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[Episode Transcript]
Goofs
Appearance
- When Dawson and Pacey are going to Dawson's after filming the home movie, Pacey has a Polo shirt on but when they get inside, Pacey has a different shirt on.
- When Joey goes into the theatre her hair is tied, back but when she enters the lobby, her hair is down
- Grams' hair seems really red. It suddenly gets really gray in the next episode
- When Jen is talking to Nellie, she has a black drawstring book bag. But when she enters the biology room, she has a tan Eastpack.
Continuity
- Joey puts her shoes on at the beginning of the episode, preparing to leave. After she fights with Dawson and lays down in the bed, she suddenly has no shoes on
- When Dawson comes up to Jen at her locker, he approaches her from her left. We he asks her where she is going, he says that he was just heading that way, but when they go on down the hall they go in the direction that Dawson was coming from not where he was heading.
Timeline
- The film festival is mentioned twice in this episode. Dawson first says it's in two weeks but later says it's in two months.
Technical
- A microphone box can be seen in Joey's back pocket right before everyone enters the theater.
Incorrect
- Joey tells Bessie to stay out of her room. However, a later episode, Modern Romance, establishes that Joey doesn't have her own room and sleeps in the living room.
Joey doesn't lose her room until Alexander is born. In that episode they explain that her room is now the baby's nursery.
- Jen looks out one window in Dawson's room and Joey comes in another. Later episodes show only one window inside Dawson's room.
Dawson's room has for windows, two on each outside wall. There is one behind his desk, one that Joey always climbs through, and two facing Jen's house. One is near "Joey's window" and the other is near his closet.
- Jen's grandmother won't say penis but Look Who's Talking establishes that she's a nurse. Why can't she say it?
Just because her grandmother can say penis, doesn't mean that she should be talking about it with her granddaughter just because she was dared to.
(Submissions by Katie and Mary)
Notes
- The little known fact about the shower scene in Psycho that Dawson tells Mr. Gold isn't all that special. Visitors used to be told about it at the Hitchcock display at Universal Studios. Oddly enough, however, it's not true. There were between 71-78 camera set-ups for the shooting of this scene. The sequence contains over 50 splices and lasts for only 45 seconds but took 7 days to shoot. Director Alfred Hitchcock used a very comfortable water temperature to make sure actress Janet Leigh was comfortable.
- Dawson states none of Steven Spielberg's movies have never had sex scenes. Guess he's never seen Schindler's List. (Submitted by NhojSlwar)
- For those that are unaware, to walk your dog is to masturbate. This substitute was written in because the WB thought directly referring to masturbation would cause too much controversy.
- During the theme song, Dawson, Joey, Jen and Pacey are all wearing the same clothes that they wore when they went to the movies.
More Notes 
Cut Scenes
There were many scenes in this episode that were filmed but cut from the final episode. This is based on special 34 minute preview versions of the episode that were sent out to critics and this report was made by Dawson's Collectibles. This pilot was given out possibly as early as May of 1997 to give a preview of what people could expect from Dawson's Creek. The tape came in a hard clamshell case:
- The first difference between the two versions occurs at the opening credits. In the unaired pilot, Alanis Morrisette's "Hand in Pocket" plays over the opening credits instead of the now familiar "I Don't Wanna Wait" by Paula Cole. Morrisette pulled out at the last minute, not wanting her name to be associated with a TV show. The show's producers then asked Paula Cole at the last minute, and at first she also refused, but agreed that they could
use her song after seeing the pilot episode.
- Shots of houses along the waterfront that come in as the episode is beginning in the broadcast version are not present.
- At the 5:00 mark, during the introduction of the Jennifer Lindley character, the music is the difference again, this time Stone Temple Pilots' "Art School Girl" plays over this scene instead of "Hey, Pretty Girl" by the Bodeans.
- The first significant difference occurs at 6:42 during the scene where Dawson and Pacey walk in on Dawson's parents making out on the couch. The unaired pilot features an entirely different take of this scene with an unknown actor playing Mitch Leery, as opposed to John Wesley Shipp, who would become the final choice for the character.
- The fifth difference occurs during 8:20 and is again significant because the unaired pilot features not only different
takes of actors delivering dialogue, in fact, one character is missing from the scene, but also shows different costume
and scenery. This is the scene where we are introduced to the Tamara character in the video store where Dawson and Pacey work. First, the whole exchange between Nellie Olsen and Pacey is missing from the unaired pilot. In fact, Nellie Olsen's scenes are not present at all in this version of the pilot, possibly because the role had yet to be cast, or perhaps the role was not yet written. For the introduction scene of Tamara, the unaired pilot uses a different version than the broadcast pilot. Here Tamara wears much more conservative attire than we see her wearing in the broadcast pilot. Gone here is the racier miniskirt-style look of the broadcast pilot. Instead, we see Tamara wearing a conservative black outfit with slacks.
- The look of the video store in the unaired pilot is also completely different from what made it into the broadcast
pilot. Here, the store is much more open and spacious looking, with several rows of videos covering the floorspace, as opposed to the closed-in look with videos mainly covering the walls that we see in the broadcast version.
More Cut Scenes
Music
| "Hey Pretty Girl" | Bo Deans |
| "As I Lay Me Down" | Sophie B. Hawkins |
| "Tubthumping" | Chumbawamba |
| "Mercy Me" | Say-So |
| "Good Mother" | Jann Arden |
| "I'll Stand By You" | The Pretenders |
| "I Don't Want to Wait" | Paula Cole |
Review
Wayne:This episode was decent for a premiere but was a little too fast-paced for me. It seemed to try to fit all the facts that would be normally in a two-hour premiere into one hour. The actors also seem to be still warming up and their performances aren't as great as in later episodes.
The episode did get the job done, however, and introduced all the characters well. There were great moments including the scene at the theatre and Joey and Dawson's talk at the end of the episode. The general plot themes were also introduced fairly well. (6/10) 
Drew: This episode has got it all. Everything is seen through a new perspective, and all the characters are made to look their best for this pilot.
Two scenes still stay in my mind. The first is when Jen confronts her religion conscience, Grams, and decides to tell her that she in fact, is an Atheist. Of course, right after that moment, the poppy up-beat Chumbawumba song "Tubthumping" immediately comes on.
The second, and best scene in DC presently in my opinion, is the final scene in the show when Joey asks a defining question that determines whether or not she and Dawson can still converse like they used to. Dawson, unable to answer the question, leaves Joey running to her rowboat in tears as "I'll Stand by You" plays in this emotional moment. (10/10) 
 Emotions in Motion Part I
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