Joey-Caitlin Relationship
General Information
Nickname	Jaitlin
Intimacy Level	Ex-Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Ex-Fiance (Sexual)
Started Dating	Twenty Bucks (1st time)
Dating Status	Broken Up (3rd time) Goin' Down The Road (2)

Joey Jeremiah and Caitlin Ryan had an on and off relationship in Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High, and Degrassi: The Next Generation. The relationship between Joey and Caitlin is known as Jaitlin (Joey/Caitlin).

Contents 1 Relationship History 1.1 Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High 1.2 Degrassi: The Next Generation 2 Trivia 3 Gallery

Relationship History

Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High

During The Big Dance, Joey wanted to dance with Stephanie Kaye, but she insisted on dancing with Derek Wheeler. Joey is later seen dancing with Caitlin.

During Pass Tense, Wheels, and Snake were explaining to Joey that grade 8 will become easier for Joey, since he has to go through with it for the second time. Caitlin walks by Joey, Snake, and Wheels and says hello to Joey. Joey says hello back, and starts "checking her out." He then tells Snake and Wheels that Caitlin starts to look more attractive knowing that she will be in his class the following year.

In Can't Live With 'Em (1) Joey asks Snake and Wheels for their opinion on Caitlin, and Snake tells him that she's not his type.

During Can't Live With 'Em (2) after Joey gets beaten up by Wheels, Caitlin asks him if he's alright.

In A Big Girl Now, Caitlin walks by Joey and Wheels and says hello to them (one at a time). Joey brags to Wheels that Caitlin is into him.

During Loves Me, Loves Me Not Caitlin approaches Joey and Archie when they are selling demo tapes for The Zit Remedy she says hi to Joey and pays for a tape, Joey tells her that she has great taste in music, they are then smiling at each other as she leaves. When Mr. Raditch gives Joey and Caitlin's class an assignment on critical thinking. Joey asks Caitlin to work with him on the assignment and Caitlin agrees to do so.
When Joey and Caitlin exit the theater to view the movie seen for their assignment, Joey said he liked the movie and Caitlin said she didn't like it. Joey thought he was stupid for thinking that he liked it, but Caitlin told him that he wasn't stupid and that there was many different kinds of "smart." Caitlin tells him that he's good with people and that she's good with books. Caitlin tells Joey that she had to go home, and Joey offers to walk her. As they reached Caitlin's house, Joey asks her if she's attending the school dance, and Caitlin says she is going. Joey tells her that he'd dance with her. They then agree to do their assignment the next day during lunchtime, and say bye to each other. Caitlin then starts listening to the tape Joey sold her as he leaves.
As Joey and Caitlin were working on their assignment, Joey told Caitlin that if they use her opinions, they'll get a good mark, but Caitlin decided to use both their opinions since she liked the movie, and Joey didn't. They are later seen presenting their assignment. Joey becomes happy when he got an "A" on his assignment. Joey tells Caitlin that she's perfect, and that he's is having trouble with math and asks Caitlin to help her. Caitlin agrees to do so, and he leaves leaving her smiling.
During the dance, Caitlin meets up with Joey all dressed up hoping that he would like her, but she becomes upset when he was asking her if she has seen Liz O'Rourke, he then leaves to meet up with Liz, leaving Caitlin depressed.
Caitlin was seen walking to school when Joey catches up to her. He asks her if she liked the dance, and she said she wasn't having a good time, and that she left early. Joey asks Caitlin to help him with math and she turns him down. Joey becomes upset because he thought Caitlin liked her.

In Twenty Bucks as Joey leaves Archie, he goes up to Caitlin. He asks Caitlin to go out with him, she hesitates and then says yes. Joey then shows up with Caitlin at a restaurant and approaches B.L.T. and Michelle. Caitlin and Michelle leave the table where they were at and went to purchase some beverages. Caitlin finds out about the money that B.L.T. owes Joey for asking her out, and pours coke on Joey. She then storms out of the restaurant and Joey goes after her. He tells Caitlin that he really likes her, and he ripped the $20 bill that B.L.T. gave him. He tells her that he asked her out because he wanted to go out with her. Joey walks away from Caitlin, and Caitlin tells Joey that he could have at least walked her home. They walk over to Caitlin's house together, starting their first relationship.

