James and the Giant Creek

I don't know quite how we got to talking about "Dawson's Creek" last night, but we did. I asked Jo what James Van Der Beek's (aka "Dawson") last name means. Van is from, der is the, so what's beek? Turns out beek is creek! So the star of "Dawson's Creek" is himself from the creek. Lama? Kacha.