DC S04.E13: Hopeless

Dawson is wrapping up his work on the A.I. Brooks documentary just as A.I. Brooks is wrapping up his affairs on earth, furtively hiding pills and getting Dawson to sign paperwork without giving him time to read it. Dawson might not have taken the time anyway, since he's focused on a big milestone with Gretchen: meeting her friends. Going out to a show with a couple of Gretchen's college friends throws their age difference into stark relief, as does Gretchen talking about him like he's less of a boyfriend and more of a boyfriend-shaped body pillow. Meanwhile, Joey is trying to barter a couple of precious weekend nights off work at the Yacht Club by making Drue's date with Anna, daughter to the Club board president, a double. Mrs. Valentine makes it clear she'll only grant the time off if Drue's date Anna has a great time, so both Joey and Pacey have to run interference to draw attention away from Drue's stank attitude. Tobey tries to take Jen's advice by being friends with Jack, suggesting that Jack join him tutoring middle school kids, which is extremely cute...at first. We hope you'll enjoy our episode on "Hopeless"! 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 📓 Booker S01.E03: "Raising Arrizola" 🗣️ Young Storytellers 🎧 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

Turning 18 puts a person through changes. For example, Pacey's decided HIS 18th birthday should be at a completely different time of year than his 16th. But never mind! He complains to Joey that his birthday is cursed, so all he wants to do this year is chill out at home with her, and she promises they will, and we all know that means she's implicated in his surprise party. The event -- to be held at the Witter family home -- coincides with what was to have been Gretchen and Dawson's first date, and Gretchen may be a little too eager to bag that plan in favor of her family obligation; she also makes it clear that although she's bringing him to the party, she doesn't want Joey or Pacey or anyone in her family to know she and Dawson are dating, if they even are, which Dawson obviously takes as a slight. While the birthday boy doesn't die of an accidental gunshot as happened at Scott Scanlon's birthday party, this one is...almost as bad. And Joey doesn't help by trying to ignore Pacey's dark mood and unhelpfully suggesting that he just try harder to get along with his awful parents. (By the way, playing his awful mother: Jane Lynch!) Elsewhere, Jen satisfies her last five community service hours giving safe rides to drunk teenagers, and you'll never guess what civic-minded homosexual also happens to volunteer with the organization: Tobey! Jen uses the occasion to talk up Jack, while Tobey tells her all about his hopelessly devoted James Dean-alike boyfriend Greg; calling him "perfect" not once but twice juuuuuuust might be a tell. You have the power to join us for our episode on "The Te Of Pacey"! 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 🥉 Cruel Intentions 3 at 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 chock full of drawl. AWAWT 226: Let's Watch James Van Der Beek And Ali Larter In Varsity Blues! In a small Texas town, high school football is everything. But when a golden Florida State-bound quarterback (Paul Walker) suffers a career-ending injury, can his Vonnegut-reading understudy (James Van Der Beek) save the season?! Also features Ali Larter and an unorthodox use of whipped cream. AWAWT 230: Let’s Watch Luke Perry And Linden Ashby In 8 Seconds! It seemed like every single interview with Luke Perry in the early ’90s talked about 8 Seconds, the bio-pic about rodeo star Lane Frost starring Perry and directed by Rocky helmer John G. Avildsen. But is all the ancillary intel around the movie more interesting than the movie itself? Shirtless Dylan, a lesser Baldwin, Shelley Tambo from Northern Exposure, Melrose‘s boring-est leading man, and an almost famous “buckle bunny” are all part of the conversation, so throw on some turquoise bracelets and join us! 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 🎧 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 decides to be the change he wants to see in the world, telling Pacey directly that he like-likes Gretchen before anything really happens between them. Predictably, Pacey's not about it, which is why the timing is perfect for him to accompany her to her college town to pick up the car she left there: Pacey knows this will necessitate interaction between Gretchen and her ex-boyfriend Nick (Christian Kane, later of Angel and Leverage!), so Pacey can totally manipulate them into getting back together rather than have Gretchen get closer to Dawson! In theory! While Gretchen is out of his immediate vicinity, Dawson has awareness of other people -- specifically, Grams and Mr. Brooks, who have evidently gotten closer since Mr. Brooks's failed overtures at the Christmas party. What is Dawson's duty to Grams, knowing that Mr. Brooks is ill? Elsewhere in Capeside, Drue is very much not looking forward to a visit with his father, so it's just as well that he happens to shut them into a Yacht Club storage closet, then break off the knob. Don't fight the natural way of the universe: listen to our episode on "The Tao Of Dawson"! 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 🎞️ Cruel Intentions 2 aka Manchester Prep on Dailymotion 🎧 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

