DC S05.E04: The Long Goodbye

All the excitement Dawson had about directing Oliver's movie has dissipated now that he's actually shooting it: Oliver is a terrible actor, the ending still doesn't work, and everyone has ideas that may or may not conflict with Dawson's vision. On top of that, learning lines is getting a little too Method for Audrey and Pacey, who's helping her; and Audrey's also getting caught up in the drama of her roommate Joey's entanglement with Wilder. Elsewhere, Jack is trying to get back into his frat brothers' good graces after the Civilization bar fight in the previous episode; Eric's overtures may not be something Jack can safely take at face value. Get ready to run and gun: Adam Grosswirth is back for our episode on "Guerrilla Filmmaking"!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🦋 Adam Grosswirth on Bluesky🐸 The Muppeturgy Podcast🎧 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

The time has finally come for Dawson to quit screwing around and enroll at a school in Boston -- "Viz Arts," as he is apparently determined to call it. Oliver from the New Hampshire film festival spots him on campus almost immediately and wastes no time almost literally throwing his insanely long new script at Dawson and asking him to direct it. Possibly in part because Dawson can tell how much their classmates hate Oliver, Dawson demurs...but remains exactly polite enough to irritate Jen as Oliver keeps stealing time away from her and Dawson. But considering that Jen's producers at the radio station are so sick of how shmoopy she is on mic lately, a little rage may be just what her relationship with Dawson needs right now. Elliot works up the courage to ask Joey out for dinner and a movie, and she accepts. Yay! But then Prof. Wilder swoops in with a closing dinner for everyone who worked on the Rose Lazar archive, and it's the SAME NIGHT as her date. Boo! The way you can tell that, despite her denials, Joey IS hot for teacher is how shady she is breaking her date with Elliot in Prof. Wilder's favor. Jack is trying to be super-casual about the fact that he landed on academic probation precisely one semester into college, but no one else feels that way -- not even his frat brothers, who alternately stress out about how Jack's failure will reflect on the house and mock him for being stupid. Jack's got a lot to drink about! You might also want something alcoholic to pair with our episode on "Something Wilder"!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🐝 Candyman (2021) on Peacock🦋 Adam Grosswirth on Bluesky🐸 The Muppeturgy Podcast🎧 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

Jen and Dawson have now been housemates nearly as long as they've been dating, and Jen is getting itchy: she's grossed out when Dawson wants to use her toothbrush (which he only has to because she commandeered his for makeup purposes) and violated when he starts going through her stuff in the bathroom. Jen channels these feelings into advice for the female students who call in asking for relationship tips, which is fine until Dawson tunes in just as she's saying that although you can delay it with sex, all men leave. Jack is finding out this is true in a sense at the frat house: as he moves in to a capacious single, upperclassman Blossom is moving into a shared room with Eric. Turns out Jack is right to be suspicious about how THAT arrangement came about. On the heels of Pacey's big promotion at [eye-roll] Civilization, Melanie returns with a thrilling offer: her uncle bought a bigger boat and he's taking it out to sail around the Greek Islands...in three days. What will Pacey do? And will his increased contact with Audrey sway his decision? Professor Wilder's new course boasts both Joey and Elliot, the guy Joey literally bumped into in the season premiere. After Wilder (creepily) notices Elliot watching Joey during class and (even more creepily) forces him to talk to her, Joey has to determine whether it's worth getting involved with one of Audrey's exes...or is he? Don't sleep on our episode on "Sleeping Arrangements"!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 Pitt S02.E01: “7:00 A.M.” on HBO Max🦋 Adam Grosswirth on Bluesky🐸 The Muppeturgy Podcast🎧 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

Having said in the previous episode that she was relieved Jen was taking the responsibility of taking care of Dawson apparently doesn't preclude Joey from ALSO being jealous of them. And since the incredible grades she just got are worthy of celebration, she hits the club with Audrey and Pacey to take her mind off things. Running into Charlie should put her mind back ON Jen, but then he hits on her and gives her a devilish idea that Audrey and Pacey have to put their flirting on hold to witness. Meanwhile, Dawson brings Jen back to Capeside, where Gale is confronted by their new relationship status because her clod son didn't tell her about it in advance. When the plot conveniently removes him, Jen and Gale get serious about what Dawson should be doing with his life now and which of them should be the one to order him around. (Spoiler: not the one who's going to be paying for any school he enrolls in next.) Get wild about our episode on "Something Wild"!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 Other Two S01.E10: "Chase Performs At The VMAs" on HBO Max🦋 Adam Grosswirth on Bluesky🐸 The Muppeturgy Podcast🎧 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

