Dawson's Creek
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Dawson's Creek (1998-2003) was an American television series about four friends in a small coastal town that help each other cope with adolescence and beyond.
[edit] Season 1
[edit] Pilot (aka Emotions in Motion)
- Joey: I just don't think it's a good idea for me to sleep over anymore, you know?
- Dawson: No, I don't know. C'mon, You've been sleeping over since you were seven. It's Saturday night.
- Joey: Things change Dawson. Evolve.
- Dawson: What are you talking about?
- Joey: Sleeping in the same bed was fine when we were kids, but we're fifteen now.
- Dawson: Yeah.
- Joey: We start high school Monday?
- Dawson: Yeah.
- Joey: And I have breasts!
- Dawson: What?
- Joey: And you have genitalia.
- Dawson: I've always had genitalia.
- Joey: But there's more of it.
- Dawson: How do you know?
- Joey: Long fingers. I gotta go.
- Pacey: [about Jen] You think she's a virgin? Wanna nail her?
- Dawson: We just met!
- Pacey: And a wasted moment it was. I mean greater men would be nailing right now, you know what I mean?
- Dawson: Tact, look it up.
- Dawson: I have a semi-quasi date with Jen tonight, we're going to the movies with Pacey and I need you come with us.
- Joey: I'd rather go down in a plane crash.
- Jen: I'll tell you what Grams. I'll go to church when you say the word 'penis'.
- Jen: Hey Joey, I love your lipstick. What shade is that?
- Joey: Wicked Red, uh I love your hair color, what number is that?
- Dawson: You'll have to excuse Joey, she was born in a barn.
- Jen: That's okay, uh Joey I just do highlights.
- Joey: So, uh Jen are you a virgin?
- Dawson: That's mature!
- Joey: Well 'cause Dawson's a virgin and two virgins really make for a clumsy first encounter don't you think?
- Dawson: You're going to die
- Joey: I just thought I'd help, you know, cut to the chase.
- Jen: No it's okay Dawson. Yes I am a virgin. How about you Joey, are you a virgin?
- Joey: Please, years ago. Trucker named Bubba.
- Pacey: It's a crock. The truth is you're a well put together, knockout of a woman who's feeling a little insecure about hitting forty. So when a young, virile boy, such as myself flirts with you, you enjoy it. You entice it. You fantasize about what it would be like to be with that young boy on the verge of manhood. 'Cause it helps you stay feeling attractive. Makes the aging process a little more bearable. Well, let me tell you something. You blew it, lady. Because I'm the best sex you'll never have.
- Ms. Jacobs: You're wrong about one thing, Pacey. You're not a boy.
[edit] Dance (aka Dirty Dancing)
- Joey: [to Dawson, about Jen] I'm not suggesting leather straps and Crisco, just a kiss.
- Dawson: Do me a favor? If I get like this again, and I'm sure I will before this adolescent growth process is over... Next time just chain me to my bed and wait for my moment of clarity to come.
- Joey: Can I use leather straps?
- Dawson: Not until you explain the Crisco!
- Jen: See the kiss is just the end result. It's not what's important. It's all about desire and wanting.
- Dawson: Hey, Dad, have you seen my camcorder.
- Mitch: Filming today?
- Dawson: Yeah. Joey gets decapitated.
- Mitch: It's in my bedroom on the night table, your mother's side. You might want to take the tape out.
- Dawson: You know, you can get arrested for that in some states?
- Jen: [to Joey] You have nice breasts. I mean, don't get the wrong idea, I"m completely hetero. I'm just commenting girl to girl. You have a really nice body.
[edit] The Kiss (aka A Prelude to a Kiss)
- Joey: You mean, you haven't even kissed that girl?
- Dawson: It's not about the kiss Joey. It's about the journey, creating a sustaining magic.
- Joey: Does Jen fall for this warped movie logic?
- Dawson: It's not warped. It's romance.
- Joey: It's old, Dawson. Just kiss her, will you? Take the elevator to the next floor and get off, it's time.
- Dawson: It's not that simple Joey. It's about creating the perfect moment. And it has to be planned with the right music and dialogue.
- Joey: You can't storyboard a kiss.
- Dawson: Sure, you can.
- Joey: It's not reality, Dawson. These movies that you're watching are false images that don't exist outside the city limits of Hollywood.
- Dawson: Not true. They're images grounded in the reality of imagination.
- Joey: Did you just pull that one out of your butt, or what?
- Dawson: Everybody thinks that movies are fantasy, but they don't have to be. From here to eternity. You can have that. You just have to create it. That moment on the beach could be yours. You could be Debrah Kerr.
- Joey: Mm, sand in my crotch, heaven.
- Dawson: You know, it's attitudes like yours that prevent storyboard romances from happening. You're way too cynical.
- Joey: [to Pacey] And what do you want?
- Pacey: Actually something a little sexy would be good, I gotta a maybe sorta date this evening.
- Joey: Hmm, who's the lucky farm animal tonight?
- Pacey: Ahh, What's that, what's that stuff that makes a woman horny?
- Joey: Your polar opposite?
- Dawson: You mean oysters.
- Pacey: Right oysters, A dozen oysters, Joey, pack 'em up.
- Joey: Well, I'm a Pisces, I'm into body piercings, and men with tattoos.
- Anderson: Are you here with your parents? Are you guys on a boat?
- Joey: Actually, we brought the chauffeur. Mother hates to sail. She doesn't like the sun. She burns easy.
- Anderson: What about you?
- Joey: I wear lotion.
- Anderson: No, I mean, do you like to sail?
- Joey: Why do you ask?
- Anderson: I'm taking a survey. Because I want you to come sailing with me, tomorrow.
- Joey: I can't.
- Anderson: Come on. I'll show you my tattoo.
- Joey: Gap ad has a tattoo?
- Anderson: If you come sailing you'll find out.
- Cliff: That's why we've got to give it 110%.
- Dawson: 8 days a week.
- Cliff: Remember how hard we worked this summer? Now's when it pays off.
- Dawson: With communal showers.
- Cliff: Let's do it for the coach.
- Dawson: He likes to watch.
- Cliff: Let's go out there and show them what we're made of.
- Dawson: Insert cliche here.
- Cliff: Let's lay it on the line.
- Dawson: May I have another?
- Nellie: My, my, my. Does someone have to have a talk with Mr. Gold about someone's attitude?
- Dawson: Go for it, Nellie.
- Nellie: Oh I will, believe me. I will tell him exactly how you disrupted filming and delayed the entire production.
- Tamara: Go home, Pacey. You need to find a girl your own age. Not some insane middle-aged woman.
- Pacey: Please, Tamara.
- Tamara: Please no buts. This can't go one second further, it's beyond wrong. You have to understand that.
- Pacey: You keep saying how it's wrong. And maybe it is. But just to set the record straight, I'm a firm be believer that sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing.
[edit] Discovery (aka Carnal Knowledge)
- Dawson: [about Jen] Oh god, she's perfect.
- Joey: Perfect? Dawson, you disappoint me.
- Dawson: Those eyes, that hair..
- Joey: Well, I grant you that the girl has certain physical attributes but nothing so original or mysterious to warrant perfection
- Dawson: Okay, easy.
- Joey: I mean, a face like that leaves nothing to the imagination. The well-maintained good looks of an upper-middle class New Yorker. There's no mystery there. I can see her entire future in that pose.
- Dawson: Really?
- Joey: Yeah. In three years her above average SAT scores will grant her admission into a small liberal arts college somewhere in New England where she'll major in...art history before returning to Manhattan to marry a bond trader she meets some Saturday afternoon at America's cup watching party. Within a year they move to suburban Connecticut, refurbish an old farm house, and raise three neurotically perfect children.
- Dawson: You've put quite a bit of thought into this.
- Joey: Not really. It's just so obvious.
- Dawson: Well, to be honest, I think I prefer to let Jen surprise me, okay?
- Joey: Suit yourself. I'm just trying to save you some time.
- Grams: Oh, Jennifer, you exasperate me. Everything I say isn't meant as criticism.
- Jen: No, I know. Some of it's meant as judgment.
- Jen: Why are you so surprised every time I jump at the chance to spend time with you?
- Dawson: I don't know. Natural skepticism perhaps?
- Jen: Well, get over it. Not everything in life has to be so complicated.
- Joey: Sorry, kitchen's closed.
- Jen: Well, if you can stand the shock, I actually came to see you. I need some advice.
- Joey: And in what field do you consider me an expert in?
- Jen: Dawson Leery.
- Joey: You know, I'm sort of busy here with these receipts and locking up maybe we could do this another time.
