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** A straight example was [[NamesTheSame Nellie]] [[LittleHouseOnThePrairie Oleson]], but even she wasn't as bitchy as the typical example (she explicitly had nothing against Dawson) and disappeared after the first few episodes.
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** A straight example was [[NamesTheSame Nellie]] [[LittleHouseOnThePrairie Oleson]], Nellie Oleson, but even she wasn't as bitchy as the typical example (she explicitly had nothing against Dawson) and disappeared after the first few episodes.
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* AlphaBitch: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: Abby Morgan acts like a stereotypical Libby...except she isn't popular at all and has no friends whatsoever aside from her on-again, off-again friendship with Jen. A straight example was [[NamesTheSame Nellie]] [[LittleHouseOnThePrairie Oleson]], but even she wasn't as bitchy as the typical example (she explicitly had nothing against Dawson) and disappeared after the first few episodes.
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* AlphaBitch: AlphaBitch:
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: Abby Morgan acts like a stereotypical Libby...except she isn't popular at all and has no friends whatsoever aside from her on-again, off-again friendship with Jen. Ironically enough she's briefly seen with a GirlPosse in "Be Careful What You Wish For" but later in the same episode Abby herself admits being an outcast and that no one likes her.
** A straight example was [[NamesTheSame Nellie]] [[LittleHouseOnThePrairie Oleson]], but even she wasn't as bitchy as the typical example (she explicitly had nothing against Dawson) and disappeared after the first few episodes.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: Abby Morgan acts like a stereotypical Libby...except she isn't popular at all and has no friends whatsoever aside from her on-again, off-again friendship with Jen. Ironically enough she's briefly seen with a GirlPosse in "Be Careful What You Wish For" but later in the same episode Abby herself admits being an outcast and that no one likes her.
** A straight example was [[NamesTheSame Nellie]] [[LittleHouseOnThePrairie Oleson]], but even she wasn't as bitchy as the typical example (she explicitly had nothing against Dawson) and disappeared after the first few episodes.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: As mentioned in the introduction. the main characters were very articulate for... anyone. This is [[lampshaded]] often, most clearly in "High Risk Behavior"
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: As mentioned in the introduction. the main characters were very articulate for... anyone. This is [[lampshaded]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] often, most clearly in "High Risk Behavior"
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: As mentioned in the introduction. the main characters were very articulate for... anyone.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: As mentioned in the introduction. the main characters were very articulate for... anyone. This is [[lampshaded]] often, most clearly in "High Risk Behavior"
-->'''Pacey''': What's with all the psycho-babble insight? How many kids do you know that talk like that? (in reference to Dawson's film script)
-->'''Pacey''': What's with all the psycho-babble insight? How many kids do you know that talk like that? (in reference to Dawson's film script)
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* [[CaliforniaDoubling Carolina Doubling]]
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%% * TakeThat: in one episode, a textbook [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty And]] AnnoyingYoungerSibling keeps asking Pacey to get him some ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' cards. By the end of the episode, Pacey has already told him off. Keep in mind the show was produced by Sony. Yeah, the same company behind the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. In another episode, one character was playing - end enjoying - a ''CrashBandicoot'' game. So... ConsoleWars, much? %%
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%% * TakeThat: in one episode, a textbook [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty And]] AnnoyingYoungerSibling keeps asking Pacey to get him some ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' cards. By the end of the episode, Pacey has already told him off. Keep in mind the show was produced by Sony. Yeah, the same company behind the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. In another episode, one character was playing - end enjoying - a ''CrashBandicoot'' ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' game. So... ConsoleWars, much? %%
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%% * TakeThat: in one episode, a textbook [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty And]] AnnoyingYoungerSibling keeps asking Pacey to get him some ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' cards. By the end of the episode, Pacey has already told him off. Keep in mind the show was produced by Sony. Yeah, the same company behind the PlayStation. In another episode, one character was playing - end enjoying - a ''CrashBandicoot'' game. So... ConsoleWars, much? %%
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%% * TakeThat: in one episode, a textbook [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty And]] AnnoyingYoungerSibling keeps asking Pacey to get him some ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' cards. By the end of the episode, Pacey has already told him off. Keep in mind the show was produced by Sony. Yeah, the same company behind the PlayStation.UsefulNotes/PlayStation. In another episode, one character was playing - end enjoying - a ''CrashBandicoot'' game. So... ConsoleWars, much? %%
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%% * TakeThat: in one episode, a textbook [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty And]] AnnoyingYoungerSibling keeps asking Pacey to get him some ''{{Pokemon}}'' cards. By the end of the episode, Pacey has already told him off. Keep in mind the show was produced by Sony. Yeah, the same company behind the PlayStation. In another episode, one character was playing - end enjoying - a ''CrashBandicoot'' game. So... ConsoleWars, much? %%
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%% * TakeThat: in one episode, a textbook [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty And]] AnnoyingYoungerSibling keeps asking Pacey to get him some ''{{Pokemon}}'' ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' cards. By the end of the episode, Pacey has already told him off. Keep in mind the show was produced by Sony. Yeah, the same company behind the PlayStation. In another episode, one character was playing - end enjoying - a ''CrashBandicoot'' game. So... ConsoleWars, much? %%
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** The last regular episode before the finale gets in on the act. Not only is there ''another'' dig at Eve, but Jen's mother's response to Jack reminding her they met at a Thanksgiving Dinner once is that no-one wants to remember that day. (The episode was not well-liked by the producers.)
