The memos were remarkable . . . They sounded like this: 'Please reduce the number of "craps" by half in this script and consider spreading the remaining ones over the next few episodes. Please replace the disparaging term, "stanky ho-bag" with "prostitute". . . "Screw you" is an improvement from "Go [bleep] yourself," but it is still deemed inappropriate.' " Stepakoff, who also wrote for "The Wonder Years" and "Sisters," says teen characters depicted as heavy drinkers always have to pay dearly for their boozing ways. "[They'd say] if the characters drink excessively, they must get sick. Please make sure such sickness is dramatized tastefully." In addition, "make sure . . . when characters 'have passionate sex on the kitchen floor' they remain fully clothed throughout. Likewise, make sure that when the char acter takes a shower afterward, he is not naked from the waist down.

–Jeffrey Stepakoff, exec producer of Dawson's Creek, from his memoirs. [via Page Six]