- Jen: I told him I wasn't a virgin.
- Joey: I think I have a minute.
- Jen: It's just that he seemed so disappointed in me, which of course made me angry and now I don't know where we are.
- Joey: Well, let me tell you about Dawson. Granted he's articulate for his age but he's not exactly mature. He's the classic only child. He pouts when things don't go his way and he only sees things in black and white. Anything else confuses him.
- Jen: Yeah.
- Joey: And when it comes to women...there are popes who have had more experience. I mean the guy was a shrimp until last summer. To say his sex life is limited is the understatement of the decade. It's barren. A desert. I don't envy what you have to deal with, believe me.
- Jen: You're not trying to scare me off, are you?
- Joey: No. I'm just trying to say that every guy that grows up to be one of the good ones...he was probably a dweeb with girls when he was 15, too.
- Jen: So what would you do?
- Joey: Same as you. I'd get hurt, mad, confused, ask people for advice, maybe the wrong people, and then I'd wait.
- Jen: For what?
- Joey: For him to grow up, come around, everything.
- Jen: And how long does that take?
- Joey: Don't go by me. I'd probably be stupid enough to wait forever.
- Jen: Mind a little company?
- Joey: Hanging out with all your friends?
- Dawson: Yep. That's why you weren't invited.
- Joey: Phasers on stun, I come in peace. You're going to screw it up, you know?
- Dawson: What?
- Joey: Jen. She came and talked to me. I told her sit tight, he'll be back...
- Dawson: Thanks. Appreciate it, Joey.
- Joey: I explained to her that it's just displaced anger and you're just mad at your mom and dad.
- Dawson: I'm mad at the world, Joey. I'm a teenager.
[edit] Hurricane (aka Blown Away)
- Gail: [on TV] Well, Bob, it looks like tomorrow would be a good day just to stay in bed.
- Bob: You've got that right, Gail.
- Dawson: God, could they be any more obvious? So, Gail, what are your current views on the situation in Bosnia? Will you be jumping my bones after the broadcast?
- Dawson: Look, maybe you better go, Joey. My verbal vomit's out of control today.
- Joey: I know what you're going through Dawson. You're struggling to find answers. You want to know why she's cheating but it's all perception Dawson. Let me just offer the one ounce of wisdom I can bring to this table. You know instead of asking why your mother's doing all these horrible things, may I suggest that you get down on your knees and thank God that you have a mother!
- Dawson: Joey...
- Joey: Sorry, Dawson, I forgot for a second. This isn't about me.
- Joey: You know, it's just an ego thing. I mean, "How could there possibly have been anyone before me, you know, how can I measure up?"
- Jen: Is he really that trite?
- Joey: I'm sure there's a measuring tape sitting in his bathroom right now.
- Jen: What do you think it's marked up at?
- Joey: What do you mean?
- Jen: Oh come on, do you think Dawson's got a pistol or a rifle?
- Joey: How would I know?
- Jen: Oh, come on.
- ...
- Jen: Well I guess I'm no longer the virgin queen of Dawson Leery's handheld fantasies.
- Joey: Yeah I think Dawson's having a life-defining turning point in his life right now.
- Jen: Aren't we all?
- Joey: You know, taking into consideration his height, weight, feet and hand size, I'd say he's slightly above average.
- Jen: Oh, so you have thought about it.
- Grams: Mr. Ryan used to say, "If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with a lot of rain."
- Dawson: So you know, too?
- Grams: I used to be a big fan of motion pictures. Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Pocketful of Miracles. Simple desires fulfilled, aspirations realized.
- Dawson: Fears of abandonment turned into fantasy spectacles of security and joy. Frank Capra and Steven Spielberg were often compared for their thematic content.
- Grams: What I like most about those movies is the fact that no matter how far off the pedestal the character fell they always got a second chance. Forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts the Lord has given us with it comes understanding.
- Dawson: Same way rain brings a rainbow.
- Grams: From what I've seen of you so far, you better buy yourself a good umbrella.
- Jen: I'm leaving, Dawson, um, but before I go there's--
- Dawson: But Jen I'm--
- Jen: No, no, hear me out, Dawson, please. Okay? Because this seems to be the day of truths, and I'm taking my turn. I lost my virginity when I was 12 to some older guy who got me drunk, I don't really remember his name but after the first pregnancy scare I went on the pill, and I used condoms most of the time, some of the times, I don't know, it's kind of blurry. I was really drinking a lot and having blackouts and stuff, um. I was sexualized way too young, and I don't wish that on anybody. I mean, sex at such a young age, more often than not, is a bad idea. I finally got caught having sex in my parents' bed. Daddy's little girl fornicating right before his very eyes. He still can't look me in the face but then again he shipped me 200 miles away so he wouldn't have to, but Dawson I'm not that girl anymore. I never really was, and I'm not that white-as-snow image you've got either, I'm somewhere in between and I'm just, I'm just trying to figure it out.
- Dawson: Jen. It's not you. It's my own stupid hangups. My parents have this raging sex life and I just, I secretly used it as their measure of happiness.
- Jen: Well, sex doesn't equal happiness.
- Dawson: Yeah, I know. I know that now.
- Jen: I'm sorry about lying to you, but I can't apologize for my past. I mean, I've learned from it, I'm a better person, it's gotten me here. And this is my chance to start over. It's my chance and it would be really nice if you'd be a part of that.
- Dawson: On one condition?
- Jen: What?
- Dawson: That you'll have me. Jen because my behavior has been unredeemable and I don't deserve someone as impassionate and open and honest and beautiful as you are. [They hug] Take 2?
- Jen: Mm-hm.
[edit] Baby (aka Look Who's Talking)
- Bodie: Good morning sweetheart. And how are we feeling this morning?
- Bessie: Well, if you're nauseous and swollen and irritable also, I'd say we're feeling exactly the same way.
- Bodie: Look at the bright side. Your due date's the 22nd. In less than a week this will all be over.
- Bessie: A week?! This can not last another week. It's inhumane. I don't sleep anymore, my legs are fat, my back is killing me, I feel like retching 23 hours a day... Did you know the average gestation period for the fruit bat is 2 months... 2 months, that's fair, that's reasonable. Why can't I give birth to a fruit bat?
- Joey: Because we're about 80% sure you're human.
- Bessie: Do you still live here?
- Joey: Unfortunately.
- Joey: Hey, jailbait.
- Pacey: Feel free to keep on walking. I won't think you're rude.
- Joey: Look, despite first impressions, I'm not here to bust on you. I don't know if the rumors are true or exaggerated. Or if this is one of your bizarre attempts to appear more attractive to the senior girls. But I just wanted to say I know what you must be going through, and...
- Pacey: [laughs] No. I really doubt you know what I'm going through.
- Joey: Well let me see. People stare at you when you walk down the hall, we've seen that. They whisper behind your back. You suddenly overhear your name in a conversation of strangers. And pretty soon a justifiable paranoia sets in and whether they are or not, you are convinced that everyone is talking about you. Imagine if you had done something even worse.
- Pacey: Like what?
- Joey: Like sharing a house with your pregnant unwed sister and her black boyfriend, while your father serves time on a drug conviction. Imagine that, Pacey. We actually have something in common... Providing gossip for the small-minded townsfolk. And unfortunately for you, you're tonight's top story.
- Pacey: Great. So, what do I do now?
- Joey: Same thing I did... You pray like hell for a better story to come along.
- Jen: Grams' way of dealing with my point of view is pretending that it doesn't exist. Which, of course, infuriates me. It causes me to speak emotionally rather than rationally, and I become rude and defensive, and I...I give her even more of a reason to dismiss my viewpoints. Its like we're locked in this awful vicious cycle.
- Dawson: Well, I don't know. You gotta do something. You just can't ignore her for three years until you go away to college.
- Jen: I can't? Oh, there goes plan A.
- Bessie: [grabs the phone] Listen, you sorry ass civil servant. This is the mother-to-be talking. Maybe I'm not in the tax bracket that guarantees a prompt response to medical distress, but I have a shoe full of amniotic fluid, my pelvis is beating like a rumba band, and I'm in real danger of having my first-born child delivered by two high school students. So, why don't you stop making excuses, get off your oversized backside and get us an ambulance before my fetus enters college?
- Joey: Terrific. I'm sure they will be right on their way.
