When California governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many low-income high schools, he proposes they send the affected students to the highest performing schools in the state - including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the overprivileged Bayside kids a much needed and hilarious dose of reality.
Finished S2. I think I liked it even better than S1.
Agreed!
by mrverene posted 4 years ago
Finished S2. I think I liked it even better than S1.
by TheFizza posted 4 years ago
mrverene wrote:
I haven't watched s2 yet but I thought s1 was absolutely pitch perfect for my purposes. Should note that I was never an unironic fan of the original though.
It's more of what S1 was but with the addition of a 'Zack Morris' here and a 'Kelly Morris' there :cool:
by mrverene posted 4 years ago
I haven't watched s2 yet but I thought s1 was absolutely pitch perfect for my purposes. Should note that I was never an unironic fan of the original though.
by lighton posted 4 years ago
I had added it to my watchlist when it was announced, but the IMDb rating isn't that promising...
For a series which boasts only 100 episodes (including the Good Morning, Miss Bliss season) the staying power of Saved by the Bell seems outrageous... including 2 TV movies and an additional 14 episode run of the The College Years as well as a mostly recast sequel series sub-titled The New Class premiering in 1993 and lasting for a whopping 7 seasons with a total of 143 episodes. The only hold-overs in The New Class however were Principal Belding (Dennis Haskins) and, starting with the second season, Screech Powers (Dustin Diamond) as a teacher.
Almost since it began Saved by the Bell had been in syndicated repeat, continuing to this day, so even though The New Class ended in 2000 the franchise hasn't been off of TV (in one incarnation or another), for any significant time in over 30 yrs. Meanwhile, in 2006 Cartoon Network's Adult Swim announced that a Saved by the Bell reunion would air at midnight as a two-week special... that turned out to be a joke. But then cast members Haskins, Diamond, Gosselaar, Voorhies, and Lopez came together in 2008 to do their own voices in a Saved by the Bell parody for Robot Chicken.
A year later Late Night with Jimmy Fallon launched a campaign to get the cast on board for an actual Saved by the Bell reunion. As many know Dennis Haskins, Lark Voorhies, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar agreed to reunite on Late Night which came about on June 8, 2009. That hype lead to the the cast reuniting in August of '09 for a photo shoot in People. Then in 2015 the cast appeared on a skit on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, though Voorhies and Diamond did not appear.
Even in-between all of these nostalgic appearances many of the original cast of Saved by the Bell have been around or in the popular consciousness... whether it be hosting game shows, appearing in Dancing with the Stars, or just big on the midnight movie screenings scene or, like Mark-Paul Gosselaar did with Mixed-ish, heading back to the place they cut their teeth as actors, the sit-com.
As such it was far from unexpected to see a revival of this oddly beloved long lasting series... however what we got with Saved by the Bell (2020) is something else... a clash of real life issues and grounded characters with surreal humor, a ridiculous amount of 4th wall breaking and oft times magical realism causing a sort of cognitive dissonance hilarity.
P.S. For those who don't know there are also 21 novelizations based on the show, a comic book series and a number of unauthorized parody musicals (Dustin Diamond & Dennis Haskins have even made appearances in some of them).
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Agreed!
It's more of what S1 was but with the addition of a 'Zack Morris' here and a 'Kelly Morris' there :cool:
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For a series which boasts only 100 episodes (including the Good Morning, Miss Bliss season) the staying power of Saved by the Bell seems outrageous... including 2 TV movies and an additional 14 episode run of the The College Years as well as a mostly recast sequel series sub-titled The New Class premiering in 1993 and lasting for a whopping 7 seasons with a total of 143 episodes. The only hold-overs in The New Class however were Principal Belding (Dennis Haskins) and, starting with the second season, Screech Powers (Dustin Diamond) as a teacher.
Almost since it began Saved by the Bell had been in syndicated repeat, continuing to this day, so even though The New Class ended in 2000 the franchise hasn't been off of TV (in one incarnation or another), for any significant time in over 30 yrs. Meanwhile, in 2006 Cartoon Network's Adult Swim announced that a Saved by the Bell reunion would air at midnight as a two-week special... that turned out to be a joke. But then cast members Haskins, Diamond, Gosselaar, Voorhies, and Lopez came together in 2008 to do their own voices in a Saved by the Bell parody for Robot Chicken.
A year later Late Night with Jimmy Fallon launched a campaign to get the cast on board for an actual Saved by the Bell reunion. As many know Dennis Haskins, Lark Voorhies, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar agreed to reunite on Late Night which came about on June 8, 2009. That hype lead to the the cast reuniting in August of '09 for a photo shoot in People. Then in 2015 the cast appeared on a skit on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, though Voorhies and Diamond did not appear.
Even in-between all of these nostalgic appearances many of the original cast of Saved by the Bell have been around or in the popular consciousness... whether it be hosting game shows, appearing in Dancing with the Stars, or just big on the midnight movie screenings scene or, like Mark-Paul Gosselaar did with Mixed-ish, heading back to the place they cut their teeth as actors, the sit-com.
As such it was far from unexpected to see a revival of this oddly beloved long lasting series... however what we got with Saved by the Bell (2020) is something else... a clash of real life issues and grounded characters with surreal humor, a ridiculous amount of 4th wall breaking and oft times magical realism causing a sort of cognitive dissonance hilarity.
P.S. For those who don't know there are also 21 novelizations based on the show, a comic book series and a number of unauthorized parody musicals (Dustin Diamond & Dennis Haskins have even made appearances in some of them).