In Taking Off (1) Joey is seen asking Caitlin to help him with his math homework.

In Taking Off (2) Caitlin asks Joey if he heard the news about Shane.
Near the end of the episode they were talking about triangles. Caitlin then tells Joey that she'll see him later.

During Making Whoopee Joey tells Caitlin not to bring his mother into Raditch's class for Open House. Caitlin tells Joey that his mother is going to want to see/meet his homeroom teacher. Joey tells her to tell his mother that there is no homeroom.
During the Open House Joey introduces Caitlin to his mother.

In Pa-arty! Joey invites Caitlin to Lucy's party.
When Caitlin, Melanie and Kathleen arrive at Lucy's party, Lucy tells them that Joey and Snake haven't arrived yet. Caitlin, Melanie and Kathleen were later disappointed when Joey and Snake didn't show up at Lucy's.

During Bye-Bye, Junior High, Joey tells Caitlin that he wants to attend the Graduation dance with her, but Caitlin assumes that Joey is going to stand her up again. Joey explained how he, Archie and Wheels were caught by the cops. When the fire alarm rang before Joey and Caitlin's class wrote their exam. Joey promises Caitlin that nothing wrong would happen if they went together.
Before Joey and Caitlin wrote their exams, Joey said he had a surprise for Caitlin, but refused to tell her what the surprise was. Later, Caitlin decided to wait for Joey when Mr. Raditch asked Joey to stay behind after class. When Joey exits the classroom, he was upset that he got a C in his French class. He told Caitlin that he couldn't go to the end of the year dance with her, and as he was going to tell her why he couldn't go, she storms off.
Caitlin shows up at the dance and she sees Joey waiting for her with a bouquet of flowers. They both enter the dance floor and comment on how good they look. They are then seen dancing.
As the school was burning down, Caitlin worryingly starts asking around for Joey, while everyone else was panicking. She becomes relieved when Joey finds her.

In A New Start Joey and Caitlin were discussing their timetable, and how she is lost. Joey told her that they'll meet up later as soon as Archie and Wheels arrive.

During Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Caitlin is stoms away from Joey because Joey asked Caitlin to wear a bikini in The Zits music video, and Caitlin replies that a model in a bikini is considered sexist. Joey tells Caitlin that it's not sexist, and that she wore a bikini the past summer, and that she has a great body. Caitlin leaves calling Joey a pig.
Joey is seen eating lunch with Archie and staring at Caitlin as she is having lunch with Claude Tanner instead of him. When Wheels asks Joey what he thinks of the guy talking to his girlfriend, referring to Claude and Caitlin, Joey assumes that she's trying to make him jealous, and Wheels says that she likes Claude. Joey says that he wouldn't be jealous of a guy who can't grow a beard, implying that maybe he is a little jealous, but doesn't want to admit it.

In Dream On After Caitlin was talking to Arthur about their French assignment, Joey meets up with Caitlin and talks about their plans, but Caitlin says "yeah, I guess." Joey assumes that Caitlin is mad at him, and Caitlin said she wasn't mad.

Joey is later seen walking by Caitlin flirting with Claude and looking upset as he sees the both of them giggle.
Arthur and Caitlin meet up with Joey, as well as Archie and Wheels. She tells Joey that she was doing homework with Arthur when she was really going to see some French film with Claude. They then re-schedule their date.

During Everybody Wants Something Joey meets up with Caitlin and discusses the music video with her. Caitlin tells her that it's great news, and she refuses to be in it when Joey asked her to be in it. Joey asked her to go out with him, but Caitlin says no. He is then looking depressed as she leaves.
Caitlin finally decides to end things with Joey because she said they were going in two different directions, and Joey assumed she broke up with him for Claude. He then walks away depressed

In Nobody's Perfect, Mr. Walfish assigns Joey to read a passage from Romeo and Juliet to the class, before he assigns a partner for him, Caitlin volunteers to read with Joey, which upsets him.

Joey is walking down the hallway singing Everybody Wants Something, Caitlin runs into him and asks him when they want to practice their passage. When Joey suggested that they rehearse that day after school, Caitlin says she was busy, and Joey assumed that she was going out with Claude. Caitlin suggested the day after, but Joey blows her off. He then meets up with Archie and Wheels.
Later on, Caitlin asked Joey to practice the dialogue with Joey, Joey agreed to do so, but didn't seem too interested.
Joey & Caitlin were rehearsing the dialogue that Mr. Walfish told them to read. Caitlin asked Joey if she wanted to go back to how they were before they started dating. Joey questions what he did wrong, and convinces her that he can change, but Caitlin says that she didn't want to change anything, and that their relationship is over.