- Pacey: Look I don't mean any disrespect here. But, if you'll just give me a second, I'll have you all home for dinner. OK? Look, I know the origin of these rumors has been traced to me. And, ah I guess that would make sense. 'Cause look at me, here I am a C+ student, who sits in the back of Ms. Jacobs English class everyday, daydreaming about the same thing. About, what it would be like to be... a little bit better looking, a little more sophisticated and about 15 years older. 'Cause, then and only then, could Ms. Jacobs possibly look at me as anything other than just another one of her students. And, only then, could this rumor stand any chance of being true. Ah, I mean, don't get me wrong, I am flattered with the seriousness that you took these allegations, but you know personally I'd just chalked them up to adolescent fantasy. I kind of expected you guys to do the same.
- Superintendent Stevens: Correct me if I'm wrong Mr. Witter, but for the record, are you saying you deny the aforementioned allegations?
- Pacey: Yeah, for the record, sir. And for anywhere else you want to put it. Ms. Jacobs is my English teacher and to my great disappointment absolutely nothing else.
[edit] Detention (aka The Breakfast Club)
- Joey: You can't stand the idea that if a girl is choosing between two guys, she may not choose the romantic doofus who woos her with flowers and cheesy poems, you know? She just might choose the guy with the faster car or the bigger bicep or... the bigger joystick.
- Dawson: Bigger joystick?
- Joey: Yes.
- Dawson: First of all, girls are attracted to romance more than anything.
- Joey: Keep hope alive there.
- Dawson: This is so Breakfast Club.
- Jen: Breakfast Club?
- Dawson: Yeah that John Hughes movie where the five kids are stuck in detention all day.
- Joey: Yeah at first they hate each other and then they become really, really good friends.
- Jen: Oh yeah that movie stunk. Whatever happened to those actors?
- Dawson: Anthony Michael Hall developed some weird thyroid condition, Molly Ringwald lost her gauky ingenue appeal, and the rest are languishing somewhere in TV obscurity.
- Pacey: No way! Emilio Estevez! He was in those Duck movies, remember? God, those were classics, so funny....What?
- Abby: I'm so bored.
- Pacey: Well, where's your ecstasy Abby? You and I can just go on down to the boy's locker room and you know...
- Abby: I don't have any left and if I did I wouldn't waste it on Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
- Pacey: What? You're not going to let Rudolph join in any of your perverted reindeer games?
- Abby: Hey now there's an idea, games. We could all play a game.
- Pacey: Really? What do you want to play? Pin the tail on the ho-bag?
- Pacey: So do you think you can stop throwing basketballs at my face now, Dawson? I think it's glaringly obvious that I'm not going to steal your girlfriend. I mean, at least you have a girlfriend. I've got nothing left.
- Abby: You have your hand.
- Jen: Hey Dawson. I like you.
- Dawson: Yeah but it's not enough that you like me. I want you to want me.
- Jen: You're like a God to me Dawson, and I don't even believe in God. I mean, this school hasn't exactly welcomed me with open arms. It seems like everybody here hates me and I don't know why. If it's because I'm from New York, or because I'm different. It seems like my life here is just one big detention that I can't escape, but then, I think about you. And about how I've met a guy who's so romantic, and so caring, and who I like, and who I want so much. Dawson it's because of you that I get through the bad days. And if you think I want you to be some big, varsity sex stud then you're crazy.
- Dawson: I understand that you want to take things slow, I do. And I don't want to rush you. I don't want to be that guy. But I'm human, I have hormones. And to say that I've never thought about having sex with you, I'd be lying. The thought crosses my mind. About a thousand times a day.
- Jen: Well just a thousand? That's nothing.
[edit] Boyfriend (aka Escape From New York)
- Pacey: Look, Joey, I've never really taken a particular interest in your life because, frankly, your life has never been particularly interesting.
- Gale: When are you going to stop punishing me?
- Mitch: When I can get rid of the vision of my naked wife playing hide the...when it stops hurting.
- Cliff: Hey, I'm looking for Jen. You don't know where she is this period do you?
- Dawson: No, I don't. Sorry.
- Cliff: Well, give her a message, will you? Tell her I'm having a barbecue at my house this Saturday and I'd love it if she can make it. Hey, what the hell. Why don't you come too?
- Dawson: Cool. Sounds great.
- Cliff: I don't know if you can help me with it. Jen doesn't have a boyfriend, does she?
- Dawson: Uh, yeah. She does. Me.
- Cliff: Really?
- Dawson: Yeah.
- Cliff: That's terrific, man.
- Pacey: [referring to Joey] Oh, Dawson, my fine, oblivious friend. One of these days, you're gonna have to take a gigantic fact-check my friend, all right. She didn't mistake you for anybody, okay. This girl is head-in-the-clouds, one hundred percent, ass-backwards in love with you, all right?
[edit] Roadtrip (aka In the Company of Men)
- Jen: [to Joey] The truth is, ever since Dawson and I broke up you have been scared to death.
- Pacey: Finally. Dawson's evil twin. This has been a much anticipated pleasure.
- Joey: [to Jen] I mean Dawson was probably the first decent guy you've ever even gone out with and look what you did. You drove him into the arms of a prostitute.
- Joey: [about Dawson] Yeah. I can wait.
- Pacey: [to Dawson] You're a regular Richie Cunningham. Billy, he's the Fonz.
- Dawson: Congratulations, that makes you Potsie.
[edit] Double Date (aka Modern Romance)
- Pacey: Who's it gonna be? Is it Jen, or is it Joey? Do you like the blonde, or do you like the brunette? These questions are not gonna go away, Dawson. It's time that you provide some answers.
- Joey: Wait a second. You want to get naked?
- Pacey: Please, this is not for my enjoyment.
- Pacey: [to a teacher, about Joey] You never told me I was gonna be working with a repressed, control freak.
- Joey: [to a teacher, about Pacey] Yeah, and you never said my grade was dependent upon some remedial underachiever.
- Dawson: [discussing Jen] How can you simply be friends with someone when all you think about is how much more you really want?
- Joey: Well, you know, I'm no expert at this, Dawson but I think it can be done.
- Joey: What? What's that smile of yours? Is it because I look ridiculous?
- Pacey: No
- Joey: Or is it that my misfortune amuses you? Or maybe it's because you like putting me in the most awkward situations and watching me squirm Pacey.
- Pacey: No it's nothing like that. I was just thinking to myself that when you loosen up you're not half bad to be around... bordering on fun even.
- Joey: [looks confused and then smiles] Home, Jeeves!
- Pacey: Yes, Miss Daisy.
[edit] The Scare (aka Friday the 13th)
- Jen: [to Cliff] You know, I think my Grams has the hots for you. You interested?
- Ursula: You know, love is a complicated bitch.
- Pacey: [to Joey] You're gonna go to your grave pining away for your best friend. A guy who's so oblivious, he doesn't have a clue that you lust after him morning, noon, and night.
- Pacey: Can you watch the car, Jo?
- Joey: Why?
- Pacey: Well... I can't really turn it off. I mean, I can, but it's a hassle, you know, because I don't have the keys.
- Joey: Oh, yeah. I forget. You stole it.
- Pacey: Hey, you borrow from family. You never steal.
- Dawson: [describing his relationship with Jen] The characters were flawed and uninspired. The love scenes were amateurish, to say the least. And the ending was definitely not happy. It wasn't even tragic. It just ended.
[edit] Beauty Contest (aka Pretty Woman)
- Joey: [to Dawson] I want you to look at me and see the person you've always known and realize that what we have is so much more incredible than just some passing physical attraction...
- Gale: [to Pacey] Honey, fair and beauty pageants aren't exactly synonymous.
- Dawson: If Joey and I got together... It'd be just a little incestuous.
- Dawson: Have you talked to Joey lately?
- Pacey: Ah, no, actually. Not since our torrid night of naked face-sucking.
- [dirty look from Dawson]
- Pacey: What? I'm kidding.
- Pacey: You know, maybe I could be like one of those guys that warms up the girls before they go on stage.
- Joey: It's not a porno, Pacey.
[edit] Decisions (aka Breaking Away)
- Joey: Cliffhanger? Come on, Dawson. You of all people should know that a cliffhanger is merely a manipulative TV standard designed to improve ratings.
- Dawson: No, a cliffhanger's purpose is to keep people interested. Keep them guessing what's going to happen in future episodes.
- Joey: But just like in our own lives, they are so predictable. I mean, the producers put the characters in some contrived situation hoping that the audience will think something is going to change, but, you know what? It never does. Back to the same way it was before your so-called cliffhanger. It's boring Dawson.
- Dawson: Well, what if this time it's different? What if this time in the cliffhanger something changes? You wouldn't want to miss that, would ya?
- Joey: It still sounds like one big tease to me Dawson.
- Joey: I mean, I don't know. France is so far away. I mean, I won't know anybody, I don't speak the language, plus I don't think I could spend a year in any country that worships Mickey O'Rourke.
