Pride (1)

"You're on a date with one of the coolest girls at Degrassi and you ditched her for your mom's Pasta sauce?! It doesn't make sense..."
— Spinner to Marco

Pride (1) is the fourth episode of Season 3 of the Canadian television series, Degrassi: The Next Generation. It originally aired on October 8, 2003 on CTV Television and on October 17, 2003 on The N. The episode was directed by Phil Earnshaw and shares its title with the song by U2.

Plotline[]

Primary[]

Paige, Spinner, Jimmy, Hazel, Ellie, and Marco are driven to the beach by Paige's brother Dylan, who is openly gay. Ever since Marco secretly came out to Ellie, she's covered for him by pretending she's his girlfriend. But she's had enough, and leaves Marco to then decide whether or not he's ready to trust his friends to accept him for who he really is.

Secondary[]

Snake suddenly develops a mysterious illness, which causes Spike to ask him to stay out somewhere else so that baby Jack will not get sick. Snake staying at Joey's interrupts some of Craig's alone time with Ashley. The sickness Snake has caused him spontaneous bleeding and dizziness.

Overview[]

Ever since Marco secretly came out to Ellie, she's covered for him by pretending she's his girlfriend. But she's had enough, and Marco needs to decide whether or not he's ready to trust his friends to accept him for who he really is.

Cast[]

Regular Cast (Ordered Alphabetically)

Supporting Cast

Absences

Sarah Barrable-Tishauer as Liberty Van Zandt
Daniel Clark as Sean Cameron
Ryan Cooley as J.T. Yorke
Jake Goldsbie as Toby Isaacs
Stacie Mistysyn as Caitlin Ryan
Christina Schmidt as Terri MacGregor
Dan Woods as Daniel Raditch

Music[]

"Higher Learning" by Sam Roberts - Heard during the volleyball game.
"All I Really Want" by The Premiums - Heard when Snake comes over to Joey's.
"Secret Splendor" by Buck 65 - Heard when Dylan goes over to comfort Marco.
"Not Even Close" written by Michele Vice-Maslin & David Kopatz - Heard while Marco, Hazel, Spinner, and Paige are at The Dot.

Quotes[]

Snake: "Achoo."
Emma: "When you gave birth it...it was to a baby not a jet engine, right?"
Spike: "Emma."
Emma: "Jack's all night crying and a drip dry drift of that H water heater. I'm not sleeping."
Snake: "I'm on it."
Spinner: (sees Paige and Dylan checking out hot men) "That's just wrong!"
Jimmy: "What? He's gay. So they do that."
Spinner: "Yeah, but, it's gross! I mean touching another guy and kissing!"
Jimmy: "You were all over Marco just a second ago."
Spinner: "Ha ha, very funny."
Craig: "Okay, so I'm thinking uh, put an to bed at eight. Joey won't get back 'til like at least midnight, and uh we've got the house pretty much to ourselves."
Ashley: "Missing the beach not so bad after."

Trivia[]

This episode is named after the song "Pride" By U2.
This episode marks the first appearances of Jay Hogart, Dylan Michalchuk and The Dot.
The videogame Craig and Snake are playing is "Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding" on XBOX.
Marco comes out to Spinner at the end of this episode.
On the Season 3 DVD Boxset, there's a commentary for this episode with two of the writers, Adamo (Marco), and Shane (Spinner).

Continuity

Marco develops a crush on Dylan.
Ellie tells Marco that she refuses to play the part of his girlfriend this year like she did the previous year.
This episode marks the end of Marco and Ellie's relationship.
Spinner's homophobia is more prominent in this episode.
Snake begins to show symptoms of cancer.
Hazel's crush on Marco from the previous year is mentioned.