>> Hi, everybody, I'm Jonathon Torrens and in 1991 after 13 long years and 97 episodes, Canada’s most famous high school students finally graduated, I’m talking about the kids from the Degrassi High. And since it's been almost 10 years, we thought, isn't it time for a reunion and what better place to have that reunion than here on our very show. Welcome to the first ever two part "Jonovision" episode. Ever since CBC began rebroadcasting the Degrassi high episodes, the response has been overwhelming by email and phone calls, faxes and letters, people wanting to know whatever happened to the most famous TV teens. Remember Snake and Joey.
>> Who cares, we'll play in a real concert. This is so fabulous.
Please welcome Joey and Snake! [Cheers/applause]
>> Jon: Hi, boys. Nice to see you. Thanks very much for coming. Pat, how are you doing?
>> Jon: Why do you think the show is so popular?
>> I think for the most part we were trying to be as real as possible. We weren't trying to be anything we weren't and people could relate to that and the stories were real and honest.
>> Jon: Do you ever get sick of hearing the words Joey Jeremiah?
>> It's probably something I'll never escape. I react to it as if it was my own name and it's nice to be remembered after all these years that people still watch it.
>> Jon: What is amazing is not just around Canada but also around the world?
>> Jon: Not at all, the nice thing is Degrassi is still called Degrassi in every language.
>> In France time called guy.
>> Jon: Highlights and favorite moments.
>> We really should have prepared for this.
>> I know.
>> Highlights and favorite moments. One of my favorite moments was when pat won the Gemini.
That was incredible that the show had gotten that exposure and recognition and the fact that the academy gave it to me and us, as a show.
>> Jon: You were 16 years old?
>> Yeah.
>> Jon: That is amazing. That is not best kid actor, but best actor of a Canadian show.
>> Thank you.
>> Jon: So there are tones of the people we like to me. Pat, how old were you when you star on the show?
>> 14.
>> Jon: And when it finished.
>> 21.
>> Stefan?
>> 13.
>> Jon: And how old when you finished?
>> 20.
>> Jon: Those were mostly your teenage years.
>> Yeah.
>> Jon: Do you think that is a bizarre upbringing?
>> Not really. We were talking about this the earlier, it was such a grounded show and on top of that we had our friends in our high school and our friends were whatever, you're on the show, whatever.
Yeah, baby
>> Jon: Time to meet a few more graduates and let's return to the halls of the Degrassi.
>> What happened?
>> I didn't get it because of my hair.
>> What a pig. Let's come back here and throw a rock through his window.
>> No. That's what he expects us to do.
>> What would you do if you got someone pregnant?
>> Spike’s having a baby?
>> No, just a question. It wouldn't be guy's problem?
>> Jon: Welcome Spike, Liz and Shane. [Cheers/applause]
>> Jon: HI, everybody. So, Amanda, welcome nice to have you here. What was playing the character spike like?
>> Jon: So you weren't exactly method acting.
>> That's right.
>> Jon: Did you have input into your character spike?
>> A little bit. Every time before we film a new episode, we gather around and discussed what was in the script and try put some real input and some was taken and put into the script.
>> Jon: Was that your real hairstyle at the time?
>> Yes.
>> Jon: Was it really?
>> Yes. Kathy, how long was you on the show?
>> Jon: Five years, and how old were you when you started?
>> 14.
>> Jon: Until 19. What was it like?
>> It was good. It was a great experience. I guess I don't realize how lucky I was back then to have that opportunity but gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of people. It was my high school years from grade nine to 13.
>> Jon: Bill, do you think the issues you're dealing with on Degrassi reflect the real issues you were dealing with at that time?
>> Jon: You remember dealing with drunk driving and molestation and really heavy stuff.
>> We were intimidated by deal with suicide and they say we would never do suicide and we thought it was a topic we could handle sensitively.
>> Jon: Did you have input to the character development?
>> We would sit and read a first version of the script and we would come up all time. A kid is not going to do that or say that. And they would say, you're absolutely right.
>> Jon: Did they write the characters and cast you to fit them or cast you and built the characters around you?
>> I think half and half. Once they saw our personalities, they started to evolve and sort of the friendship off the show became friendship on the show.
>> Jon: We'll take break. More Degrassi reunion
[Cheers/applause]
>> My goodness. Look at you.
>> Jon: See what other grads we can find.
>> We did cheat.
