Illogical Character Motivations! YEAH!
By: Brian Long
In this episode of Degrassi: Jenna’s baby mama drama hits a boiling point and Claire is whining and making out and then crying a little more. In order to make this summary a little easier, I’m going to split this review between the two main plots:
My Bad Dad
Whoo! First day of school after spring break! Hanging out in the hallway! Realizing you’re graduating! Getting offered nachos by some girl! Seriously though, WHO IS NACHO GIRL? Did she win a contest for a walk-on role or something? Somebody better get offered nachos every episode from now on. Anyway, Jenna is hanging out in the school with her baby. Because she’s the mom and doesn’t get to learn now while KC makes the best of his education by being a total waste of space. So much so that Jenna’s brother Kyle, who has some kind of unclear part time job is even calling KC on his deadbeat dad routine. Right now, Kyle=Mom of the year. Something that totally threw me was Jenna saying the baby’s name is Tyson. Wait…is the baby’s name Tyson or Guthrie? KC definitely called the baby Gutherie last week. This is either a continuity mistake or KC is such a crappy dad that he forgot his kid’s name. I’m inclined to agree with the second part. Anyway, KC drops off diapers at Jenna’s place and decides that five minutes is just FAR too long to spend with his son and decides to bounce to everyone’s favorite decadent hangout: THE DOT! Jenna is fed up and storms to The Dot to confront KC. She hurls the baby at him and tells him it’s his problem. As Ali tries to comfort her, Jenna says “All he does is eat, and cry, and poo.”- I’m assuming she’s talking about KC here. But fear not! Because she returns home and KC says that Jenna should move in with him and his mom! I give him a week before he becomes insufferable again.
Just Make Up Your Mind
Just to start off, my girlfriend compares Sav to Spence. Which was random, but HE-LARIOUS. Anyway, we’re now dealing with the fall out of Eli and Claire breaking up. Claire dumped Eli and he crashed his car, so now he’s Dr. Housing around Degrassi High School. Claire is really upset that Eli doesn’t seem to care that they broke up. Even though she dumped him for being too controlling and overbearing. So…Claire dumped Eli because he was crazy for her…and now she’s sad that he’s not going crazy for her. Pick a side, Frumpy. We’re at war. Thankfully there’s a new boy in town who Claire knows from when she was young, who:” threw a dead frog at me.” Get over it, it happened a week ago. Anyway, new boy is teh cutest and leads to some serious tension during dinner. That’s not the only tension going on though as Jake’s dad is makin’ eye love to Claire’s gay divorcee mom during the whole dinner. Calling it now, this new guy Jake’s dad will end up with Claire’s mom causing creepy step-sibling feelings. Claire and Jake go to the Dot (meanwhile their parents are boinking) and Claire decides to do the logical thing and flaunt her new piece of arm meat in front of Eli. Who was the mentally unstable one again? It doesn’t work and Claire yells at Eli in front of the entire Dot (in other words, the whole teenage population of Canada) because it took him a year to get over his dead ex-girlfriend who died (in case you forgot-she’s dead) but got over her in a week. Whoa, Claire you guys dated for three months and neither of you died. Let’s chill out here.
Jake’s first reaction when he realizes he’s being used? “So…should we make out? Should make your boyfriend jealous. ”-THIS KID IS GOIN’ PLACES! And then his relationship therapy is yelling followed by making out. So, Claire is all better now and talks to Eli who reveals that he apparently can’t feel anymore because of the anti-I don’t know…sad feeling pills? His therapist gave him. Clearly an homage to Macmurphy’s fate in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Claire is a great stand in for the Chief.
Absurd-O-Tron
-Jake’s yelling/make-out therapy: WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH?!? JUST GET OVER THE DRAMA?!? *make-out.* 7.0/10
-KC possibly not knowing his own baby’s name- Cannot be properly calculated
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