To Green, With Love

To Green, With Love
Season	3
Episode	16
INFO
Aired	16 February 2000
Written by	Gina Fattore & Greg Berlanti
Directed by	Ken Fink
EPISODES
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Well, that just means that it isn't pretend anymore

—Jen to Pacey

To Green, with Love is the 16th episode of Season 3 of Dawson's Creek.

Synopsis

POWER TO THE PEOPLE – Joey (Katie Holmes) relies on the support of Pacey (Joshua Jackson) and A.J. (guest star Robin Dunne) to rally the students in protest against the school superintendent after he forces Principal Green (guest star Obba Babatundé) to resign for expelling the student who destroyed Joey's mural. Meanwhile, Dawson (James Van Der Beek) and Gale (Mary-Margaret Humes) both go back to their respective places in back and in front of the camera to produce a piece about the ongoing school protest which ruffles more than a few feathers of the school board hierarchy.

Starring

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 Meredith Monroe as Andie McPhee Mary-Margaret Humes as Gale Leery John Wesley Shipp as Mitch Leery Nina Repeta as Bessie Potter Special Guest Stars Robin Dunne as A.J. Moller Bianca Lawson as Nikki Green Obi Ndefo as Bodie Wells

Guest starring Jessica Collins as Sherry Eisler Lawrence Pressman as Dr. Byron Fielding Michael Hagerty as Matt Caufield with Obba Babatundé as Howard Green Co-Starring Michael J. Hunter as Robert Caulfield Dawn Spinella as Administrative Assistant Melissa Bragg-Lumdsden as Student Taylor Webb as Random Student #1 Lee Norris as Random Student #2 John Baker as PTA Board Member #1 Elaine Nalee as PTA Board Member #2

Quotes

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Pacey? What kind of a name is Pacey?

—A.J. to Joey

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You bought me a wall?!

—Joey to Pacey

Locations

• Capeside School Board
• Joey's House
• Dawson's House
• Green's House
• Capeside High School
• Leery's Fresh Fish
• Joey's Wall

Trivia

• Principal Green resigns instead of changing his punishment for Matt Caufield.
• Pacey buys Joey a large wall in town for her to paint.

BROADCAST

• The episode was watched by 4 million people upon its original airing on the WB.

PRODUCTION NOTES

• This is the first episode to feature actual footage of snow in Capeside. Production had to shut down for a day due to the weather, but Executive Producers' Paul Stupin and Greg Prange put a crew together to capture the winter footage.

Films

WATCHED

REFERENCED

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Pretty in Pink (1986)

Music

better off | PETE STEWART

joey talks to sherry

two beds and a coffee machine | SAVAGE GARDEN

principal green speaks

tracks of my tears (cover) | MARY BETH MAZIARZ

joey and bodie

that lonesome road | JAMES TAYLOR

principal green leaves; joey at her wall

Photos

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