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A long time ago, we used to be friends* with a bunch of angsty teens that lived on a creek. Remember those days? Yeah. Those were some pretty great days.

Today my Dawson’s Creek season 6 box set arrived from the library (yea, buddy - I’m cheap). The sixth season is the last season. And I think most fans will agree that seasons five and six are pretty lackluster (read: mostly a suckfest). It always feels like, ‘Really? Where’s the Creek magic? Why does Jack Osbourne have a cameo? Why can’t Andie McPhee come back?’ I don’t think I can actually handle watching the series finale again. I watched it at first (all those years ago), with a couple of friends. So I held it together in that first viewing, no tears. Maybe just a little bit of mist. But that’s all. Honest!

But… when I watched it by myself…oh noooo. SO MANY TEARS. Because, oh God…Jen! Also, the line Dawson’s delivers about, ‘I guess this threesome has become a foursome’ always held such perfect self-aware irony (for the characters and the show, itself) that I find myself Continued

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On Monday Buzz Sugar started a poll to see what the most popular teenage drama of all time is, according to fans. As of right now Beverly Hills 90210 is winning the race. Then comes Buffy the Vampire Slayer and My-So Called Life. I voted for Buffy, that’s just how I roll.

Dawson’s Creek is a contender, and I’m glad. That was back before Katie Holmes was abducted by Tom Cruise. The show was and is amazing. What I remember hearing a lot back when the show was new was how ‘they talk funny’ - because they used large words. Personally, I loved it - and I learned words from watching! Persnickety, anyone? I can remember watching the pilot, loving the new world. I can also remember watching the season finale - crying, but happy. (The show had run its’ course, Joey ended up with Pacey, and though Jen had a sad ending - we got to see Michelle Williams prove her acting chops in a major way.)

Gossip Girl is also a contender, and this isn’t right. The show hasn’t even had a full season yet - how can people know it’s the best teenage show of all time? What if all of the other seasons suck? Personally I think the ‘new shine’ of the show is blinding people to the fact that it doesn’t hold up next to other teen shows we’ve had on our screens.

Surprisingly, One Tree Hill isn’t in this list.

Watch the results unfold here.

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According to People, Tom Cruise is ready to get back on the horse. I mean, couch. Or… was it a chair? Well, I don’t suppose it really matters. By now you know what I’m talking about. Cruise is returning to The Oprah Winfrey Show. And I don’t know if anyone can stop him. Aliens can melt through steel doors with their eyes, right?

Could anyone possibly still be a fan of Tom Cruise? If you are, that is reason enough to doubt your sanity. There may be something wrong with every religion, but crazy alien-worshiping scientologists are a horrible cult. Tom, of course, is like their master. Poor Suri is the alien princess in training, and Katie Holmes is starving herself to death just to get free (not that it matters, she probably signed one of those contracts where you commit to scientology for ‘a billion years’) - but that is all old news.

Look for this during May sweeps. Oh, boy.

Original picture is from Starpulse.com.

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Tube Talk has the name of the next Gossip Girl episode: The Blair Bitch Project. I’m not so much a fan of the show as I am totally a non-fan, but I love when shows pay homage to fun 90’s movies. Of course, no one paid The Blair Witch Project better homage than Dawson’s Creek. I know you remember the episode - they go to the island with a film camera. It’s starts the very short period of time where Jen and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) try to be friends with benefits. Jen makes a potion or something to prove witchcraft does (or doesn’t?) work. Oh, and Joey (Katie Holmes) wore a really stupid hat in this episode. But seriously, it’s good. Go watch it. I think it’s season two.

Katie Holmes, you are a fool to have passed Joshua up for Tom Cruise. Yuck. At least Joey made the right choice. I wonder if they got married. I wonder if she changed her name and became Joey Witter? Also, sometimes I briefly wonder what might have happened to Pacey’s sister - Gretchen (Sasha Alexander). But then I remember that I don’t care.

Ahhh, I love Joshua Jackson. In fact, I just Netflixed a bunch of movie’s he’s in so I can have a JJ marathon (you’re invited if you bring snacks). *Big happy sigh* He may have been the most perfect boyfriend on TV ever. Not that he didn’t have his low points. But what, like you’re perfect?

So what else is going on?

The Great White Snark finally answered the question of who that guy on Reaper reminds me of. (His name is Tyler Labine - I checked.) Ah. No wonder I find him so lovably annoying. And! He is in this movie I’m watching as part of my Joshua Jackson movie marathon! (Coincidences are freaky.) It’s called Aurora Borealis. And - as another coincidence, that has a connection (the name - the Northern Lights) back to Dawson’s Creek.

In news that isn’t about Dawson’s Creek: either Oprah is dumb, or Oprah’s people are dumb. Or both. How do I know? Some things you just know! The point is that Mama Pop has a tidbit about hot Oprah tried to honor Maya Angelou by basically insulting her in the biggest way possible. (Hint: it involves a live parrot in a cage at her birthday party.)

Mindy from Too Much TV is (or was - she may be finished already!) having a Friends marathon. I think she hits on an excellent point - the show does cheer you right up. I can watch a repeat of the show at any time and I somehow feel like life isn’t just a vat of sludge, or something.

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Original picture of Josh and Katie from pjls.tripod.com. The Photoshopping is courtesy of moi. Yes, I did forget a period in my graphic, but neither I nor John Cusack are perfect.

P.S. ‘I Eat Cannibals.’ Copyright to me!

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I guess maybe the term “big fan” is subjective, but how much of a “big fan” can a not even 2-year-old be. Sure, at that age my son was watching Lion King at least once, if not more, every day, and I felt he liked it, but I wouldn’t have called him a fan. He was basically subjected to what I turned on the TV or flipped in the VHS for him. He couldn’t make the decisions for himself and couldn’t change the channel or turn it off. Yet, he sat and stared at it instead of getting in trouble, so I thought he liked it.

Yet, Katie Holmes, costar of the recently released film Mad Money, said this morning on Ryan Seacrest’s radio program that her and Tom Cruise’s daughter, Suri, is a big fan of American Idol. Seacrest asked if she would like tickets to American Idol, and she said she would and would be “eternally grateful.” Apparently a girl that is probably either barely potty trained, or recently so, just can’t get enough of the show. Holmes also said Suri was “growing and talking more.” She isn’t even talking fully yet, but her and Cruise know she’s a big fan.

But American Idol isn’t Suri’s only favorite; she also likes The Spice Girls. Holmes then added in her own thoughts, saying she thought Victoria Beckham was “very sexy,” and her husband, soccer star David Beckham was a nice man and “very good at what he does.” Somehow this conversation about Suri’s likes and dislikes metamorphosed into Holmes’ personal thoughts on the Beckhams.

It all leads me to believe Holmes and possibly Cruise are closet fans of American Idol, but for some reason, she couldn’t bring herself to admit this to Seacrest, choosing to use her daughter as a way to get tickets. I hardly think Suri will be sitting in the audience with pigtails, crying like Sanjaya fan Ashley Ferl. But Ryan, if you’re looking for a real young girl that’s a fan, look up my daughter, Lizzie, 11 years old, and playing Renaldo’s We’re Brothers Forever over and over and over last week. Or even my son, Mike, who recorded the same song on his phone as a ring tone. Or even me. At least I don’t hide behind them. I’ll readily admit to being a fan since my son asked me to turn it on during season one.

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