Dance:
Written by: Kevin Williamson
Directed by: Steve Miner
Original airdate: January 27, 1998Dawson seeks out kissing advice from his father, thinking that he and Jen will hang out during the dance at home watching movies. Joey overhears their conversation, but is distracted when she hears Dawson’s mother, Gail, having a phone conversation that makes it clear she is doing something behind her husband’s back, leading Joey to confront her and letting her know that she knows what’s going on.
After Dawson films the death of Joey’s character in his movie, she and Jen share a moment of bonding, with Jen vowing to do her best to be a friend to her despite Joey’s obvious uncomfortable mannerisms. Dawson continues filming as Pacey and Jen prepare for the big kiss, in which Pacey starts to really lean into Jen, kissing her like he’s training to give mouth to mouth resuscitation, much to Dawson’s chagrin. As he cancels the kiss scene, he learns that Jen actually has accepted an invite to the dance from Cliff, leaving Dawson frustrated and eventually deciding to go to the dance with Joey to make his move on Jen. Before leaving, Joey has a talk with Gail about her affair and explains how her own father’s affair affected her family.
Pacey tries to again get close to Ms Jacobs but finds himself rebuffed yet again. Dawson tries talking to Jen but his jealousy leads her to enter the girls restroom, annoyed. Despite this, Dawson tries to cut in between Cliff and Jen and the two begin to argue, leaving Jen to decide to leave both of them, storming off.
As Pacey heads home, he ends up finding Ms. Jacobs on the docks and the two have another discussion that ends with Tamara again succumbing to her base desires and kissing him.
As Joey and Dawson walk home, he finds Jen alone and talks with her, apologizing to her, with Jen admitting to him that she is in fact interested in him but in contrast to her fast life in New York, wants to take things at a slow and steady pace, as the two share a slow dance while Joey watches from afar.
Dawson's Trivia:
Cliff was played by Scott Foley. He was in Felicity for the whole run of the show in addition to a short run of appearances in True Blood, Scrubs and Grey’s Anatomy. He went on to be one of the leads in The Unit and also played Jake Ballard in seasons 2-7 of Scandal. He was Roman Bridger in Scream 3, and he also played Tom in Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife (with Scrubs’ Donald Faison and Heroes’ Greg Grunberg). Most recently he was in Whiskey Cavalier (an FBI and CIA agent have to work together to save the world).
Nicole Nieth has very few credits. Her first credit is from 1994 in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman where her character was also named Nellie. She’s also been in ER, Diagnosis Murder, Clueless (TV Series), Love Boat: The Next Wave and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She was also “Hostess at Fancy Restaurant” in the Adam Sandler film Spanglish, and her last credit is from 2007 in the Lea Thompson lead Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss.
In the episode, Dawson mentions the show Beverly Hills, 90210 - Dawson's film teacher is played by Mitchell Laurance, whose twin brother Matthew had a recurring role as Mel Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210.
Nellie is in Pacey's English class, so you would assume she's also in the 10th grade. However, she is also in the film class that Dawson wants to be in, that the teacher would not let Dawson be in since he is only in 10th grade.
Kiss:
Written by: Ron Thomas
Directed by: Michael Uno
Original airdate: February 3, 1998Dawson debates with Joey about trying to plan the perfect Hollywood style kiss with Jen and then later finds himself trying to help Cliff and the rest of the theatre class with their production of Helmets of Glory with some very good suggestions, only to be shot down by Nellie, the upperclassman producer. Mr. Gold however does give Dawson a chance to be in the class officially if he can manage to do a good job on their film shoot while taking orders from Nellie.
Elsewhere Ms. Jacobs has a conversation with Pacey about his failing grades across the whole board, and they set up a tutoring session for after school. He tries to get out of doing actual work but eventually relents and does a very good job answering questions about the novel they’re studying. He tries to put the moves on Tamara and she calls his bluff making him uncomfortable. Later, Pacey shows signs of jealousy at Tamara’s flirting with Mr. Gold and tells her that all he really wants is her.
While Joey helps out her sister by waitressing at the SS Icehouse, she becomes intrigued by a new young patron who turns out to be a one Anderson Crawford, a boarding school student who sailed into town with his parents so they could go antiquing. Joey, flirting with Anderson, introduces herself as Deborah Carson, going on to lie about her parents, home life, and schooling. Later they have a sailing date in which Joey adds to the lies to maintain the illusion and the two share a kiss before returning back home.
Meanwhile Dawson finds himself struggling to put on a happy face while tending to his job on Helmets of Glory, resulting in Nellie dressing him down in front of everyone. He manages to keep it together and continue working, and while at first is dismayed that Jen was invited by Cliff to act in the movie, is soon happy when she tells him that she is there because she knew that Dawson would be there. During one particularly difficult shot, Dawson tries to offer advice but Nellie again shoots it down before he even has a chance. However after multiple tries and fails, Cliff stops Nellie and allows Dawson to try his idea which works perfectly allowing them to finally film the scene.
As Dawson and Jen start off with some dinner at the Icehouse, Joey ends up trying to hide when Anderson shows up. Luckily Jen and Bodie cover up for her obvious lies she’s been telling Anderson despite Dawson’s cluelessness. Later Anderson says that he’s leaving soon and offers to take her to dinner in New York sometime but she declines, offering up another deception about her favorite restaurant, leaving him to give Joey his number and asking her to call him. Later that evening when talking with Bodie, she discovers that the restaurant she told Anderson about actually had been closed for some time, leaving her to throw away his number, knowing he likely knew she had been less than truthful.
Dawson and Jen head off to a wooded area that is off limits to the public but a well known meeting place for teens that want a little romantic hideaway. While working under the ruse of just shooting a scene for his movie, Dawson uses the setting to try and kiss Jen but she realizes he is still filming and is put off by it. While she explains her feelings and he apologizes, they hear sounds of another couple coming and they run and hide, fearing it may be the owner. While they try to keep quiet to avoid discovery, the big moment presents itself and the two finally share their long awaited first kiss as Dawson’s camera, left on the bench, captures the actions of the two people who came running by, Pacey and Ms. Jacobs.
Dawson's Trivia:
Anderson was played by Ian Bohen. He was in a short called Fanboy with JK Simmons and Sam Raimi also playing parts. He’s been in a good number of Teen Wolf episodes, as well as Chicago PD and Any Day Now. He’s currently in the cast of Kevin Costner’s Yellowstone, a show about ranchers in Montana protecting their land. He also played young Wyatt Earp in the Kevin Costner movie Wyatt Earp.
This was Katie Holmes first onscreen kiss and real kiss.
The real Dawson Creek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_Creek
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