damn thats true i almost forgot he said that

He doesn't say anything to Emma though when Rick is killed in front of her, which I feel would have been a strong bonding moment between the two.

Meghan O'Brien but Rick didn't die by suicide

Rick accidentally killed himself while fighting over the gun.

needles1987 Sean shot him, or at least that was Sean said

This is why I love Degrassi. I watched Degrassi the next generation when it first came out in 2001 with my cousin and sister. Now watching the original.

exactly. She was setting boundaries but he wasn't respecting them

@@quinoasongs2507 not to mention he nothing but trouble to them

@@corduerorose9747 here is the thing why she wants nothin to do with him they dated yes but when u leave your gf out to dry and she gets caught vandalizing a building yea that will cause anybody with a brain and common sense to go yea never again it was a punk move on his part how u talk all that shhhhh and yet 5 0 comes u leave and dont even take your girl with u so she doesnt get caught

I agree, Caitlin said the relationship was over and she meant it.

@@quinoasongs2507 he's was bad luck to her after that raid innocent

How come

I am guessing it helped him rethink about his life and himself in the world and stop him from committing suicide. I would know as i also was going to attempt suicide at 17, but then a song came on my playlist and helped me stop myself from putting my head into that noose.

it aired in 1991! you could of saved your life a year earlier

@@jamessollazzo4860 they probably weren't suicidal then. Get a grip.

@@jamieerickson8009 go pet our therapy dog!

He had become jaded/dogmatic at that point alas the Breakfast Club episode when Snake came back from chemo

Guess he got too complacent

Imagine if shep was the principal instead raditch! Shep will be like since he’s not a jock or popular student that’s one less person for me in this school.

starfox Unfortunately, the Claude Tanners of today's world probably would've went on a school shooting rampage; back then when this episode aired something like that would've been unheard of. I remember when this 1st aired, it was a big deal that a student would actually consider self-harm as means of dealing with their personal problems.

Same here, I knew when I first saw this, that Claude was going to shoot himself. Never would enter my mind of him shooting up the school in the 80's.

Same thing in "The Breakfast Club." There's a scene where Anthony Michael Hall's character pulls a gun out of his bag. They all freak out. I assumed that they thought he was going to shoot people, but then their conversation indicated that they were all worried that he was suicidal. Things have changed.

Good point. Does show how times can change as now we have to worry about school shootings and school suicides are rarely talked about/headlined.

reubenthetadpole he never actually took it out he only talked about it

and sirens at like 6:15

I think that is just random sounds like someone move something on their desk or their chair. Just a coincidence.

Skorp Saiyan nah it's like right before Snake says can he go to the bathroom. You gotta listen real closely

I never noticed it until someone here mentioned it, and I've watched this episode several times.

At 3:24 you can hear it

They are in too much pain to the point physical pain doesn’t matter and they become numb

If one despises that person, then there's absolutely no need to understand or to care how much pain they feel.

There is no pain and only instant death but jumping off a building is insane, I was close to it but something inside stopped me

@@alvyy8510 Jumping off a building may not kill your immediately or not at all depending on the height and how lucky you are.

@@alvyy8510glad you didn’t do , you’re worth something you might not feel that way but you are

If you listen carefully to the audio between 3:23 and 3:25, you actually hear Claude's gun go off in the distance. It's quite haunting actually.

Wheels probably would have stolen everything from his corpse

When it shows Snake's class and everyone laughs you can hear a popping noise

Right after Alexa says 'That's all I had to say'

WerewolfMorgue I remember watching it when it 1st aired & can't recall hearing the actual gunshot; but just now, yes, you can hear the actual sound of the gun going off. Makes you wonder though how no one in the school heard the gun go off; granted everyone was busy in class & probably distracted, but if this happened today you can bet everyone would've heard & quite possibly the school would've had to enter Lockdown until they had the situation under control....

ckendall67 Pedestrian Effect. People probably heard it, but thought, "someone else will deal with it, I won't worry."

It's such a great detail.

They did it on purpose! Especially with choosing Sean the bad boy for her and her step-dad being a teacher

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO

Scott never really got a comeuppance for that. Yes, he was dumped, arrested and charged but he only got probably community service/suspended sentence/probation (probably cried like a bitch in court and it was probably his 1st offence, first he'd been caught for). At worst he was just pushed into the background with Patrick et al!

Yeah, so interesting that it was Scott of all people saying that.

Bruh you win this comment section

And then he gets arrested for child pornography.

3:24

For some people at first you're not thinking that it's a dead body

I think it would be normal to ask if someone is ok if you see them lying on the floor & blood.

Crazy but yet these days very true with bullying at an all time high it's mandatory now

Nowadays, he would probably try to take as many other people out with him. Sadly, that seems to be the way of things now

Just do it Claude!

Yes. It struck me as weird that he walked down the hall with the gun openly. But then I thought, maybe he is hoping that he will be stopped.

Why did no one react it was loud enough but thanks for marking it

MsMogosBig Bumps ty

just now noticed that!

ive discharged many firearms and that was definitely not the sound of it.

It wasn't that loud and two it could have easily just been written off a slammed locker.

+Nicole Cunha I laughed hard when I read that.

hahahahahaha Lmao

Tia Alexandria SHE WASN'T MAKING FUN OF SUICIDE SHE WAS MAKING FUN OF HOW THE SCENE WAS SCRIPTED AND HOW DUMB THE LINE WAS DUHHH GAWD FUCK ON UP OUTTA HERE WITH THAT WHITE KNIGHT SHIT ANYHOW!