- Mr. Potter: Dawson wait please. Tell me about her. Tell me about my daughter.
- Dawson: What do you want to know?
- Mr.Potter: Anything, everything.
- Dawson: She's great. I mean, she's smart, she's beautiful, she's funny, she's a big ol' scaredy cat. If you creep up from behind her she'll jump out of her skin. It's pretty amusing. She's honest. She always calls them just like she sees them. You can always count on getting the truth from Joey even if the truth hurts. She's stubborn. We fight a lot. She can be so frustrating sometimes. But she's a really, really, good friend. I know her to a fault. She believes in me. And I'm a dreamer so it's so good to have somebody like that in my life. If she goes away, I don't know what I'm going to do. I mean, she's my best friend, you know? She's more than that. She's everything.
- Joey: Hi. I don't really know what I'm doing here. That's not true. Um, look, I came here tonight to say, I came here to tell you that you messed up. You really messed up. And not because you broke the law or you got caught or that you left me without a father. You messed up because you don't know me. I'm your daughter and you don't know me at all. So I guess I just came to say that I'm alright. I turned out pretty good. And I'm going to be okay, no help from you. And um I just have one question. Do you love me?
- Mr. Potter: More than you'd ever know. And I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
- Joey: Do you think about me?
- Mr. Potter: Sweetheart, all day long, everyday, every hour, every minute.
- Joey: Do you really love me, though? Because I'm 15 years old and I go through every day of my life thinking that nobody loves me.
- Mr. Potter: Well nothing could be further from the truth. And I'm not the only one. Dawson Leery. He loves you Joey. He's never told you?
- Joey: Never.
- Mr. Potter: Well, he does. I know it.
- Joey: How?
- Mr. Potter: Because he looks at you the same way your mother used to look at me. And you love him...Have you told him? You have to tell him Joey. Don't make my mistake. Don't wait til someone you love is eaten with cancer and wasting away while you hold back...
- Joey: I love you Dad.
- Mr. Potter: I love you.
- Joey: We're just friends. That's all.
- Dawson: Joey, c'mon you know that's not true.
- Joey: So what are we Dawson? You know, I am so tired of the way we relate to one another. We spend all of our time analyzing our sad little adolescent lives.
- Dawson: I know we know too many big words. But it's a good thing to analyze.
- Joey: But it doesn't get us anywhere. It doesn't move us forward. We're in the same place we were 3 months ago. It's time to grow up Dawson.
- Dawson: I know, Joey. We can. We are growing up.
- Joey: No we're not. Everyday is the same. We watch a movie, preferably a Spielberg film, find the appropriate life correlation and then we pat ourselves on the back for being so clever. You know, as much as our perception is right on, our honesty is severely lacking Dawson.
- Dawson: There is something lacking.
- Joey: And the reason I came here tonight is because we need to move on. Look, we're not kids anymore. And I'm not gonna do this anymore. And I just thought you should know, so...
- Dawson: So, are you going to France?
- Joey: Ah, the inevitable cliffhanger. Am I going to France?
[edit] Season 2
[edit] The Kiss
- Pacey: You know I can't believe this. After years of gratuitous self-examination, you finally did it, you acted. I mean, I thought you and Joey were going to draw out this 'will they-won't they' drama for at least another couple of years. Sam and Diane didn't get together for at least 4 seasons and Mulder and Scully...they haven't even kissed! If you and Joey can get across this romantic checkmate thing you've been in for GOD knows how many years...anything is possible!
- Joey: Me not going to France...you and me talking dirty in the halls...I mean, do you think we're making some massive, monumental mistake? I mean, things have always been so complicated between...
- Dawson: I think we'll be fine. I mean granted we'll be entering some uncharted boy/girl territory but I honestly think regardless of how complicated things are on a day to day basis, we'll be fine. We'll concentrate on the simple stuff.
- Joey: Like what?
- Dawson: Like a date.
- Joey: A date?
- Dawson: Mm-hm.
- Joey: You and me on a date?
- Dawson: Yep.
- Joey: I don't know Dawson. I was gonna watch TV. I hear Luke Perry is returning to 90210.
- Bessie: Oh, the first date. This will be interesting. Hey, what's wrong?
- Joey: I don't know it just seems weird. I mean, Dawson and I on a date? Doesn't that seem weird to you?
- Bessie: Well was it weird when you kissed?
- Joey: No, that felt pretty right. But the thing is, it hasn't happened since then and it was yesterday.
- Bessie: Well, that's not unusual, because the way I see it, the second kiss, it's always tougher than the first one.
- Joey: We actually kissed more than once that night.
- Bessie: Yeah, but it only counts as one and that first kiss...it's the passionate one. It's the one filled by desire and attraction, and all of that, but the second kiss is rational. You got time to worry, and over analyze and most women....they prefer that first kiss, but I'm partial to the second one because it's about something more. You'll get that second kiss Joey and when you do it'll be great. It'll be real. It'll be meaningful.
- Dawson: I'm really glad we've already bypassed the end of the evening "Will she kiss me?" drama. So, um, it should pretty much me smooth sailing from here on out.
- Joey: Yeah, but now you have to endure the agony of "Well, I've already kissed her so should we just check into a motel and go at it like porn stars?" anxiety.
- Dawson: I, um, I think I can handle that.
- Joey: Good because I know a good motel.
- Joey: Do you want to know why I didn't go to France? 'Cause I wanted to so badly. I mean, in France I could have started over, you know. I wouldn't be Joey the waitress, or Joey the daughter of a convict, or Joey half of the "will they/won't they" couple of the century. I didn't go to France because it just seemed like the easy way out, you know? The easiest escape from my life, which in spite of a few highlights is pretty pathetic. But I didn't want to take that easy way out, Dawson. It just seemed like sticking around here would only make me stronger. Then there was you too. Dawson Leery, who finally got a clue. But I have to tell you Dawson, as complicated our friendship was, it doesn't even compare to how complicated whatever you and I have here is bound to be.
- Dawson: Really? What you and I have may never be simple...but that doesn't mean that we're not going to be scorching. Besides, who's to say that you can't have some of France right here in Capeside, hum? Here we are along the river Seine, a tour of the il de la city, the favorite spot of lovers and friends. And from here we also have a view of the magnificent structure that we simplists here in Capeside like to call....ze swingset. Granted, It's no Eiffel Tower, but it's all we got. But don't forget about the other franc-o-fellow opportunities in town. French fries.
- Joey: French toast.
- Dawson: French doors.
- [They kiss]
- Joey: French kiss. The second kiss, the rational one. The one that requires thought.
[edit] Crossroads
- Pacey: I've gotta big case of the Molly Ringwald syndrome.
- Joey: [Talking about what she wrote in her diary] The truth is, Dawson, I've had these feelings for you, for so long. And some days, it would just make me so mad, at me and us. And I had to take it somewhere and unleash it. And it was my way of coping.
- Dawson: I forgot Pacey's birthday. I'm his best friend, and I forgot his sixteenth birthday.
- Joey: Is he alright?
- Dawson: No. He's really hurt, angry, not speaking to me. And I'm all to blame.
- Joey: Sorry Dawson.
- Dawson: Yeah, I pretty much suck.
- [Pacey puts a party invitation onto Andie's car]
- Andie: You know, I hate it when people put unsolicited material on private property.
- Pacey: You know McPhee, I kinda wish you weren't here right now.
- Andie: Put the charm on hold for a second Pacey. I was just curious what the occasion was for.
- Pacey: Its my going away party. I'm dying of heart problems, or hadn't you heard.
- Andie: [Laughs] Where's your sense of humor.
- Pacey: Oh, I have a sense of humor. It's just that telling a girl that I'm dying so that she'll go out with me is just not funny.
- Jen: Oh hell.
- Grams: Don't swear dear. God is listening.
- Jen: If he's listening, then he should realize that you're allowed to say it if it's heard on Network TV.
[edit] Alternate Lifestyles
- [Pacey and Andie are married for a school project]
- Andie: I want a divorce.
- Pacey: Granted. You know what, we split the cash. You can have the kids. I'll keep the car.
- Andie: That is so typical, doesn't it sicken you that you're living up to the most common and base of male stereotypes. You don't care about your wife and kids; all you care about is this overpriced absurd piece of metal.
- Pacey: Hey, it's got passenger side airbags! Look, I want a Viper, end of story.
- Pacey: This is just one assignment. Its not like your flunking out of school.
- Andie: Yeah, I know that. But you get behind by one day, and then you're always struggling to catch up. And you become more and more confused, and then the next thing you know, you're out on the streets drunk and pulling around a shopping cart.
