To say that I love the show is an understatement. I love Pacey more than I loved any boyfriend who graced my boring existence. I guess that's why I'm still single. I haven't met my Pacey. Not that I'm complaining.
Here are some lines, mostly Pacey's, that made me smile, cry, laugh, swoon, giggle, and a host of other emotions. You gotta admit the hilarity of some lines make you feel all of those. Wait, it's a drama series? Hah! Sometimes the story sucks and the lines illogical but hey, I love the show, period.
Episode 1 Pilot
Things change, Dawson. Evolve. - Joey
Pacey: And who am I, Nellie?
Nellie: Nobody. That's the point. You're not there. You don't even exist. Because if you did, I might have to respond to your pathetic, little under-the-breath one-liners. But instead, I take comfort knowing you're vapor.
Jen: I'll tell you what, Grams, I'll go to church when you say the word "penis."
Grams: You stop that talk.
Jen: It's just a word, Grams. Clinical and technical. Penis.
Jen: Hey, Joey, I love your lipstick. What shade is that?
Joey: Wicked red. I love your hair color. What number is that?
Well, let me tell you something. You blew it, lady. Because I'm the best sex you'll never have. - Pacey
When I saw you going for Jen's hand, I... I mean, it's not like I wanted to be the one holding your hand. I just didn't want her holding it. - Joey
Episode 2 Dance
Pacey: There's a lot to discuss. We could start with the open-mouthed kiss, if you'd like.
Ms. Jacobs: I don't know what you're talking about and I'm gonna have to insist that you leave this classroom immediately.
Pacey: Listen, I'm just as confused about this as you are.
Ms. Jacobs: Pacey, please. Nothing happened. There was no kiss. Please, don't.
Pacey: Your tongue was in my mouth. You're not being fair.
Dawson: It's better this way. So unpredictable. The audience will never gonna see it coming. Like Janet Leigh in Psycho.
Pacey: Drew Barrymore in Scream.
Joey: Ooh, a rip-off of a rip-off.
Cliff: And it was nice to meet you, Jen, short for Jennifer.
Jen: You too, Cliff, short for Clifford.
Joey: You don't look like a duck.
Jen: You know, that's the nicest thing you've said to me since we met.
Dawson: Jo, I don't get it. I don't get it. What did he do that I didn't do?
Joey: He asked her out?
Episode 3 Kiss
You keep saying how this is wrong, and maybe tonight it is. But just to set the record straight, I'm a firm believer that sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing. - Pacey
Episode 4 Discovery
Jen: They sent me up here because the clichés about teenagers in the big city are true.
Dawson: What clichés?
Jen: Come on, you've heard them. They grow up too fast, stay out too late, hang out with the wrong kind of people, have sex too young.
Dawson: And your parents wanted to get you away from kids like that?
Jen: No, Dawson. I was kids like that.
Episode 5 Hurricane
Pacey: You know, I'm sure that there are support groups for gay officers.
Doug: Listen, Pacey! I'm not gay!
Bodie: Which do you object to more, Mrs. Ryan, the fact that I'm black and she's white or that we're unmarried and about to have a child in sin?
Grams: What I object to most, Bodie, is when children raise children.
Joey: You know, it's just an ego thing. I mean, "How could there possibly been anyone before me?" You know, "How can I measure up?"
Jen: Is he really that trite?
Joey: I'm sure there's a measuring tape sitting in his bathroom right now.
Jen: What do you think it's marked up at?
Joey: What do you mean?
Jen: Oh, come on. Do you think Dawson's got a pistol or a rifle?
Joey: Oh. How would I know?
Jen: Oh, come on.
Mr. Ryan used to say, "If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with a lot of rain." - Grams
Doug: Did you tell her I'm gay?
Ms. Jacobs: No, I guessed it. When I lived in New York, I lived on Christopher Street. I have good gaydar.
Doug: You told her, didn't you? Tell her I'm not gay!
Pacey: She has gaydar.
Doug: Tamara, I am not gay.
Ms. Jacobs: It's okay to be gay.
Pacey: That's exactly what I've been trying to tell him, Tamara.
I was sexualized way too young and I don't wish that on anybody. I mean, sex at such a young age more often than not is a bad idea. - Jen
I want for nothing. And I guess that left me feeling empty, not wanting. And I just wanted to want again. - Mrs. Leery
You're born, and you die, and you make a lot of mistakes in between. - Joey
Episode 6 Baby
Dawson: Come on, Pacey, it's not that bad.
