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It’s a[nother] Degrassi wedding!

Well, sort of. Well — spoiler alert! — not at all. Though Drew and Bianca journeyed to Vegas intending to get hitched, second thoughts ended up prompting the lovebirds to wait until they can throw a real wedding that doesn’t take place in a cheap, Sin City chapel.

At least Drianca escaped from Vegas with their relationship intact. For a moment, it looked like Drew’s need to get his mother’s approval was going to prompt a lasting breakup. When Audra showed up at the chapel to stop her son from making a big mistake, Bianca bailed, saying that she knew she’d never be enough for Drew. (Wait a tick — I thought Audra told Bianca that she’s the one who’s too good for Drew.) Luckily, musical numbers heal all wounds — all Drew had to do to win Bianca back was don a glittery gold Elvis suit and draft his friends to help him perform a romantic cover of “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” Even the gang’s new drag queen pals got in on the action! The sequence wasn’t quite as amazing as Dallas’s insta-classic “rap-pology,” but I’d still rank it among this season’s sweetest moments.

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As Americans prepare for their Thanksgiving feasts and Canadians prepare for whatever they do in mid-November, the kids of Degrassi Community School are preparing for spring break. Thanks to the magic of television scheduling, Degrassi‘s 12th season concluded tonight by portraying events that occurred in the first half of 2012. (And technically, if the show hadn’t quietly skipped ahead by two years in season 10, it’d actually be depicting events from the spring of 2010 — but who’s counting?)

Despite the slightly jarring time stuff, this finale was a fun, zippy two-parter that wrapped up several storylines while leaving others tantalizingly open. As per usual, the Adam plot — which saw Whisper Hug’s bassist embarking on a new relationship with an Amy Winehouse-coiffed hottie, getting betrayed by said hottie, then rekindling his romance with uber-Christian Becky Baker — was the show’s strongest. At first, New Girl Missy seems seriously cool; she’s not phased even after a cucumber falls out of Adam’s pants mid-makeout session, completely spoiling the mood.

A fairy tale romance? Maybe — except that Adam’s ex, Becky Baker, has popped into his life again. First, she sends him an email that he deletes on principle — but not before those with freeze-frame capabilities can read what it says:

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Now that was 100 percent intense.

One week after asking Dallas to give her a study aid hookup, Alli is so far down the Jessie Spano rabbit hole that she’s popping speed right in the middle of the media immersion lab. The uppers are keeping her awake, but naturally there are downsides — namely, she’s running around Degrassi like the tiniest hulk, freaking out at the slightest provocation, disrupting prom committee meetings, and showing up tweaking at the Torres house in the middle of the night. This is your brain on drugs.

In Alli’s addled mind, the most important thing in the world is getting Dallas and Claire to make nice so that everyone can attend an upcoming Jay-Z concert together. (Side note: I miss when Degrassi would invent fake bands for its characters to worship. Remember Jimmy’s triumphant trip to the Kid Elrick concert in season 4?) Naturally, the only way to accomplish this goal is for Dallas to “rap-pologize” — that’s rap-apologize — to Alli’s BFF in the middle of the caf. This leads to a classic Degrassi moment that’s right up there with the first time Drake ever rapped on the show. Glory in these lyrics:

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