Writer:	Mike White
Director:	Allan Arkush
Star:	Nina Repeta (Bessie Potter),  Mary Beth Peil (Evelyn "Grams" Ryan),  John Wesley Shipp (Mitch Leery),  Mary-Margaret Humes (Gale Leery),  Joshua Jackson (Pacey J. Witter),  Michelle Williams (Jennifer "Jen" Lindley),  Katie Holmes (Josephine "Joey" Potter),  James Van Der Beek (Dawson Leery)
Recurring Role:	Monica Keena (Abby Morgan)
Guest Star:	Mati Moralejo (Grant),  Mike Pniewski (Mr. Pickering),  Micah Leamer (Daniel),  Linda Bureau (Cheerleader #1),  Adrienne Harvey (Cheerleader #2),  Barry Bell (Coach),  Helen Baldwin (Mrs. Tringle)

Music featured in the episode included:
Stupid by Chickenpox
A Lot Like Youby Colony
Saturday by Colony
Will Tomorrow Ever Come by Dance Hall Crashers
Grace by Michelle Malone (edit) This episode introduces what would become one of Dawson's Creek's most famous characters, Abby Morgan (Monica Keena). (edit) Although featured in the opening credits, Mary-Margaret Humes (Gale), John Wesley Shipp (Mitch), Nina Repeta (Bessie), and Mary Beth Peil (Grams) do not appear in this episode. (edit)

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 enjenu appeal, and the rest are laguishing somewhere in tv obscurity.
Pacey: No way, Emilio Estevez! He was in those Duck movies, remember? God, those were classics, so funny..
(Everybody looks at him.)
Pacey: What? (edit) (Joey and Dawson are watching a movie when Dawson turns it off.)
Joey: What are you doing?
Dawson: I don't get this movie.
Joey: Yeah, but we've been watching it for an hour and a half, I'd kind of like to see what happens.
Dawson: When movies get too unrealistic it depresses me. I get a headache, I can't watch.
Joey: Unrealistic? Dawson your favorite movie is E.T.
Dawson: So?
Joey: A fat-fingered alien who eats Reese's Pieces and rides around on a bicycle?
Dawson: But the emotion is realistic. This movie, come on, a girl has to decide between two guys so they drag race? She agrees to go out with whoever has the fastest car?
Joey: Well, I hate to break it to you, Dawson, but a fast car can be a real turn on.
Dawson: Well, why don't they just arm wrestle, whoever has the biggest bicep wins.
Joey: Well, that would work. Give me the remote. (edit) Abby: We could all play a game.
Pacey: Really? What do you want to play? Pin the tail on the ho-bag? (edit) Dawson: Well you won't tell me so I do believe you were talking trash about me.
Pacey: Hey, don't talk trash, recycle it. (edit) Pacey: I think we're playing b-ball today. You know, with that hoop up in the air and that ball.
Dawson: Right. I know how to play basketball man.
Pacey: Of course you do, sport. Just don't kick the ball and don't hit it with a baseball bat. (edit)

This is a takeoff on John Hughes' movie The Breakfast Club. (edit) Dawson's nickname growing up was Oompa Loompa, a name from the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. (edit) Famous Firsts: Dawson and Joey's first kiss (although it was the result of a dare). (edit) Mrs. Tringle is watching the day time soap opera Days Of Our Lives, a show Creek guest star Leann Hunley (Ms. Jacobs) used to star in. (edit) Days of Our Lives that Mrs. Tringle is watching originally aired in September, 1997. One scene specifically appears to be from Sept. 9, 1997. (edit)

Movie References:

The dialog includes references to:
ET (1982)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Mighty Ducks (1992) (edit) Abby: Oh great. It's Howdy Doody time.

A reference to an old kids TV show, Howdy Doody. The show always asked, "Hey kids, what time is it?" which was followed by, "It's Howdy Doody time." (edit) Pacey: No way! Emilio Estevez, he was in those duck movies, remember? God, those were classics!

The gang is talking about how their current situation seemed like the 80's movie The Breakfast Club and Dawson points out how all of the actors in that movie were never heard from again. But Pacey (Joshua Jackson) points out how Emilio Estevez was the star of the "Ducks" movies. (Joshua Jackson was also in the The Mighty Ducks movies, playing team captain Charlie Conway) (edit)