- Pacey: Andie, you're rich. Rich people don't end up on the street. They end up in Florida.
- Pacey: Is Andie on any kind of special medication? Because she just went psycho on me.
- Jack: Why, what'd you do?
- Pacey: Oh, nothing. I just called her a spoiled princess.
- Jack: Andie, a spoiled princess? I don't think anything could be further from the truth.
- Pacey: Oh, come on. Are you telling me your family's not totally loaded?
- Jack: You think I work here for kicks?
- Abby: I can't believe I'm friends with someone who only has eyes for Dawson Leery.
- Jen: Guilty as charged.
- Abby: Please, you're making me eww. [Jen smirks] Jen, look at me. I have three words for you. Make it happen.
- Jen: Abby...
- Abby: No, don't Abby me. Make it happen.
[edit] Tamara's Return
- Pacey: Listen, I know it's over. It has to be, but I just need to know... Do you miss, um, teaching.
- Ms. Jacobs: Yes. Very much.
- Pacey: Good, because I miss you teaching. Very much.
- Pacey: Hey, I've got nothing going on now. So how about we go for a walk around town together.
- Andie: Yeah, what's the joke?
- Pacey: No joke, I've got no plans. And believe it or not, but I'd rather spend my time with you, than than flying solo. So pinch yourself, its your lucky day. You in?
- Andie: Well yeah, I might as well.
- Pacey: Unless you've had your heart set on watching Dumbo.
- Andie: Nah, I've seen it about 700 times. You're not gonna throw me in front of a bus are you?
- Pacey: Thats not such a bad idea McPhee.
- Joey: Jack, ever since we hired you, its been nothing but a slapstick comedy. I mean you break dishes, you misplace orders, and you fall all over yourself.
- Jack: Why don't you just terminate me, if I'm such an incompetent moron?
- Joey: We don't want to terminate you Jack. Its just... [pauses] Alright, you can open. Bessie will be relieved and it will be like a test run. But [pauses] just don't set the kitchen on fire.
- Jack: Well, thanks for that unqualified vote of confidence.
- Joey: You've been everything to me. And I have been your sidekick, your confidant, your other half for so long and that's how our relationship works. And it's a nice place for you, but for me it's scary. Cause I realized that aside from you, I don't have anything. My entire life is attatched to you.
[edit] Full Moon Rising
- Pacey: Andie, whats the problem.
- Andie: Tim died, he's dead, ok?
- Jack: What other time in your life are we gonna be exposed to so many walks of life? People who randomly cross your path, telling your their stories, hope, dreams.
- Joey: Ways to blame us for their food being cold, not enough clams in their chowder.
- Jack: Why are you so angry.
- Joey: It's just the full moon, it's got me freaked.
- Jack: Not just tonight. All the time.
- Pacey: Have you ever noticed how the most interesting thing about a Porn film is the title? I mean think about it. You've got your Sperminator, Romancing The Bone.
- Andie: I don't know why they try to be so clever. I mean they should all have the same title, "Woman Pacey will never do."
- Pacey: Ouch. You know McPhee, all this verbal sparring we're doing is getting a little dangerous, so we should just go on a date before someone gets hurt.
- Andie: Forget it.
- Pacey: Oh come on, you know you want to.
- Andie: Well, maybe if I was asked politely.
- Pacey: Ok. Andie, would you like to go on a date with me tonight?
- Andie: [Shrugs her shoulders] Ok.
- Pacey: Well, don't sound so enthusiastic.
[edit] The Dance
- Jack: You don't blame me for kissing you, you blame yourself for kissing me back. ...
- Joey: I don't think cackling qualifies as concern or advice.
- Joey: Dawson, it was just a kiss.
- Pacey: Oh my God, we're hanging out with Marcia Brady.
[edit] The All-Nighter
- Jen: [to Joey] You know, I used to think that it was our mutual feelings for Dawson that kept us apart. I never really considered the fact that maybe you were just a bitch.
- Pacey: Alrighty. [reading] Question number one, "Have you ever been intimately aroused by a relative?" So, it's a southern test, huh?
- Andie: Why do you insist on undermining me at every opportunity you get?
- Pacey: Think of how boring the alternative is.
- Chris: Jen, is there a particular reason why you're not receptive to my wily charms?
- Jen: Other than the fact that you emit them regularly to any skirt within a 6-mile radius?
- Chris: Actually, I have a car so it's more like the tri-state area. [Jen smiles] Ah-ha! A smile. Mission accomplished.
- Joey: The two times I fell in love Dawson, they were both with you. The first time I fell was for my friend, the boy down the creek, the one I grew up with. And the second was after you kissed me. I fell in love all over again. Just because we aren't together doesn't change my feelings for you.
[edit] The Reluctant Hero
- Pacey: Hm-mm. You're an endangered species, my friend. Last of a dying breed, and this movie is killing you softly with it's song.
[edit] The Election
- Pacey: No one is gonna laugh at you Andie, everybody comes from a dysfunctional family. It's the 90's, the only happy families are in TV syndication.
[edit] High Risk Behavior
- Dawson: [notices her drawing of a naked man] I see you've graduated from fruit bowls.
- Joey: We're doing life-sketching...nude models...so..we're supposed to see the human form, a mass of lines and shadows.
- Dawson: Really?
- Joey: I'm working on it.
- Dawson: And he does poses for you?
- Joey: Yeah.
- Dawson: Don't you find that uncomfortable? Just sitting in a room with some guy completely in the buff right in front of you?
- Joey: No..
- Dawson: Does he like talk or anything?
- Joey: Oh, yeah. He sings, tells jokes, does a little softshoe. No, he doesn't talk, Dawson. He's a model. He sits there. He just takes breaks every now and then.
- Dawson: And Little Joey Potter doesn't blush?
- Joey: No.
- Dawson: Not even a little?
- Joey: Maybe a little...
- Dawson: [raises eyebrows] Just a little?
- Joey: [Smiles, embarrassed] Okay, I've broken 12 pencils.
- [Dawson laughs]
- Joey: But it's getting better. You'd be surprised, I'm changing. I'm not Little Joey Potter anymore.
- Dawson: No, you're certainly not.
[edit] Sex She Wrote
- Chris: You know who you are, you're Nancy Drew. From Hell.
- Abby: Jen, it's written all over your post-coital glowing face...you finally wooed the wonder-boy into the dark side, so was it worth all the pining, all the feeling that you weren't good enough?
- Jen: [to Abby] I don't know where you come from or just who has the misfortune of being responsible for your existence, but you're a lying manipulative and cruel person and the fact that you are only 16 years old makes me feel more sorry for you than any of the people in this room whose lives you're so intent on destroying...you're pathetic.
- Andie: It's okay to be scared, Pacey. I mean, the world is a scary, scary place. Pacey, I don't want you to be scared of me.
- Pacey: How can I not be, Andie? You're the one who's opening up this whole life for me and I'm just afraid that...
- Andie: What?
- Pacey: I'm afraid because you're the single most important being to ever grace my existence. Andie, I am falling hopelessly in love with you.
[edit] Uncharted Waters
[edit] His Leading Lady
- Pacey: You know, I think I forgot to mention that I'm actually the charter member of the Andie Mcphee fan club and as a matter of policy our adulation never waivers, through the good times...or the bad.
[edit] To Be Or Not To Be...
- Pacey: [To Mr. Peterson] What is it about you that gets off on tormenting your students? Because let me tell you, they may all live in fear of you, but I don't. I see you and your miserable scare tactics for what they really are; the misguided lashings of a bitter, lonely old man who only feels good when someone else in the room feels worse.
- Jack: [His Poem] Today. Today was a day. The world got smaller, darker. I grew more afraid. Not of what I am but of what... I grew more afraid. Not of what I am but of what I could be. I loosen my collar to take a breath. My eyes fade. And I see... Him. The image of perfection. His frame strong. His lips smooth. And I keep thinking. What am I so scared of... I wish I could escape the pain, but these thoughts invade my head. Bound to my memory, they're like shackles of guilt. Oh God, please set me free...
[edit] ...That Is The Question
- Dawson: Here I am single, sandwiched in-between two women who both dumped me. I am pathetic.
- Jen: Hey, look at me, I'm dating a bible thumping hypocrite, okay?
- Joey: Hey, my boyfriend may be gay.
- Andie: Um, it's just that, I molded you into this person who I thought you should be. I did it to my father too. I thought it was what I needed. You know, I place this unfair burden on people just so they can save me from myself. But I realize that I don't need a knight in shining armor, what I need is a partner. Someone who I can be proud to love and who's proud to love me back in spite of all my faults. And...it's you, You're the one Pacey. I'm really sorry.
