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** The show's title -- "Dawson's Creek" -- references the fact that the Leery and Potter houses are on the banks of a small river in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. When the CastHerd moves to Boston for college in Season 5, the creek stops being a factor. Later, the same thing happens to Dawson: the heart of relocated social circle is ''Joey''. 6x03, for instance, has Dawson only appear in the very last scene, with no lines (though it sets up a SequelHook for the next episode, which revolves around him).
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* MultipleChoicePast: While they're dating, Audrey and Pacey stumble headlong into the "how many people have ''you'' slept with?" minefield. Audrey at first refuses to answer. ("That many?") She then says it's 27 (SurpriseCarCrash). She ''then'' says it's ''57'' (SpitTake). Finally she says it's 5, and admits it was all a SecretTestOfCharacter. Pacey, for whom it's 6, passes the test.
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* ButtMonkey: A large part of Pacey's characterization is the belief, driven at least partially by his family, that he's worthless and will amount to nothing (even by the relatively low standards of House Witter). This actually becomes a plot point by contributing to his breakup with Joey: ''she agrees'', and is quietly accepting of his screw-ups instead of taking the "YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre" route, which is what Pacey himself would prefer she do. (Which is not to say that it gets better: the first time he offers to cook for his friends, after having been trained by a 5-star chef and the day before he is promoted ''to'' chef in his own right, they literally force him to serve partially-raw chicken simply because it will distract from the awkwardness of finding out that Jen and Dawson's WillTheyOrWontThey has taken a turn for the "TheyDo".)
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** At the end of Season 4, the primary characters graduate from Capeside High School and move to Boston for university, with only Grams coming with them. As a result, three quarters of the parental characters (Bessie Potter, Mitch Leery and Gail Leery) are DemotedToExtra, removed from the opening credits and appearing only when the kids happen to visit home. (Which, in Mitch's case, [[BackForTheDead went pretty badly]].)
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* NamesTheSame: Nellie Oleson shares her name with a character from ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrarie'', an entitled and highly attractive girl who serves as a rival to the narrator. Considering the similarities between the characters, it's a wonder Williamson was able to get away with it.
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* ArtifactTitle: At one point the gang ends high school and move on to study elsewhere, and the action moves largely to Boston, with very few scenes back in Capeside. The title "Dawson's Creek" was kept anyway.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The core cast of Seasons 2-4: from left: Jen, Dawson, Pacey, Joey (sitting), Andie, Jack]]
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* NamesTheSame: Nellie Oleson shares her name with a character from ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrarie'', an entitled and highly attractive girl who serves as a rival to the narrator. Considering the similarities between the characters, it's a wonder Williamson was able to get away with it.
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* OutOfFocus: Jen's role in the series was diminished in the later seasons, with Michelle Williams even going from second to third billing.
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* OutOfFocus: OutOfFocus:
** Jen's role in the series was diminished in the later seasons, with Michelle Williams even going from second to thirdbilling.billing as of Season 2.
** A semi-lethal version occurred with Andie during Season 4. She, Jen and Joey worked as a TheThreeFacesOfEve trio (Andie as TheIngenue, Jen HotterAndSexier, and Joey as the pragmatic BrainyBrunette), which helped create balance in earlier seasons. But the theme of Season 4 is "stable, healthy relationships," rendering Andie's optimism unnecessary. Her less-than-popular conduct in prior seasons didn't help either. As a result, she's PutOnABus and comes back in only two more episodes -- the climax of Season 4, and GrandFinale scenes that didn't even make it into the episode -- to give her character the minimum necessary closure.
** Jen's role in the series was diminished in the later seasons, with Michelle Williams even going from second to third
** A semi-lethal version occurred with Andie during Season 4. She, Jen and Joey worked as a TheThreeFacesOfEve trio (Andie as TheIngenue, Jen HotterAndSexier, and Joey as the pragmatic BrainyBrunette), which helped create balance in earlier seasons. But the theme of Season 4 is "stable, healthy relationships," rendering Andie's optimism unnecessary. Her less-than-popular conduct in prior seasons didn't help either. As a result, she's PutOnABus and comes back in only two more episodes -- the climax of Season 4, and GrandFinale scenes that didn't even make it into the episode -- to give her character the minimum necessary closure.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Joseph [=McPhee=], father to Andie and Jack, is simply never mentioned again after the episode when Andie herself is PutOnABus. (The {{Doylist}} motivation was the untimely AuthorExistenceFailure of David Dukes, who played him.) That said, Andie's departure, and Mr. [=McPhee's=] acceptance of his son's homosexuality, meant that the character's natural arcs had been resolved, allowing the show to pretend there was no need to mention him anymore.
