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Season 5, Episode 1: Venus: Part 1
Original Air Date: 19 September 2005
Season 5, Episode 2: Venus: Part 2
Original Air Date: 26 September 2005
Season 5, Episode 3: Death of a Disco Dancer
Original Air Date: 3 October 2005
Season 5, Episode 4: Foolin’
Original Air Date: 10 October 2005
Season 5, Episode 5: Weddings, Parties, Anything
Original Air Date: 17 October 2005
Season 5, Episode 6: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Original Air Date: 24 October 2005
Season 5, Episode 7: Turned Out: Part 1
Original Air Date: 31 October 2005
Season 5, Episode 8: Turned Out: Part 2
Original Air Date: 7 November 2005
Season 5, Episode 9: Tell It to My Heart
Original Air Date: 14 November 2005
Season 5, Episode 10: Redemption Song
Original Air Date: 21 November 2005
Season 5, Episode 11: The Lexicon of Love: Part 1
Original Air Date: 28 November 2005
Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes return to Degrassi and Toronto for the premiere of their Degrassi-filmed movie, “Jay & Silent Bob Go Canadian Eh”. The premiere gets everyone at Degrassi into a frenzy and vying for the hard to come by premiere tickets. Upstaging the spectacle of the premiere are Alex and Paige, who are each other’s dates for the evening. From the heat they create at the premiere and the after premiere party, which they manage to crash, they move their evening to more serious matters as Paige witnesses the turbulence of Alex’ home life first hand, to a quieter and more emotional ending to the night. On a more secretive level, Peter and Emma are each other’s unofficial date for the evening, as Emma still needs to respect best friend Manny’s distrust of Peter. Emma and Peter’s evening reaches an almost romantic climax, this climax however interrupted as they witness an even more clandestine liaison than theirs, that between Emma’s stepfather, Snake, and Peter’s mother, Principal Hatzilakos.
Season 5, Episode 12: The Lexicon of Love: Part 2
Original Air Date: 5 December 2005
Season 5, Episode 13: Together Forever
Original Air Date: 12 December 2005
Season 5, Episode 14: I Against I
Original Air Date: 30 January 2006
Emma, with help from Manny, tries to cheer up Christine on the separation from Archie, especially as it Christine and Archie’s third wedding anniversary. They call in Caitlin from Los Angeles for some female bonding. Just after Caitlin arrives, Archie returns home, just to give Christine an anniversary gift he had purchased months earlier. After Archie leaves, Christine opens the package to find a sapphire necklace – her birthstone – and although she looks touched by the gift, throws it into the garbage. They also plan a female only anniversary party, complete with stripper waiters. The festivities come to a complete halt when one of the strippers physically resembles Archie; after the party, she admits to herself and to Caitlin that she still loves Archie. Meanwhile Spinner remains in limbo between his old friends and his new Friendship Club support network. At a school fair where Spinner sits as the target in the Friendship Club’s dunk tank, a still angry Jimmy continually dunks Spinner, and would continue to do so if given the chance. However Marco and Spinner tentatively reconnect. This reconnection is put to the test as Linus, the most extreme of the Friendship Club members, asks Spinner to intercede with Marco in his plans to hold a safer sex seminar as Linus believes that such a seminar promotes sexual activity rather than abstinence which is the only form of safe sex Linus supports. After Miss Hatzilakos reconfirms her support for the seminar, Linus and Spinner decide to hold a protest at the seminar, at which a confrontation complete with derogatory remarks and fisticuffs ensues specifically between Linus and Marco. This confrontation brings Spinner’s true allegiances into a clearer light.
Season 5, Episode 15: Our Lips Are Sealed: Part 1
Original Air Date: 20 February 2006
Emma, Manny, Spike and Jack are still trying to live without Snake. Manny is desperate to lose weight for an interview with an agent and Emma is happy enough to control one more thing like what they eat. They go on a major diet, barely eating, binging and throwing up and running too much. Snake is tired of staying at Joey’s and really wants to come home. Emma tries to help, but to no avail. She’s also trying to keep her relationship with Peter on the down low. Manny loses the pounds she wants too, and Snake manages to re-woo Spike and come home but Emma still feeds the need to stay on the diet.
