Does the dog die?
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David Barkow
Imogen's dog is run over by a car.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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kabigon
Off screen but yes: Craig's father is shown taking off his belt to abuse his son with it
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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jdpamv
Out of Universe: Adam is played by a cisgender woman, it was commonplace to cast cis people of the opposite gender as trans characters at the time but this casting is transphobic and adversely affected the writing. Specifically, they couldn’t have the character get HRT until right before he died. The non-binary character is also played by a cis person.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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jdpamv
Some of the people who transphobically abuse/bully Adam are redeemed and he explicitly forgives the girl who outed him.
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Is someone stalked?
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dstedman
Darcy is stalked by an Internet paedo going by the name of "Adams" in one episode.
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NC98
- Craig's father beats him in season 2;
- KC's mother suffered from abuse at the hands of his father in season 11, it is never shown but explained;
- Miles gets slapped by his father in season 14.
- KC's mother suffered from abuse at the hands of his father in season 11, it is never shown but explained;
- Miles gets slapped by his father in season 14.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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dstedman
At the beginning of season 2, Craig is beaten by his father graphically. The subject is treated with respect.
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Addiction
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RidleyMathers
Ashley took Ectacy, Peter did Meth, Emma did pot...etc.
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Is there addiction?
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NC98
There's multiple characters who have an addiction so I'll forget some too:
- Anya, Craig, etc have a drug addiction;
- Allie has a gambling addiction;
- Fiona suffers from alcoholism;
- Katie has a painkiller addiction.
- Anya, Craig, etc have a drug addiction;
- Allie has a gambling addiction;
- Fiona suffers from alcoholism;
- Katie has a painkiller addiction.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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dstedman
There's a storyline detailing Fiona Coyne's addiction to alcohol. In addition, Ellie abuses alcohol in Degrassi Goes Hollywood (end of season 8) to disastrous results. There's a few other instances as well.
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Anonymous
A ferret dies in a earlier season by electrocution
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Are there snakes?
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Nini1201
Season 11 Episode 13 (Should have said No part 2): when Jake asks Clare if they can talk they go to a classroom and there's a snake in a vivarium in there. Be prepared because the scene opens with a close up of it, it is rather difficult to avoid and quite sudden if you don't know about it.
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Are there bugs?
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Itslanaleslie
S1E10
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Ilinaltas
S7
E1
Darcy's drink gets spiked at a party and she is later raped
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Is there pedophilia?
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NC98
Jane admits her father molested her
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Is someone held under water?
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NC98
S17
E1
Technically it's Next Class S3: Maya Matlin holds herself underwater for 22 seconds
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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NC98
S4
E4
Jay Hogart beats up Rick Murray because of Rick being mad at Emma Nelson. He drags him outside, punches him in the stomach & crushes his glasses
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RidleyMathers
Paige, Darcy and Zoe were raped, the coach watched p**n with KC and hired a prostitute for him, Janes father used to sexually abuse her as a child, Tristan was statutory raped...etc.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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NC98
It is however important to note Drew Torres' potential assault by Katie Matlin is never threated with any concern for him. Especially given he didn't consent to either sleeping with her explicitely & having it videotaped & then distributed to the entire school. Everyone accuses him of cheating on Bianca DaSousa, including Bianca
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orangish
Not entirely explicit, but a main character is raped in the episode Shout. The last we see of her before her next seen is her telling her rapist no, and him ignoring her.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Squirter
A major plot point for a character in season 3 is their cutting
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Does a head get squashed?
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fullmusicbard
while not squashed, exactly, in the opening episodes of season 11 a man's head is hit with a brick, and he dies because of it.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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LaurenMusiclover
S3
E7
*SPOILERS* Rick pushes Terri and she hits her head on a rock. The viewer sees her fall and her fall led to her being in a coma.
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Does someone break a bone?
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RidleyMathers
Paige broke her leg during a cheerleading routine
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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LaurenMusiclover
S10
E2
*SPOILERS* Fiona is pushed down the stairs by her abusive boyfriend.
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Is someone stabbed?
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KateEllis
S6
E11
*SPOILERS* JT is stabbed to death.
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Children
Does a kid die?
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RidleyMathers
Jt, Cam, Rick, Adam
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Is a minor sexualized?
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NC98
Manny Santos - & maybe her actress Cassie Steele if you squin - multiple times throughout the show
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Death
Does a major character die?
