Degrassi Junior High

"The Experiment" was an awesome Degrassi Junior High episode. I actually really liked Yick in this episode. In this episode, he blames Mr. Raditch for giving him bad grades. I love how Arthur gets Stephanie's paper and gives it Yick, so Yick can copy it and hand it in. I love how he gets a better grade than Stephanie did. I love how Yick got caught cheating. I love how Arthur told Yick off by saying that Yick is just making excuses for his laziness. I love how Yick is actually motivated to write something by the end of the episode and he gets a good grade. I love the Melanie and Kathleen subplot. I love how they think they are buying drugs from Joey, but in reality they are buying vitamins. I love how they think they are high, but they actually aren't. I give this episode 9/10.

A wonderful example of two friends who help each other get better. Arthur is good in school but bad in sports and Yick helps him get better. Yick, just the opposite. Only did Arthur help Yick get better? He just helped him with an "experiment" from an old paper of Stephanie's. The experiment worked, but then Yick decided he needed that all the time. I can be proud of Arthur's standing up for what's right; saying "once is an experiment, to prove a point. But twice is cheating". I don't know how Mr Raditch figured it out the second time but not the first. And nothing is said among the classmates about the fact that Stephanie wants no one to know that they're related; Arthur just confesses to having given Yick the paper. They're asked to write a paper on "why you did this and why it was wrong". Is that what Yick has written? He just talks about stereotyping people, and how it hurts. But that was one reason he wanted to keep on cheating, to hide that. I love how he did that; after Arthur told him "if you don't want him to think you're dumb, prove that you're not". And I love how Mr Raditch made amends with him; saying he was going to stop calling him "MrYu the Disorganized". It's good to see a teacher doing that, even if he didn't directly apologize. That was hilarious seeing Kathleen and Melanie pretend to get stoned! Joey has so much smarts; why doesn't he use it better? And I loved the part when they hid him in the broom closet in his underwear; what goes around comes around!