Season 5, Episode 16: Our Lips Are Sealed: Part 2
Original Air Date: 27 February 2006
Emma, still on her dangerous diet, tries to make up excuses to friends and family about why she’s not eating and is having problems. She alienates Manny and tells her she’s dating Peter. Peter finds out about Emma’s eating disorder and goes to Manny, the two of them talk to Snake and Spike and all of them try to intervene and save Emma. She ends up having a panic attack and passing out, sending her to the hospital. Meanwhile, Paige wants Alex and Hazel to get along, which is like getting water and oil to mix without the egg. They eventually manage to get along because Paige is their egg.
Season 5, Episode 17: Total Eclipse of the Heart
Original Air Date: 6 March 2006
It’s year end exam time and everyone’s nerves are a little frazzled, but especially so for two students, Liberty and Marco, who are facing added burdens outside of exams. Liberty has just found out that the adoptive parents of her baby are planning on moving to Seattle, so she will no longer have contact with her child. Moody and somewhat self-destructive, she lashes out at her parents and Derek in particular, the latter who eventually helps her through her depression when he mentions that he too is an adopted child and that his birth mother provided him with a memory box, which she and J.T. end up doing for their child. Marco’s pressure comes in the form of ex Dylan, who has returned home for the summer. Still smarting deeply from their break-up, Marco announces to everyone, including Dylan, that Tim is his new boyfriend despite the fact that they have never even gone out on a date. Dylan admits to Marco that he still loves him and that their break-up was all his fault. Marco just wants Dylan to leave him alone, but his protests are just a little too strong, masking a still strong passion for his first love. Before he can settle things with Dylan, Marco must first admit to Tim the nature of their relationship and what Marco really wants in light of Dylan’s return.
Season 5, Episode 18: High Fidelity: Part 1
Original Air Date: 13 March 2006
What’s old becomes new again for Alex, Paige and Spinner. Alex and Paige are facing their future post-Degrassi, Paige on a calculated, planned path to university at Banting, and Alex on a more spontaneous “in the moment” path. Paige expects Alex to follow her to Kingston, whereas Alex doesn’t want to follow someone as she needs to find her own life. Spinner and Darcy are living in the moment, enjoying their relationship. Spinner tells little white lies to Darcy specifically regarding his past relationship with Manny and their, or supposed lack of sexual history. Darcy finds out the truth from Manny, which results in an all out cat-fight. From this, Spinner declares his want to purify himself and become a virgin once again. Despite this act, Darcy once again questions his motives when he admits that Manny was not his only past sexual partner. He thus feels that he will never fit into Darcy’s mold of what she wants him to be. As a result of their problems, both Paige/Alex and Spinner/Darcy break up. Needing some comfort, each turns to old support. Alex ends up having Jay’s shoulders to cry on, nothing more than that as she states emphatically to him that she really is a lesbian and Paige was her first true-to-herself relationship. Spinner and Paige turn to each other, realizing that old feelings for each other come to the surface.
Season 5, Episode 19: High Fidelity: Part 2
Original Air Date: 20 March 2006
It’s approaching graduation, a time for moving on for some. Both Ashley and Craig return to Degrassi from London and Vancouver respectively to visit with old friends and perhaps return to school the following year. Jimmy is not one who will be moving on from Degrassi just yet as his time away from school, despite his hard work, has left him a few credits short from graduating with his class. He is still feeling sorry for himself being in a wheelchair, but encouragement from friend Ashley may help. Her first words of encouragement fall flat however. Jimmy likes Ellie and Ashley believes that Ellie likes Jimmy based on some comments she’s made. Based on this information from Ashley, Jimmy tells Ellie that he wants to take their friendship to the next level. However it is not Jimmy that Ellie has relationship feelings for, but Craig. Jimmy is feeling unattractive in his wheelchair, but a passionate kiss from Ashley bolsters his confidence, not only with himself but with his lot in life. From this, he buries the hatchet with Spinner. Spinner is having relationship issues of his own. The kiss with Paige has left him a bit confused, but Darcy asks him to take her back, which he does. This return to Darcy leaves Spinner the task of telling Paige that nothing beyond that kiss can happen, however before he can do so, another tender moment with Paige leads to going all the way. Spinner really has to make some decisions and text messages Marco what happened with Paige and asks for advice. However his decisions are made for him as Paige is moving on from Degrassi post-graduation which does not include Spinner, and Darcy sees the text messages which leads to her dumping Spinner. His renewed friendship with Jimmy makes Spinner realize that he needs to take what he wants out of life and runs after Darcy before she leaves for Bible camp for the summer. Although she doesn’t trust him since he broke his purification vows so easily, the last glance back before she gets on the bus leaves him with some hope.
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