What's YOUR favourite episode of Dawson's Creek?

That HMV store opened sometime in August. Finally I can find music and movies again in the mall closer to my house. Since hurricane season started I have had no relief in fuelling the Blue Devil. "Hyper-Miler" is the Yahoo Buzz word for my condition. Although I have yet to turn the car off and coast at any point. My condition is not yet severe.

I remember back in the day, when we used to go for those walks to Mac's for slushies and Doritos and in that stupid mindset we would play up the dramas in our own lives as to relate them with television... or videogames. McKelvie's basement was the heart and his N64 was the nerves of those "creek times" days. (making that wrestling game some sort of higher brain function?) Remember when summer break actually meant break? That show, The Mac & McKelvie Power Hour! featuring Yegs, Cnev, Paco, and Goodsie. We had season premiers. The mid-season hiatus crisis, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas specials all played into the teen years. Ripping off teen dramas was kind of our thing. In response to Christmukka we had Festivo. A spinoff happened at the beginning of the 2007 season.

We saw McKelvie move in with the Flatmate and watched the drama and dishes mount. (not so much with the drama) But just like all teen shows, the college years get awkward as the characters no longer look the age they are supposed to play. even though they clearly are. Those events that seemed so monumental in highschool slowly fade into the day to day as loans, rent, gas, groceries and drug store trips become the norm.

The season premier of Mac & McKelvie started not at the first day of the school year. The execs took a gamble on the pilot episode which aired nearly mid season. McKelvie's Birthday, Nov 30th started the program.

SPOILER ALERT!

August 2008 the last episode ran. The spinoff and original had one program. McKelvie and Mac walked behind a run down mall, thinking more to themselves than talking to each other, slushies replaced by energy drinks (to reflect the buying trends of a changing demographic) some words were exchanged that were of no real consequence but spoke to the optimistic future of the players. I could see a montage of footage, Cnev working his way to the west coast with his girlfriend. Yegs, preparing for another year making himself smarter than the rest of us, me on my Labour Day camping trip with Flatmate and the girls. Paco setting out to live in that HoJo and McKelvie in a slow mo hand held shot encircling him (a la Joey season end of DC) and we can see he's finally escaped the cold clutches of Northern Ontario... Southern Ontario here we come. The whole thing fades. And everyone continues on with their lives. Which would bring us pretty much up to now.

Gotta remember that first episode though, no snow yet as I recall. McKelvie lighting the wrong end of his last cigarette, trying to make himself cool. Command and Conquer might have been the build up of the Fictional Characters. But if Cnev hadn't called McKelvie and had him break his leg falling up the stairs I may not have been friends with the kid. and McKelvie couldn't have a power hour all on his own.

That would have been Nov 30th 1998, making this Nov 30th 2008 the ten year "aluminum anniversary" I don't know where the series wrap party is being held but it is going to be huge! 10 years older...





p.s.
My favourite episode of the creek is the one where Joey and Pacey end up locked in the store overnight.