Tia Alexandria can be, its just an offensive one.

Claude was a self absorbed, pretentious coward! The writers made him too pathetic for anyone to care.

William Morrison that's Raditch I can't believe this

6:01 you can also hear the ambulance and police cars coming for the corpse ☠

@@corduerorose9747 Yes that's right. A truly tragic episode.

How could no one hear or react to that?

I´m pretty sure it was . by the way what year did this epidoe air?

Final Limits 1991

kewl.....

that Datsun is expensive now

Claude would never hurt Caitlin . I don’t think you understood the episode. Claude was upset about his home life he had nothing against the kids at school. Claude turned to Caitlin to find a Measure of Happiness when Caitlin wanted nothing to do with Claude he became so sad that he died inside.

that might of been a good ending to the series!

Um....this was filmed shortly after Marc Lepine went on his Polytechnique shooting rampage in Montreal with a Mini 14. The deadliest school shooting in Canadian history

So true!

+WerewolfMorgue I don''t agree.Claude was unstable since a long time and he would have committed suicide even without Caitlin.She isn't responsible for that come on! This guy obviously had problems in the series..he should have been helped.He was affected because his parents divorced and that he hated his dad,that's the real cause! I feel bad for him but he had trouble before meeting Caitlin.

Yeah I mean, I even understood his point of view. His parents were coming down on him, he didn't want to evoke his father's wrath with the whole vandalizing thing. My brother and my dad were like that. They just hated each other and my dad constantly bullied him. His dad could have been violent, they never addressed that. Realistically, it probably wasn't even about Caitlin, but I think it's fascinating that she made it all about her. The guy had isolated himself from his friends, was isolated from his parents, the school, the students of Degrassi-are these not warning signs?? Sometimes people are just too oblivious to understand the warnings signs because they do NOT care for their fellow man. We already know that Raditch doesn't always notice these things, he missed the warning signs with Rick.

Felix The Cat Well Principal R basically set Rick up for failure and ignored all the signs...he let Rick back into the school knowing he was hated by many wrathful kids and basically told him to “man up” instead of cracking down on bullying and providing punishment.

What?! Nooooo I'm not even that far in on TNG 😫

Well, next time you come across a body with its head freshly blown off, I'm sure you'll be the epitome of coolness.

+★ Froggie Animation ★ Not really. There are a lot of reasons why you can collapse and bleed without being dead.

+★ Froggie Animation ★ I think snake asked him if he was alright before he saw the half-head.

@Titanhydro0 very true though

daisyladii what did he do?

yaitana ruby valladares If I can remember, he left Caitlyn when she got caught on a fence because they were caught vandalizing a building.

+Jen Saw Because he left his girlfriend hanging to get the blame for so that makes him an asshole.

@@choloyolo8522 And he said he was not afraid to get caught

@@ericburns9132 b.s.

They probably didnt do that back then

The 80s was a different simpler time compared to today's correctness & post 911 security.

Columbine hadnt happened yet

Not to mention the fact that the student with the gun is not exactly able to make any further use of it.

If you continue watching this episode, the school is closed for the rest of the day and there are cops in the halls.

@@gordroberge3824 correctness???

Yes they were

Only Claude was in over his head in being a revolutionary while Rick had issues that could've been solved had he not been volatile with Terri snowballing into the events of Time Stands Still

***** Yeah that's what I'm saying, nobody hears it.

+punisherthunder It seemed like a shot was being fired during the class, and nobody reacted to it. If you have heard gunfire, you can mistake the sounds as being the sounds of firecrackers, and think nothing of it. I would not have reacted either, other than to acknowledge a banging sound in the distance, subconsciously.

UnSubRocky Degrassi Jr. High was the purest form of the series. That crap they shill today is filled with too much trendy teen angst. Nothing is real anymore.

***** I get the update to things. Like in TNG, the internet, sexting, gays, etc. But there just a hit point when it was pure teen drama nonsense. Nothing was genuine.

***** Season 9? Whoa, I was gonna say the show jumped the shark with Rick's school shooting.

and there's something in the previews of "Alexa is thining of breaking up with Simon" but nothing is shown about that. Those who know their whole story know that if that were the case, it would've been a "last test" because they stay together, got married in the School's Out movie, and in the reunion in The Next Generation are shown as still married, with 2 kids and another on the way.

Things were WAY different back then. Kids used to bring guns and knives to school all the time. I was in a video editing class when I was in high school and we would watch old video projects from the past. We watched one from 1990 where kids were running around the school "Shooting" each other with fake guns. Another kid made a short James Bond movie in the school where he and his friends were "shooting" each other with real guns. I also remember a kid bringing in his knife collection for show and tell

Nintendog140 whos dead what are you takking about?

Because he became out of touch and the writers had to make him that way to write him off and install Hatz as the new interim Principal

If you are Canadian, the government will do it for you

I can't even disagree. Jt death in the next generation and Adam Torres too. But this definitely was darker. Crazy how till now I never spotted this episode. I watched quite a few DJH and DH reruns myself.

+Vanessa “Alwyzshy16” Ralston not exactly the same though, rick didn't kill himself, but yeah it's sorta similar

CrazyonABBAandHEART pretty sure Rick killed himself

nope, he and sean struggled over the gun and it went off.

He left her behind at a nuclear plant and he wouldn’t attend court with her because it was on a school day

Not necessarily the entire building. These old schools are built with thick cinderblock walls and heavy doors. Both are good at insulating sound. .45ACP is a loud but subsonic cartridge that lacks the loud crack(sonic boom) of a faster cartridge like 9mm.