- Pacey: How come your apology was so much better than mine? I always lose to you Andie. [they kiss] You know, I take that back, I'm definitely the winner here.
- Mr. McPhee: You are not gay.
- Jack: Yes, I am! You know it. I see how you look at me, and I know you know. Think about the way that you treated me and the way that you treated Tim. Because he was the real son, and I was different. And as hard as you've tried to stamp it out and to ignore it, I have tried harder. I've tried harder than you, to be quiet, and to forget it, and to not bother my family with my problem. But I can't try anymore, because it hurts. I'm sorry Dad. Andie, I'm sorry. I don't want to be going through this, but I am.
[edit] Be Careful What You Wish For
- Kelly: Oh my God! Jack...you look...amazing.
- Abby: Wow. It's like a transformation from John-boy to John-John, all in a sharp, dippity-do.
- Jack: It's no big deal. I put a little gel in my hair. That's pretty much the extent of it.
- Abby: I guess when you get gay, you get style. I wish I would have nabbed you one sexual preference ago.
- Pacey: Whoa! Who are you and what have you done with my girlfriend?
- Andie: She's been here all along. Just trapped beneath the bondage of Gap clothing and a good-girl complex.
- Dawson: [Singing the Blues] My name is Dawson Leery.
I'm feeling kind of weary.
Today is my birthday.
It all looks a little bleery.
The girl that I cared for,
Left me and ran away,
Straight into the arms of,
a guy that turned out to be gay!
I got the blues!
Yeah. Today I woke up feeling like I was born to lose.
Yeah I got the blues.
Somedays you're born to lose!
Here's my friend Andie, and she's going to sing you a song because she's got the blues. - Andie: [singing] My name is Andie.
And my brother's the one that's gay.
My other brother died.
And my daddy ran away!
But I'm still Andie.
And my boyfriend makes me randy.
His name is Pacey,
And my mom's gone completely crazy!
Yeah, I've got the blues! - Dawson: [singing] Oh, I've been restless, hopeless and confused.
This girl that I told you about;
she's been on the move.
She's at my surprise party where everyone I know is right now.
And when I show up late they're all gonna have a cow!
Yeah I got the blues.
I swear sometimes we were born to lose! - Andie: No, brother man, we got the blues!
- Dawson & Andie: We got the blues!
Sometimes you, you were born to lose.
Ohhh yeah!
- Dawson: [drunk] Time to make a wish, okay...let's make a wish. I wish..I wish that my mom never slept with her co-anchor. I wish that my father would stop talking about actually getting a job and go out and get one! I wish the two of you would stop your petty bickering and at least pretend to be the adults around here! I wish that my friend Pacey would just end this transformation of this A-student, do-gooder, all-around sanctamonious angel and would go back to what he does best which is make me feel good about my life when his is supposed to be worse. And then there's Jen Lindley with her drunkedness and her revolving boyfriends and her wild, wicked ways. I want to party with you! Ah, and then there's Jack McPhee. Jack McPhee who likes guys but doesn't mind stealing my girlfriend! Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, starring in his very own version of In & Out. He's in, he's out! He's in! He's out! In, out! Nice hair by the way. And then, of course, there's my Joey. My sweet, precious Joey. The only 16-year-old in the world that needed to find herself. But you know what? That's okay. I accept it. You need to find yourself, and I accept it. So Joey! Joey? [looking everywhere, under tables, around people] Excuse me? Where's my Joey? Joey! There she is! There's my Joey!
- Dawson: God, I am so lonely. I'm 16 years old and I'm so hopelessly lonely.
- Joey: Is that why you got drunk?
- Dawson: Yeah...Jo, why did you break up with me and run straight to Jack?
- Joey: Because he wasn't you. Look, it was never about looking for something better, Dawson. It was about looking for someone who wasn't so close to me. Where I could tell where I ended and he began. I mean, our lives have always been so intertwined that in many ways I feel like you partially invented me, Dawson. And that scares me so much. I need to find out if I can be a whole person without you. I need to find out if I can be a whole person....alone.
- Dawson: Well, do it quickly, okay? Because....God, I love you.
[edit] Psychic Friends
- Whit: Evelyn Ryan?... It's me... Whit, Whit Hubley.
- Grams: Lord in heavens. I thought you were dead.
- Jen: [under her breath] Great pick-up line.
- Jen: Grams, I'm serious. I saw the look in his eyes. He was having impure thoughts about you.
- Grams: Oh you stop it, you stop that talk right now.
[edit] A Perfect Wedding
- Joey: So, thank you.
- Dawson: For what?
- Joey: For being my friend, for understanding me better than anyone, and for putting up with me for the last 16 years...I love you.
- Dawson: I love you, too.
- Dawson: Joey... these past 3 years you have been so...unbelievably strong. I mean you've let the -- the petty gossip and judgments of this town roll right off you. Don't let them get to you now. Now is the time to dig in your heels and to show them you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, and you're not alone in this, you have your father now, you have a family again... and you will always have me.
- Andie: Okay, I admit it, you're right, I'm a sucker for taffeta. The site of the little flower girl makes me weepy. I'm a wedding fanatic... there are you happy? Huh?
- Pacey: You know, I wish I had money like these people. When somebody in my family gets married, you end up wearing polyester, they serve fish sticks for appetizers and the whole thing winds up in a drunken brawl.
- Jack: Hey guys, did uh, Joey talk to you yet?
- Dawson: About what?
- Jack: Well the Ice House is catering a wedding on Saturday and we need some extra hands, it's 60 bucks for the day.
- Pacey: Sold! For 60 bucks I'd cater your ass.
- Jack: [laughs] Well, that won't be necessary.
[edit] Rest in Peace
- Joey: I just, um, I hope wherever she is, she's happy.
- Dawson: She's happy. She's looking down on you...and she's very happy.
- Andie: Um, there are people who give me comfort in my life. Um, when the going gets rough as it invariably does I can count on them as a shoulder to cry on. And they will pick me up when I fall and hold me in their arms as I cry, and tell me that everything is going to be alright. I am so thankful for these people they are priceless... But there's another group of people, just as important, and just as priceless. They are the people who challenge me, who push me to my breaking points, and who force me to muster courage I never thought I had. Abby Morgan was one of those people. In her own truth-telling way she gave me strength, I'm a stronger woman because of her, stronger than I ever thought that I could be. She gave me that gift. She's was one of a kind. There's no one like her and she will always hold a special spot in my heart.
- Jen: Well then you obviously didn't know Abby too well, because Abby is probably down there with Beelzebub doing tequila shooters and laughing at all of us.
- Andie: [In Abby's room] OK, dear diary that new girl Andie is such a...psycho?! How many ways can you tell a person you don't like them...What?! She just won't take a hint. God, and that boyfriend of her's is a...
- [Pacey grabs the diary from her hands]
- Pacey: Okay, you know what, I don't want to know, I don't want to hear it.
- Pacey: Hey, what if Abby's mother saw us come in here together? She probably thinks I'm trying to get lucky in the middle of her daughter's memorial.
[edit] Reunited
- Pacey: Let's face it, guys, we are this far away from the Peach Pit.
- Jen: You know what? I happen to agree with Joey. I mean, sure we've all grown to tolerate each other, but I still think we're a long shot off from 90210-land of best friends forever.
- Pacey: You have to Andie, you have to choose, and I'm begging you from the bottom of my heart to please choose me... Open this door, come out here and choose me, please. You are so special and you give so much to everybody around you, and you know what Andie? I need you more than Tim does, so does Jack.
- Andie: That's not true.
- Pacey: Yes, it is. My life began when I met you Andie, and you never gave up on me so I'm not gonna give up on you. So, please, Andie, for the love of God, come out here and choose me, please.
- Joey: Well I have to admit I am a little surprised that you are okay with this considering that it is our one month anniversary for whatever we are, or were, or are.
- Dawson: Joey, we are boring, trite people okay? We're absolutely incapable of spontaneity. We do things like plan, and organize, and make reservations weeks in advance at top notch restaurants to celebrate one month anniversaries of whatever we are, or were...or are.
- Pacey: Well, I think you look fantastic sweetheart you just don't look like...you...
- Andie: Ha ha...keep digging. You're approaching China.
[edit] Ch...Ch...Ch...Changes
- Dawson: Why is it that we're so ridiculously intent on pleasing the people who dislike us the most?
- Joey: That is not my father. I mean he's turned into this Mr. Saturday-Night-Sitcom, Father of the Year. The man I know was this grumbling, dejected mass of negativity.
- Dawson: You mean a relative of yours was grumbling and negative? Nah, not possible.