** Late in Season 4, Dawson and Gretchen go on a road trip that is derailed when Dawson's Jeep develops a flat tire. It's a PlotPoint that Dawson doesn't have any real idea of how to fix it. By the next episode, they're back in Capeside, and the car is driveable again.
** Joseph [=McPhee=], father to Andie and Jack, is simply never mentioned again after the episode when Andie herself is PutOnABus. (The {{Doylist}} motivation was the untimely AuthorExistenceFailure of David Dukes, who played him.) That said, Andie's departure, and Mr. [=McPhee's=] acceptance of his son's homosexuality, meant that the character's natural arcs had been resolved, allowing the show to pretend there was no need to mention him anymore.
** Late in Season 4, Dawson and Gretchen go on a road trip that is derailed when Dawson's Jeep develops a flat tire. It's a PlotPoint that Dawson doesn't have any real idea of how to fix it. By the next episode, they're back in Capeside, and the car is driveable again.
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* ComingOutStory: a MultiPartEpisode VerySpecialEpisode where Jack confronts -- and admits -- his sexuality, after being all-but-forced to admit it publicly by a SadistTeacher.
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* MonochromeCasting: Aside from a few minority extras, pretty much the only important black character was Principal Green.
* MoralLuck: When Joey's mural is defaced, Pacey pins the blame on local RichBitch Matt Caulfield primarily because one of the episode's extras suggested he did it. Nobody has ''any'' evidence aside from the fact that he's a jerk, and Pacey would've come out looking like a KnightTemplar if Caulfield hadn't [[INeverSaidItWasPoison accidentally implicated himself]].
* MoralLuck: When Joey's mural is defaced, Pacey pins the blame on local RichBitch Matt Caulfield primarily because one of the episode's extras suggested he did it. Nobody has ''any'' evidence aside from the fact that he's a jerk, and Pacey would've come out looking like a KnightTemplar if Caulfield hadn't [[INeverSaidItWasPoison accidentally implicated himself]].
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* MonochromeCasting: Aside from a few minority extras, pretty much the only important black character was characters were Principal Green.
Green, who was the subject of a StoryArc in the third season (that got him PutOnABus), and Bessie's boyfriend Bodie, whose appearances are sporadic for budgeting reasons.
* MoralLuck: When Joey's school-hallway mural is defaced, Pacey pins the blame on local RichBitch Matt Caulfield primarily because one of the episode's extras suggestedhe did it. Nobody has ''any'' evidence aside from the fact that he's Caulfield happens to be a jerk, and Pacey would've come out looking like a KnightTemplar if Caulfield hadn't [[INeverSaidItWasPoison accidentally implicated himself]].
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* ReallyGetsAround: Jen Lindley. A bit of an InformedAbility, as we only see Jen sleep with a few characters over the course of six seasons; that said, there is her past to consider, most of which remains undocumented.
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* StraightGay: Jack is very specific with his Season 4 LoveInterest that part of Jack's (original) lack of attraction to him is that he is so "out" -- not flamboyant or camp, but confident enough in his sexuality to run the local Gay-Straight Alliance. It also doesn't help that said Love Interest originally pigeon-holed Jack as a LovableJock, and wasn't precisely inaccurate.
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* TheUnfavourite: Pacey, to his family.
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* TheUnfavourite: Pacey, to his family. He's BookDumb and not particularly competent at anything. This very much becomes a plot point in later seasons, as Pacey confronts his own limitations and begins to resent the well-meaning but ultimately harmful way his friends (and especially Joey) accept his failures, instead of [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encouraging him to grow past them]].
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* HiddenDepths: Mr. Brooks, the GrumpyOldMan, gets new respect from Dawson when the latter discovers that the former is actually a retired Hollywood director. He becomes a bit of a {{mentor}} to Dawson for a while.
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* InformedAbility: Dawson's directing skills. Although many of the show's plotlines revolve around Dawson's genius directing ability, what the audience primarily sees are rough or rejected projects. However, we know he is talented because an [[OffscreenMomentofAwesome unseen breakout film]] will land him an award or his final gig as a TV series director.
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* InformedAbility: Dawson's directing skills. Although many of the show's plotlines revolve around Dawson's genius directing ability, what the audience primarily sees are rough or rejected projects. However, we know he is talented because an Proof of his talent comes from [[OffscreenMomentofAwesome an unseen breakout film]] will land which lands him an award or his final and a gig as a TV series director.
