Welcome to Late Night Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past!  On Sunday, I will be reviewing the Canadian series, Degrassi: The Next Generation, which aired from 2001 to 2015!  The series can be streamed on YouTube and Tubi.

This week, it’s all about uniforms and palms.

Episode 2.17 “Relax”

(Dir by Laurie Lynd, originally aired on August 8th, 2003)

Eh, it’s a Liberty episode.

Liberty is upset when she doesn’t make the girls’ hockey team.  However, she is appointed to be their equipment manager and, as was always the case with Liberty, she immediately allows the least bit of power and responsibility to go to her head.  Realizing that the girls need new uniforms, Liberty goes to Joey Jeremiah and asks him to sponsor them.  Joey is willing …. except, he’s already sponsoring the boys’ team and he can’t afford to sponsor both.  Liberty challenges the boys’ team to a game.  The winner gets Joey’s sponsorship.

Needless to say, Coach Liberty (she puts on a cape to make sure everyone knows that she’s in charge) pushes the girls too hard and forgets that sports should be fun.  At halftime, the girls tell Liberty that they’ll only continue playing if Liberty isn’t out on the court.  Liberty agrees.  The girls don’t win but Joey is so impressed with their determination that he sponsors them anyway.  It would be nice to say that Liberty learns a lesson from all this but I’ve binged Degrassi enough times to know that Liberty never learns a lesson from anything.

Meanwhile, Terri freaks out when she misreads Paige’s palm and becomes convinced that Paige is going to die.  Paige takes advantage of the situation.  Good for Paige.  Terri has never been particularly intelligent but this episode takes the proverbial cake.