With Season 9 of Degrassi quickly approaching, we’re currently in a “transition stage.” This is where we don’t officially know that much about the new season, so the only thing we can do is speculate.
Of course speculation always leads to ridiculous rumors that ALWAYS end up on wikipedia or imdb, and naive fans go around telling everyone they’re true. Anyway, here’s just a few of some of the most random (FALSE) rumors in Degrassi history that made me lol.
Stacey Farber Is Pregnant
People saw her outfit, saw a "bump" and automatically assumed Stacey was pregnant. Sheesh.
It all started in the season 7 episode “Jessie’s Girl.” Fans SWORE up and down they saw what looked like a baby bump on Stacey, and because of what she was wearing people assumed she was pregnant. That of course led to people thinking they’d incorporate her “pregnancy” into the show by saying Jesse got her pregnant.
Unless Stephen Stohn and Co. did a masterful job of keeping it on lockdown, it turns out Stacey did NOT (and has not) become a baby mama. Shocking.
Marco Has AIDS
Marco has AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDS....not.
At the end of the season 4 episode “Moonlight Desires,” Marco talks with Caitlin about the possiblity of him volunteering in Africa over the summer. Shockingly enough, the rumor after that was Marco would come back from Africa and have AIDS in season 5…because it’d be ironic that the gay guy got AIDS while visiting Africa, and not from having sex, you see? No, I don’t see…and that would be a stupid way to go about an AIDS storyline.
No, Marco didn’t contract AIDS. Man, I’m surprised no one has started a “Darcy has AIDS” rumor yet.
J.T. dies….In Season 3
The silliness of people thinking this pic is of J.T. getting killed makes me LOL.
The Degrassi universe will always feel empty without the presence of J.T. Yorke. But before his untimely death in season 6, people thought he was going to kick the bucket in season 3. When the promo pics for “U Got The Look” were released, a crazy rumor went around that J.T. was gonna get struck and killed by a car.
Of course it turns out, after watching the episode, J.T. skateboarded right into a parked car because he was distracted by Manny’s lady lumps. Apparently some people had an overly INTENSE imagination (remember when 100% INTENSE was the tagline for Degrassi on The-N?) “Manny Santos, my how you’ve grown….”
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