Degrassi "Everything Is Everything" Episode Discussion

learned:

* everything is everything: Reali from Around the Horn in the hizzy.

* do my eyes deceive? this is a good episode. the writing is crisp and not cliche. the writers are *gulp* TRYING with this one!

* Alli's dad: Mr. Dallas, you were there when Alli was in her uppers phase.
Dallas: yes sir.
Alli's dad: but tell me, son, her mother and I are still baffled, were you there when my daughter suddenly became a card shark?

* that scene of spilling guts between Clare and Drew was very confessional and very different with the strange awkward closeups and the two principles conversing with a table between them. quick cuts. clearly, the writers were binging on indie films during this period.

* creepy teacher: have you heard the one about the monk and the nun who wrote love letters to each other?
Tristan: no, I don't go to the weird part of youtube.

* Alli's dad: it's not if you should fight, it's how.
Dallas: so you're saying I should become a black militant? I'm all for that actually. have they done a Black Panther storyline at Degrassi yet?

* Alli's dad with the cockblock. also: big-ass trophy.

* when Drew said the line "it won't" when the girl asked him if he and Clare would work out, that was such a Skins line, wasn't it? that was second-level stuff, second-tier advanced writing. there wasn't a trace of Degrassi on that line. clearly, the writers were marathoning Skins season 1 during this period.