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Degrassi Junior High

Taking Off (1)

Season 3, Episode 11, Aired Feb 06, 1989

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Tired of living with his grandparents, Wheels decides to track down his birth father. Joey and Snake attend the Gourmet Scum concert, where Luke and Shane take acid. Wheels tells Joey and Snake that he is running away to find his father, and swears them to secrecy.moreless

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Anais Granofsky

Lucy Fernandez
Dayo Ade

Bryant Lister 'BLT' Thomas
Stacie Mistysyn

Caitlin Ryan
Stefan Brogren

Archie "Snake" Simpson
Michelle Goodeve

Ms. Karen Avery
Cathy Keenan

Liz O'Rourke

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Wheels runs away. Shane takes acid.

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By Jon_MW_14, Sep 17, 2011

"Taking Off" Part 1 is a great Degrassi Junior High episode. By this episode, I slowly start to dislike Wheels. He has an awful attitude. I don't like how he disrespects his grandparents. He should be thankful that he has a place to stay where they feed him. That being said, I love his running away storyline. It was creepy how he hitchhikes and that guy try to molest him. And I love the subplot of Luke and Shane taking acid. I give this episode a 9/10.moreless
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Wheels gets a card from his birth father, and decides to run away to be with him. He tells Joey and Snake, but swears them to secrecy. At the concert, Shane takes 2 pieces of acid. On the road, Wheels hitchhikes, and a guy tries to molest him.moreless

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By Ilikedj, Dec 08, 2006

Good consistency. After the previous contact Wheels had with Mike, I wondered how long it would be before he tries to see him, or maybe even track down his birth mother. Hey; Mike's name is Nelson, as is Spike's. Spike has her mother's maiden name I think because her father is out of the picture. Maybe Mike and Spike's mom are related which would make Wheels and Spike cousins of some sort. Interesting. Luke I don't see as much more than a troublemaker, and he seems to have Shane under his spell to some degree. Probably Shane is just cracking; the pressure of being a pastor's kid, plus being an unwed father, and feeling unappreciated, and so on. It would be nice, though, to see Luke's parents. It's like he's home alone when the police come to his house. It would be just typical that Wheels would get molested by his driver. He was warned about hitchhiking, but he was so determined that Joey and Snake couldn't talk him out of it.moreless
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- According to the postcard he received from his birth dad, Wheel's address is 179 Degrassi Street, Toronto Ontario.
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- When Wheels is upstairs in his room, the view out the window is the highway and is in the back of the house. In the episode "Can't Live With 'Em", his room looks out into the street in front of his house.
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- This is another episode that parallels the D:TNG episode "Father Figure" in which Emma runs off to find her father.
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- The name of the band playing at the concert some of the Degrassi High kids go to is "Gourmet Scum".
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- At the end of this episode, a guy that gave Wheels a ride tries to sexually abuse him.
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