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NC98
JT in season 6 from an aorta stab wound
Cam in season 12 from suicide
Adam in season 13 from texting & driving
Cam in season 12 from suicide
Adam in season 13 from texting & driving
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Does someone die?
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- Rick Murray in Season 4 via a gunshot wound
- JT Yorke in Season 7 via a stab
- Campbell Saunders in Season 12 via suicide
- Adam Torres in Season 13 via a text & driving car crash
- JT Yorke in Season 7 via a stab
- Campbell Saunders in Season 12 via suicide
- Adam Torres in Season 13 via a text & driving car crash
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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fairygodmother
i dont know if it's used any other time, but in 5x11 one of the characters mistakes the word 'rhetorical' for it.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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S17
E10
Technically Next Class S3: Maya Matlin overdoses on purpose
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Craig’s dad dies suddenly in season 2.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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snowball7112
Maya is briefly held captive and threatened after trying to locate and help another missing girl who was involved in a plot with her boyfriend trying to collect ransom money.
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Does someone cheat?
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RidleyMathers
Snake cheats on spike with Mrs, Hatsilakos, Jane cheats on Spinner with Declan, Damien cheats on Emma with Liberty, Dylan cheats on Marco, Craig cheats on Ashley with Manny, Ashley cheats on Jimmy with Sean, Jesse cheated on Ellie with Caitlin, Eli cheats on Clare...etc
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Is there a shower scene?
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immy
yes but characters are usually fully or partially clothed / no full frontal nudity is seen
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LaurenMusiclover
S3
E8
*SPOILERS* Ellie shows the items she uses to harm herself and mentions razors a few times.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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fsw2b
I would add there are a couple more episodes. Season 2 Episode 9 “Mirror in the Bathroom” and Season 3 Episode 8 Whisper to a Scream “. Both only have sounds nothing is seen.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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LaurenMusiclover
S10
E40
*SPOILERS* Holly J becomes incontinent during her presentation due to Glomerulonephritis.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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S10
I think Adam gets called a freak a few times after Bianca outed him as trans?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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NC98
S10
E15
This episode is all about Adam & the obstacles he has to overcome to his family sans Drew who was accepting of him - with a few bumps in the road - since the beginning as a transgender man.
His birthname Gracie is mentioned by a family member, though I don't remember if it was the grandmother or Audra Torres
His birthname Gracie is mentioned by a family member, though I don't remember if it was the grandmother or Audra Torres
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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JesusFreakEmo
Ashley’s dad left her mom for a man, their marriage is a plot point in season 4
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Medical
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Beth Mathis
Also Emma's dad, Shane is seen in an institution
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Is there a hospital scene?
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snowball7112
Eli is in the hospital after crashing his hearse, Claire is in the hospital during her cancer treatment and Adam after his van crash.
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Does someone have cancer?
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David Barkow
In an earlier season, Simpson gets leukemia.
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Mental Health
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Anonymous
In earlier seasons, Ellie begins self-harming to cope with her father being in the army and other stressers
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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fairygodmother
hunter almost shoots up a school dance, breaks computers and shoves yael (ODD,) craig attacks joey jeremiah in front of his kid (bipolar,) eli crashes his car for clare (bipolar,) there are probably more examples
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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snowball7112
The football team makes mean off handed comments to Connor about his lack of “normal” social skills and inability to identify certain jokes
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KateEllis
JT attempts suicide
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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A lot of characters have meltdown at some points, Darcy, Paige, and Zoe have particularly poignant ones
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Is there misophonia?
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Itslanaleslie
S1E11 Spinner loudly chews gum (open-mouthed) down a microphone that feeds through to his teachers classroom
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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dstedman
In season 6 (I think) there's a storyline about Paige having panic attacks from being over-stressed with college.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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emgu
Zoe implies that she wants to die several times during the episodes Believe parts 1 and 2.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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jdpamv
Literally an episode called “My Body is a Prison” about a trans guy experiencing dysphoria.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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voguelike
Spinner gets into a tanning bed and freaks out about it
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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immy
aside from katie's bulimia and emma's eating disorder, there are also instances wherein characters abuse laxatives/diet pills to lose weight (toby in the episode 'mirror in the bathroom' and jenna in 'i just don't know what to do with myself'), although in both of those cases a full-blown eating disorder isn't developed and the characters stop the behaviour at the end of the episode
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David Barkow
Cambell Saunders kills himself, but it is never said how.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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orangish
Craig has a flashback at the end of season 2 when in the same room as his father. This could be indicative of PTSD, but we never see any more from Craig.