>> It was an experiment.
>> What are you doing? We're supposed to be more mature so I'm going to star dressing more mature.
>> Jon: Please welcome Yick and Stephanie! [Cheers/applause]
>> Jon: How you doing?
>> Jon: I'm very well. Man, you were on the show way back in the days, how old were you?
>> 12.
>> Jon: And you were on the show until when?
>> 18 or 19.
>> Howdy you love the whole "Degrassi" experience?
>> I loved it
>> Jon: Are you sick of the word "Yick".
>>I’m going to be 85 I still hair people saying aren’t you that guy… get off my lawn you crazy kids.
>> Jon: Hi, Nicole.
>> Jon: How are you
>> I'm well.
>> Jon: Nicole, why did you leave?
>> I was restless. I had to move on. I did have to move on. I was bored which is hard to believe in retrospect.
>> Jon: So you moved on to a sitcom. Do you regret it?
>> No, that is silly. I had to move on and I did and it was fun because I got to do film on location and “Learning the Ropes” which was a sitcom like in this situation so I got to experience the two setups.
>> Jon: Stephanie was one of the more progress characters, especially with the style of dress, I don't want to go on record saying she was a loose woman --
>> She wasn't --.
>> Jon: But I do see her leaving home in a snowsuit – and going to class in a thong
>> Was that hard to play?
>> No, because I was a flirt. But then I grew up because I realized that girls, we shouldn't just value ourselves for our sexuality.
>> Jon: I remember watching the show, thinking, I wish girls like that went to my school. She’s hot. Siluck, what are you up to.
>> I'm a general manager of a restaurant in Vancouver called the urban well downtown. I’m still acting I am still trying
>> Jon: Several of you are -- who's still acting?
>> Wanting to and doing it.
>> What is it like if you have this really incredible gig, which in Canada can be the biggest curse to have a series? Is it hard to rekindle an acting career?
>> It sucks. It's hard because everyone gets typecast and everyone knowing your face but no one wants to touch you.
>> Jon: Cathy?
>> I took time often from acting and studying media at school and I work on the other side, but I found that it was sort of having to start at bottom again and work my way back up.
>>Bill?
>> I think "Degrassi" help prepare me to do the behind the scenes stuff, which is what I'm doing now and I'm doing a film, a documentary, and now I'm more on the writing and directing side.
>> Jon: Ladies and gentlemen, of course not all interactions as "Degrassi" high were pleasant. There were skirmishes.
>> No matter where we are. Wouldn't it be better to forget about it?
>> That's easy for you to say. No one has ever called you a nigger.
>> You think I’m joking?
[Indiscernible chatter][Cheers/applause]
>> Jon: Please welcome BLT and Dwayne. [Cheers/applause]
>> Jon: Dayo, how you doing?
>> Jon: I didn't mean to pry, I was just asking. So what was your experience on "Degrassi" like?
>> It was fun. I got to make a whole new family. I, these guys are the bomb. I got to learn a lot of things because I didn't go into the industry to be an actor and I just kind of tripped into it.
>> Jon: Darrin, how are you?
>> Jon: Why are you such a bully?
>> I'm just built that way.
>> Did you and Pat get a lot?
>> Pat and I got along very well because with the scenes that we had to do, there had to be trust.
>> Jon: So all the fight scenes were choreographed?
>> As much as you can choreograph with 13-year-olds and 15-year-olds. We did get hurt. There was one scene where I did hit him in the face with my knee and he bled.
>> I didn't pull my head far back enough and pat cracked me in the nose and I bled for most of the day. All for the glory -- all for the glory, that is Canadian television?
>> Yes, it is.
>> Jon: What are you up to now?
>> I'm an assistant director for major motion pictures.
>> Jon: And Dayo what about you?
>> I live in Los Angeles and came back for this to see all my friends.
>> Jon: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, we have to take a break. More "Degrassi" grads and maybe even a couple teachers when we come back.
>> Jon: Hi, everybody and welcome back to the "Degrassi" reunion and to the hallow halls of the "Degrassi" high and see witch other grads we can find.
>> No, thanks.
>> Of course little ms. Perfection or are you chicken.
>> No, I just don't want to.
>> Fine, more for us.
>> Maya
>> Maya doesn't have to have any if she doesn't want to.
>> No, I want to try it just this once.
>> Jon: Please welcome Kathleen and Maya, Rebecca Haines and Kyra Levy.
