Anyone watch this?

Living in Toronto at the time, it was pretty much expected of you to watch the show. In my opinon, it's the best TV show Canada ever had. They discussed real life problems and the characters were quite real, reminded me of many of my high school friends, even though I'd graduated from high school years earlier.

I began to watch the show when it was "Kids of DeGrassi Street" 

(or when "Wheels" was "Griff"  ;))

http://www.themagazine.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/KidsOfDegrassiStreet.jpg

And continues to watch it every week on CBC until the "DeGrassi High" version ended.

http://popshifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/degrassi-high-cast.jpg

I liked so many of the characters, and of course, who can't forget "The Zit Remedy"  :) 
And yeah, I thought Caitlin was so cute.  ;)

(or when "Wheels" was "Griff"  ;) )



or when Caitlin was Lisa Duck Carnard  :D   



I have all the original series, Kids, Jr High and High on DVD... my dream is to sit down and watch them all again from the beginning.


I'm gonna say Next Gen should be included because.....

It's a true spin off -  season one began with Spike seeing her daughter Emma off to her first day at Degrassi.  Snake, erm I mean Archie Simpson, was a teacher (now he's principal Snake). They did have a reunion which introduced Joey as a used car salesman (fitting no?), Caitlin is a world famous environmental reporter, Lucy (I forget what Lucy did but she had a limp (b/c of the car accident) and we got to glimpse many, I mean MANY of the original actors but they mostly did background work...  I wish they'd done a better job or actually gave us a real reunion that could've been done as a supplemental episode.

Next Gen tackles so many of  the same issues that the original series tackled...basically times have changed but the problems plaguing children have not changed too much.


I love the New cast (well most of them) with the same amount of enthusiasm I had for the old cast.... know how I complain about all the nostalgia on the boards?  This is a prime example of how it possible to love something from your childhood and yet embrace the new version of it...it's possible to love both equally at the same time!  :D 

thanks for starting the thread. I hope to watch the old eps again soon... and if you don't mind I may come here and discuss the new eps because the show returns next month for it's 12th season!

or when Caitlin was Lisa Duck Carnard  :D   



I have all the original series, Kids, Jr High and High on DVD... my dream is to sit down and watch them all again from the beginning.


I'm gonna say Next Gen should be included because.....

.. and if you don't mind I may come here and discuss the new eps because the show returns next month for it's 12th season!


Great! Sure, Next Gen included of course. I've seen some "new" episodes myself, with Snake, Spike, Joey, Caitlin on it, and Emma, it's part of the Degrassi dynasty. 

Hre's a "Lucy" (Anais Granofsky) commercial for gum in the late 1980s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bclh2x9MV4

I didn't like it that Lucy got in that car accident.  (Degrassi high)  The odd thing was that our high school grad party was in a cottage near some lake in the middle of nowhere, lots of people got drunk, and one of my friends gotinto a car accident ( but no one was hurt, thankfully)

Eery similar cottage party and situation.

Great! Sure, Next Gen included of course. I've seen some "new" episodes myself, with Snake, Spike, Joey, Caitlin on it, and Emma, it's part of the Degrassi dynasty. 

Hre's a "Lucy" (Anais Granofsky) commercial for gum in the late 1980s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bclh2x9MV4

I didn't like it that Lucy got in that car accident.  (Degrassi high)  The odd thing was that our high school grad party was in a cottage near some lake in the middle of nowhere, lots of people got drunk, and one of my friends gotinto a car accident ( but no one was hurt, thankfully)

Eery similar cottage party and situation.


I loved Anais.... I totally related to her for the obvious (or maybe not so obvious) reasons... I didn't see a lot of people with my skin tone on TV so I was automatically drawn to Lucy...like we shared a kinship or something! 

That is eerie.  Glad no one was hurt in your real life version.

Remember the fight between Joey and Dwayne in the bathroom?  the AIDs ep?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPF37EzgYEk

Remember the fight between Joey and Dwayne in the bathroom?  the AIDs ep?