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* [[RememberTheNewGuy Remember The New Girl]]: Gretchen (Pacey's sister that we've never heard of before Season 4).
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* [[RememberTheNewGuy Remember The New Girl]]: Gretchen (Pacey's sister that we've never heard of before Season 4).4, although he did mention having at least two sisters in Season 3).
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** Jen's mother appears in two episodes, three seasons apart, played by different actresses.
** Dawson has his own first time with Jen a season later. Neither of them seems entirely repulsed by the experience.
** Dawson and Joey's first time ''together'' comes at the beginning of the last season. It's also their ''only'' time together (give or take the strong possibility of seconds the next morning): Things self destruct pretty soon afterwards.
** Dawson and Joey's first time ''together'' comes at the beginning of the last season. It's also their ''only'' time together (give or take the strong possibility of seconds the next morning): Things self destruct pretty soon afterwards.
** [[spoiler: Abby Morgan, who decides to climb to the top of a tower overlooking the harbour while paralytically drunk on champagne. Guess what happens next.]]
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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: It's sometimes easy to forget that most of the first season had Joey pining over Dawson, since for much of the rest of the series it's the other way around.
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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: It's sometimes easy to forget that most of the first season had Joey pining over Dawson, since for much of the rest of the series it's the other way around. (The most prominent switch back is in mid-Season 5, when Dawson is back dating Jen and a whole episode is taken up with Joey finding out and getting upset.)
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* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Mitch, who takes his eyes off the road for a good 5 seconds, while driving at night, approaching what is later revealed to be a relatively sharp bend. Why does he do this? To pick up his dropped ice-cream. His death is blamed on the fact that the driver of the other car was asleep at the wheel, but honestly, he kinda had it coming.]]
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Its gimmick was to show teenagers as well-spoken individuals with [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness vocabularies]] that would make [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] dizzy, rather than resort to the usual TV [[TotallyRadical teenspeak]]. Fans of the show praised its respectful portrayal of how teens talk and think. Others were less enthralled by the characters' habit of twisting every minor thing into [[ContemplateOurNavels a soliloquy on life's mysteries]].
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Its gimmick was to show teenagers as well-spoken individuals with [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness vocabularies]] that would make [[CalvinAndHobbes [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] dizzy, rather than resort to the usual TV [[TotallyRadical teenspeak]]. Fans of the show praised its respectful portrayal of how teens talk and think. Others were less enthralled by the characters' habit of twisting every minor thing into [[ContemplateOurNavels a soliloquy on life's mysteries]].
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* [[spoiler: FastForwardToReunion]]. How the series ends.
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* [[spoiler: FastForwardToReunion]]. FastForwardToReunion: How the series ends.
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* SuddenlySexuality: Jack was presumably straight and interested in Joey in the first half of Season 2 before coming out. While such a thing is not impossible in real life, it's believed that his [[ComingOutStory coming out story]] was due to creator Kevin Williamson wanting one of the main characters to be gay like himself.
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* SuddenlySexuality: Jack was presumably straight and interested in Joey in the first half of Season 2 before coming out. While such a thing is not impossible in real life, it's believed that his [[ComingOutStory coming out story]] was due to creator Kevin Williamson wanting one of the main characters to be gay like himself. Williamson said he wanted to make Jack gay from the beginning, but he waited until he was sure fans liked the character before falling through with it.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: They're not that big, but the McPhee family otherwise fit this perfectly.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: They're not that big, but the McPhee [=McPhee=] family otherwise fit this perfectly.
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** There is something close to foreshadowing in the episode "Sex, She Wrote" a few episodes before the coming out story starts. He wants to have sex with Joey but while making out with her he can't get it up, so he settles for just making out. Might have been foreshadowing, might not.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: They're not that big, but the McPhee family otherwise fit this perfectly.
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* WaxingLyrical: In the finale, a character in Dawson's show-within-a-show says to her love interest "I don't wanna wait for our lives to be over! I want to know right now, what will it be?"
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* TakeThat: A number of them in the finale (written by Kevin Williamson, the show's creator who left after the second season):
** Dawson's semi-autobiographical show, The Creek, is used to poke fun at the overwrought, overly verbose melodrama the main show often indulged in.