>> Jon: Hi, Rebecca.
>> Jon: You were on the show for a long, lock time as well?
>> Yeah.
>> Jon: What were you highlights?
>> Seeing all the people that I work with, everyone was like my family. We were all best friends. It’s true.
>> Jon: Kyra, how are you.
>> Jon: You had to do the show in a wheelchair. How hard was that to mobilize in a wheelchair?
>> It was a challenge to get to. It was electronic. It was with a joystick. if you moved it too quick, you went flying. so I made enemies real quickly.
>> Jon: Did they ever take events that really happened in your life and put them in the script?
>> If they did, are we going to admit it?
>> Jon: Siluck.
>> When I was 16 I wanted to get my ear pierce and he said no, no. And in the fourth season, I said to Yan Moore (head writer) you have to write about Yick getting an earring and they did.
>> Jon: What kind of influence were they on your life, the producers and the director and the writers of the show?
>> They were there 24 hours a day. They were surrogate parents; the entire crew was surrogate parents.
>> Jon: Speaking about keeping you in step. Not only were there students in "Degrassi" high, there were teachers.
>> I don't want to go to school.
>> Don’t give up. You have so much going for you. This is just a temporary setback.
>> Temporary, great. Don't worry about me, I can drop out of school and be a typical teenage mother that will never do anything or go anywhere?
>> No, get the marks you know you can get. You owe it to yourself.
>> Greetings scholars. I trust you all remember to bring your malleable little minds with you this year.
>> Jon: Please welcome Ms. Avery and Mr.Radith
[Indiscernible chatter][Cheers/applause]
>> Jon: What was it like, being an adult in a sea of prepubescent exuberance?
>> Jon: I don't think I can call you anything other than Mr. Radith. You're not entirely delighted to hear that?
>> Jon: What was it like being an adult in a sea of kids?
>> Kind of strange because I just left theatre school and you think your first gig will be in an environment where you'll be the spear holder and looking up to the big leads and you walk into this and realize you're the mentor.
>> Jon: So now that everybody is out on the panel, let me ask you this, why is this show so popular?
>> How come eight full years since it's been off the air are people still e-mailing from 500 countries, Nicole?
>> Ask the audience. I want to know.
>> Jon: You over here. Sorry about your elbow.
>> I believe the show is so popular because "Dawson’s creek" or "ready or not" focuses on six different characters and Degrassi focuses on 30 different kids. And a couple episodes you don't see Caitlin or Joey and then focus on spike, and 5 episodes later you go back into their lives it’s just more realistic that way.
>> Jon: And I think also, if I had to guess, that maybe it had something to do with the fact, although the issues were a bit exaggerated, but there were real people represented, not everyone was uber foxy.
>> I resent that.
>> Jon: Darrin I said not everyone was. You were a given. But everyday kids were represented and do you think that is why, Amanda?
>> Yeah.
>> When we were first doing it. "Beverly hills 90210" was fashion after "Degrassi" and I don't know the whole back story but they tried to buy the show for a certain amount of money and Linda want to keep it in Canada and they wanted to keep it Canadian.
>> Jon: Ladies and gentlemen of the audience, we'll get your answers and questions. The "Degrassi" reunion continues tomorrow.
[Applause]
>> That's all the time we have for this episode. I'm spent. Wow, that was a lot of names. Just to give you insight into the popularity of -- starting with the kids of Degrassi Street, here in our audience today, ladies and gentlemen, two people who furnished travel for themselves, at their own expense to come all the way from San Francisco, put your hands up, where are you? There they are. Right down here.
[Applause]
What is your name?
>> My name's Mary
Your name?
>> Dave.
>> Dave and Mary. You guys came all the way from San Francisco to sew this Degrassi reunion. What does the show mean to you?
>> A lot.
>> Because what people might not know is it was seen on most PBS stations. Is that where you guys saw it?
>> That's correct. We were living in Chicago it was on PBS from the mid-'80s. We continued to watch it throughout high school.
>> Were you guys, like, wishing you lived in Toronto?
>> We wished we lived in Degrassi.
>> It wasn't real. You guys get the honor of asking the first question. What would it be?
>> Where's Wheels?
>> Good question.
[Cheering and applause]
>> Which brings up a larger question. Is anybody in touch with wheels?
>> Neil.
>> No.
>> What would be your question?
