As the gang discusses their assignment on the Nixon-Watergate scandal, Jen tells Dawson she has finished watching the video she borrowed from him,
All the President's Men (1976) and he asks her what she thought of it. She says she enjoyed it but her boyfriend, Henry, thought it was seriously lacking in cute teenage girls. This is an obvious nod to the movie Dick (1999), which came out around the same time this episode aired. Michelle Williams, who plays the character Jen, had recently starred with Kirsten Dunst in that movie, in which the two teenage girls are the ones who uncover the Watergate scandal.
Pacey references Hurricane Chris from Season One as one of the reasons he got the remnant of a boat that he restores. Both episodes reflect a 'whirlwind' of emotions in the secrets and lies of relationships on the cape.