson's emotions and why? (...We all know, but it's 2001; they hadn't heard of trauma yet back then.) Pacey's in the middle of telling Jen all about his amazing new mentor Danny and crush Karen when Jen happens to spot Charlie through the window of a restaurant: he told Jen he had a shift at the radio station that night, but here he is dining with ANOTHER GIRL?! While Jen comes to terms with Charlie's possible trampiness, Pacey starts to get inklings that Danny isn't all he's cracked up to be. Tobey comes to town to surprise Jack on what unfortunately happens to be Hell Week for the frat pledges. Can Jack balance his obligations to his new friends with the attention he needs and wants to pay his boyfriend? Use your ears to enjoy our episode on "Use Your Disillusion"!JOIN THE AWT CLUB🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes💬 Access to the AWT Discord🚫 Ad free episodes👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcastNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids👵🏻 The Golden Girls S01.E16: "The Truth Will Out" on Hulu🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds.👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Mitch is dead, and everyone's stopped their lives to deal with it. All the Boston students, plus Grams and Pacey, come back for the funeral. (Evidently all Pacey's relatives -- including Gretchen, who lives less than a half-day's drive away -- had better things to do.) Jen doesn't know how to help Dawson, and says so to him. Joey thinks she does, and gets rebuffed. Dawson himself is handling as much of the preparations as he can because Gale has fully broken down, though when he does open up, it's to tell Joey he blames himself entirely for Mitch's death. This is such a relentlessly grim one that we better get at least three kooky ones to balance it out, but for now, say hello to our episode on "The Long Goodbye"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids 🛍️ Julie Bowen for Sears 💉 Rachael Leigh Cook for the Partnership For A Drug-Free America 🍳 Tony Hale for Pam ⛳️ Mitchell Laurance for Cleveland Golf 🚗 Jane Lynch for the Chevrolet Beretta 🍬 Meredith Monroe for Mentos 🤫 Meredith Monroe for Secret 🥚 Lawrence Pressman for The Incredible Edible Egg 💆🏻‍♂️ John Wesley Shipp for Head & Shoulders 🤐 John Wesley Shipp for Secret 🐄 Kerr Smith for Gateway Computers 🎞️ Jenna Cavelle on IMDb 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237 EXISTING MEMBERS: YOUR CLUB PERKS 🎁 Check out how to get all your club perks on the Pinned Patreon Primer Post

It turns out Danny's restaurant is quite a hot spot, which is how a scenester like Joey (sarcasm) happens to be there on one of Pacey's first nights working there. Jen readily confesses everything she knows about his time in Boston, including that THIS chance glimpse really did happen by chance, since Jen didn't know he worked there. Once Joey has heard that Pacey asked Jen not to tell Joey he was in town, Joey starts spinning out that he must not want to see her. Fortunately, Audrey is there to convince her to get over herself. Dawson is also still hanging out in Boston, dragging his feet on telling his parents that he wants to drop out of USC and move to Boston. When he finally does, Mitch is stern and judgmental to Dawson while admitting to Gale that he really did miss Dawson and wasn't upset to see him back. Neither parent thinks it's a great idea for him to change his college plan to spend more time with a girl he's not even dating, and they've obviously got a point. Jen starts overthinking her relationship with Charlie, forcing them both into a sex fast so that they can actually have conversations and learn about each other. And Jack finds out he has one specific attribute that made the Sigma Epsilon brothers want to pursue him as a pledge. Visit our visit to "Capeside Revisited"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ✈️ Termination Point on The Roku Channel 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

