The third season of Degrassi: The Next Generation (shown on cable channel The N) opens with Emma sitting on her front porch, reading a book. Spike calls “It’s time,” and…

School’s back in session. Manny and Craig are being all snuggly, walking down the hall with their arms around each other. He wonders out loud about the sex of their…

Ms. Kwan’s Grade 10 English class is filing into the gym. Marco, Terri and Rick are walking together, and Marco “can’t wait” for something. Is Dylan going to show up…

Marco is inside a picture booth, posing unenthusiastically. Really, I would expect more out of the fashionista who showed up at school last week. In the background, 1950s elevator music…

Resident goth girl Ellie is all sorts of sullen, sitting among military folk looking like she’s lost her protest group. One of the camo-clad men approaches and, surprise, it’s her…

The Degrassi episode “Take On Me” isn’t just inspired by The Breakfast Club, it’s a thirty-minute remake of it, with a slight romantic twist. The cast of characters is as…

“My diligent locker custodians. I’ll be back in 15 minutes to inspect all your hard work. And once they’re clean… hello, summer.” The bell rings as Snake ends his speech.…

The gang is in Ms. Kwan’s class, and she’s trying to convince them that Shakespeare is applicable to their modern-day lives. Sean, in particular. He’s looking white-ghetto-fabulous, as per usual.…

It’s a rock ‘n roll montage at The Dot Grill. Paige is waiting tables, badly. She mixes up drinks, mixes up orders, spills random liquids on customers at the bar,…

Written by Mandy Lots of Degrassi students are standing and walking around in front of the school. “Someone tell me I’m hallucinating,” Paige says to the group slowly growing around…

Here’s something I just realized, and I can’t believe I didn’t notice it before now: Sean’s navy knit cap is evil. It’s true! Whenever he wears it he is tempted…

Written by Mandy There’s a model of a stage and we hear Danny talking from behind it. He’s reading his lines for the upcoming play “Dracula,” which if you remember…

Jimmy, Spinner and Marco walk down the hall in order of height from right to left. Jimmy is explaining that the new Kid Albert CD is amazing. It has a…

Written by Penny Toby and JT walk up to the school. Toby is counting down to something that is exactly 28 hours, 14 minutes and 7 seconds away. He’s been…

Extras walk by nonchalantly as Craig and Ashley make out on the school’s front steps. I say “make out,” but really they’re kissing fairly chastely, which is a disappointment to…

Aye. It’s the very special Degrassi Christmas episode. After watching the commercials for it all week, I’m feeling some serious dread in my stomach. Anyone else? Show of hands? Yeah,…

The camera pans over a dimly lit bedroom, tracks a notebook falling ungracefully to the floor, and swoops up over a pair of denim-clad legs before revealing Craig and Ashley…

Written by Mandy Sean and Ellie are standing in front of a school bus, though it is unclear whether or not they used it to get to school. Sean flips…

The episode opens on Coach Armstrong’s math class. When I was in high school, my geometry teacher was also the baseball coach. I can’t remember his name, but I can…

Craig sits amidst the rubble of his hotel room, toying with his mother’s ring. His tie is askew and his hair is delightfully tousled. Leave it to Craig to look…

Written by Mandy Anytime a television show starts with, “The following program contains scenes of violence and therefore parental supervision is advised,” you know you are in for one hell…

A car pulls up to the school, and before we can see him, we hear Marco calling out to us. Or rather, to Paige, Spinner and Hazel, who are walking…

The 10th grade couples are having lunch outside. Paige is describing the “Paige Party On Wheels,” which amounts to little more than Paige having custody of her parents’ minivan for…

Downtown Sasquatch is in the hooooooouse! Or, rather, Joey’s garage. They’re rehearsing the crappy upbeat reggae song from the pep squad carwash. This time, though, it sucks like never before.…

Marco is still obsessing over his admission to Spinner. He nervously approaches him outside the school before class. He asks if Spinner told anyone and Spinner plays dumb. That annoying…

Ms. Hatzilakos is wearing her ubiquitous lab coat and explaining how the final exams are going to work in science class. The material will focus mostly on the second term,…

We start off with the triumphant return of the Degrassi junior varsity boys’ soccer team to school after handily winning a game. Cheerleaders Paige and Manny get off the bus…

Ashley Kerwin falls back on her bed, talking on the phone. She has a just below the chin length bob, and she’s wearing her bathrobe. She declares that this is…

Written by Mandy Rick opens the episode, walking up to Degrassi with a smile on his face and wearing an interesting choice of hats: a beret. It works for me,…

As the band Semisonic once said, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” So true. When the old Degrassi series ended, kids of the 80s were left with…