Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell

Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
Season	6
Episode	7
INFO
Aired	6 November 2002
Written by	Anna Fricke
Directed by	Jason Moore
EPISODES
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You told me once that I should change my mind about myself, and I think that you should probably do the same thing

—Jen to CJ

Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell is the 7th episode of Season 6 of Dawson's Creek.

Synopsis

NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS — Audrey (Busy Philipps) gets drunk before her band performs and worries her friends, especially CJ (Jensen Ackles) who suspects a deeper problem. Meanwhile, Eddie (Oliver Hudson) and Joey (Katie Holmes) agree to go on a real date; Pacey (Joshua Jackson) hits it off with a beautiful woman while on a business trip to New Orleans, and is shocked to discover that she's a call girl; and when Professor Freeman (guest star Sebastian Spence "Dark Angel") announces that he's leaving he and Jack (Kerr Smith) have a heart-to-heart talk about their future.

Starring

Katie Holmes as Joey Potter Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley Joshua Jackson as Pacey Witter Kerr Smith as Jack McPhee Busy Philipps as Audrey Liddell Guest starring Megan Gray as Emma Jones Sebastian Spence as Matt Freeman Dana Ashbrook as Rich Rinaldi Greg Rikaart as David Jaime Bergman as Denise

Special Guest Stars Oliver Hudson as Eddie Doling Jensen Ackles as C.J. Braxton Co-Starring Johnny Alonso as Co-Worker #2 Nick Gomez as Co-Worker #4 Candice Cabbo as Lovely Girl Wendy Fowler as Hell's Belles Singer #1 Rebekah Dean as Hell's Belles Singer #2 Nicole Brooks as Hot Girl

Quotes

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You know, your friends were just trying to let you know they cared. Maybe they didn't go about it the right way

—CJ to Audrey

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It's no fun without you. No one to contest my opinions with snarky feedback. I'm starting to feel smart or something

—Joey to Eddie

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I think you just might represent everything I'm missing

—Eddie to Joey

Locations

• Boston
  • Hell's Kitchen
  • Boston Bay College
  • Joey and Audrey's Dorm
• New Orleans, LA

Trivia

• Hell's Belles performs One Way Or Another by Blondie.
• Eddie and Joey agree to go on a date.

ALLUSIONS

• The episode title is taken from a song off the 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips. The band would name their follow-up album after the song in late 2003.

BROADCAST

• The episode was watched by 4.38 million people upon its original airing on the WB.

Films

WATCHED

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REFERENCED

Georgia (1995)

Foxfire (1996)

Music

kind of girl | ANNIE MINOGUE

joey and eddie in the bar

on the prowl | WALTER WASHINGTON

pacey talks to girls at a bar

while you're here | ALI HANDAL

audrey shows up at hell's kitchen

bad girls | NIGEL MACK

pacey in a casino with his boss

no signs of pain | AZURE RAY

jen and cj clean up

the seduction of mrs. nielsen | JP

eddie sweeps and discusses audrey with joey

greasy money | KENNY GREENBERG

pacey and rich argue about denise

orange sky | ALEXI MURDOCH

eddie comes to the dorms

Photos