>> Well, I wonder, like, in the regular series, snake was a pretty cool guy. Then in "School's Out" what happened?
>> I don't remember him being a cool guy, actually. I thought he was this nice guy. It's a weird transition also. I figured that, like, when we -- you know, the characters are going to get laid. That's what's going on.
>> Sorry. They're going to get what?
>> Sex.
>> Right.
[Laughter]
>> If you're not getting it, it's very easy to look like a geek compared to the other guys that are getting it. That can be part of it, you know.
>> It with us the what?
>> It was the suntan lotion on the nose, I think.
>> I mean, like, I mean, the truth is I never looked at snake as a cool guy. For me, snake was the guy that -- Joey was the cool guy. Wheels was the cool guy. I hung out with the cool guys.
[Applause]
>> A big round of applause for our friends from San Francisco.
>> Hands in the air. You. Stand up.
>> Hi. I'd like to know, Joey and snake, did you guy play your famous song? We would like you to come and jam with us.
[Applause]
>> Did you guys actually play instruments?
>> We can't actually play instruments, but we played it.
[Laughter]
>> Okay. There's a long story, but I'll give you the abbreviated version. The chords were c, g and d. Three chords. They thought us how to play them. A 13-year-old boy wrote the lyrics.
>> You would never know.
>> You would never know. Basically that was the only song they knew and could play. On their album: everybody wants something; the everybody wants something extended mix; and the extended, extended mix.
[Cheering and applause]
[Cheers/applause]
>> So the where's Wheels question does raise an interesting point. Openly, 50 kids running around, you couldn't have stayed in touch. When was the last time a group of you this big, even, was in one room? Rebecca?
>> Oh, I don't know, probably six or seven years. Maybe one of pat's famous birthday parties he has every year around Christmas. Something like that. Christmas party, birthday party.
>> Another question.
>> All the way over here.
>> What would be your question?
>> Hi. Snake were you on a commercial for furnaces?
>> Yeah, I was.
[Cheering and applause]
>> I never thought anyone would even know who it was. And all the time now. It's amazing.
>> Comment right here.
>> This is for pat. I was wondering if there was any money convincing you in the episode where you had to streak through the cafeteria.
>> Basically, they said we think that Joey would go to this extreme to get the car he wanted. I had to go with it. I mean I believed it. It was funny. It was a great way to start the season. And it’s one of my most memorable moments of the show.
[Cheering and applause]
>> And so -- where you wearing anything other than the hat?
>> Just the hat. If I can plug my web site real quick, there's a picture of it on the web site. It's www.patmeup.com
>> More Degrassi reunion in a minute.
[Applause]
>> Okay.
>> Hi, welcome back to our Degrassi reunion. Who has a question they would like to ask. You do. Over here. Please rise. What would your question be?
>> Okay, this question is for Amanda. With the hairstyle that you had back in the day, did people treat you any differently to opposed to other kids around that time?
>> Yeah. It's funny. Nowadays, you know blue hair, pink hair; it's a lot more normal. Back in the early '80s, not so many had -- not so many people had any kind of extreme hairdos. I use to get harassed a lot, especially by security guards and stuff like that.
>> People are use to seeing it.
>> Well, like, later on in the show, yeah, I was getting tired of it. At the beginning, no one was allowed to touch my hair.
>> Wow. Is that true? Is that you're rule?
>> That was my hair.
>> Okay. Who has another question? You do. What's your question?
>> I grew up watching the show. I was a youngen. I didn't have friends of my own. I considered you guys my friends. No, seriously. Like, I really love you guys. Mr. Raditch, I really want you to be my dad.
>> Right here.
>> Hi. This is for Stefan. I was curious to know where the name snake came from.
[Laughter]
>> Behave yourself.
>> You know what the funniest thing. We used to go to public school. Grade three kids were asking me that. I felt creepy. Obviously, there's this connotation, why you called snake? Honestly, I couldn't tell you except for the fact that I was tall and lanky. They gave me a choice. They said Guy, the French-Canadian -- it was either Snake or Slim. I was, like, oh, I'll go with Snake.
>> Snake is good.
>> Question right here. Look at your shirt. Look at this.
[Applause]
>> Were there ever any off-screen romances?
>> Which one you want to tackle first?
>> The hat was my idea; I just want you to know that.
>> Is that true?
>> Yes. I was into vintage clothing. I still am. Fedoras, I don't know.