- Dawson: [to Joey] Because I'm afraid okay? I'm afraid that I'm not enough for you and that I never will be alright? And if I do this that you're just going to realize that you've grown way beyond me and then I'm... I'm just going to lose you again.
- Mr.McPhee: If I'd just been around more.
- Jack: It wouldn't have made a difference. I'm gay for the same reasons that Tim wasn't. It just happened that way.
- Mr.McPhee: But there are people who change, they go back.
- Jack: I'm hardly the encyclopedia of the gay experience but, I'd wager to say that their change is skeptical.
- Mr.McPhee: How do you know? Unless you try.
- Jack: I don't want to try. Why do you want me to try?
- Mr.McPhee: Because I can not understand why anyone would choose that kind of life.
- Jack: I didn't choose it. The only thing I chose was to be happy. Look, I can't go back for you because slowly but surely I'd be going to sacrifice my happiness for yours because I want you to be proud of me. But not under your terms. It just, it won't work.
- Jack: [to Jen] Look, I often wonder how my mom would act if she was aware of what was happening to me, if she was capable of comprehending it. I don't think she'd have a problem with it because my mom loves me for the best reason possible... no reason at all. Because that's the way our parents should love us Jen. Unconditionally. Sadly, most parents don't. But as much as it hurts... it's worse for them. It is worse to be incapable of loving then to not be loved.
- Pacey: I don't want to say goodbye. I just want to look at ya... I wish I had some eloquent parting words for you but... all I could think of was this. Thank you. Thank you for everything you've given to me. Thank you for forcing me be the man you made me. Just thank you. I am so grateful to you, Andie.
- Andie: Oh, I don't want to let you go, Pacey.
- Pacey: Just remember your promise okay? You and me, together again, happy, healthy and more in love than ever
- Andie: I'll remember.
- Pacey: Go get better McPhee, and then you hurry back to me.
[edit] Parental Discretion Advised
- Joey: [to Dawson] I may sometime forgive my father for what he did. I think someday I can forgive myself for what I have done. But I will never be able to forgive you, Dawson. I don't even want to know you right now.
- Pacey: Get your hands off me, you don't touch me again, ever!
- Sheriff Witter: Finally my boy gets a pair, and all it took was getting his heart broke by some little girl with a few screws loose.
- [Pacey throws a punch at Sheriff Witter]
- Pacey: Andie did more for my life in six months than you did in sixteen years you rotten son of a bitch. So If you wanna make fun of me, you wanna bust on me, that's fine. But you so much as make one more even slightly disparaging comment about the women I love, and I swear to God you're gonna be policing this town from a hospital bed, you understand me?
[edit] Season 3
[edit] Like a Virgin
- Eve: Listen, Dawson, anything that's worth anything is scary. Or dangerous in one way or another.
- Dawson: Do you have a fever or something?
- Eve: Oh, that's just me. My temperature. I run a few degrees hot.
- Joey: [to Dawson] So you love me... You just don't want me.
- Pacey: [to Joey] It's the damndest thing. I just got into Dawson's rowboat and it magically drifted towards your dock.
- Joey: How would you know what I need?
- Pacey: You're probably right. I'm sure I don't have any idea what you're going through. How hard it is to let someone go. How painful it must be to know that as right as you two are for each other, it doesn't mean you're right for each other right now. I wouldn't know a thing about that. About how it makes you want to scream, or hit someone... or cry.
[edit] Homecoming
- Eve: I'm just a girl, standing in a janitor's closet, asking you to kiss her.
- Joey: You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a Joey?
- Dawson: I hope so...for their sake.
- [Dawson is standing in the aisle lookng at the wide variety of condoms]
- Male Customer: Yeah...these days [puts his arm over Dawson's shoulders] you got your ribbed, your non-ribbed, your lubricated, your non-lubricated, your thin, your ultrathin, sheep skin, extra sensitive, nonoxynol-9 and... glow-in-the-dark.
- Male Customer 2: Glow in the darks don't work.
- Male Customer 1: No kidding?
- Male Customer 2: No, you gotta hold 'em up to the light for 20 minutes, who's got time for that?
- [woman customer walks up]
- Woman Customer: And if you really want to blow her mind try the brown betty.
- [they all grab a pack and walk away]
- Dawson: This is not happening.
- Jen: Worse. They're even starting to dress like me. It's like they're genetically predisposed to having absolutely no identity.
- Jack: Yeah, that's the blonde gene.
- Jen: Not funny.
- Pacey: We shall be arriving at Capeside around 10 so place your station requests now.
- Joey: Alternative.
- Pacey: Classic rock, it is.
[edit] None of the Above
- [Eve is urging Dawson to take a bite of an apple she brought him]
- Eve: You will forever know the difference between good and evil.
- Andie: Don't worry, Pacey. This isn't going to be one of those horribly awkward, hope-boy-didn't-mean-all those-hurtful-things-he-said-during-the-break-up-moment.
- Pacey: Well that's a relief 'cuz I sure don't wanna play the guy-feels-guilty-about-breakup-even-though-it-was-girl-who-had-an-affair-with-the-mental-patient-scene.
- Joey: I bet when she offered you that test you didn't fire one ethical comment her way, did you?... It's just your friends who have to sit here and... and suffer through the Dawson Leery morality play, bleached blonde ho-bags willing to put out need not audition.
- Joey: ...or maybe one of those meteorite-asteroid-atomic bomb movies where Bruce Willis or George Clooney or someone with a receding hairline some how manages to save the entire planet without breaking a sweat.
- Joey: Once again, Dawson Leery proves the groin is mightier than the brain.
[edit] Home Movies
- Joey: For a minute, I thought you'd been possessed by these school spirit creatures from the planet Overzealous.
- Pacey: Not quite yet, but I am thinking about making a run for it before the pods hatch. What do you say Scully?
- Jen: What are you auctioning off?
- Cheerleader #2: Well, the winner gets to ride in on the Minuteman Mule, at the end of the game.
- Cheerleader #1: And receive a kiss from the head cheerleader.
- Jen: Oh, no they don't!
- Cheerleader #1: Now Jenny...
- Jen: Jen! OK, it's Jen. You know this whole thing just started as a bad joke, and excuse to get out of biology but you see what it's turned into? I have pranced around this entire school at pep rallies without even knowing what the hell pep is. I have listened to prate and paddle about car washes, dance-athons and dog-sitting until I think I'm going to puke up my homemade spirit cookie.
- Cheerleader #1: Jenny!
- Jen: And despite the itch I am getting on my ass from this polyester molest-me skirt, I've done it all with a smile of my face. But you know what ladies? The smile has gone. I'm sorry, but there is no way that I'm going to be sold off like some harem girl to the highest bidder. Everyone has a limit, and I've reached mine. I quit!
- Joey: Why didn't we just drive?
- Pacey: Because, Potter, on occasion my pop actually likes to use his car.
- Joey: So I risk my future to cut class so I could stand in line at the post office and then traipse five miles through the wilderness carrying some stupid package?
- Pacey: Oh, God. You know, did you ever stop to think about how much hormonally charged energy you waste on these quick quips and the biting banter? Your life would be considerably more productive if you would just take some more, ah… oh, what is that? More, ah… action! If you took more action.
- Joey: Oh, what, like voluntary manslaughter?
- Pacey: Well how 'bout sticking out your thumb, huh?
- Joey: Oh yeah? And what else? Maybe hike up my skirt, pout my lips, strike some sexy pose for some horndog trucker? Stick out your own thumb you sexist toad.
- Pacey: I am not a sexist, I am a pragmatist. OK? You ever seen The Sure Thing? That movie elegantly portrays one of life's simple truths-that a female standing on the side of a road, even one with a perpetual scowl like yourself, has a better chance of flagging down a car than a guy.
- Joey: Since I'm the only one here with an opposable thumb, I guess it's up to me to use it.
- Pacey: [a car approaches] And here's your chance. [He jumps over some bushes]
- [Joey sticks her thumb out as a car approaches. It slows down and comes to a stop, to Joey's surprise]
- Joey: [leaning into the window] Hi...
- Principal Green: Today is your lucky day Miss Potter, need a ride back to school?
- Pacey: [showing her an old boat] Isn't she beautiful?
- Joey: Yeah, in a Titanic, post-iceberg sort of way. Where did you get this?
- Pacey: A friend of my brother's, he works down at the marina. He rescued her after the last hurricane. The guy who owned it didn't want her any more, so I convinced him to sell it to me for like, two hundred bucks. When I finish with this boat it is going to be sheer perfection. Look at that.
- Joey: Pacey, do you know how much money and time it will take to even get this boat to float?
