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Spinner life plans begin to fall apart when he doesn’t get into police college as planned. Clare gets invited to the dance by K.C. AND Connor…who will she choose? Kelly and Emma finally admit they have feelings for each other and agree to go out on a date.
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Spinner and Jane have plans for next year – she’ll start pre-law and he’ll attend police college. When he doesn’t get in, he can’t bear to tell her, so he lies. Jane catches him and starts to wonder if her future includes him. Clare gets invited to the dance by both K.C. and Connor. When it looks like their struggle for her attention will jeopardize Robot Wars, she decides to go with neither. Alli gets an anonymous rose but after asking Anya who it was, she reveals that is was Johnny who sent her the rose. When Alli asks Johnny to the Valentine’s dance, he rejects her saying he can’t go with her because she is a “niner” and his friends will tease him. Meanwhile, Kelly and Emma reveal their feelings for each other and go on a date.
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Spinner starts to breakdown when he doesn’t get into college as planned. Clare has to decide between KC and Conner when both guys ask her to the school dance. Kelly and Emma’s flirtation finally leads to an actual date.

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Holly J. is desperate to keep her Queen Bee appearance after learning her parents are in a financial crisis. Peter’s mom, Ms. Hatzilakos unexpectedly drops in for a visit. She’s stays at his pad while she’s in town, and Peter quickly discovers that his life isn’t so rad with mom around.
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Holly J. is desperate to keep her Queen Bee appearance even after learning her parents are in a financial crisis, but is finding it harder and harder to hide when she is forced to take the bus to school and brown-bag her lunch. She even has to beg Spinner for a job at The Dot, despite her terrible waitressing skills, but when Holly J. is overcome with even more stress, she feels that she has to take it out on someone else so she spills Mia’s secret at a Degrassi news conference about what she did with Tom Blake. Unfortunately, Holly J. gets kicked off the Spirit Squad when Mia takes over and Blue stops taking interest in her when she tells Blue she wants to go to a concert with him but ditches him because of her financial difficulties. Meanwhile, Peter’s mom unexpectedly drops in for a visit. She stays with him at his apartment for the time that she’s in town, but when she begins getting too involved with his life, he realizes that life isn’t that great with Mom around.
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Holly J is desperate to maintain her popularity after finding out her parents are having a financial crisis. Peter’s mom crashes at his place while she is in town but it starts to put a cramp Peter’s social life.

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Sav and Anya plan to celebrate their six-month anniversary on the school’s overnight trip. Sav’s sister Alli tags along, and he becomes furious when he hears the rumors about what she did on the trip. Over at Smithdale, Manny and Emma both have a crush on their roommate, Kelly.
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Sav and Anya plan to celebrate their six-month anniversary on the school’s overnight trip. Things look good for Sav until he finds out that his little sister Alli is coming on the trip with them. At first, Alli won’t keep away from him and Anya, but eventually she starts seeking after Johnny. Now Sav is too worried about what Alli is doing behind his back to express any interest toward Anya. When he tells Alli off for getting close to guys like Johnny, Anya refuses to tolerate his double standard any longer and breaks up with him, leaving him heartbroken. Meanwhile, Emma and Manny are both crushing on their roommate Kelly. They know they are too mature to do this again, but they can’t help but be interested in who he likes. When Emma has had enough, she rushes into Kelly’s room, only to find him in bed with Gwenith. He later tells an embarrassed Emma and Manny that he is not going to date his roommates, which they reluctantly accept.
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Sav and Anya plan to celebrate their anniversary on the school’s overnight trip. Sav’s sister Alli also joins the trip but the adventure turns sour when Sav overhears rumors about his sister’s behavior. Emma and Manny become rivals when they both develop a crush on their roommate Kelly.

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Peter begins a relationship with Mia and a friendship with Riley. However, he finds out how difficult it can be to balance them both. Meanwhile Clare and Alli find a surprise at Mr. Simpson’s house.
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Peter’s life cannot get any better. With a new girlfriend, Mia, and an awesome guy-friend, Riley, to play video games with. However, when Riley kisses Peter, Peter questions Riley’s sexuality. At first, when Peter tries to bring things back to normal between them, things turn harsh when Riley tries to attack him. He later makes a snide remark about Peter and his sexuality when Derek and Bruce come up. Peter begins to reveal Riley’s secret, but he stops, and Riley finally begins to come to an understanding with Peter. Meanwhile, Connor, Clare, K.C., and Alli are working on a robot project in media immersion. In order to snoop around in their teacher’s house, Alli pushes that Connor host the next study night. Alli ends up persuading Clare to go with her into the Simpsons bedroom, and they find a vibrator. Spike tells them that she knows what they were doing, since she was once their age. The girls hide it in Clare’s bag and it goes off during class. When Clare is sent to The Shep, Clare’s mother is called in. After thinking she was being to harsh to her about the incident, Mrs. Edwards decides to have the sex talk with her, which Clare later uses the knowledge to embarrass Holly J. in front of the school.
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Peter struggles with maintaining a relationship with Mia and a friendship with Riley. Clare and Alli make an awkward discovery in Mr. Simpson’s house.