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* LastNameBasis: Pacey towards his girlfriends (McPhee and Potter).
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* PutOnABus: Andie is written out of the show halfway through Season 4, and only returns in a few (cut) scenes in the SeriesFinale. Also, Audrey doesn't appear in the finale despite being a major character since Season 5.
* ReallyGetsAround: Jen Lindley.
* ReallyGetsAround: Jen Lindley.
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* PutOnABus: PutOnABus:
** Andie is written out of the show halfway through Season 4, and only returns in a few (cut) scenes in theSeriesFinale. Also, SeriesFinale.
** Andie and Jack's father is simply never mentioned again after that same episode, due to actor David Dukes' AuthorExistenceFailure.
** Audrey doesn't appear in the finale despite being a major character since Season 5.
* ReallyGetsAround: Jen Lindley. A bit of an InformedAbility, as we only see Jen sleep with a few characters over the course of six seasons; that said, there is her past to consider, most of which remains undocumented.
** Andie is written out of the show halfway through Season 4, and only returns in a few (cut) scenes in the
** Andie and Jack's father is simply never mentioned again after that same episode, due to actor David Dukes' AuthorExistenceFailure.
** Audrey doesn't appear in the finale despite being a major character since Season 5.
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* [[RememberTheNewGuy Remember The New Girl]]: Gretchen (Pacey's sister that we've never heard of before Season 4, although he did mention having at least two sisters in Season 3).
** Will Krudski, Pacey's childhood friend, from Season 3.
** Will Krudski, Pacey's childhood friend, from Season 3.
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* [[RememberTheNewGuy Remember The New Girl]]: Gretchen (Pacey's Gretchen, Pacey's sister that we've never heard of before Season 4, although he did mention having at least two sisters in Season 3).
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** Will Krudski, Pacey's childhood friend,from uses some of the final episodes of Season 3.3 as a BackdoorPilot for ''Series/YoungAmericans''.
** Will Krudski, Pacey's childhood friend,
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* AbsenteeActor: There are a lot of episodes when characters don't show up: Andie was PutOnABus in the seventh episode of the fourth season and replaced with Audrey in the fifth, and the adult characters (Mitch, Gail, Bessie and Grams) might go several episodes in a row without appearing. Despite this, the actors were credited for all episodes.
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* LampshadeHanging: This is done in a subtle and tragic way in the finale. [[spoiler: A dying]] Jen tells Jack that she felt like she never really fit in, encapsulating her own role in the first season:
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* LampshadeHanging: LampshadeHanging:
** Early in Season 4, the central six are preoccupied with applying to college (which, in America, is done in one's final year of secondary school). BookDumb Pacey is convinced he won't be admitted anywhere, and concerned that the gang will break up, but Joey counters with the "CaliforniaUniversity" trope:
--> "I mean, you know, maybe I'll just go to one of those fictional colleges. You know, like on those lame high school TV shows that go on for way too long, and then just in time to save the franchise, all of sudden it turns out that there's this amazing world-class college just right around the corner where all the principle characters are accepted."
** This is done in a subtle and tragic way in the finale. [[spoiler: A dying]] Jen tells Jack that she felt like she never really fit in, encapsulating her own role in the first season:
** Early in Season 4, the central six are preoccupied with applying to college (which, in America, is done in one's final year of secondary school). BookDumb Pacey is convinced he won't be admitted anywhere, and concerned that the gang will break up, but Joey counters with the "CaliforniaUniversity" trope:
--> "I mean, you know, maybe I'll just go to one of those fictional colleges. You know, like on those lame high school TV shows that go on for way too long, and then just in time to save the franchise, all of sudden it turns out that there's this amazing world-class college just right around the corner where all the principle characters are accepted."
** This is done in a subtle and tragic way in the finale. [[spoiler: A dying]] Jen tells Jack that she felt like she never really fit in, encapsulating her own role in the first season:
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: {{Zigzagged}}. [[spoiler:Though Gail is initially determined to terminate her pregnancy in the 4th season on grounds of "We need money to send Dawson to college" and "We're founding our own business" and "I'm in my 40s," and the show makes it clear that she has a right to do this, she and Mitch eventually decide to keep it.]] In the very same episode, we learn that another character has faced the same issue: [[spoiler:Gretchen Witter, Dawson's first crush and LoveInterest for the season. While she had a ConvenientMiscarriage the next week, she still reveals what her intentions were, and Dawson -- and, by implication, the show -- does not judge her for them.]]