Pacey: You know, I really appreciate the effort, Dawson, but it really is that bad. You know what, let's be honest. It's worse. This is cataclysmic. This is one of those rare, milestone events that separates the first half of your life from everything that follows.
Dawson: Okay, look, Pacey. Granted this is not good, but this is in your hands, you can control this now.
Pacey: It's the wrong time for the Obi-Wan moment, Dawson.
Bessie: Listen, you sorry-ass civil servant, this is the mother-to-be talking. Maybe I'm not in the tax bracket that guarantees a prompt response to medical distress but I have a shoe full of amniotic fluid, my pelvis is beating like a rumba band, and I'm in real danger of having my first child delivered by two high school students! So why don't you stop making excuses, get off your oversize backside and get us an ambulance before my fetus enters college!
Joey: Terrific. I'm sure they'll be right on their way.
Just because we don't say certain things to each other doesn't mean we don't feel them. - Grams
Episode 7 Detention
You can't stand the idea that if a girl is choosing between two guys, she might not choose the romantic doofus who woos her with flowers and cheesy poems, you know. She just might choose the guy who has the faster car or the bigger bicep or the bigger joystick. - Joey
Hey, I don't talk trash, I recycle it. - Pacey
Dawson, you're not a little Oompa Loompa anymore. You're a big, bad, manly Oompa Loompa. - Pacey
Pacey: Hey, you can't leave, man, I need you. You make me look good.
Dawson: How do I do that?
Pacey: You suck worse than I do.
Jen: Whatever happened to those actors?
Dawson: Anthony Michael Hall got some kind of weird thyroid condition. Molly Ringwald lost her gawky ingénue appeal. And the rest are languishing somewhere in TV obscurity.
Pacey: No way! Emilio Estevez, he was in those duck movies, remember? God, those were classics. So funny.
Pacey, you're supposed to get it in the net! - Abby
My dog plays basketball better than you two! - Abby
Dawson, nice air ball. - Abby
Joey: Why do you have to be like this?
Jen: Like what?
Joey: So nice! God! It would be so much easier if you were just a total wench, that's all. God!
Jen: Well, I'm sorry, I guess I could try and be more of a wench.
Oh, thank God... I never thought I'd hear myself say that. - Jen
Dawson: I want to trust you, Pacey.
Pacey: You want to trust me? What, like I'm gonna steal your girlfriend or something?
Dawson: I wouldn't put it past you. You'd do anything for sex.
Pacey: That sucks, Dawson. Is that how you feel about me?
Dawson: What am I supposed to think? I mean, you... you kissed my girlfriend.
Jen: It was a dare, Dawson.
Pacey: Thank you!
Dawson: You guys were totally into it.
Jen: I wasn't. No offense.
Pacey: None taken.
Pacey: I mean, at least you have a girlfriend. I got nothing left.
Abby: You have your hand.
You're my godsend, Dawson. And I don't think I even believe in God. - Jen
Episode 8 Boyfriend
You know, this town is the absolute embodiment of dull. Apart from the occasional sex scandal provided by yours truly, nothing happens here. Oh, man. You know, I swear, one day this town is gonna shut down completely due to lack of interest. - Pacey
How much pain and humiliation can a relationship endure before it's reached the point of no return? - Dawson
Pacey: You have some raging hormonal obsession for our friend Dawson and you just can't wait to get your hooks into but good, can you? Huh?
Joey: Bite me, Pacey.
Pacey: Busted.
Anyone who's never been hurt is either very lucky or very lonely. The trick is to get through it. - Mr. Leery
You know, Dawson, I may have made some mistakes but at least I don't live in a fantasy world. - Jen
Episode 9 Road Trip
Joey: Dawson, the neighbor girl dumped you. No one died. Just get over it.
Dawson: It's forty-eight hours ago. I don't think I've exceeded the statute of limitation on angst.
Joey: It's not a matter of time, Dawson. It's a matter of degree. I mean, you haven't eaten and you stare at Jen's house like it's going to disappear. And I've seen you at school, you spy. It's twisted.
Billy: You used to be fun, you know that?
Jen: No. I used to be weak and vulnerable.
Pacey: Ah. Finally. Dawson's evil twin. This has been a much anticipated pleasure.
