in the earlier part of this decade, the canadians bestowed a tv gem to the inhabitants of the north american continent (well, the english-speaking ones, at least) called degrassi: the next generation. it was a soap opera starring middle schoolers. it was awesome. it's tagline was "degrassi: it goes there."
and it honestly did cover an impressive range of territory: homosexuality, self-injury, eating disorders, cocaine addiction, etc. one of the places it went, among many (obviously), was a school shooting, which was the result of excessive bullying of this weirdo who was dating and also abusing the overweight girl that everyone liked. the target was jimmy brooks, or wheelchair jimmy, and it left him paralyzed from the waist down (including his boner, as we learned in a later episode).
here are two really shitty clips to refresh or introduce those who are unfamiliar with the incredible poignancy of this series. the first the scene is the epic moment where ricky, the abusive, armed psycho shoots jimmy. the second is a scene in which jimmy's best friend (douche), spinner, admits that he was the reason that ricky shot him. the terrible synchronization of voices and mouths truly gives the second clip a little something extra.
i stopped watching the show a few years ago. around the time when spinner was trying to deflower the hot christian and manny was showing her tits all over the place.
when i think about it, i can recall wheelchair jimmy wanting to pursue a music career in real life, but i naturally thought this was never going to happen. well, i was wrong. wheelchair jimmy is a rapper now, going by the moniker of drake, which is not his real name (aubrey graham). wheelchair jimmy would have been a better stage name. drake seems a little random, kind of like his successful rap career.
he has, like, eight different collaborations with lil wayne. one of which is entitled "every girl," the chorus to which is, "i wish i could fuck every girl in the world." this is coming from WHEELCHAIR JIMMY out of toronto, CANADA. i can't even count how many times i have heard this boy say the word "pussy" at this point in my life. but his star is on the rise, and i bet i will hear him say it countless times more.
what i'm trying to say is: good for you, jimmy brooks, for getting out of your wheelchair and canada and melodramatic television and into the pants of what sounds like a plethora of women.
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Yeah I heard he is dating Rihanna now or some gay shit like that. I like that you refer to him as Wheelchair Jimmy. this is both politically incorrect and offensive, and one of the main things I love about you, and I just want you to know that when the paraplegic's of the world come zooming after to you. I'll rescue you in my car because four wheels go faster than two.
I also just realized that my last two lines could be a sentence in a song. I think my rapper name will be something equally random like...Mandarin.
i appreciate your support. i think mandarin is a great rapper name. but... don't wheelchairs also have four wheels?
lol I actually had to google image "wheelchair" and I started laughing so hard. I guess the other wheels are so small I didn't even count them, but then I imagined a wheelchair with just two wheels and the poor paralyzed people just sliding right off whenever they tried to sit on it. Wheelchair Jimmy wouldn't like that. /sigh
i just laughed out loud at both this post as well as the comments between you two. i had to think a lot to decide whether or not wheelchairs had four wheels, i didnt want to look at the picture without a firm decision on what i thought.
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