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In order to make a first impression at Smithsdale University, Liberty decides to pledge for the school’s popular sorority. Though, Liberty’s determination to join the greek system ultimately tests her friendship with Emma and Manny. Meanwhile, with Holly J as the new Student Council President she realizes that she is on top of the social food chain. However, her newfound power is put in jeopardy when she develops an attraction towards her classmate.
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At Smithdale, Liberty decides to join a sorority. At first she is bound to join her mother’s former sorority but then is recruited by a member of a sorority called Pi Gamma Pi. The heads of the sorority begin to stereotype Liberty, assuming that she is from an underprivileged background, that J.T. died in a gang-fight, and that she is good at hip-hop dancing after Liberty reveals to them that she had a baby and gave him up for adoption, but the father was stabbed in “not exactly” a gang fight. She is reluctant at first, but then she begins to try the party-girl lifestyle, and anything to join the sorority. When she is accepted and another fellow black girl is not, Liberty realizes that the sorority just needed a token. Meanwhile, The Shep has given Holly J. the presidency of the student council, and she tells Danny not to complain and he gets the secretary job. At Power Squad practice, Chante makes a comment about Anya and Sav losing their virginity to each other, and Holly J. becomes desperate. She then tries to seduce new student, Blue Chessex, who is exceptional in art. After rejecting Holly J, he tries to have sex with her but she rejects him saying that he will never get another chance with her.
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Liberty plans to gain status in college by pledging a sorority. Her determination to fit in and impress the sorority sisters ultimately strains her friendship with Manny and Emma. Holly J is elected Student Council President and revels in being the queen bee in school. However, a crush on a fellow classmate may unseat Holly J’s influence.

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Jane develops a passion for football and is interested in playing on the school team. However, Degrassi’s only option is to play on the boy’s team, which leads to several unexpected mishaps.
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Jane loves football and wants to play, but since there is no girls’ team, her only other option is playing with the boys, which isn’t easy. As Jane makes the team, the boys make her life hell. When a game starts, she is the best of all, but Derek makes the team lose. He blames it on Jane, causing the rest of the team wonder if Jane can play football. Peter hosts an after party, but he is disappointed with Darcy, who couldn’t make it due to a four-month trip she tells him about at the last minute. Mia falls for Peter and shows him comfort. The next day at practice, Jane complains that she had nothing to do with the team losing. After practice, Derek and Bruce attack Jane, leaving her in pain and Spinner angry. Peter and Mia start a casual relationship, but he secretly still has feelings for Darcy. Jane returns to practice the next day, saying she is as part of this team as anyone else is. Sav, Danny and everyone else sticks up for her except Derek and Bruce.
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Jane’s love for football gives her the courage to try out for the team, despite it being exclusively boys. Jane is still determined to play but being the sole female teammate causes heated conflicts both on and off the football field.

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In part two of the eighth season premiere, Mia’s modeling career spirals out of control leaving her friends and family worried. Meanwhile, Clare and KC unexpectedly form a bond.
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Clare, K.C., Alli and Connor begin their Gifted Program classes, but Clare finds it difficult to make friends with the others, believing she is more intelligent than them. K.C. challenges Clare when she tells them she does not care what people’s opinions are of her, but after performing a hymn in the cafeteria and gets booed, jeered, and food thrown at her, she runs out upset. After eating lunch with Connor in the Media Immersion classroom the following day, K.C. makes attempts to build bridges with Clare, who reveals that she feels as if she is always in the shadow of her older, and more popular sister, Darcy. Meanwhile, Mia is offered the T-Bombz modelling job and takes Leia with her to the press conference where the official announcement is made. Tom Blake invites them to a private party that night, and while Mia is more than happy to engage in their activities, such as drinking alcohol and group sex, Leia is not, and after chastising Mia, leaves the party. The following day Mia arrives late for school, and while her social status is gaining strength among the hierarchy of Power Squad members Anya, Holly J., and Chante, Leia is disgusted, especially after finding out she slept with Blake. When Danny asks Leia if she thinks he has a chance of being Mia’s boyfriend, Leia is forced to tell him the truth. Mia is angry after discovering she was going to be offered the job before she slept with Blake, and upset when Danny tells her what he thinks of her.
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Mia’s gets in over her head while pursuing a modeling career. Clare and KC form an unexpected friendship.

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In part one of the eighth season premiere, Degrassi welcomes a new group of students as they adjust to high school life. Mia believes that her junior year will begin on a positive note when she is scouted by a top model agency and befriends a new student. But trouble is in paradise when Mia learns the dark side of the modeling world. Meanwhile Degrassi graduates Emma, Manny and Liberty adjust to the transition of High School to College. Though the girls get involved in a mishap when a mysterious roommate threatens to tear them apart.
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Degrassi gets a new principal for the new school year, Mr. Shepperd (or “The Shep”), whose laid-back style is popular with the students, but surprises Snake. The Shep establishes and coaches the Panthers, the new football team lead by quarterback Danny Van Zandt as the captain. On the first day of school The Shep decides to cancel classes and hold a fashion show for the football team’s new uniform, and Mia begins to form a friendship with new student Leia. At the fashion show, Mia grows close to Danny when she models with him, and she is spotted by a talent agent who offers her a place on the books of a modeling agency. When she attends an audition with T-Bombz’s star Q.B. Tom Blake, Mia thinks she performed badly, especially after seeing another model flirting with him. She visits his apartment late at night to convince him she should get the job, and when he makes sexual advances towards her, she does not fight back. Meanwhile, Emma, Manny and Liberty arrive at Smithdale University, but Emma is upset to learn that they will not be rooming together. After speaking to the Housing department, Emma gets them into a room together with a male named Kelly – whom she thought was female. While Manny and Liberty throw themselves into the fun and activities of orientation week, Emma is disappointed that their relationship with each other is changing, until Kelly shows her how to have a good time without them.
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It’s back to school at Degrassi, which means new students, new classes and new complications. Mia’s junior year starts off with a bang when she is scouted out by a high-profile modeling agency. Degrassi graduates Liberty, Emma, and Manny adjust to the brave new world of college.

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