Everyone is abuzz about the big kiss at the party in the previous episode. What did it mean? Was it strictly mistletoe-related, or should everyone be monitoring Dawson and Gretchen for couple-iness? Joey is clearly preoccupied yet also unable to talk about it like an adult, biting Pacey's head off when he tries to bring it up and finally kicking him out because he's...being too nice and offering to take household responsibilities off her hands (like the care of Alexander while Bessie and Bodie are out of town). Joey's martyr complex has the worst possible consequence: she beefs an English test! OH NO!!!!! Meanwhile, when Dawson himself isn't dodging questions about the kiss and insisting that he and Gretchen are just friends, he's doing what everyone has been dying for: making another movie! He's excited to learn more about Mr. Brooks for his documentary project, but a little concerned that Mr. Brooks seems to be losing his grasp on movie trivia. Is Mr. Brooks...okay? In another silo, Jen gets an extremely reluctant Jack to join her for a trip to Provincetown for a Gay-Straight Alliance meetup. Jack instantly clashes with Toby (David Monahan), the seeming leader of the group, for daring to care about his and his friends' rights -- not that Toby helps himself by dismissing Jack as a straight-passing jock. You can rely on us for an episode about "Self Reliance"! 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 😏 Cruel Intentions 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 EXISTING MEMBERS: YOUR CLUB PERKS 🎁 Check out how to get all your club perks on the Pinned Patreon Primer Post

It's Christmastime, but don't get too excited for the merriment yet: college application stress looms over (nearly) everyone. Not Joey, of course, who's invited to a Yacht Club dinner for prospective students of Worthington University. She spends so much effort convincing Pacey to go that she completely forgets how much she clenches up any time she's near a cloth napkin or multi-fork table setting, and recedes into the background as Pacey charms the alumni rep. As for everyone else: Dawson watches Mr. Brooks's last movie, Turn Away, My Sweet and is blown away (my sweet) -- so much so, perhaps, that when he has to write his essay for his application to USC film school, he's only able to write around the prompt question of why he wants to be a filmmaker. Jack finishes all his applications and is concerned about the very vague answers Jen's giving about hers -- and about the silent treatment Grams is STILL giving her after the rave fiasco. Gretchen learns that the Leery Christmas parties she loved have a kid have been suspended in her absence the last few years due to...well, divorce; she convinces the Leerys to let her throw one at the house, which conveniently lets everyone use it to hash out their issues -- even Grams and Mr. Brooks! Dig out your mistletoe for Christmas in August, and our episode on "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"! 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 Exes S03.E04: "Zero Dark Forties" on Paramount+ 🧣 “A Man For All Seasons: An Interview With Dean Cain” At Bright Lights Film Journal 🎧 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

When Principal Peskin (Harry Shearer!) sees at the same time as most of his students that his little sailboat AND dog have been relocated into the indoor pool at Capeside High, he has GOT to find out who's behind the prank. When he narrows the suspects down to our three opening-credits boys, he and Mitch tag-team their interrogation of what they were each doing the previous day. We hear all about Pacey's ride-along with Doug; Dawson's discovery that Mr. Brooks also spent high school dreaming of a career directing films; and Jack replacing Andie with Jen for soccer duty, just in time for some of the gay-tolerant dads who DIDN'T pull their kids off the team to reveal that their support is conditional on Jack doing what they want with player assignments. Lurking at various points in everyone's stories is...Drue? Well, that's curious! We suspect you'll enjoy our episode on "The Unusual Suspects"! 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 😎 Summer School on AMC+ 🎧 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