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* SocietyMarchesOn: By modern standards, the show does not seem particularly racy, which is very different from how MoralGuardians reacted to it when it came out. Additionally, the Season 3 Finale, "True Love," is famous for its landmark gay kiss, the first "passionate" one to air on primetime televison... which lasts all of half a second and truly does not seem exceptional. (It may also be overshadowed by the "Dawson crying" MemeticMutation, which is much more relevant to modern viewers -- even today, it's the trope picture for the Live-Action TV section of "{{Narm}}".)
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* AesopAmnesia: At the end of the Season 3 finale, Dawson [[spoiler: gives Joey and Pacey his blessing after angrily keeping them apart for the past few episodes]]. Once Season 4 begins, however, he seems to have forgotten about this moment of forgiveness, as he acts frosty toward Joey and flat-out shuns Pacey for much of the season.
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** Creator/HarryShearer makes a guest appearance as Principal Green's the [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons replacement]].
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* ActorAllusion: In the Season 1 episode "Detention," they're discussing the movie ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', and Pacey (played by Joshua Jackson, one of whose earliest roles was as Charlie Conway in ''Film/TheMightyDucks'') disagrees with the others that Emilio Estevez is languishing in TV obscurity.
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* ActorAllusion: ActorAllusion:
** In the Season 1 episode "Detention," they're discussing the movie ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', and Pacey (played by Joshua Jackson, one of whose earliest roles was as Charlie Conway in ''Film/TheMightyDucks'') disagrees with the others that Emilio Estevez is languishing in TV obscurity.
** In the Season 1 episode "Detention," they're discussing the movie ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', and Pacey (played by Joshua Jackson, one of whose earliest roles was as Charlie Conway in ''Film/TheMightyDucks'') disagrees with the others that Emilio Estevez is languishing in TV obscurity.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Revealed when the bickering Joey and Pacey attempt to take a ballroom-dancing class together. [[ObliviousToLive Both deny it]]. (Attention is drawn to [[WorkingWithTheEx Dawson and Jen]], who are able to dance together because they trust each other despite their history.)
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Revealed when the bickering Joey and Pacey attempt to take a ballroom-dancing class together. [[ObliviousToLive [[ObliviousToLove Both deny it]]. (Attention is drawn to [[WorkingWithTheEx Dawson and Jen]], who are able to dance together because they trust each other despite their history.)
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* BackdoorPilot: three of the last four episodes of Season 3 serve as one for ''Series/YoungAmericans'', with lead character Will Krudski dropping in.
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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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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In Season 3, Joey is one of several students to paint murals illustrating important facets of life at Capeside High. When it is unveiled, someone has defaced it by covering it with so much black paint that nobody can tell what it was supposed to be. The culprit's alibi falls apart when he protests that he's never been near "that stupid Chinese mural" -- which draws the attention of both Dawson and the principal, since even ''they'' didn't know what Joey had painted.
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* MonochromeCasting: Aside from a few minority extras, pretty much the only important black character was the High School principal.
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* MonochromeCasting: Aside from a few minority extras, pretty much the only important black character was Principal Green.
* MoralLuck: When Joey's mural is defaced, Pacey pins theHigh School principal. blame on local RichBitch Matt Caulfield primarily because one of the episode's extras suggested he did it. Nobody has ''any'' evidence aside from the fact that he's a jerk, and Pacey would've come out looking like a KnightTemplar if Caulfield hadn't [[INeverSaidItWasPoison accidentally implicated himself]].
* MoralLuck: When Joey's mural is defaced, Pacey pins the
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The eponymous Dawson Leery (Creator/JamesVanDerBeek) is TheIdealist and TheMovieBuff with a long-standing [[JustFriends platonic]] friendship with TheCynic Josephine "Joey" Potter (Creator/KatieHolmes), the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, whose DisappearedDad and MissingMom have left her and her older sister Bessie (Creator/NinaRepeta) running a restaurant by themelves. When not attending high school, Dawson works in a video-rental store with BookDumb BromanticFoil Pacey Witter (Creator/JoshuaJackson). When the elderly Evelyn Ryan (Creator/MaryBethPeil) ends up hosting her granddaughter, Jen Lindley (Creator/MichelleWilliams), a New York HardDrinkingPartyGirl who ReallyGetsAround and was sent away to break her of her habits, Dawson's life gets thrown for a spin. Add to this the shaky marriage between his parents Mitch (Creator/JohnWesleyShipp) and Gail (Creator/MaryMargaretHumes), and we have all the ingredients for a ComingOfAgeStory. Later additions to the starring cast include TallDarkAndHandsome NaiveNewcomer Jack [=McPhee]=] (Creator/KerrSmith), his nerdy sister Andie (Creator/MeredithMonroe), and GenkiGirl Audrey Liddell (Creator/BusyPhilipps).
