Degrassi Road Trip

It's a road trip episode, and you know what that means: gratuitous scenes of hand surfing, tunes blasting, and ridiculously coincidental circumstances serving as a Snakes and Ladders game for the plot. Oh, how I love TV, so pleasingly predictable. Gave me a craving for that Bev Hills’ episode where Brandon saves Dylan from slipping off a cliff.

To summarize, Manny, Emma and Liberty are checking out Smithdale College, Jimmy, Spinner and Ashley are attending a concert in the same town and Jay’s trying to win Manny back. Left out of the fun are Darcy and Peter. They’re attending Red Pine, a program much like those boot camps to which Jerry Springer sends troubled teens. Air horns and megaphones are used in abundance.

Weirdest Moment That Demands Comment: When the girls arrive at the sorority where they’re bunking, apparently they’re just in time for the Annual Etiquette Social, which appears to be an occasion where M&Ms are eaten amongst cocky frat boys who dress like dads. Do such events actually exist? Sororities remain such an intriguingly foreign concept to me that I actually believe they might host such an affair and would kind of like to attend if only as an anthropological research project.

Best Style: Manny’s yellow short sleeved sweater. Her tan skin suits this season’s colour.

Worst Style: The red tracksuits that Darcy (a.k.a. Phoenix) and Peter (a.k.a. Viking) must wear for the Red Pine week (a.k.a. bizarre camping jail that insists everyone selects a new name).

Amazing Quote: “Why don’t we keep things anonymous. I mean, hey, listen I know girls. First it’s names, then I have to meet your parents, then the next thing I know I’ve got a ring on my finger.” Guy demonstrating very poor etiquette as he preps for the annual etiquette social.

Degrassi Road Trips: The School’s Out disaster field trip to the cottage that ended up in a child dying, Lucy going blind, Wheels going to jail and Caitlin dumping Joey for “fucking Tessa Campanelli”. Also, that episode where Wheels hitchhikes in search of his birth parents and ends up being approached by a pedophile. Let’s hope part 2 of Bust a Move is, how shall we say, a bit peppier than the old generation road trip examples.