30. The Coolest Posse from Degrassi

Last Shift at The Dot

Boo! It’s us - your favorite degenerate The Dot employees, bringing you the Degrassi version of a spooky episode for Halloween i.e. a B plot starring Toby. Today, Mr. Perino is guiding us through the absolute nightmare that is this episode that should be primarily focused on Sean’s descent into Candy Bandit-dom but instead…we get...two of the most disturbing scenes in Degrassi history.

Season 3, Episode 6 of Degrassi: The Next Generation, “Gangsta Gangsta” centers on the unraveling of Sean and Emma’s relationship as he becomes frustrated with how little time she has for him whilst helping out at home and saving the environment (Somehow, Emma’s personality alone wasn’t enough of a deterrent but I digress…). We meet the infamous and aforementioned Candy Bandits, led by none other than Natasha’s favorite Degrassi character, Jay Hogart. As Sean finds himself gravitating towards the antics and community the Bandits offer, things with Emma fall apart.

Unfortunately, this episode has a B plot. It would be difficult to attempt to summarize it but here goes nothing: Toby is a loser. JT is also a loser but one with a handful more friends than Toby. I’ll never enjoy eating an eclair again. Got it?

Along the way, as we do our very best to work through the collective trauma we now have thanks to this episode, we discuss important things such as:

• Nefarious plots to abduct JT and Liberty’s baby within the first ten minutes.
• How because we’re nerds the only thing any of us has ever stolen from school were…books.
• And also because we’re nerds, we also overanalyzed the chess moves in this episode. En passant, bitch!
• The dawning realization that Nadia is behind every bad decision ever made at Degrassi.

So grab a sandwich that isn’t whatever tempeh monstrosity Emma was offering up (Hell, it’s Halloween, be a bandit - grab some candy!), definitely grab your laptop and phone in case Sean’s around, and Happy Halloween!

xoxo,

Stephan, Morgan, Natasha, Nina, and Perino