>> It started out as a beret, then a fedora.
>> Whoa!
>> That wasn’t my idea.
>> And it stuck. I mean, I asked season after season can I please do a scene or an episode without the darn hat, and they wouldn't let me. I eventually gave into it as it being his calling card. I embraced the hat.
>> Let me ask you: Where is the hat?
>> The hat I burned.
>> Is that true?
>> There were many hats. And I burned the red one that was probably most prominent.
>> There were many hats?
>> That's like learning there were ten dogs that played Lassie.
>> Yes and general lees from the dukes of hazard. Same thing. I still have one of them tucked away somewhere.
>> Right. Okay. Well, that was part two of the question. What about romances? Cathy? Amanda?
>> Well, I think Ms. Avery wanted to run away with Joey and when and his mom heard about it...
>> We were in high school. Some people were dating people in high school, and some people dated on the show. I don't even know if it was dating. But, I mean -- I mean, you know. We were all running around and, like. Pat would come to parties at my high school. We would hang out. Either you met someone through friends or so forth. You know, once in a while, maybe two people hooked up.
[Laughter] nice.
>> Do you have a question?
>> Hi, I was wondering if any of you have, like, special talents. Dancing or anything?
>> I tap dance. I love tap dancing.
>> You do as well?
>> I'm singer. I have -- I have a band called psycho key. Wow!
[Applause]
>> What is the band called?
>> Psycho key.
>> Is that what you're doing full time?
>> That's my main focus. I'm also one of the new voices on much music.
>> Who has another question or comment? You do. All the way over here. What would be your question?
>> Nicole, I want to know what happened to the tube top.
>> I autographed it and it was auctioned at a charity auction.
>> Whoa! No question or comment right back here. Stand up.
>> Stefan how did the Scratching Post video come about?
>> I'm a friend of the director. I know Nicole from scratching post. They were talking -- the director's a good friend. They wanted to do a jokey, psycho fan thing. He said, hey, do you want to do this? Yeah, I like the band. What the hell. It was sort of favor but I wanted to do it because I really like the band.
>> They're great and former guests of ours as well.
>> I wanted to know if you had any embarrassing moments, like, on or off the set? Laugh.
>> Dayo, your hand went up immediately.
>>Yeah when Michelle threw milkshake in my face. This was not fun because we did it over and over and over and over again.
>> Darrin, your hand went up, too.
>> When Pat and I shot the last scene of "bad blood" we had been working -- on the show there was an A plot, B plot, sometimes a C plot. By the time we got to the second week of shooting the two-part episode there was no more b and have plot to shot. We worked really hard. By the time we got to shot the last scene, we were goofy. Yeah, we could not keep a straight face. That is, like, the most important dramatic scene. In between takes, in order not to laugh, I can still break him up by doing this.
[Laughter]
>> We were punching a brick wall so we would concentrate on the pain in our hands so we could do the scene and play it straight. We very rarely made it through a full -- a full take of that last thing. The editors did a lovely job.
>> That's right.
>> Wow!
>> Question or comment.
>> I had a story.
>> I'm sorry, Nicole. You wanted to add.
>> It would have been the time that Cathy sold me oregano.
[Applause]
[Applause]
>> Now, was that on the show or in real life?
>> No, it was in real life. I thought she was the coolest.
Question or comment right here.
>> Well, after the show, did you guys forget about, like -- did you guys think about Degrassi high every day or did you forget about it?
>> Every day.
>> You know what. I think it was a big part of our childhood. We basically grew up on TV. We grew up on TV. I don't think we forgot about it. It's one of those things where, you know, a lot of fond memories. You look back, oh, yeah, remember this day. We went camping or the summer cottage. There's always little things come up. Even when we talk now, you know, four years, six years. We would just reminisce. Oh, yeah, remember this day.
>> I suppose you remember it like you remember your teen years in general.
>> Exactly. It was our teen years. It's weird growing up on a TV show, no, that's how we grew up. We didn't know any other way.
>> We'll take a break. More Degrassi reunion after this [Applause]
>> Hi, welcome back to our Degrassi reunion. Here's something kind of interesting. It will give you an indication as to the reach of this show. We have an e-mail of Kevin Smith, the director of dogma, chasing Amy and mall rats. He owns all the episodes. He wanted to ask: “As much as I love school's out, why did it have to stop there? I, for one, would be content to follow the characters through the remaining arc of their lives. I'm thinking along the lines of Degrassi University, a Degrassi inc. (for the former kids entering into sole killing work force), and ultimately a Degrassi retirement community chronicling the former kids twilight years to the grave. I'd renounce my American citizenship and move to Kitchener to be able to watch the continuing saga of Degrassi.