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The eponymous Dawson Leery (Creator/JamesVanDerBeek) is TheIdealist and TheMovieBuff with a long-standing [[JustFriends platonic]] friendship with TheCynic Josephine "Joey" Potter (Creator/KatieHolmes), the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, whose DisappearedDad and MissingMom have left her and her older sister Bessie (Creator/NinaRepeta) running a restaurant by themelves. When not attending high school, Dawson works in a video-rental store with BookDumb BromanticFoil Pacey Witter (Creator/JoshuaJackson). When the elderly Evelyn Ryan (Creator/MaryBethPeil) ends up hosting her granddaughter, Jen Lindley (Creator/MichelleWilliams), a New York HardDrinkingPartyGirl who ReallyGetsAround and was sent away to break her of her habits, Dawson's life gets thrown for a spin. Add to this the shaky marriage between his parents Mitch (Creator/JohnWesleyShipp) and Gail (Creator/MaryMargaretHumes), and we have all the ingredients for a ComingOfAgeStory. Later additions to the starring cast include TallDarkAndHandsome NaiveNewcomer Jack [=McPhee]=] [=McPhee=] (Creator/KerrSmith), his nerdy CuteBookworm sister Andie (Creator/MeredithMonroe), and GenkiGirl Audrey Liddell (Creator/BusyPhilipps).
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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 madness]] of ''Dawson's Creek''. The show inspired such passionate feelings that it indirectly spawned Website/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 madness]] of ''Dawson's Creek''. The show inspired such passionate feelings that it indirectly spawned Website/TelevisionWithoutPity (originally called Website/TelevisionWithoutPity, which was originally named "Dawson's Wrap").Wrap".
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Revealed when the bickering Joey and Pacey attempt to take a ballroom-dancing class together. [[ObliviousToLive Both deny it]]. (Attention is drawn to [[WorkingWithTheEx Dawson and Jen]], who are able to dance together because they trust each other despite their history.)
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* HotterAndSexier: as mentioned above, the show had a reputation for being preoccupied with sex: in addition to the WillTheyOrWontThey between Dawson and Joey, Jen explicitly lost her virginity at 14, Pacey was HotForTeacher, Bessie was pregnant out of wedlock from an interracial relationship, and Dawson's parents were recovering from Gail cheating on Mitch. And that's just the first season! Having said that, the show, for all intents and purposes, {{deconstructed}} these things: Dawson's waffling between Jen and Joey causes him no end of trouble, Jen's use of SexForSolace shows her insecurities, Pacey's relationship with Tamara Jacobs led to [[RealityEnsues completely predictable repercussions]], Bessie and Bodie face scorn, and Mr. and Mrs. Leery spend more than a season wrestling with their marriage. Besides, high-schoolers caring about sex is merely TruthInTelevision. The public objection to ''Dawson's Creek'' wasn't so much that it admitted to teen sexuality, but rather that it refused to ''glamorize'' it.
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* HotterAndSexier: as mentioned above, the show had a reputation for being preoccupied with sex: in addition to the WillTheyOrWontThey between Dawson and Joey, Jen explicitly lost her virginity at 14, Pacey was HotForTeacher, wanted a TeacherStudentRomance, Bessie was pregnant out of wedlock from an interracial relationship, and Dawson's parents were recovering from Gail cheating on Mitch. And that's just the first season! Having said that, the show, for all intents and purposes, {{deconstructed}} these things: Dawson's waffling between Jen and Joey causes him no end of trouble, Jen's use of SexForSolace shows her insecurities, Pacey's relationship with Tamara Jacobs led to [[RealityEnsues completely predictable repercussions]], Bessie and Bodie face scorn, and Mr. and Mrs. Leery spend more than a season wrestling with their marriage. Besides, high-schoolers caring about sex is merely TruthInTelevision. The public objection to ''Dawson's Creek'' wasn't so much that it admitted to teen sexuality, but rather that it refused to ''glamorize'' it.
