Remember that time these two loonies joined a cult? That's our favorite episode. But we think "Brittana" shippers beg to differ.
He got jealous of her success and eventually broke up with her via Post-it note. Amazing, especially when you consider how often Carrie had to probably use them, always thinking of him when doing so.
Remember that time he made her help him kill himself to make her life less miserable? They just don't make 'em like they did in the 1800s.
After the heart-crushing loss of Tara, this was the perfect follow up relationship for Willow to help make us feel better about never even having had a Tara: no chemistry, totally forced, just tacked on there at the end to give someone a happy ending, since ANYA HAD TO BE SLICED IN HALF. DIAGONALLY. UGH.
The show should have been called Dawson's Joey instead, based on how he treated her. Too bad Joey got her act together and ended up with Pacey and a relationship that occasionally made us want to die in the most romantic of ways, but we'll always have the memories (and that infamous dock-crying .gif) of the perfect trainwreck that was Dawson and Joey.
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