- Pacey: Yeah. Not a minute more or less than as long as it takes me. You watch, Potter, in a couple of months I'll be sailing this baby around the world.
- Joey: I hate to break it to you Captain Stubing, but you can't sail around the world in a twenty foot boat.
- Pacey: Sure I can.
- Joey: Where are you going to put the supplies?
- Pacey: Hey, the USS Minnow was no bigger than this, and they found room for all of Mr. Howell's money, all the professor's tools, all of Ginger's clothes.
- Mitch: The night you were born I cried like a baby.
- Dawson: Did you really? I didn't know that.
- Mitch: I think I cried for 24 hours straight. Holding you, so small in my arms, I never knew I could love anything so much, so fast. So utterly. Part of me was terrified. Raising a son is more a matter of faith than most people know.
- Dawson: So's being one.
- Mitch: You're right. I think I realized something today.
- Dawson: What?
- Mitch: That my job as a father, isn't to give you the whole picture, because the truth is, I can't see it myself. My job is to try and help. And every now and then, fit a piece of the puzzle.
- Dawson: You have helped me dad.
- Mitch: I hope so. But your future, your expectations… they belong to you. Don't let anybody stand in the way. Not even me.
- Dawson: You always pushed me to be my own person. To think for myself. I just did what you taught me.
[edit] Indian Summer
- Pacey: Dawson, not all of us are as immune to the law of sex as you are. I mean, not all of us would opt for the warm and fuzzy emotional connections over those of, let's say a more physical nature, you know what I mean? Most of us are just big dumb guys happy to sell our souls for the slimmest chance, of gettin' some.
- Jack: You can't tell me there's someone else you'd rather be star gazing with?
- Jen: OK, you got me. Matt Damon.
- Jack: Yeah right.
- Jen: What, you don't approve? OK, I'll have to go with Ben Affleck then. Well, he has that scruffy, indie-cred appeal. Well?
- Jack: No comment. Besides, I was talking more about the realm of say, possible… Henry, for instance?
- Jen: The freshman?
- Jack: Yeah, the guy who paid 500 bucks just to kiss you? You gotta admit, that's kind of sweet.
- Jen: Jack, Jack, Jack, my naive little pet, it's the sweet ones that you have to watch out for. They'll run over you like a Mack truck.
- Jack: Well Henry's harmless. Besides, he worships you.
- Jen: He's a teenage boy. He'll worship anything in a Wonderbra.
- Henry: [about Jen] You see. You see what happens to me, why I can't ask her out? She gets within three feet of me and it's like my hard drive crashes. I go pre-verbal. Probably if I asked her out, I'd hurl all over her like that little kid from Southpark.
- Henry: You… you're awesome. You look awesome, you smell awesome, everything about you is awesome. I… I just wanted you to know that.
- Jen: Good to know.
- Pacey: Deputy Doug in the house!
- Doug: Oh, I should have known. Wherever there's smoke, there's my imbecilic little brother.
- Pacey: Doug, if I've told you once, I've told you a million times, despite his dapper Gap-clad appearance, my friend Dawson does not play for your team, OK? You're just going to have to find another date to the policeman's ball.
- Doug: Little brother, your obsession with my sexuality is just plain… weird. Look, do I have to talk to Dad again, huh?
- Pacey: Doug, it may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, and it might not even be the day after that. But one of these days you're going to go to your mailbox and open it up, and that Advocate cover story, will be yours. The copy's gonna read: "Good Cop, Gay Cop - The Dougie Witter Story". And I'm telling you Doug, we are gonna be so proud of you. Really, truly.
- Doug: I am NOT gay!! Now both of you, off this dock now! I mean it!
- Jen: Jack, I've had lovers, I've had boyfriends, but what I've never had is a boy who was first and last a friend. Who wasn't secretly trying to get in my pants, or wouldn't walk away from me the second I said I didn't want to sleep with him. Who liked me… for me. Unless you've recently decided to be bisexual? You know, I think you setting me up was a lot more about you than it was me.
- Jack: Come on, give me a break. I do not have a secret crush on Henry Parker.
- Jen: Neither do I, but that's not what I'm talking about. I mean that… maybe it's you who's lonely for the relationship.
- Jack: Well maybe I am. But this isn't exactly New York where gay kids are tripping over each other coming out of the closet. This is Capeside, gay population: one. It's me. I'm it.
- Jen: Jack, you're going to have a love life. You're going to have a fantastic love life. It's gonna be awesome, and terrifying, and, and when it happens it's going to change your whole life.
- Jack: Yeah, it's easy for you to say.
- Jen: I know it is. You have to have faith that sometimes things happen when they're least expected.
[edit] Secrets and Lies
- Jen: [to Henry] Do you know how much is going to happen to you in the next two years if you do them right? You're heart is going to swell and break a hundred times before you turn 16.
- Andie: I slept with another guy six months ago! I knew it was wrong when I did it. I keep trying to tell you this and make you understand it. How many times do I have to say it?
- Pacey: Andie, If you wanted to sleep with him, if even just for a second, then maybe it wasn't wrong.
- Andie: It was...
- Pacey: Maybe. Maybe that was just your heart's way of telling you that I'm not the one. 'Cause that's what my heart's telling me right now... it's telling me that you're not the one.
- Joey: [to Rob] Didn't you read the sign? No known sex offenders within 200 yards of my property!
- Pacey: Really? Yeah, Potter, do yourself a favor. Don't ever go into politics, okay? You're consistently incapable of lying with a straight face.
- Jen: They voted for me because I'm blonde and I fill out my sweater,
- Dawson: That too, but I think when... you know, when kids voted for you, they voted for an outsider, you know? Provocateur, messiah to lead them from the mainstream.
[edit] Escape from Witch Island
- Pacey: [about having sex] Well, alright then. Okay. [pause] Did you want to do it right now?
- Jen: Umm, do you?
- Pacey: I'm kinda tired, actually.
- Jen: Oh, fine. Roswell's on in five minutes anyway. You just let me know when you want to do it and I'll do it.
[edit] Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- [Pacey and Jen are grocery shopping for Grams' thanksgiving feast]
- Pacey: When I suggested that we hook up today, this is not exactly what I had in mind.
- Jen: Believe me, I know, but unfortunatly, Grams' Thanksgiving feast takes precedence over our burgeoning sex life.
- Pacey: Correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't actually have a sex life yet, do we?
- Jen: What, and you think that that's my fault?
- Pacey: Yeah, i do actually think that that's your fault.
- Jen: I'm sorry, Pacey. I just find it difficult to watch you paw at me with...[giggles]
- Pacey: Foreplay is no laughing matter. How do you expect a guy to do his best work in the face of scorn and derision?
- Jen: It's just that we're friends, right? And seeing as how we are friends, but now we're friends that...do that... it's just gonna take time getting used to it. Although maybe we could find a moment later?
- Pacey: I can't. I think I have to go to my parents' for Thanksgiving.
- Jen: Okay.
- Pacey: I'm sorry. I have to. I figure it's the right thing to do seeing as they brought me into the world and all.
- Jen: You sound so excited.
- Pacey: Well it's such a joyous occasion. Just imagine the Witter women slaving over a hot stove all afternoon just to be told the Butterball is too dry, by a guy sitting on his derrière, getting drunk and watching football.
- Jen: Well, despite the creamed onions, gotta love Grams for offering an alternative.
- Pacey: You do. Speaking of, you know, you never told me who else is coming.
- Jen: Don't worry, Pacey. Andie politely declined the invite.
- Pacey: Hey I wasn't going there.
- Jen: Please. I think that she's making dinner for Jack and her dad tonight.
- Pacey: Sounds nice. It's good for her to have family at Thanksgiving.
- Jen: Come here [she pulls him close]
- Pacey: [smelling her hair and rubbing her back] Good lord, you smell good. [Jen chuckles] What was that? [she starts laughing] Oh, come on!
- Jen: I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
[edit] Four to Tango
- Jen: [after making out with Pacey] Nothing?
- Pacey: Nothing, you?
- Jen: Nothing, God Pacey this is weird.
- Pacey: It's the damdest thing. how are we supposed to have some lurid, purely sexual affair when every time we get together--?
- Jen: There's no sexual tension.
- Pacey: Nada.
- Jen: Zilch.
[edit] First Encounters of the Close Kind
[edit] Barefoot at Capefest
[edit] A Weekend in the Country
- Pacey: Let me tell you kiddies we are looking good, looking good!
- Joey: What canary did you swallow?
- Dawson: If you could try to look welcoming, that would be great. Anxiety doesn't really fit in with this whole homey, "come stay with