** Several plotlines and characters from the later seasons are mocked, including Dawson's rejection of Joey at the start of the third season and Eve. Audrey, the only regular character that Williamson didn't create, is also absent from the finale outside of a passing mention, [[spoiler: despite the fact that a good friend of hers is ''dying'']].
** A pretty unsubtle one at Kerr Smith, who never really hid how uncomfortable he was with playing a gay character - one of Dawson's minions reminds him that he still needs to tell one of his actors that his character is going to come out, and warns that he's going to hit the roof.
** Dawson's semi-autobiographical show, The Creek, is used to poke fun at the overwrought, overly verbose melodrama the main show often indulged in.
** Several plotlines and characters from the later seasons are mocked, including Dawson's rejection of Joey at the start of the third season and Eve. Audrey, the only regular character that Williamson didn't create, is also absent from the finale outside of a passing mention, [[spoiler: despite the fact that a good friend of hers is ''dying'']].
** A pretty unsubtle one at Kerr Smith, who never really hid how uncomfortable he was with playing a gay character - one of Dawson's minions reminds him that he still needs to tell one of his actors that his character is going to come out, and warns that he's going to hit the roof.
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Everybody can agree on one thing, though. No other works of man, past or present, can ever top the maudlin ferocity of ''Dawson's Creek''. The show inspired such passionate feelings that it indirectly spawned TelevisionWithoutPity (originally called "Dawson's Wrap").
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Everybody can agree on one thing, though. No other works of man, past or present, can ever top the [[{{Melodrama}} maudlin ferocity madness]] of ''Dawson's Creek''. The show inspired such passionate feelings that it indirectly spawned TelevisionWithoutPity (originally called "Dawson's Wrap").
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* StarMakingRole: Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, and Michelle Williams.
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* ActorAllusion: In the Season 1 episode "Detention," they're discussing the movie {{The Breakfast Club}}, and Pacey (played by Joshua Jackson, one of whose earliest roles was as Charlie Conway in {{Film/The Mighty Ducks}}) disagrees with the others that Emilio Estevez is languishing in TV obscurity.
--> '''Pacey''': No way! Emilio Estevez, he was in [[Film/TheMightyDucks those Duck movies]], remember? God, those were classic. So funny!\\
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--> '''Pacey''': No way! Emilio Estevez, he was in [[Film/TheMightyDucks those Duck movies]], remember? God, those were classic. So funny!\\
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!!TropeNamer for:
* DawsonCasting: Particularly 20 year-old James van der Beek (Dawson), 26 year-old Kerr Smith (Jack), and ''30 year-old'' Meredith Monroe (Andie) playing high school sophomores.
* DawsonCasting: Particularly 20 year-old James van der Beek (Dawson), 26 year-old Kerr Smith (Jack), and ''30 year-old'' Meredith Monroe (Andie) playing high school sophomores.
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* MonochromeCasting: Aside from a few minority extras, the one of the only important black characters was the High School principal.
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Killed Off For Real clean-up. It\'s a Death Trope for works where resurrection is possible.
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* JerkJock: Averted with Jen's boyfriends Cliff (Season 1) and Henry (Season 3), and Jack himself when he joined the school football team.
* KilledOffForReal: Abby Morgan, [[spoiler: Mitch Leery, Jen in the SeriesFinale ]]
* KilledOffForReal: Abby Morgan, [[spoiler: Mitch Leery, Jen in the SeriesFinale ]]
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* ClosetKey: [[spoiler: Jack for Doug, although he had to, y'know, actually reach ''adulthood'' first]].
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I was surprised that this trope was not mentioned, because the series had so many false starts and bouncing around for so long, but it definitively settled the matter at the very end.
* RelationshipUpgrade: The love triangle, square, [[LoveDodecahedron dodecahedron]]... whatever one chooses to call it, persists right up until the series finale. Only then is the matter finally settled: [[spoiler: Joey chooses Pacey over Dawson, citing that Dawson will always be her "soulmate" and best friend, but not her romantic partner. Jack and Doug likewise get together, although their relationship only existed in the finale itself and not the previous seasons]].
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* SecretRelationship: Joey and Pacey during The Longest Day.
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* SecretRelationship: Joey and Pacey during The Longest Day. [[spoiler: Jack and Doug for most of the finale]].
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* FamilyOfChoice: Jack is taken in by Jen's grandmother when he needs a place to live, even though she barely knows him. She and Jen treat him like family for the rest of the series.
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* CharacterBlog: One of the first shows to feature character diaries on the show's official site. This allowed the fans to find out what the characters were doing during the Summer breaks. Occasionally the writers would use the diaries to hint at upcoming characters or storylines for the Fall season. During the Fall season, fans could also access e-mail conversations and online chats between the characters.