Remember in the weirdly rescheduled Halloween episode when Pacey promised to make dinner for everyone when Jen and Dawson came back from New Hampshire? It's time. On their way in, Dawson and Jen agree to keep things low-profile before proceeding to mack on the doorstep AND in the foyer, where their friends all immediately witness them doing. Cue the entrances and exits as Jack worries that Jen and Dawson are both too emotionally raw for what they're embarking on, everyone monitors Joey for signs of an imminent breakdown, and Pacey is alternately annoyed by and concerned about his diners failing to appreciate his food. We tell you where everyone leaves things, so we hope you brought an appetite for our episode on "Appetite For Destruction"!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🍬 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S11.E02: "Sugar" 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

What better time to tell four scary stories than...right between Thanksgiving and Christmas? Here's the flimsy pretext: after coming home from a so-so horror movie, Joey, Jack, and Pacey make like a Treehouse Of Horror and tell their own stories. What happened to Joey in the library? Jack when he was alone in the frat house? Pacey on an improbable drive home with Karen? And what scarifying tale did Grams hear from Jen? We go through them all in our latest podcast episode, if you're not too much of a fraidy-cat to listen!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🍭 Candyman (1992) on Shudder🎃 Mystery of this episode's chronological weirdness: solved🎧 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

On Dr. Weir's encouragement, Dawson decides he should go to the Hooksett, NH Film Festival and collect his prize for his documentary on Mr. Brooks. Since Jen is eager to get away from Charlie and Nora, Dawson suggests that she come...................as it were but NO SPOILERS. Jack invites Joey to be his date for the frat's winter formal, but when the call goes out at the house to hook unattached brothers up with girls who are goers, Jack admits that he might know one, and sets his brother Eric up with Audrey. What conflict ensues probably wouldn't if Eric were at all a decent conversationalist. Pacey decides to reframe the narrative with Karen by asking her out on a no-expectations, non-romantic date, but Pacey being Pacey, his best-laid plans...................okay, again, no spoilers. No need to hit the Granite State: our episode on "Hotel New Hampshire" 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 podcastNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids❄️ The Facts Of Life S08.E14: "A Winter's Tale" 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

With Jen's support, Dawson returns to Dr. Weir's office and finds out a lot: she thinks his panic attacks might be about more than just Mitch's death; he's entitled to be angry at Mitch even though he's dead; and, oh yeah, she's played by a pre-NCIS Pauley Perrette, looking just plain wrong as a blonde (yes, even with very dark roots). While Audrey gets a lovestruck film geek to help her with her audition tape for The Real World Ibiza, Joey gets deep into the Rose Lazar archive. You wouldn't think the two could have anything to do with each other but, preposterously, they do. And as the restaurant prepares to celebrate a big anniversary, Pacey tells Karen he knows, which only makes his job there more complicated. We've got your audiotape on "Text, Lies And Videotape"!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🦮 "Pauley Perrette Vs. Mark Harmon: CBS Boss Responds To NCIS Vet's 'Assault' Claim, Insists Matter Is 'Resolved'" at TVLine😡 “‘NCIS’: Everything Pauley Perrette Has Said About Mark Harmon Since Leaving The Show” at ShowbizCheatSheet🐦 A legendary @PauleyP tweet from 2015🦋 Adam Grosswirth on Bluesky🐸 Adam's podcast Muppeturgy🎧 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 210.767.2237EXISTING MEMBERS: YOUR CLUB PERKS🎁 Check out how to get all your club perks on the Pinned Patreon Primer Post

Having ruled out any physical source of the periodic faintness Dawson's been feeling, Dawson's doctor recommends a therapist specializing in grief who works in Boston. Dawson doesn't tell anyone he has an appointment to see her, which may be why he only makes it as far as her waiting room before bailing to try to put on a brave face with his friends -- including Jack, who takes him straight to a frat party for some drinking games. This gets Dawson just wasted enough to say some really hurtful things to Joey when he sees her later that night. By that point, Joey has already been listening to hurtful things all night: Audrey's mother Kay (Brenda Strong!) has come to town to re-up all the food and body issues Audrey may have allowed to go dormant in her absence. Elsewhere, Jen is still moping about having spotted Charlie kissing another girl, but when Pacey points out that she can always get even with him, Jen decides to run with it. Don't be anxious: our episode on "High Anxiety" is right here -- and Adam Grosswirth is sitting in for Sarah as our very special guest co-host!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📣 Stumble S01.E04: “Button Day” on Peacock🦋 Adam Grosswirth on Bluesky🐷 Adam's podcast Muppeturgy🎧 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 210.767.2237EXISTING MEMBERS: YOUR CLUB PERKS🎁 Check out how to get all your club perks on the Pinned Patreon Primer Post

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