Everybody Wants Something a Rant by Alex ( ) and i want the abc to bring back degrassi. Soda pop please. (submitted by Phip.) ive been accused of becoming obsessed with things. its not true. i simply turn things into interests. cult interests if you will. like i have with degrassi. c'mon. dont tell me you dont remember. that show was a killer. weekday afternoons on the abc with michael tunn. (when he was still energetic enough to bounce off walls and headbutt inflated animals.) i used to tune into degrassi all the time. and they even repeated it which allowed for the mandatory nostalgia sessions on the school bus home. "OH!OH!OH! remember that one where yick and arthur got the nudie video!" "the one where zit remedy made the music clip!" "that time when joey walked into the cafateria naked!" that kind of thing. there have been few moments like that in tv since they took it off the air back in '92. (except maybe "you cant do that on television"...what is it with canadian teenagers?) degrassi was the calling card of a generation...and a calling card that shouted perhaps a little too loudly "THIS IS THE EIGHTIES AND WE THINK HOT PINK SHOES AND SOX WITH RUFFLE SKIRTS AND WACKY EARINGS LOOK GREAT!" yeah and while we are on the subject, the eighties *was* a great generation for taking the piss...not just in fashion but in music, film, politics and sport. we'll never see another decade that was perfectly happy with being clueless in every possible area. and just to bring you back to my point, degrssi *did* have a clue. oh yes. in fact, it had more than its fair share of juicy scandals. did it ever occur to anyone else that it was weird that all that shit happened to one group of people all in the one school? damn that was eerie. and there was that whole "schools out: the movie" fiasco. i mean what was that! as if anyone would shag joey jeramiah! as if caitlen was a virgin! i need some old school degrassi back. i want the abc to start at the beginning: junior high. stephanie kay (bet she was pissed she left before the season with the teen pregnancy) and wheels and snake and joey and arthur and Ld...then the move into middle shool. the zit remedy, caitlen's epilepsy, lucy's cool parties...then high school. clode shooting himself in the loo and snake finding him, the gang sneaking into the school to see the making of the "gourmet scum" video clip. yeah, i want it all back. lets educate a new generation. let the piss taking begin. and $10 to anyone who can remember the name of the female teacher who caitlen dreamt was a lesbian. Created on Tue, 23 Sep 1997 and last modified on Wed, 5 Nov 1997.

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