Some Trivia C/O IMDB

• The necklace that Dawson wears in every episode was actually made by actor James Van Der Beek's mother. The wardrobe people center every outfit Dawson wears around it.
  
  
• In the pilot episode of the show,Katie Holmes never really rowed the boat. The boat was pulled by a rope that remained out of focus by the camera.
  
  
• Many props from creator Kevin Williamson's Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) are used, particularly in Dawson's bedroom
  
  
• It is set in Massachusetts, but most of the episodes until the characters went off to college and even then some are filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina as well as some in Southport.
  
  
• The character of Joey is inspired by Fannie Norwood, a long-time friend of 'Williamson, Kevin' . According to Williamson: "If Fannie watches, she will know exactly where I got some stuff. It's nice because only she will know".
  
  
• The inscription on the back of Dawson's watch reads "If you will, it is no dream", a quote of Theodore Hertzel, prognosticator of Israel.
  
  
• In episode #521 - "After Hours", a critic says she left her boyfriend in the movie theater watching the movie Storytelling with "all the other freaks." She asks Dawson (James Van Der Beek) if he has seen the movie and he says he has "no interest" in it. Van Der Beek was originally one of the stars of the film before director Todd Solondz completely cut out all of Van Der Beek's scenes.
  
  
• Originally started as a project at FOX but was rejected.
  
  
• The video Dawson supposedly made in 1998 which Pacey shows to a bed-ridden Jen during the series finale was the original credit sequence for the show.
  
  
• In "Detention" someone mentions Emilio Estevez in Breakfast Club, The (1985) and Pacey Joshua Jackson says, "He was in those Mighty Ducks movies. I love those movies." Joshua Jackson was in the main character in the Mighty Ducks movies Mighty Ducks, The (1992), et al).
  
  
• In episode 305 (Indian Summer) Eve Brittany Daniel says "...for you and the rest of the "sweet valley high" extras you call your friends?". Brittany Daniel and her twin sister starred in "Sweet Valley High" (1994).