In the wake of Andie's supposedly nearly fatal drug interaction at the rave, the Capeside friend group is in tatters. Even though Andie has been very clear in stating that Jen is not to blame for what happened, neither Jack nor Pacey can forgive her. When Jen won't oblige Drue by forsaking hope of making up with them and running to him instead, he schemes to FORCE her to spend time with him by confessing to his part in the drug handoff and getting them both sentenced to community service together. Meanwhile, Joseph has a wild suggestion for Andie: since she's already earned enough credits to leave high school right now, maybe she just...should? And go live with an aunt in Florence until it's time for commencement? Andie doesn't feel great about leaving when everyone is in a big fight, and feels even worse when Jack gives her the guilts about it. Speaking of guilt: the last piece of Joey's application to Williams College is a peer recommendation from the person who knows her best. Naturally, this becomes a whole thing as she has to decide whether that person is the one who's been at every pivotal moment since she was barely out of diapers, or the one who got to know every pore on her body when they were living in extremely close quarters for three months and not, say, THE ONE WHO'S KNOWN JOEY HER WHOLE LIFE AND RAISED HER AFTER THEIR MOTHER DIED. Say hello to our episode on "You Had Me At 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 💓 When Calls The Heart S01.E11: "Rules Of Engagement" on Hallmark Plus 🎧 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

People have a lot to celebrate at the top of this episode. Andie finds out she got into Harvard! Dawson's parents decide to be parents...some more! What great timing: there's a rave for everyone to go dance their faces off! After Drue's spamming finally convinces Jen to go, she digs her un-birthday ecstasy out of her dresser just in time for Andie to see her with it. Jen's description of the drug experience is a little too exuberant -- particularly given that Andie's already disappointed that her antidepressants have flattened her highs along with the lows so that her academic achievement doesn't feel like anything at all -- and before you know it, Andie has snuck one of Jen's tabs. Dawson tags along with Pacey, Joey, and Gretchen, and in the car ride over Joey can't help noticing how flirty they seem and asks Gretchen if Dawson might think things are going anywhere with her. Gretchen laughs off the idea, but can't help returning to it. Crank up the Burkittsville 3: it's our episode on "Great Xpectations"! 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 📰 Early Edition S04.E21: "Everybody Goes To Rick's" on DailyMotion 🎧 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

Remember a couple of episodes ago when Mitch had a cold and Gale had a stomach bug? Well, he's all better but she just can't shake it...because it's not a stomach bug, actually. When the home test turns pink, Mitch is unreservedly excited about it, but Gale's not sure adding a baby to their mountain of new-restaurant debt and the college tuition they're about to have to pay for the crappy kid they already have -- and the fact that the crappy kid they already have is already moping around jealous of the baby that isn't even here yet probably doesn't help. Dawson seeks advice from Gretchen, who already had to nudge the Leery men toward the obvious conclusion with regard to Gale's symptoms, and gets a lot more than he expected. Joey has noticed that Pacey keeps cutting off their makeout sessions when she would be fine continuing, and confides in Jen that she thinks he's getting frustrated that she's still not ready for sex. Jen is a very good friend who gives her very good advice about being prepared for sex whether she's currently ready or not; maybe Jen also could have told her about hiding her take-home package from the clinic in a place where someone else might chance upon it while putting away Joey's socks. Andie's latest scheme to buff up Jack's college applications is for them both to volunteer as youth soccer coaches, but when one player's sister comes on to Jack WAY too hard, Jack blurts that he's gay and immediately wishes he hadn't. Put your feet up -- pickles and ice cream optional -- and join us for our episode on "A Family Way"! 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 🎂 That '90s Show S01.E06: "The Birthday Girl" on Netflix 💰 Donate to the National Network Of Abortion Funds 🎧 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