Just In Time to See the Bus Fly By: Saved by the Bell
Principals Are Cool.
Try to listen to this song and not think MJ Fox Johnny B. Goode Style.
I still remember where I was the day I heard that Mark Paul Gosselaar died in a motorcycle crash…unfortunately, I also remember where I was the day I saw Dustin Diamond smear his poo on some nice lady’s upper lip. The Davis’s parents were soooo embarassed that I caught them watching it. Especially with The Davis in the room.
2 completely different experiences, yet both made me uncomfortable and sad. Fortunately, only one of those turned out to be true.
This show was a staple in my 6th – 8th grade TV repertoire, and it was pretty awesome. I was like any kid in those grades. I did not want to be sitting in a classroom, but when school was over; I had no qualms about racing home to WATCH kids sit in a class room.
I couldn’t wait to be a high schooler. Stealing money for secret spaghetti sauces, fashion shows, student-teacher swap week, popular geeks, brick phones and experimenting with mediocre non addictive drugs.
I knew that one day, I too could hook up with a hot wheelchair bound teen filled with angst if I was smooth enough on the volunteer teenline.
Timeout. I’m going to break the fourth wall here and talk to just the readers.
Save By The Bell wasn’t high school. There are no fashion shows or wheelchairs. Your principal is a dick and taking caffiene pills sounds like a pretty boring Friday night.
Time in.
Even though the show isn’t a realistic depiction of what high school was like, it still rocked my Saturday mornings. We all remember the later years: The College Years w/ Bob Golic, the shitty spin off they called “The New Class”, that lesbian tori, even a few tv movies, but nothing warms you up like the original.
The whole crew is still around:
- Zack Morris didn’t die
- AC Slater enjoys dancing and hot showers
- Screech discovered some of life’s finer things
- Lisa Turtle still has crappy 90′s fashion sense
- Jessie Spano is STILL a feminist
- And Kelly Kapowski…well Kelly is just plain hot.
The whole gang appears to be happy and doing well, which means we at STWC are happy. But remember: There’s No Hope With Dope…..or highly concentrated caffeine pills.
Let’s hear about some of the most memorable episodes. The most recent one in my memory is when Zack hooks up with the lady in a wheel chair after talking to her on the teen line. Best Zack Morris line of the episode: Excuse me, could you slouch down a little bit, my date is in a wheel chair.
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