Dude.

You would have been much better off fading into obscurity than snorting fake cocaine through a straw on anything on the CW, let alone One Tree Hill. This is embarrassing, dude.

I don’t know why, but this reminded me of that Saved By the Bell episode where Zack and Slater find a “roach” in the bathroom. And thanks to the wonders of YouTube, I could watch all my favorite parts all over again, and so can you.

Just when it looked like his career was up Dawson’s creek without a paddle, James Van Der Beek is getting a second chance at being a professional actor.

James Van Der Beek has signed onto a lead role with the Fox pilot Eva Adams.

The hour-long project revolves around Adam, a self-centred and sexist sports agent who gets a healthy dose of comeuppance when a witch’s spell turns him into a woman. Now, he must deal with the same kind of shabby treatment he used to dole out.

Van Der Beek will play Connor, a former frat boy who is a colleague and good friend of Adam’s.

David Denman, who played Pam’s ex-fiance Roy on “The Office,” has also joined the cast. He will play Paul, a still-recovering divorcee and single dad who works at the sports firm alongside Adam and Connor.

Adam/Eva has yet to be cast.

And, like everything on American TV these days, we stole the idea from another country … the show is based on the hit Argentinean telenovela Lalola.

Who should they cast as the sexist man who gets turned into a woman???

Well, his career is certainly up shit’s creek.

Heh heh. I ran this photo just so I could say that.

Here’s James Van Der Beek doing something boring in Los Angeles.

What happened to this kid? The boys in that series didn’t really fare well, did they? Katie Holmes went on to marry Tom Cruise. Michelle Williams went on to star in an Oscar-award-winning film. But Josh Jackson? And Dawson? They just kind of went away.

What do you guys figure is in his hands? I’ve included a close-up in the thumbnail so you can guess away. Because I know how much you care.