During Testing One, Two, Three... Caitlin sees Joey in the as she finishes buying her lunch. Joey tells her that he heard that she broke up with that other guy and that she likes chewing them up and spitting them out. Caitlin angrily walks away from him.
Joey was sitting in detention after fighting with Dwayne Myers, and he sees Caitlin walking into the room. As Raditch leaves, Joey asks her why she's in detention and she replies she got into a fight (with Claude), Joey makes a sarcastic remark about asking a guy to jump, and Caitlin calls him stupid. Joey tells her that she was right because of his disability, and that he's being put into Special Ed. class. Caitlin tells him that a lot of people are in that class, and Joey tells him that he would rather quit school than to take that class. Caitlin tells him that she has epilepsy and that doesn't stop her, but Joey tells her that she's not stupid, but he is. Caitlin reminds Joey that he isn't stupid, and that dropping out of school was. She also said that he had more guts when they were dating.
During science class, Caitlin smiles at Joey when she hands him his second test.

In It Creeps Joey and Caitlin were acting out their given parts from Lucy's feminist horror film.  During the shooting, of the film, Joey accidently calls Caitlin's character "Caitlin" when her character's name was Debbie.
They are then viewing Lucy's finished film.

In Showtime (2), after Claude's death, Caitlin seems to feel like Claude is haunting her. She tells Joey later in that episode on how Claude said he loved her, and Joey replied that he wanted to hurt her. Near the end of the episode they rekindle. And start dating again in One Last Dance.

In School's Out! Joey bought a ring for Caitlin, and Caitlin accepts it, but not as an engagement ring. They learned that they have different schedules and they were worried they hardly had anytime to spend with each other, but they decided to try to work it out. While Caitlin is working Joey starts to date and have sex with Tessa Campanelli. Near the end of the movie, Caitlin finds out about Joey "fucking" Tessa, and breaks up with him. At Alexa and Simon's wedding she forgives him and they become friends.

Degrassi: The Next Generation

Joey and Caitlin continues their friendship in the first three seasons of Degrassi: The Next Generation.

During U Got The Look, Joey asks Caitlin to borrow the video camera she

used at Spike's baby shower. Caitlin assumed that it was for Angela but it was for Craig's band. Caitlin assumes that Joey was having flashbacks of his old band, The Zit Remedy which included Snake and Wheels. Joey tells Caitlin that he had a lot of fun "jamming" with Craig, Marco, Jimmy and Spinner. Caitlin reminds him that he's not a teenager anymore and Joey said that he thought that he could give them direction.  Joey reminds him that Caitlin thought The Zits were a joke and Caitlin denys it.  Joey said that if his old band had some guidance it would have been different, Caitlin tells him that they should have written more than one song.  She then gives him the camera, and tells him to remember that Craig's band are teenagers. 

In Holiday (1), Caitlin starts to re-develop feelings for Joey, although he's dating Sydney. She tries to get those feelings out of her head, but she instead kisses Joey later in the episode.

In Holiday (2),Spike advises Caitlin to write a letter about her feelings for Joey. Caitlin takes her advice and wrote a letter revealing her feelings. Caitlin accidentally places the letter in Joey's mail slot, and tries to get it back, but ends up getting stuck in his window.
Later in that episode, Joey and Caitlin rekindled their relationship.

In Goin' Down The Road,things have became rocky for Joey and Caitlin, they got into an argument after Joey's stepson, runs away when he was off his bipolar medication. Caitlin goes to Kevin Smith to seek comfort and ends up making out with him. Although Joey doesn't find out that Caitlin kissed Kevin, she and Joey broke up for the final time as Caitlin was going to continue her career in L.A.

Trivia

• Joey and Caitlin were engaged twice.
• Caitlin lost her virginity to Joey.
• They are best friends with another couple, Snake and Spike.
• They were seen in the opening credits in seasons 3-5 of Degrassi: The Next Generation
• They are the longest lasting romantic couple to be followed in the full franchise behind Snake and Spike.

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