18 Things True ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Fans Should Already Know

4. Dawson’s Creek had the first gay male kiss on primetime TV

When Jack kissed his boyfriend Ethan in the third season finale in 2010 it became the first of its kind, which was groundbreaking. Kerr Smith has said: “I did know how historic it was and he did too. I’ll never forget the day that we were filming that. I was quite nervous, as was he … We knew what we were doing. We knew what we were addressing. We knew that it was important and that a lot of people were going to be looking up to the show now for this particular type of storyline. I think we did a good thing.”

5. Jack and Andie were way too old for high school

Meredith Monroe was 29-years-old when she was playing 16-year-old Andie McPhee, making her nine years older than Katie Holmes and a decade older than Michelle Williams. Her brother Jack was played by 27-year-old Kerr Smith.

6. The concept was inspired by other teen shows

The show’s creator, Kevin Williamson of Scream fame, has mentioned that he had a whole heck of a lot of inspiration for the show, and some of it might surprise you. “I pitched it as Some Kind of Wonderful, meets Pump Up the Volume, meets James at 15, meets My So-Called Life, meets Little House on the Prairie. I sort of threw everything in there.” The character of Dawson Leery was semi-autobiographically based on him.