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Noxious
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Ilinaltas
S6
E6
Darcy is followed home without her knowledge but it happens off screen.
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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David Barkow
Clare suffers a miscarriage when she is pregnant with Eli's child.
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Is there childbirth?
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RidleyMathers
Liberty and Jenna have babies
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Are there abortions?
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NC98
S3
E15
Freshmen Manny Santos gets one for multiple reasons but the main one: "she's just a kid who cannot raise another kid"
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
47 supporters
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Squirter
in season 5, a member of the Friendship Club calls Marco a slur
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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fairygodmother
mostly towards connor since he has autism.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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emgu
Dave wears a dress and a wig and tries to enter the women's bathroom in attempt to make a "point" about a transgender student. This plot line is resolved and Dave never makes another transphobic comment.
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dstedman
Adam is misgendered a few times by bullies, Bianca and his mom in the episode "My Body is a Cage" (which details his struggle as a trans boy)
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Does an LGBT person die?
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rumblescum
Adam a *trans man* dies in a texting and driving accident (calling him ‘a female to male transgender’ is unnecessary, dehumanizing and transphobic)
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Are there fat jokes?
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emgu
Terri is picked on several times due to her weight, although this plot point is used to encourage self-love when Terri gets a modelling job. Two girls poke fun at Emma for wearing a baggy sweatsuit and point out "fat" on her body. It should be noted that Emma was quite skinny and struggling with anorexia at the time.
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Is there hate speech?
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winterkatie
Hate speech is used against Marco when he comes out, and the same when Adam is revealed to be transgender. One major instance is when Dave calls out Adam on their radio show.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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fairygodmother
there are MANY teacher-student plotlines. a particularly bad example is sav and ms. oh. if you're sensitive to those kinds of things just skip those scenes entirely. i haven't faced trauma of any kind and they still gross me out and are an immediate skip when i rewatch. it's also worth noting that all of them are portrayed in a POSITIVE light except for tristain and this one teacher. very messed up :|
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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NC98
Given for the majority of the show the cast were the same age as the characters - & thus underaged, the show was targeted to teenagers & the strict laws on this in Canada, there are no nude scenes
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Sophieleahgirl
Declan and Fiona kiss at one point
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Is there sexual content?
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immy
characters do have sex or enter sexual relationships on many occasions throughout the show but as it's a show aimed at teens nothing terribly graphic is seen onscreen beyond making out
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Sexism
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Sickness
Does someone have a chronic illness?
1 supporters
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KateEllis
Grace has cystic fibrosis, but it is not revealed until Next Class. Maya and Katie's mom has MS.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Manicpixiedreamgirl
Imogen’s father has dementia
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Social
Is someone homeless?
1 supporters
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KateEllis
S13
Zig squats in a house under renovation after being kicked out of his parents' house.
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
31 supporters
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NC98
S3
E15
There's people both pro- & anti-abortion in this episode which is a given at the time this was made
At the end of the day Manny aborts, given she was only 14
At the end of the day Manny aborts, given she was only 14
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
63 supporters
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dstedman
Depends on the episode, it's pretty split between downer, bittersweet and happy endings. Actions in Degrassi have consequences that carry over.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
20 supporters
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RidleyMathers
Adam dies in a car crash while texting and driving
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Is someone hit by a car?
20 supporters
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David Barkow
Sean hits a jogger while street racing.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
24 supporters
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KateEllis
No, but both Ellie and Sean attempt to drown themselves.
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Is there blood/gore?
58 supporters
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dstedman
On occasion there's a little bit of blood -- the attempted suicide attempt in "Standing in the Dark" part 2, a character being shot in "Danger Zone" -- but it's never particularly graphic.
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Is there gun violence?
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NC98
In Time Stands Still Part II Jimmy gets shot by Rick in the spine - paralysing him from the waist down - & Sean accidentally shoots Rick in the abdomen - killing him in self-defense.
In Dead & Gone Part II Adam gets shot by Vince - Bianca's ex-boyfriend - in the shoulder. Due to being Adam's friend at that point & having had enough of Vince ruining her life, Bianca expresses desire to kill Vince with the very gun he used. It is implied she did not go through with it.
In Dead & Gone Part II Adam gets shot by Vince - Bianca's ex-boyfriend - in the shoulder. Due to being Adam's friend at that point & having had enough of Vince ruining her life, Bianca expresses desire to kill Vince with the very gun he used. It is implied she did not go through with it.
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