Dawson: What are you doing?
Pacey: You're cutting class to go to a night club, you ask what I'm doing? I'm coming with you now, wouldn't miss this for the world.
Pacey: I don't have a good angel, Dawson. I have you.
Dawson: I'm not interested in the gig. Doesn't work for me anymore.
"Youthful indiscretion?" What am I, running for the Senate? - Pacey
Abby: Does Warren know?
Joey: He told all his friends that it's my problem and mine only.
Abby: Oh, that little puke. Urgh, that sorry puke!
Episode 10 The Scare
Joey: Oh yeah, I forget. You steal it.
Pacey: Hey, you borrow from family. You never steal.
Jen: Alright, you look at me straight in the face and tell me that you didn't try to spook me.
Dawson: I didn't try to spook you.
Jen: Say, "Honest to God."
Dawson: You don't believe in God.
Episode 11 Double Date
You don't sound like a guy who's disappointed in Jen's breakup etiquette. You sound like a guy who can't face the reality that it's over. - Joey
How can you seem to be friends with someone when every time you look at them all you think about is how much more you really want? - Dawson
Joey: Him?
Pacey: Her? Dr. Rand, I'd like to lodge a formal protest. You never told me I was gonna be working with a repressed control freak.
Joey: Yeah, you never said my grade was dependent upon some remedial underachiever.
Look, maybe on your planet, taking an ex-girlfriend on a double date is a good idea, but where I come from, it's not. - Mary Beth
Joey: You know speaking of survival, I thought creatures with your level of brain power went extinct a few years back.
Pacey: That was amazing, personality like yours, you still can't get any dates.
Joey: Even more amazing, personality like yours, and you can.
And somewhere, somehow in there, I not only stopped disliking her so much I actually came to sort of like her. - Pacey
Episode 12 Beauty Contest
When guys look at you, they think, "Wow, what a babe." And when they look at me, they think, "Um, gee, she's really tall." - Joey
Dawson: You okay?
Pacey: Oh yeah. I spent... just spent the entire morning with my father telling me what a scholastically inept, athletically-challenged, underachieving loser I am, I'm fine.
Dawson: Except I'm afraid your God-given ability to relive yourself standing up has rendered you ineligible.
Pacey: Once again, sexual discrimination rears its ugly head.
Pacey: This is unconstitutional!
Pageant sign-up lady: I assure you, Mr. Witter, there is nothing in the United States Constitution that says you have the right to enter this pageant.
Pacey: Yeah, and there's nothing in your rule book that says I can't! Huh?
You know, I'm glad you find my pathetic life amusing, Dawson. - Joey
Mr. Leery: I mean, by braving this experiment, you've become a political activist... challenging social stereotypes.
Pacey: I kind of just wanted to make some extra cash.
So what you're saying is, you don't want her but you don't want anybody else to have her either? - Pacey
Maybe I don't have a chance of winning but if I could take just one vote away from you and make you know what it feels to be a loser then this is all worthwhile. - Pacey
Joey: But life goes on, Dawson. Things change.
Dawson: They don't have to.
Joey: Yes, they do. Everything changes eventually. That's just the way life is, and you have no control over it. And suddenly, people who you think are always gonna be there, they disappear, you know? People die, and they move away, and grow up. Everything changes eventually, Dawson.
Pacey: Tell me, is it the possibility of losing him to somebody else that suddenly makes him seem so attractive?
Jen: You really think that I'm that shallow, huh?
Pacey: No. I think you're that human.
Hannah: Come to gloat?
Pacey: No. Actually, I just have a lot of experience with being a loser, I thought you might want some pointers, seeing as this is your first time.
Episode 13 Decisions
You know, one day, Pacey, you're gonna be tired of being a joke and it's gonna be too late. You'll gonna wake up and realize that you're just a bad punchline that nobody's laughing at. - Doug
Well, that's what people do. They grow up. - Joey
Jen: How can you have so much faith in prayer? Just because you pray doesn't mean it can change God.
Grams: Oh child, you've got it backwards. Prayer doesn't change God. Prayer changes me.
You have a habit of being annoyingly honest with me. When was it that I got designated the town loser? I mean, I know I've done some stupid things in my life but what exactly was it that pushed me over the edge of being a walking, talking embarrassment to my perfect family? - Pacey
You know, you don't have to be in God's house for Him to hear you. - Grams
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