14x10 Hero Vs Villian

With their win at the Semi's, Power Cheer is practicing for the finals when Simpson comes in to speak to them. He asks if any of them have heard about Degrassi Nudes and that he's holding a school wide assembly to talk to the school about it. Playing dumb, Zoe offers to speak as she has had experience with nudes being distributed of her last season...er...semester. The squad is freaking out however Zoe is chill...they will WIN at Semi's and she knows Hunter won't out them by name as they will out his comic plus her speech will throw people off their sent after all she's a brilliant actress and she can work a room.

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14x09 Somethings Got To Give

So for some reason as I was posting episodes 11-13 I noticed I skipped this one so time to jump back.

Imogen is looking at track uniforms saying to Jack and Winston how fashion is her fallback when she has nothing to say on DTV. She hears Hunter snickering and asks what is up. Hunter wants her to settle a bet and asks if the boobs he got sent were hers. Imogen is SHOCKED and Jack says they aren’t hers. Imogen finds out about Degrassi Nudes and is disgusted. Imogen plans to get to the bottom of it and Jack and Winston try to stop…Jack because she’s doing it and Winston because he knows the girls are doing it.

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14x07 I'll Be Missing You

Power Cheer is holding its THIRD bake sale of the month to earn money as the team has a rather expensive upkeep though it's really a front so that nobody knows that they really are getting money from Degrassi nudes. It's also Zoe's Birthday and as Shay and Jack surprise her with a cupcake presumably bought from the squad's own sale Zoe gets a package. Thinking it's from Zig who she's been crushing on she opens it to find a doll that says 'I know about Degrassi Nudes' rather Pretty Little Liars of the sender

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14x02 WISE UP

Hunter is quizzing Miles on traffic procedures as he's about to take his road test his mother comments that she wished he focused on his actual school work the way he is focused on this. Frankie then walks in saying that she'd be surprised if the dad lets him take it as she tosses him the daily paper. He did that interview with the reporter and to quote Frankie made their dad look 'like a Batman Villain Who Hates His Gay Son'. Daddy Hollingsworth walks in wanting to talk to Miles and the mom ushers out the twins embarrassingly calling them her 'peanuts'. Miles's dad tells him he's not going to school that day and hands him golf clubs...he has a day off and wants to spend a father son day...they can golf...miles can even drive and he accepts him gay...straight...whatever...

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14x01 Smells Like Teen Spirit

As promised I've pulled up the season on Youtube and have started to slowly but surely finish up my recap project as I want to be a competitionist damn it!

So all I remember from season 13 is that it was long and draggy and ended on the cliffhanger that our beloved Clare is preggers....

So the episode begins as the school is being evacuated due to a fire (why not...just why not the damn school is freaking cursed) and Miles and others are looking anxiously for Frankie...

HOWEVER we don't know if they find her yet as it flashes back to 10 weeks earlier and Becky is in front of the school which is still recovering from the hurricane damages (cursed I tell you!) handing out flyers for Power Cheer and to parallel the cold opening is also looking for Frankie who she hears is an ace tumbler. Drew comments that the school has a Cheer squad already however according to Becky this is not the same thing as Power Squad but it's an actual competitive sport. Zoe and Tristan show interest however Becky informs Tristan it's girls only. The underclassman head in the school as Alli and Dallas head out... it's the beginning on their final quarter of senior year...FINALLY. Alli is looking for Clare but she's MIA...she and Dallas leave and Drew tells Becky he's sure Clare doesn't care about them (I forgot Drecky were a thing for a moment) Becky however isn't being bummed about Clare knowing about them she's more worried cause Power Cheer is HER fresh start and if Zoe is on the team it will keep her from moving past the fact her brother raped the underclassman. Drew tells her to just not let Zoe join..as President he decrees their last term be awesome just as soon as he finds his VP. His VP AKA

Clare is in the ladies room suffering from a bout of morning sickness when Alli comes in...Alli asks if it's the Flu and Clare says she at a bad breakfast burrito...Alli teases saying is she sure it's not morning sickness and Clare all but admits she's knocked up...and it's most likely Drew's put she's getting an abortion she's already decided and picks up the phone to call the clinic... WHOA...again...a total 180 of her character from the early years.

WHATEVER IT TAKES (still what I affectionately call the power point opening...we get a full song again in Next Class though so there is that...)

