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Quick! What teen uncover spins stories about premarital sex, happy panic, pregnancy scares and bullying and mostly facilities behaving that ranges from ideal to ideally atrocious?

You didn’t answer “Glee.” You’re too intelligent for that.

It can usually be a Canadian play “Degrassi,” that recently returned for a 12th deteriorate on TeenNick (new episodes Monday by Thursday during 10 p.m.).

The new deteriorate has introduced a slew of new students to a high propagandize of a same name, bringing a series of expel members in a opening credits adult to 27, that contingency set a record for a prime-time show.

It also gives “Degrassi” a feel of a genuine school, as cliques and -rivalries form and shift. No matter where we fell on a propagandize recognition scale, from jock to hipster to nerd, you’ll find someone we can describe to. If you’re wearied by somebody (I’m looking during you, Clare), wait a notation and someone some-more engaging will cocktail up.

The show’s lovely miss of moralizing is offset by one pervasive message, frequency stated: Actions have consequences. On “Degrassi,” they can be life-shaking.

Earlier this month, Drew (Luke Bilyk) got drunk, mislaid his decency to his ex, didn’t remember a impulse of it and afterwards started flitting out. Turns out he is pang from presumably long-term cognitive repairs from prior concussions (long story).

Or, simply put: Have premarital sex, remove your mind.

On “Degrassi,” kismet is a ulti-mate Mean Girl.

“Glee” could learn a lot from “Degrassi,” generally in traffic with aging stars. About 4 seasons ago, “Degrassi” attempted following some renouned graduates into college, though a stories choked a stroke of a show, something that “Glee” will have to be heedful of subsequent season.

Part of a fun of “Degrassi” is scouting out rising stars and those we design to be operative grill stations in a few years. -Notable alums embody “Vampire Diaries” star Nina -Dobrev and rapper Drake, who, as -Aubrey Graham, spent 8 seasons on a show.

The one green note so distant this deteriorate is a further of a supposed Christian impression named Becky (Sarah Fisher), a conniving extremist perplexing to shiver a propagandize low-pitched since it facilities gays. TeenNick’s assembly deserves some-more than a cliche.

But “Degrassi” excels in a tiny moments, a small though frequency pardonable indignities of high school: cello actor Maya -(Olivia Scriven) mocked for being “flat”; Zig (Ricardo Hoyos) wanting to stir his partner and stealing that he’s poor; play geek Tristan (Lyle O’Donohoe) laughed during when he tries to eat with a renouned athletes.

For those good past their high propagandize years, there’s still something immensely gratifying about examination a “flat girl” get some well-deserved punish on a reticent jock.