That was a great episode.

Degrassi dealt with lots of current sticky issues for teens. (Teen pregnancy, drugs, homosexuality, suicide, Aids, parents dying) back when the public wasn’t so used to it. Good job, Degrassi! O0

Joey was a character I often liked, and disliked (when he acted like a teen sleazy used car salesman), but he played the role well. He was eventually the main character on the show, along with Caitlin.

Living in Toronto at the time, I’ve been to the real “Degrassi” street and the school they used for Degrassi high (which wasn’t on Degrassi street) .

I remember this show in the early 1990's.

Living in Toronto at the time, it was pretty much expected of you to watch the show. In my opinon, it's the best TV show Canada ever had.


Better than The Beachcombers?

Better than The Beachcombers?



I've never seen the beachcombers so ... yeah!  :P

Better than The Beachcombers?


For me, yes. I grew up where my parents had a "Kids, Canadian TV sucks and we're gonna watch only American & British TV" mentality. I never saw the Beachcombers much, I watched it now and then. Relic was evil... ;D

Neil Hope ("Wheels" from Degrassi, "Griff" from Kids of Degrassi street), passed away in 2007, but it was reported just earlier this year. He had a troubled life after the series ended.

http://cdn.crushable.com/files/2012/02/wheels1.jpg

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1137795--degrassi-s-wheels-the-lost-years-of-neil-hope

Here is the last known interview with Neil in 2005, with Stefan Brogren (Snake)  :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TzcpolixVk

Being a Gen Y I really have only seen The Next Generation. I loved that though, I'm sure the original is really good too, but I grew to love the first cast of TNG, like roughly from 2001-2007 though I think a couple of them still occasionally act in the show. I don't like the new kids as much, because it's not the same but then again TNG wouldn't be the same to someone who grew up watching the first incarnation in the 80's and early 90's.

From those clips, it seems like the Canadian accent was a bit stronger back in the 80's and early 90's, don't you think? Actually a lot stronger. I visit Canada fairly often and have friends there and sad to say, the younger people in Ontario sound so American now. :( It's stronger in British Columbia I think, though, the accent. In Toronto it seems like people over 40 have strong accents while under 40, there's an 'eh' or 'aboot' here and there but more or less they could easily be from California.  :P

Being a Gen Y I really have only seen The Next Generation. I loved that though, I'm sure the original is really good too, but I grew to love the first cast of TNG, like roughly from 2001-2007 though I think a couple of them still occasionally act in the show. I don't like the new kids as much, because it's not the same but then again TNG wouldn't be the same to someone who grew up watching the first incarnation in the 80's and early 90's.



the first incarnation was actually in the late 70s.... but that was kids of degrassi street and it was a little different stylistically and tonally so we'll leave it as a separate entity and just talk about DJH & DH vs TNG.


as someone who has seen every episode of every Degrassi series ever made I can say that TNG is every bit as good Degrassi Jr High & High was.... the original TNG cast was good but I actually preferred the cast of season 9/10 and this current season.  Something happened, either they hired new writers who recognized the chemistry between the cast or the actors just sort of fell into rhythm. They had and ease and delivery that is not usually found in actors that age. I wanna say the last two years (leading up to Holly J's - et al- graduation) was pretty much perfect. This new season got off to a rocky start but the new ones are finding that same ease that was effervescent in the previous one. 


The brilliance of the beginning of TNG was making Emma the central character.  We, fans of the old show, connected to her because we remembered when Spike got pregnant and had her.  We had someone to identify and root for. There were enough links to the past to keep our interest but because we (generationally speaking) don't "poo-poo" new things we also equally embraced those cast members who were new to us.  We understand that change is necessary.  Primarily in a school setting. We accept the changes and move with the show, we don't wallow in the past and get all woe-is-me about it.  We wish the old characters well and hope for news about them along the way but we also take time to learn about the new characters and accept them because we knew their introduction was inevitable.

