Degrassi // Season 1

Family Politics: Part 1

Scene I

Ashley: This is going to be the best year ever. First thing we need to do, Terri, we need to get you a boyfriend. It'll happen. Trust me. Terri. I am not a shoe in. We won't even know if I'm president 'til the final vote is counted. Okay, yeah. I just need to have a shower and get dressed. Oh, no, not again. Ter, I've got to go. All right. I'll see you at school. Bye. Toby, out.

Toby: How do you know it's me? It could be your mom. Could be my dad.

Ashley: They have their own bathroom.

Toby: Then go use it. I just got here.

Ashley: Toby, come on. Be reasonable. I have to get to school to put up my election posters.

Toby: Aren't you the only one running?

Ashley: Toby, remember what Dr. Freed said, "A generous attitude makes for a generous family." Now get out of the bathroom now! Toby, what will it take for you to open that door?

Toby: Just say please.

Ashley: Please.

Toby: Now say Toby Isaacs is the coolest kid at Degrassi. Way, way cooler than any stupid grade eight could ever hope to be.

Ashley: Toby, I have to get something.

Toby: Get what? Your hairbrush? Your eyeliner? Your training bra?

Ashley: Mom!

Scene II

Toby: I mean, I hadn't even spit out my toothpaste and she wanted in.

J.T.: Maybe you should explain to Ashley that bathroom time is private time.

Toby: She'd probably go crying to Mommy.

J.T.: Really?

Toby: She has no sense of humor and she's a neat-aholic. Yesterday I left my gym socks on the couch. She freaked.

J.T.: Your gym socks can reek something fierce.

Toby: Just 'cause me and Dad move into their house, Ashley treats me like...

J.T.: Dirt? Gum stuck on her shoe?

Toby: All of the above. So, ready for day one of the rest of our junior high lives?

J.T.: What do you think?

Scene III

Ashley: Dr. Freed says we need to work together and try to be more like siblings.

Terri: You fight all the time, can't stand the sight of each other, you're already acting like siblings.

Ashley: I mean, I don't mind his dad Jeff and I'm glad my mom's happy but Toby, ugh, he's everywhere. He's like a little mosquito that keeps buzzing in your ear.

Terri: Hey, Ash, maybe when you're president, you can get him expelled.

Ashley: Yeah, for my life.

Paige: Hey, guys. Haven't seen you all summer. How are you doing?

Terri: Paige?

Paige: New year, new look, new Paige. You're putting up your campaign posters already?

Ashley: The election is on Friday.

Paige: Wow, you'd rather focus on the issues than on your appearance. That's so admirable.

Scene IV

Emma: Manny, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Manny: Nothing but the grade eights.

Emma: They're only a year older than us.

Manny: Yeah, a whole year to think of ways to make us suffer.

Spinner: Hall pass.

Emma: What?

Spinner: You're not allowed on school property without a hall pass.

Emma: But we didn't get one.

Spinner: Then you'll both have to leave.

Manny: But we can't, it's the first day of school.

Spinner: Grade sevens are such geeks.

Scene V

Toby: Hey, guys.

Emma: Hey.

Manny: Hi. That's our homeroom?

Emma: Cool.

Snake: Hey, guys. Sorry I'm late. Hey, Em. Okay, here we go. All right. Ah, just choose your own seats for the time being. Okay, welcome to Degrassi Community School. I'm Mr. Simpson. I'm your homeroom and media immersion teacher. And I gotta say you guys really lucked out. I mean it. This is, by far, the coolest homeroom in the entire school. First order of business, these are the code of conduct forms, concerning the computers and the internet. All right? I want to get this out of the way before we get to know one another.