The Kids Are Alright (Dawson's Creek episode)

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“The Kids Are Alright”
Dawson's Creek episode

Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 1
Written by	Tom Kapinos
Directed by	Greg Prange
Production no.	601
Original airdate	2002-10-02
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The Kids Are Alright is the first episode of Dawson's Creek sixth and final season. It aired on October 2, 2002.

1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 Music Featured
5 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

During the summer, Pacey and Audrey rocked Los Angeles and spent time with her next door neighbors, the Osbournes, and Jack Osbourne even tags along with them to interview at Worthington. Jen spent her time in New York and got ecstatic to learn her parents are separating. Jack got dumped by Eric, but got over it. Joey spent her summer in Capeside doing a lot of reading, working and romancing. On their first week back at Boston Bay College, Jen is shocked to run into find that Grams Ryan has decided to go back to school. At Worthington, Joey experiences nothing but bad luck when she decides to enroll in an intermediate writing class taught by the liberal, but manipulative and cynical, Professor Greg Heston who does not hesitate to ridicule and embarrass Joey in front of the class with her lack of knowledge of the current book topic. Pacey and Jack move out of Grams' house and Pacey tries to get the perfect apartment, owned by a feisty, punk rock British woman, named Emma Jones, who works as a waitress in the local bar Hell's Kitchen. Also, Dawson is working on a new movie, a horror film titled "Wicked Dead" with him as the assistant director and the hack Todd Carr as director. When he finally gets together with Joey, he is the only one to have remembered her 19th birthday.

[edit] Cast

Main Cast

James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery
Katie Holmes as Joey Potter
Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley
Joshua Jackson as Pacey Witter
Kerr Smith as Jack McPhee
Busy Philipps as Audrey Lidell
Mary Beth Peil as Evelyn "Grams" Ryan

Recurring Roles

Oliver Hudson as Eddie Dooling
Megan Gray as Emma Jones
Roger Howarth as Professor Greg Hetson
Sebastian Spence as Professor Matt Freeman

Guest Stars

Jack Osbourne as Himself

[edit] Trivia

Busy Philipps (Audrey) is now added to the opening credits as a series main castmember.
The episode title The Kids Are Alright is taken from the song from the 1973 release Quadrophenia by The Who.
The first episode of the sixth season of the series That 70's Show is also called "The Kids Are Alright".
This episode is the first half of the two hour season premiere, with the next episode picking up where this one left off.
Dawson and Joey have sex together for the first time.