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* FalseRapeAccusation: [[spoiler:Andie]] puts one on a RomanticFalseLead as part of her OperationJealousy attempt to get back together with [[spoiler:Pacey]].
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* HotterAndSexier: as mentioned above, the show had a reputation for being preoccupied with sex: in addition to the WillTheyOrWontThey between Dawson and Joey, Jen explicitly lost her virginity at 14, Pacey was HotForTeacher, Bessie was pregnant out of wedlock from an interracial relationship, and Dawson's parents were recovering from Gail cheating on Mitch. And that's just the first season! Having said that, the show, for all intents and purposes, {{deconstructed}} these things: Dawson's waffling between Jen and Joey causes him no end of trouble, Jen's use of SexForSolace shows her insecirities, Pacey's relationship with Tamara Jacobs led to [[RealityEnsues completely predictable repercussions]], Bessie and Bodie face scorn, and Mr. and Mrs. Leery spend more than a season wrestling with their marriage. Besides, high-schoolers caring about sex is merely TruthInTelevision. The public objection to ''Dawson's Creek'' wasn't so much that it admitted to teen sexuality, but rather that it refused to ''glamorize'' it.
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* HotterAndSexier: as mentioned above, the show had a reputation for being preoccupied with sex: in addition to the WillTheyOrWontThey between Dawson and Joey, Jen explicitly lost her virginity at 14, Pacey was HotForTeacher, Bessie was pregnant out of wedlock from an interracial relationship, and Dawson's parents were recovering from Gail cheating on Mitch. And that's just the first season! Having said that, the show, for all intents and purposes, {{deconstructed}} these things: Dawson's waffling between Jen and Joey causes him no end of trouble, Jen's use of SexForSolace shows her insecirities, insecurities, Pacey's relationship with Tamara Jacobs led to [[RealityEnsues completely predictable repercussions]], Bessie and Bodie face scorn, and Mr. and Mrs. Leery spend more than a season wrestling with their marriage. Besides, high-schoolers caring about sex is merely TruthInTelevision. The public objection to ''Dawson's Creek'' wasn't so much that it admitted to teen sexuality, but rather that it refused to ''glamorize'' it.
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** 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'']].
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** 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, mention [[spoiler: despite the fact that a good friend of hers is ''dying'']].
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** 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.
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** 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 self-destruct pretty soon afterwards.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar : In Mr. Peterson's English class, there's a huge word search on the bulletin board with the names of famous authors circled. Right across the top is Dickens. The three letters preceding it? B-I-G.
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar : In Mr. Peterson's English class, there's a huge word search on GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the bulletin board with future, please check the names of famous authors circled. Right across trope page to make sure your example fits the top is Dickens. The three letters preceding it? B-I-G.current definition.
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* FrieudianTrio: The main trio of the show: HotBlooded and impulsive Pacey (Id), SmartGirl Joey (Superego) and Dawson who has aspects of both opposites sides (Ego) had this dynamic in the earlier seasons. More later as the LoveTriangle progresses, wise Dawson became the Superego in constrast with the passionate Pacey (the Id) and Joey became the Ego stucked in the middle as mediator and love interest of both.
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* FrieudianTrio: FreudianTrio: The main trio of the show: HotBlooded and impulsive Pacey (Id), SmartGirl Joey (Superego) and Dawson who has aspects of both opposites sides (Ego) had this dynamic in the earlier seasons. More later as the LoveTriangle progresses, wise Dawson became the Superego in constrast with the passionate Pacey (the Id) and Joey became the Ego stucked in the middle as mediator and love interest of both.
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* FrieudianTrio: The main trio of the show: HotBlooded and impulsive Pacey (Id), SmartGirl Joey (Superego) and Dawson who has aspects of both opposites sides (Ego) had this dynamic in the earlier seasons. More later as the LoveTriangle progresses, wise Dawson became the Superego in constrast with the passionate Pacey (the Id) and Joey became the Ego stucked in the middle as mediator and love interest of both.
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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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* WaxingLyrical: WaxingLyrical:
** In the Season 3 premiere, Jen tries out for the cheerleading squad, and we get an establishing shot of a fellow auditionee chanting, "I don't want to wait for this cheer to be over!" (That's as far as she gets before she's disqualified.)
** 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?"
** In the Season 3 premiere, Jen tries out for the cheerleading squad, and we get an establishing shot of a fellow auditionee chanting, "I don't want to wait for this cheer to be over!" (That's as far as she gets before she's disqualified.)
** 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?"