We’re off this week but we bring you two Again With Again With This episodes from the club vault. AWAWT 172: Let's Watch Linda Gray AND Donna Mills In Ladies Of The '80s: A Divas Christmas! Life imitates art -- or maybe Lifetime imitates soaps -- as a bunch of daytime divas from an earlier age reunite for a special episode of their old show, and help a couple of young people out of their own way in the process. Call your mom -- she might be wondering which of her favorite stars from Knots Landing and Dallas are still alive! AWAWT 220: Let’s Watch Laura Leighton In Naked City: A Killer Christmas! The Naked City (1948) spawned a TV show in the fifties, AND two Showtime movies in the nineties; the second one stars Laura Leighton as an ambitious but ambivalent tabloid-newsmag anchor. It also stars Scott Glenn and Courtney B. Vance as cop partners, but are they (or Bogdanovich's direction) enough to save a corny script? JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🤶🏻 Ladies Of The '80s: A Divas Christmas on MyLifetime.com 🌃 Watch Naked City: A Killer Christmas on YouTube 🛜 Remembering the Electric Bean Cybercafé 🥣 The Oatmeal Crisp TV commercial 👮 "True Crime’s ACAB Playbook Is Falling Into Place," by Kathryn VanArendonk 🎞️ Where to watch the original 1948 feelm 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Dawson having shown up in Boston as none of us particularly wanted him to, he's had a delightful weekend (offscreen) with Joey. That all changes on his last day when he finally thinks to call his USC dorm room for the one and only message on his answering machine: the one Joey left, while drunk at a frat party, telling him that SHE. Is OVER. HIM. Or something like that. Suddenly, Dawson is incensed, so it's a good thing Joey has an administrative task to handle: it's the last day she can drop Professor Wilder's Creative Writing class, so she's going to be standing in an hours-long line while Dawson has Audrey give him the campus tour and listen to his bitching about his lonely loser life in Los Angeles. (Which we already had a glimpse of with that nearly empty answering machine.) Pacey turns out not to be a lonely loser on the yacht: he's seeing a rich girl named Melanie (future House and Once Upon A Time star Jennifer Morrison!), this summer's boat babe, and this one will even sleep with him. Pacey has just blown off a job hookup Doug arranged for him with his chef friend when Melanie casually picks up their lunch check at a fine dining establishment, because Pacey is unemployed. But the Pacey who loves taking care of people can't let THAT stand. Maybe working for Doug's friend won't be so bad! After days of fruitless wandering, Jen chances back upon Charlie during his show at the campus radio station. Tiresome flirting over 80s music and feminist literature leads them straight into bed -- oldest story in the world. Don't go anywhere: you've found our episode on "The Lost Weekend"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids 🕺 The Merry Gentlemen on Netflix 🫎 Northern Exposure S03.E03 "Oy, Wilderness" on Prime Video 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Joey is working hard to deserve her spot at Worthington -- not just studying but grade-grubbing, particularly with her creative writing instructor Professor Wilder (Ken Marino!), and getting a reputation as an enemy of fun with her free-spirited roommate Audrey (Busy Philipps!). Over at Boston Bay College, Jack is trying to stay faithful in his long-distance relationship with Tobey while trying to find a guy for Jen for the first time since Henry, yes really. A chance invitation to a frat party puts Jen in the path of Charlie (Chad Michael Murray!), the cute bass guitarist in the party band, and makes Joey realize she really might be stuck in the past. She could have been even FURTHER stuck there, however, since Dawson was supposed to visit this weekend until he got an internship starting immediately. But excited as he was to work under hotshot director Todd, the lessons Dawson learns are tougher than the Capeside wunderkind is used to. Park your arse in Harvard Yard (sorry) and enjoy our episode on "The Bostonians"!JOIN THE AWT CLUB🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes💬 Access to the AWT Discord🚫 Ad free episodes👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcastNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids🚦 Go for purchase or rent at Amazon🐛 "'Dawson's Creek' Turns Durham Into Boston" at WFMY News🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds.👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Dawson, naturally, got into the USC summer program, so we join him on his last day in Capeside. It's hard! His father is being very bossy about what kind of laptop Dawson should get and with whom he should be spending his last dinner before college. His ex-girlfriends Jen and Joey keep bringing up stuff they talked about three seasons ago. His absent best friend Pacey is phoning from "paradise" to say how much their friendship means to him. Not that he knows it, but Jen is giving Joey the idea that if Joey just asked Dawson to stay, he would. And maybe she's right -- Dawson still hasn't even packed yet! It's also Grams and Jen's last day in Capeside, but no one seems to care about that nearly as much. Maybe the Led Zeppelin album Coda announced, "I Can't Quit You Baby," but we CAN quit Season 4 in our latest episode! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids 🎄 The Mindy Project S03.E11: "Christmas" on Hulu 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

