DC S04.E16: Mind Games

Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210

Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film, After Shows

4.9 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We're firmly in the last third of the episodes set in our cast's senior year of high school, which means it's time to reveal the winners of the senior poll. Somehow, Drue has weaseled his way into a position of moderate authority on the yearbook staff, apparently just to rig it so that the Class Couple is Joey...and Dawson?! Joey then has to downshift from acting like she doesn't care but is worried that Dawson will be upset (he's not) to finding out that Pacey's asking Gretchen to give him the house for the whole night accidentally tipped her that he and Joey are now Doing Sex, meaning Joey has to make sure Gretchen's not going to blab to Dawson. Gretchen and Dawson COULD be having their own perfectly nice night maybe doing sex themselves in his parents' empty house, but instead he has to go on and on about how great he thinks it is that when he asked Joey if she and Pacey are boning, she said no, and Gretchen simply has no poker face and just has to flee into the night rather than break Pacey's confidence. Over in their own silo, Jen has kicked her therapy up to three sessions a week, the better to make her way too curious about Tom; Jack is the very good friend who lets her bully him into joining her as she stalks Tom around town AND all the way to Wellfleet. WE aren't playing mind games with you in our episode on "Mind Games"; you will know exactly where we stand on everything!

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0:00.0	Hey, is this on bugging by invitation only?
0:11.0	Hello, everybody.
0:12.6	This is, again with this, Dawson's Creek.
0:15.8	Today's episode is season four, episode 16, mind games.
0:21.6	And now here are your host.
0:23.2	Tara Aronio and Sarah D. Bunting.
0:30.9	Please, somebody just give me a lobotomy.
0:33.7	Mind games.
0:38.7	Oh, 23 C-Doo.
0:40.9	Hello, Tara and Dave.
0:42.2	Hi.
0:43.2	Hello listeners.
0:45.1	As promised last week, this Friday, October 10th on our sister podcast, again with again with this.
0:53.2	Episode 258, we will be watching Katie Holmes in an
0:57.0	episode of How I Met Your Mother. That's true, but it will not be her debut episode as IMDB lied
1:03.1	is season one, episode six, The Slutty Pumpkin. Her character appears in that, but as far as we know,
1:09.5	Katie Holmes does not actually play her.
1:12.0	That was my mistake. Very, very sorry to anyone who already watched that episode in preparation,
1:17.0	including myself, because what a waste of time. Yeah. Will season seven, episode eight,
1:23.6	the slutty pumpkin returns be any better? You'll have to tune in to find out.
1:28.6	That's what we watch.
1:29.8	That's what we'll be discussing.
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