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.

It’s a nice day for a white wedding!

Episodes 2.12 and 2.13 “White Wedding”

(Dir by Bruce McDonald, originally aired on January 6th, 2003)

Snake and Spike get married!

Of course, there’s some drama on the way.  How much drama?  Let’s count.

1. Spike discovers that she’s pregnant and doesn’t tell Snake because she’s not sure if she wants to keep the baby.
2. Emma is upset when she finds out that Spike is thinking about getting an abortion.  She’s even more upset when her perm goes terrible wrong and she ends up looking like Harpo Marx.
3. Lucy and Caitlin show up to help Spike get ready for the wedding.
4. Joey throws a bachelor party for Snake.  Craig suggests that Joey should hire a stripper, despite Snake not wanting a stripper.  Joey agrees because he thinks it will be funny.
5. Why did Craig suggest that Joey hire a stripper?  Because JT and Toby begged him to.  However, when JT and Toby dress up like they’re on Miami Vice and show up for the bachelor party, Joey tells them to go home.
6. Mr. Raditch shows up for the bachelor party.  “Oh, cheese balls!” he says when he looks at the food that’s been laid out.
7. Emma tells Snake that Spike is pregnant.  Snake gets mad that Spike didn’t tell him.
8. Spike tells Emma that it’s her right to get an abortion if she chooses and then says that she’s not going to make the same mistake twice.  Uhmmm …. wow, Spike.  That’s a really stupid thing to say to your daughter.
9. Emma eventually forgives Spike.  I would not.
10. Eventually, with everyone at the church waiting, Spike and Snake talk and decide to keep the baby.  Then, they get married!
11. Manny invites Sean to the wedding.  Emma freaks out and Manny has to retract the invitation.  But then Emma eventually invites Sean herself.  At the end of the episode, at the reception, Emma and Sean have their first kiss.  Apparently, it was Miriam McDonald’s first kiss as well.  Awwww!

This episode is classic Degrassi.  It’s also one of the best-known episodes because Nickelodeon used to repeat it constantly.  Yay for Snake and Spike!  And yay for Emma!  Who wouldn’t want their single mother to marry one of their teachers?

Okay, I don’t think anyone would want that.  Still, it worked out well for the show.