The Sour Sixteen Episode Reviews
I
don't write the episode reviews in order. I started out by reviewing half of
the first season, then I wrote through all of season 3 before I did much on
season 2. I also reviewed season 5 before I finished season 4. By the summer
of 2006, I had almost every episode of seasons 1 through 5 reviewed except
for sixteen from the first two seasons. Sixteen not done out of one hundred ain't bad. In fact, it means I spend too much fucking time analyzing
Degrassi episodes. How about I stop this and go make friends?
No, I can't do that. I'm going to get through these final sixteen episodes. I haven't gotten to them before because they aren't as interesting, intense, or memorable as the time Emma got her period or Sean joined the Candy Bandits. More of them are fairly boring. They are the Sour 16. But not liking an episode is no excuse to not review it, or else I would never write about Craig. So let's look back at Degrassi, at the early days, to a more simple time, before the show found its footing and was daring enough to have an abortion or blow job or shooting happen every week.
By Billie Green
Season 1
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Eye of the Beholder 104 Terri likes Spinner, but Paige also likes Spinner. So Paige gets Terri drunk so she'll look like an ass and Spinner will be all Paige's. Meanwhile, JT and Toby stay home to look at porn. |
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Parents Day
105 Turns out Toby's parents hate each other and turns out they will both be at Parents Day. Oh no! Whatever will Toby do? Also, Ashley and Paige want to get modeling or acting work or something and Emma wants to bring down Channel One. |
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Basketball Dairies 107 Jimmy wants to be a basketball supa'star. But he needs Spinner Pills to do it. Will Spinner be able to get by without his medicine? What we he do once he is no longer contained by medical science? Liberty wants to be on TV, but she fucks up. Fucks up as always. |
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Secrets and Lies
108 Ashley's dad is a homosexual. JT also pretends to be a homosexual so Liberty will stop looking at him. |
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Wannabe 112 Manny wants to be a cheerleader. Paige takes the little sprout under her wing and shows her how to be a bitch. |
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Under Pressure
114 Sean kicks Jimmy's ass. |
Season 2
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Mirror in the Bathroom 209 Toby wants to be a wrestler, but if he doesn't lose some weight he'll have to fight Sean and that will mean he'll be killed. Toby stops eating which was kind of stupid to do. |
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Don't Believe the Hype
211 Hazel is a Muslim, so now she has to wear a burka over her tits. |
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White Wedding Part 1 - 212
Snake and Spike are going to get married. Hilarity ensures. |
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White Wedding Part 2
- 213 By hilarity, I mean Spike is pregnant, which is bad because neither of them have any money. |
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Careless Whisper 214
Marco finds out he is gay. He decides to have Ellie be his beard, and Ellie is happy to oblige because it means she won't be home alone all weekend. |
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Message in a Bottle
216
Sean gets drunk. |
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Relax 217 Everyone tells Liberty how much they hate her. Rock on. |
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Dressed in Black 218 Craig and Ashley hook up. |
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Tears Are Not Enough Part 1
- 221
Craig's dad dies. |
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Tears Are Not Enough Part 2
- 222
Craig's dad is still dead. |