We’re off this week but we bring you two Again With Again With This episodes from the club vault. AWAWT 217: Let's Watch Emma Caulfield Ford In A Thanksgiving Episode Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer! When Joyce goes out of town for Thanksgiving, Buffy (the character) decides to put on a Thanksgiving dinner, and Buffy (the show) stays on theme not just by making the monster of the week the ghost of a Chumash warrior, but also by, thusly, biting off a lot more than it can chew. AWAWT 223: Let's Watch Alyssa Milano And Cameron Bancroft In To Brave Alaska! Cameron Bancroft and Alyssa Milano play would-be gold miners in Alaska's dangerously isolated Surprise Bay. Surprise! It doesn't go well for them. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site ⚰️ Buffy The Vampire Slayer S04.E08: "Pangs" on Hulu 🐻‍❄️ Cameron Bancroft and Alyssa Milano play would-be gold miners in Alaska's dangerously isolated Surprise Bay. Surprise! It doesn't go well for them. 🫎 To Brave Alaska poster 💀 "Couple Survives Incredible Trek" at Alaska Sea Planes [CW: violent death of a pet] 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

What comes after the episode after the prom? Graduation, of course! Joey is stressed about the speech she'll have to give as winner of the Pinnacle Award; it's a good thing Bessie had a premortem letter from their poor dead mom to hand off and inspire her. Pacey is stressed about passing enough exams to graduate with his friends, and while he's not as big a monster about it as David Silver was whenever HE got stressed on Beverly Hills, 90210, he doesn't exactly cover himself in glory either; it's a good thing Mr. Kasdan is very patient and generous. Drue is stressed about his terrible parents; it's a good thing Jen and Grams love taking in strays. Principal Peskin is stressed that someone's going to prank the graduation ceremony. Tobey is stressed about asking Jack why he isn't calling Tobey his boyfriend. Jack is stressed about getting to the airport on time to pick up Andie. Lily is...probably stressed about when she's going to be old enough to see color? Don't stress: our episode on "The Graduate" is right here! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids 👯‍♂️ Jack & Bobby S01.E10: "Lost Boys" on YouTube 👠 Mad About You S01.E11: "Met Someone" on Hulu 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

After the high emotion of "Promicide," couldn't we all use a little breather? (Also, let's be real: in a 23-episode season, you can't go straight from prom to commencement anyway.) Dawson is very slowly getting used to the idea of having lost Gretchen when Gale announces that she's leaving town, so he better try to get what closure he can in a hurry. Joey's moping around her Yacht Club shift when good old Mr. Kubelik from Worthington asks her to bring that charming boyfriend of hers to an imminent freshmen's mixer because Mr. Kubelik wants to introduce Pacey to the Dean of Admissions. Pacey, dying of shame, agrees to go, maybe even letting himself get as hopeful as Joey about what this invitation could mean. Jen comes home to a realtor showing Grams's house to prospective buyers, which is how she learns that Grams plans to use the proceeds to send Jen to college and live on what's left at an apparently not very nice retirement community. Jen immediately decides she's not going to go, so it falls to Jack to take a break from his very offscreen dates with Tobey to suggest there's another solution. Don't stress about losing us -- we're right here with a new episode on "Separation Anxiety"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids 🙂‍↕️ The House Of Yes for rent or purchase on Amazon 🩻 "Scrubs 'Waiting For My Real Life To Begin'" on YouTube 🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds. 👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods 📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book ☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237