13x38/39 Thunderstruck

Finally the season finale. This was a one hour action pack event let me tell you. The episode opens with foreboding and foreshadowing shots of natural disasters as Imogen is giving a report on Global Warming. Dallas comments that nothing like that would ever happen in Toronto and even after Imogen points out that the weather channel says that a system is brewing he claims it’s more likely to hit New York or New Brunswick. It’s apparently the end of term (how freaking long are terms in-verse…cause like didn’t just a few episodes a term/semester started and the activities fair is what inspired Maya to do the arts night?) Anyway Drew and his council company are going to now set their sights on the end of term dance. Becky wants to know about when the dance is supposed to end and it’s known that things have been a bit tense in the Baker home since Luke got sentenced to two years in jail. Imogen decides to cheer her up with Mambo #5 which causes Becky to burst out in tears and leave the room. Drew being Drew follows her and Dallas comments about how Drew is just friends with a girl to whom Imogen teases how he believes that but not global warming.

WHATEVER IT TAKES (god I hope the old theme or a variant is back next season)

13x33 My Hero|

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While the last episode had my DVR cutting off the last few moments this one cut off the entire cold open….so

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12x32 How Bizarre||

Drew and Dallas are pitching a party planning company for what looks like economics class. Proposals are due next week and Drew is a bit spacey as Mr. Hollingsworth has been working him to the bone. He needs a night off but Dallas already has big plans with Alli, Jenna, and Connor…Drew was left out cause Alli and Jenna are pissed that Drew ‘tailed and bailed’ and Dallas is just playing the Switzerland card. Drew asks him what about the code, bros before….nice girls. Dallas says Drew is his bro but he doesn’t kiss him like Alli does. Drew teasingly starts to go in for a smooch before laughing and being upset that Clare is effing his life up this close to graduation. He doesn’t want to apologize but he does want to have a mature conversation with her.

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13x30 You Are Not Alone

Welcome to the final stretch of the season that does not end. Seriously season 13 started summer 2013 and it’s now summer 2014 though it was productions choice to do a summer set arch instead of a novella AFTER a 40 episode order was made so….at least season 14 is back to basics with I believe 28 episodes so I’d expect the blocks to be a third of the season to air in either 3 arcs (with an Oct, Jan/Feb, and June/July start date) or two arcs (Oct and Jan/Feb with season 15 if we have one possibly going back to Novella format)

Anyway…

It’s apparently a new season/semester (I’m going to go with season and that it’s Spring since setting wise it’s late February/Early March in-verse) and Maya, Grace and Zig are walking into a school activity fair. Maya’s excited suggesting to them to join show choir (glee reference anyone) however Zig and Grace say even if they wanted to join a club nobody would accept them due to their reputations (as seen when Grace looks at the film society booth with a slight interest) Maya asks if they could do an activity what would they do and Grace suggests an art festival like Burning Man. Zig is intrigued and Maya says they should totally pitch it to Student Council  and Simpson as a way to show the school the rubber room kids aren’t that bad. Maya asks if Tiny would be interested however he is acting aloof and as they enter the classroom for homeroom they are told Simpson is wanting them to do locker searches.

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13x28/29 Sparks Will Fly:

Maya is in the Matlin kitchen opening up a fancy package when Zig walks in and she tries to hide it. She comments about the Stetson he’s wearing and he tells her it’s for Wild West Night before snagging the box and opening it. It’s another lavish gift from Miles despite the fact that they are allegedly over.

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13x27 Everything is Everything:

Connor and Dallas are woken up the following morning at the police station. They aren’t in a cell or in cuffs but are just waiting in a waiting area. The cop says that they got a hold of Simpson and the boys story checks out. They are then told that they can pick up the car at the impound lot (where they most likely will have to pay to get it out in addition to paying for the tow and getting to the lot via cab) Dallas tells Connor how Alli can’t know what happened to them.

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13x26 Army Of Me

Alli is anxious about the science fair as she’s rattling off figures and there is a little UST between her and Dallas. Jenna tells him to step back at least until after the fair because boys tend to get her distracted. Dallas says if he waited his long one more day shouldn’t matter.

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13x25 CLOSE TO ME

Maya awkwardly walks in on Zig eating cereal and proceeds to pour her own bowl and more awkward persists as the doorbell rings. Miles is there to drive Maya to school and officially ask her to the dance. Maya however has something to say however Zig walks into Miles’s eyeline before she can come clean.

