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Grab a pacifier and head for the map point Creeps cause this week we’re raving about “Great Xpectations” ( Original airdate November 8th, 2000. Written by Nan Hagan and Chris Levinson and directed by Bruce Seth Green ). We get a time capsule of our generation’s rebel subculture experience as imagined by older TV types who CANNOT show the youths enjoying a drug. That means Jen in an ethical crisis,...

Put down that MPREG fanfic and peep the double lines on this pee stick Creeps because this week we are in “A Family Way” (Original airdate October 25th, 2000. Written by Maggie Friedman and directed by Nancy Malone). We’re gestating a visit to the world’s most unpleasantly editorial free clinic doc, another adult lady making moves on a teen boy (this time at peewee soccer!), and Dawson getting max...

Get to conjugatin’ Creeps, cause we watched season 4, episode 4 “Future Tense” (Original airdate October 25th, 2000. Written by Gina Fattore and Chris Levinson and directed by Michael Lange). We have Hollywood bigwig Kayla in the world wide web studio with us to talk Sasha Alexander and TV production. Plus, the ever delightful drunk Joey, all the gal bonding we’ve been begging for, and some very c...

Avast, Creeps, here there be dragons! Jen and Pacey get stuck at sea when a Perfect Storm of 'The Perfect Storm' proportions suddenly hits Capeside. While Pacey tries to steer them to safety in a nearby cove. Joey, Dawson, Jack and Bobo Brendan Fraiser must find a way to help the two best actors this show has - AND not die in the process. Can they make it? What will become of our wayward...

Get ready to lift us back up where we belong Creeps cause this week we are “Failing Down” (Original airdate October 11th, 2000. Written by Tom Kapinos and directed by Sandy Smolan). Pacey continues to teeter on the pedestal we hoisted him onto while Joey hobnobs with the rich and depraved, Jen gets dumped via intermediary, and Andie is a soothing voice of reason. Quick note: due to some higher-tha...

Organize a welcoming committee Creeps because we are “Coming Home” (Original airdate October 4th, 2000. Written by Greg Berlanti and directed by Gregory Prange). Come (home) for Andie’s French ménage à trois, stay for the fan art Zoe WILL be making of Mitch’s penis and the most erotic hammock scene to ever grace the small screen. Be warned - we have some Pacey TAKES this episode. Get more of our p...

Bid your humdrum, workaday lives goodbye Creeps because it’s anchors away on season 3, episode 23 “True Love” (Original airdate May 24th, 2000. Written by Gina Fattore and Tom Kapinos and directed by James Whitmore Jr.). It’s all happening! Dream Team carpe diem road trip! The cry face that will live in infamy! Ask me to stay! Be careful when you listen cause we are slippery when wet woo woo! To g...

Grab a shawl and show up early Creeps cause this week we are your dates to “The Anti-Prom” (Original airdate May 17th, 2000. Written by Maggie Friedman and directed by Gregory Prange). Dawson continues to be on one and pretty much everyone is waging war on the idea of even TRYING to communicate but we do get some sweet, sweet friendship action for Zoe to gush over and a line that launched a thousa...

Get ready to froth at the mouth with rage Creeps because this is season 3, episode 21 “Show Me Love” (Original airdate May 10th, 2000. Written by Liz Tigelaar and Holly Henderson and directed by Morgan J. Freeman). Dawson, Andie, Grams, Mitch, and even occasionally Pacey are all a big disappointment in the “showing us healthy relationships” department on this outing. Henry is also a miserable weas...

Ever have one of those days you wish you could live all over again? We entered the eternal (horny) loop that is season 3 episode 20 “The Longest Day” (Original airdate April 26th, 2000. Written by Gina Fattore and directed by Perry Lang). We spent exactly as long as you’d expect crooning about the aching sensuality of the Poey makeout scenes and also touched down on Dawson’s many serial killer rev...

Just call us the wet bandits Creeps cause we’re talking season 3 episode 19 “Stolen Kisses” (Original airdate April 26th, 2000. Written by Tom Kapinos and directed by Gregory Prange). We’re joined by Very Important Guest and Artist Ariel Kessler ( ariel.kessler on instagram ) to dish about arty farty aunt Gwen and our shared creek history. We also give you the blow-by-blow on all the Poey action t...

Exit light, enter night, take Pacey’s hand cause we’re off to never “Neverland” (Original airdate April 5th, 2000. Written by Maggie Friedman and directed by Patrick R. Norris). We get a veritable orgy of friendship with three, count ‘em, three sleepover parties! The creek gang honors the time honored tradition of Going Through It at sleepover events by confronting parental relationships tainted b...

