[s6e10] Merry Mayhem Apr 2026

A drunken Audrey Liddell (played by Busy Philipps ) serves as the audience's surrogate, calling out the group's "incestuous" and repetitive drama.

The episode ends with Audrey crashing Pacey's brand-new car into the Leery house, a literal manifestation of the "wreck" her life had become due to her spiraling addiction.

While ostensibly a Christmas episode, it is famous among fans for the disastrous dinner at the Leery house where years of unspoken tension are aired:

The episode finally acknowledges that Pacey Witter and Joey Potter actually dated, a fact the show had largely glossed over for most of the fifth and early sixth seasons.