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December 6, 2007

Degrassi: TNG Stereotypes Ring True

Degrassi: The Next Generation is known for it accurate, yet sometimes vanilla portrayal of North American teenage life. Topics such as date rape, teen pregnancy, school violence, and inevitable cocaine abuse by wayward rockers are all fair game on this Canadian after-school-special-like teenage sitcom. rick.jpg

Characters such as Manny, the school slut, Paige, the pig-faced "mean girl," and Marco, the Latino gay resonate with tweens and adults alike. One of the most unforgettable Degrassi characters is Rick, who is Season 3 beats his chubby, plus-size-model (she has a very cute face) girlfriend Terri, putting her in a coma, and subsequently in Season 4 brings a gun to school, shoots and paralyzes the star basketball player (who is black), and in the end is killed by his own gun.

Does anyone else find it at all creepy that the Rick (picture 1) looks an awful lot like the kid who yesterday went on a shooting spree in an Omaha mall (picture 2)?omaha.jpg

It sure gives us the heeby jeebies.

Watch Degrassi on The N or Your TV20.


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Comments (5)

"He was a nice, quiet boy. Kept to himself."

"Do you think he shot the star basketball player (who is black)?"

"Oh, yeah. It's all he ever talked about..."

/pushing-40 humor

 

Remember- guns don't kill people!

 

Remember- guns don't kill people!

 

People kill people, of course. But it is unknown whether Rick or Sean, the resident bad boy with long hair pulled the trigger. It's all so dramatic, you see.

 

Well, Deborah- you've hit the big time. I do believe you've mildly scandalized some folks at LiveJournal's 'Oh No They Didn't'.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/18193045.html?page=4#comments

Actually, I'm not sure 'scandalized' is a verb- but you get the idea.

 
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