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13x22/23 Unbelievable

I’m really hoping that this episode has taped as like I noted back when still doing postmortems this episode aired in the later timeslot of 10pm while my cable guide still listed it airing at 9pm and so I had to tape it when they did a TWEET peat a few nights later so I’m having to view the episode with pop ups and scrolling though I should still be able to recap this VERY SPECIAL Hour long two part episode.

It’s so special that before it airs we get a disclaimer of its graphic nature.

The episode opens as Zoe is waking up in the pool house as Frankie and Hunter arrive to bring her breakfast. She asks why she’s there and Frankie says it’s cause she drank too much at the party the night (and episode) before. She asks what she did and Frankie shows her some pictures of her dancing on tables and stripping.  Frankie comments how she guesses they aren’t singing at the winter WINTER WINTER (never giving up on that weather snark) talent show cause nobody would vote for them now however Zoe brings up how she fell off of a horse at a public event right into some crap and the next week she won a Teen Choice Award so she’s not dropping out after some stupid party.

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13x21 Basket Case

The episode opens with Clare having a sex dream about Drew…that is all…

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13x20 No Surprises

The episode opens in the Hollingsworth pool (insert another jibe about how Toronto has weather here) as he asks Maya to hop on in with him. Maya claims she has no suit and so he rips off his trunks and coaxes her into stripping down and skinny dipping which she actually does. Everything is fine until Miles’s dad shows up in the yard with his campaign manager (who side note is the woman who helped Clare back when Asher was harassing her which seems like a lifetime ago) Maya leaves and Mr. Hollingsworth tells his son that now isn’t the time for him to be cavorting with girls.

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13x20 Power To The People:

Miles Jr is talking to Drew about his speech he’s making at the school commenting about how if he gets elected Mayor perhaps there will be a place in his office for Drew. Zoe arrives saying he’d be lucky to have Drew work for him. Miles Jr asks who she is and she says how she’s Drew’s girlfriend and she loves his house practically spilling about Miles’s illicit parties.

Later on Dallas comments about how worried Drew is and he comments about how Zoe is a stage 5 clinger.

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13x19 Dig Me Out:

Sorry if there are soon gaps between my queued recaps as I’ve been on a string of closing shifts at work and when I haven’t closed my muse wasn’t into re-watching and recapping though I DO plan on getting through and queuing up the season by the time season 14 tentatively starts on October 8^th and then I get to stockpile on my DVR and do this all over again at seasons end :)

The episode opens as Zoe is bringing Drew coffee in the council room and it getting all touchy feely despite the fact Drew needs to focus on the campaign cause he hopes to parlay it into a post grad job. Zoe however wants to spend time with him like they did last night. Drew tells her that he can’t cause after work he has his weekly poker game. The two of them are making out when Clare comes in saying it’s an office and not a bedroom before saying Drew’s a president in the way Clinton was….nice burn…that is if the key demo (and CANADIAN based) audience got that reference. Zoe comments how Hillary was never president and Drew replies how Zoe (like said key demo) wasn’t even born when that happened. Clare says she’ll see him in class if he can come up for air and Zoe tells him that they can continue to make out once he blows Dallas off.

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13x18 Better Man

The episode opens with Maya entering the rubber room where they are playing a dodge ball esque game. Maya attempts to apologize to Zig for her words but Zig tells her he hates her. Grace tells Maya she needs to cut the crap and at least pretend she’s okay with things. Maya tells Grace how she’s going to be there for an undetermined amount of time and she wants to make friends and not be seen as some stuck up princess and asks Grace for help.

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13x17 The World I Know---

About to start 13C where the timeline gets all wibly wobbly timey wimey as now it’s apparently January in-verse (like in real time) when last we saw our characters it was Early October (late November in real time) and everyone is all dressed in Spring/Summer attire as this was presumably filmed over the summer…it’s Toronto for Christ sake…there is weather…wardrobe WTF

Rant aside the episode opens as Alli is running late for school as her mother stops her. She can’t believe Ali is turning 18 the following day as Leo shows up with coffee and the bad news that his transfer credits didn’t come through so he’s being deported back to France and won’t be there to celebrate. Alli tells him he’s not going they are going to figure it out.

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