Sunday, January 06, 2008
Miracle Weekend
Degrassi: The Next Generation has been running marathons pretty much all weekend long. Now, this may not be exciting news to those of you who are not 14-year-old girls, but quite frankly it should be. These scrappy Canadian teens light up the screen with their various hot-button-topic-related exploits. Why, just yesterday I learned that a person shouldn't have sex with his or her significant other just because of peer pressure. And today I found out that it is wrong to discriminate against Muslims. Not since Seventh Heaven have I been so thoroughly educated in so short a time.
The other great thing about Degrassi is that it's filled with amazing Canadian accents. Every time I hear someone say "aboot" or "soory," it just makes my day. And apparently the phrase "cuckoo bananas" is big in Canada nowadays.
They even kill off characters pretty regularly, generally so that the child actors can go to college. (Although when they killed of Terri it was because she wanted to be a plus sized model.) There was a school shooting, a stabbing, and a head-wound-induced coma. Just like when I went to Canadian high school!
Degrassi: The Next Generation has been running marathons pretty much all weekend long. Now, this may not be exciting news to those of you who are not 14-year-old girls, but quite frankly it should be. These scrappy Canadian teens light up the screen with their various hot-button-topic-related exploits. Why, just yesterday I learned that a person shouldn't have sex with his or her significant other just because of peer pressure. And today I found out that it is wrong to discriminate against Muslims. Not since Seventh Heaven have I been so thoroughly educated in so short a time.
The other great thing about Degrassi is that it's filled with amazing Canadian accents. Every time I hear someone say "aboot" or "soory," it just makes my day. And apparently the phrase "cuckoo bananas" is big in Canada nowadays.
They even kill off characters pretty regularly, generally so that the child actors can go to college. (Although when they killed of Terri it was because she wanted to be a plus sized model.) There was a school shooting, a stabbing, and a head-wound-induced coma. Just like when I went to Canadian high school!