Applause.
>> Well, if Kevin’s interested, he should call our people. I think we're all available.
>> We could probably set it up.
>> It does raise an interesting question, Pat, starting with you. Where do you think your character would be now?
>> Balding.
[Laughter]
>> Just 24 hours a day, just balding.
>> Standing in front of the mirror.
>> Now the five-pin or ten-pin.
>> It's hard to say. They really could do anything with these characters. They're so diverse and interesting. Any of these characters could be doing anything if we were to do a reunion special.
>> Stefan, You must have some idea.
>> You know what. I think he'd be a lawyer with substance abuse problems.
[Laughter]
>> I think that's where it was going.
>> All right. Amanda?
>> Kathy and I discussed that. You know, we'd probably be in the music industry somehow.
>> Bill?
>> I think my guy was still recovering from some, like, mental handicap.
>> Rebecca?
>> Kathleen was such a witch, I think she would have succeeded Mr. Raditch and have become the evil teacher of Degrassi.
>> Kyra.
>> Probably still hanging out with Caitlin and they did the Maya book and put Maya working in a restaurant. She finally gets a boyfriend. Hopefully it would go that route.
>> Siluck?
>> I don't know. Snowboard dude at whistler or something.
[Cheering and applause]
>> Right.
>> Nicole? Nicole what do you think Stephanie would be doing?
>> I was trying to think. Well, I mean, she was sort of -- she was going to a private school. Maybe she's -- and she was very manipulative. She was a good person. I was thinking law, politics… but something corrupt. Definitely corrupt but professional.
>> BLT, what would he be doing?
>> He wouldn't be making BLT sandwiches. Probably a big star in Hollywood with Will Smith just hanging out.
>> Darrin?
>> Well, Dwayne would be dead.
[Laughter]
>> Which is sad but true.
>> Or dead or dying.
>> Because that was one of the first television programs to -- to illustrate the power and the nastiness of aids and HIV.
>> Yes.
>> In fact, you were playing a character that was HIV-positive when there really wasn't that much information about it. What was that like?
>> Interesting. We had a workshop, actually come to the set and speak to us about it, people who are living with HIV, and tell us what it was like. I was part of the workshop program before that last season.
>> Michelle?
>> I think Ms. Avery would have grabbed her favorite student, Caitlin and went off into the blue in a biplane and flown coast to coast.
>> So you've actually thought about this before?
>> I have.
>> Daniel, what would your character be doing?
>> Minister of education in the Harris government.
[Laughter]
[Cheering and applause]
>> That's true. Who has a question? You do. All the way back here. What would be your question for the folks from Degrassi? Just take the mic.
>> This question's for everybody. Would you guys ever think about starting a new series now, like, maybe, Degrassi frat years?
>> Ask Kevin Smith.
>> Send the tape to him.
>> If they let us play -- no, if they let us create our own characters, yeah.
>> You guys are saying you think there's an audience for this?
[Cheering and applause]
>> Well, let me ask you this, and I certainly don't mean any weirdness by asking the question. What does it feel like to be not very old and yet have been a part of something that is legend already? You know, like kind of its kitch appeal because it was ten years ago is really cool.
>> I don't -- I don't think we view it as a legend or, like, we're part of legacy. For us, we were just kids growing up doing a job. It was a wicked job and wicked experience. I don't think we view it, as, you know, we're cool because we were on the show.
>> Such a part of Canadiana and of television in general. You kind of go, really? You don't -- It doesn't click in, really that way. I mean, we obviously are aware, because, you know, we have great fans, that, you know, the show was popular. We don't know this was actually a legendary show. We all appreciate the fact that you guys enjoy the show so much.
[Cheering and applause]
>> And when I say that the demand for this show was overwhelming in the first time in our history there are, like, almost 90 people sitting outside the studio watching it on monitors who could not get into the studio. I want to thank all of you for all the years of entertainment. I think that's very special gift.
[Cheering and applause]
I know the members of our audience are dying to meet face to face with their favorite Degrassi high students. That's it for this one. We'll see you next time, everybody. Thanks for watching.