The brilliance of the beginning of TNG was making Emma the central character. 

Agreed. Someone we can all connect with, relate to, and bringing in only a few of the old characters (not too many, otherwise the new show would not have it's own identity). Snake, Caitlin and Joey were amongst the most popular characters in the old Degrassi, and Spike stood out (with her hair) and is Emma's mom.

And I read Snake is now Principal!

From those clips, it seems like the Canadian accent was a bit stronger back in the 80's and early 90's, don't you think? Actually a lot stronger. I visit Canada fairly often and have friends there and sad to say, the younger people in Ontario sound so American now. :( It's stronger in British Columbia I think, though, the accent. In Toronto it seems like people over 40 have strong accents while under 40, there's an 'eh' or 'aboot' here and there but more or less they could easily be from California.  :P


The Canadian accent only exists depending on where in Canada you are.  Here in Eastern Ontario, it's non existant, but in Northern Ontario, it is quite thick

Agreed. Someone we can all connect with, relate to, and bringing in only a few of the old characters (not too many, otherwise the new show would not have it's own identity). Snake, Caitlin and Joey were amongst the most popular characters in the old Degrassi, and Spike stood out (with her hair) and is Emma's mom.

And I read Snake is now Principal!



you did??? where did you read that????

oh yeah  :D




  Snake, erm I mean Archie Simpson, was a teacher (now he's principal Snake). T



;D

you did??? where did you read that????

oh yeah  :D

;D


I read the news today, oh boy... ;D

By the way, a Degrassi Website
http://news.degrassi.ca/article.php?a_id=1809

Degrassi wiki
http://degrassi.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

I love DeGrassi.  One day I will get to Toronto and pose on the steps.  I watch it so much that hubby can hum the theme song.  ;D

The Canadian accent only exists depending on where in Canada you are.  Here in Eastern Ontario, it's non existant, but in Northern Ontario, it is quite thick


Hmmm I can hear it in Toronto but it's certainly diminished. Maybe it's a relative thing. Do people in North Bay sound Canadian even to people in southern and eastern Ontario?  ;D

I love DeGrassi.  One day I will get to Toronto and pose on the steps.  I watch it so much that hubby can hum the theme song.  ;D


Wake up in the morning feeling shy & lonely gee I foots go to school

Or


Whatever it takes, I know I can make it though


:D

Hmmm I can hear it in Toronto but it's certainly diminished. Maybe it's a relative thing. Do people in North Bay sound Canadian even to people in southern and eastern Ontario?  ;D


There are different Canadian accents within Canada, just as if I'd travel from California to Texas to Alabama to Boston and hear different US accents.  I still have a difficult time understanding some southern US people when they talk, I suspect they'll say the same about me too. 

But I'd agree that Toronto is the place where the accent is most diminished. Toronto wants to be American, and they still think they are the center of the Universe anyways  ;D,


Wake up in the morning feeling shy & lonely gee I foots go to school

Or


Whatever it takes, I know I can make it though


:D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaloVzpglHk

^ I actually can't recite that one on my own.

But this one I can  8)
http://youtu.be/M2FYxdViSTY


And this one of course  8)
http://youtu.be/Padck27MG2k


The link go to the YouTube app on my phone don't know if they will work online.

Wake up in the morning feeling shy & lonely gee I foots go to school

Or


Whatever it takes, I know I can make it though


:D

:D


Good choice! Tho both answers were equally acceptable  ;)

^ I actually can't recite that one on my own.



Neither can I. I've forgotten it in 20 years.
(And, your links work)

Neither can I. I've forgotten it in 20 years.
(And, your links work)



I knew there were lyric changes from Jr to High but when I hear the song in my head I hear the Jr version and that one I had not forgotten  8)


thanks I was worried...it wouldn't let me do the  thing from my phone so I couldn't embed the clips in my post. :(