In honor of Zoe’s birth, we treated ourselves to the most electrifying first(ish) kiss in television history in season 3 episode 17 “Cinderella Story” (Original airdate March 1st, 2000. Written by Jeffrey Stepakoff and directed by Janice Cooke). Joey journeys to Boston to meet the most insufferable manic pixie dream girl of all time, the Lipnicki torments us all, and a fish restaurant is born. And...

Say goodbye to the mere suggestion of diversity on the creek Creeps because today we bid adieu “To Green(s), With Love” (Original airdate February 16th, 2000. Written by Gina Fattore and directed by Kenneth Fink). We get some refreshingly frank discussions of race and racism in this episode but they come trailing a caboose of white saviorism and the loss of (arguably) our two most prominent black...

Grab your birch canes and bend over to kiss your futures goodbye Creeps because you’re in for some “Crime & Punishment” (Original airdate February 9th, 2000. Written by Gina Fattore and directed by Joe Napolitano). We’re talking the reintroduction of Joey Potter: Artist, Pacey on a crusade for justice / somewhere to sleep, and the thrilling climax to the saga of the PSAT. If you want to climax...

We hope you’re ready to give your life to the Romans rather than stop marrying young Christian lovers Creeps because we watched season 3, episode 14 “Valentine's Day Massacre” (Original airdate February 2nd, 2000. Written by Tom Kapinos and directed by Sandy Smolan). While Henry’s continued commitment to ruining all of our lives, the flash in the pan that is Kate, and Pacey’s jailhouse monolo...

Settle in for live theater and some geomagnetic activity because it’s astronomical midnight and we’re tuning in to season 3, episode 13 “Northern Lights” (Original airdate January 26th, 2000. Written by Gina Fattore and directed by Jay Tobias). Be prepared for a stunning display of nature’s majesty aka Pacey’s physical comedy and brooding goddess as well as Joey on the worst date of all time, Andi...

Get ready to dance around the kitchen and stare contentedly at your one true love for HOURS Creeps cause we’re taking a “Weekend in the Country” (Original airdate January 19th, 2000. Written by Jeffrey Stepakoff and directed by Michael Katleman). Your stay at the Potter B&B includes Joey’s terrible customer service, Pacey’s sainthood, a rare visit from Bodie, and an even rarer word of praise f...

Kick off your shoes and pitch a tent Creeps cause this week we’re “Barefoot at Capefest” (Original airdate January 12th, 2000. Written by Hadley Davis and Bonnie Sikowitz and directed by Jan Eliasberg). Your humble hosts get louder and angrier as both Jen and Jackers are drawn into romantic entanglements with the spawns of Satan, another Capeside adult torments our friends for no reason, and Dawso...

Put on your shower sandals and hang a Starry Night poster in your dorm cause we’re going to college in season 3, episode 10 “First Encounters of the Close Kind” (Original airdate December 15th, 1999. Written by Leslie Ray and directed by Greg Prange). Of all the slime creatures to torment our gang, we meet a banged monster named A.J. that out slimes em all! Plus we get perennial teen Biance Lawson...

Hold on to your girdles Creeps, the chemistry and explosive snail trailing of this episode are about to blast those dancing shoes right off your feet. That’s right, we’ve started peaking on season 3 with episode 9 “Four to Tango” (Original airdate December 1st, 1999. Written by Gina Fattore and directed by James Whitmore Jr). We wrap up the Jen and Pacey two step, Dawson does the chill swaying of...

Grab your giblet bags and give thanks creeps because we’re gobbling up season 3 episode 8 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Original airdate November 24th, 1999. Written by Heidi Ferrer and directed by Jim Charleston). If you guessed that Bodie was coming to dinner in an episode which shares a title with a film famously about an interracial relationship, you guessed wrong! But we do get some catharsis...

HALLELUJAH FOLKS we have escaped from the haunted graveyard of unresolved election results we recorded this episode in! Join us on the other side for season 3 episode 7 Escape from Witch Island (Original airdate November 17th, 1999. Written by Tom Kapinos and directed by James Whitmore Jr). We talk the OTHER podcast episode we’ve recorded about this nugget, try to dissect the labyrinthine emotions...

Today has been hard. Please enjoy a soft offering from yours truly with season 3 episode 6 “Secrets and Lies”  (Original airdate November 10th, 1999. Written by Greg Berlanti and Alex Gansa and directed by Gregory Prange). Content warning for mentions of sexual violence. Let the images of a bronzed Mitch and Pacey makeup journey ease your vexed soul while Pacey and Joey deliver the only justice th...

Ah those giants of film noir - Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanghai, and… Dawson? Dick Leery takes to the streets in season 3 episode 5 “Second Summer”  (Original airdate October 27th, 1999. Written by Gina Fattore and Tom Kapinos and directed by Lou Antonio). The dank back alleys and funhouse mirror mazes of Capeside are also populated b...