Dawson Leery Says Memetic Waterworks Were Unscripted Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/11/12 09:30AM Hot on the heels of the canon-challenging curveball from Simpsons creator Matt Groening that Springfield is in Oregon, Dawson's Creek alum James Van Der Beek drops another pop-culture bombshell: His now-iconic cry-me-a-creek scene was unscripted.