Shark Bytes

This show "is like this little generational secret that's hyperfamiliar to people born between 1980 and 1987, yet generally unremarkable to anyone born after (and completely alien to all those born before.)" -Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Just got season 1-4 for Christmas. How could anybody NOT like this show? The delicious nonsense of the late 80s and early 90s runs rampant, the fact that fat jokes are abundant, and all nerds dress like the nerdiest nerds since nerds came to nerd town (with the exception of Screech, who inexplicably is exempt from THe Gang's Nerd Hate). The fact that The Gang is usually the only members of every student group (Student Government, sports teams, etc) and that Belding is CONSTANTLY in need of THEIR assistance. Everything about this show was so ludacris, so full of everything that made 80s sitcoms great, how could anybody take any part of it seriously, and moreso, how could those of us born from 1980-1987 expect those before or after to understand?

Not liking the Jessie on drugs episode? COME ON!!!! SHE GOT ADDICTED TO NO DOZE AND SHOWED SIGNS OF METH ADDICTION! Caffine as a really subtle cover for an episode about meth? BRILLIANT! Keeping preteens from Mountain Dew was the best thing they could have done! Kelly(!5, MAYBE 16) dumping Zack for her manager at The Max (Had to be at least 21, by the math of the show) and NOBODY commenting that the relationship was illegal in every way (but her at 15 hanging out with an 11 year old when they worked at the beach resort was OUT OF THE QUESTION!!!).

And much like with Batman:TAS(mid 90s) and THe Batman (early 00s) being judged as the same show, you're all MORONS if you judge Saved By The Bell based on Saved BY The Bell : The New Class, SBTB:College YEars, or Hawiian Style, or WEdding In Vegas. Different names, theme songs, writers, producers, STARS, DIFFERENT FLIPPIN SHOWS YOU MORONS! Do you retards also judge Star Trek by contrast to Star Trek Voyager? MORONS, ALL OF YOU!

And yeah, maybe the show jumped when Kelly and Jessie had to exit screen . . . left to be replaced by Bikey McTori. That was kinda lame.

Why real life sometimes works: the nerds that this show vilified are now running the world (imagine how they would have treated Bill Gates in this idiotic excuse for entertainment). And the studs who were worshiped now all work at the Walmart Tire Exchange. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!

Wait a minute. Did they not lipsync sometimes? Were they not lipsyncing in the episode when they had they sock hop? They were at The Max, and when it was time to order, they sang their orders to Ginger the dumb blonde waitress. I think they were lipsyncing.

Hi. I am new. I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but do you remember when they were doing a swimsuit calender, and Mr. Belding was Miss December? Talk about disgusting. And don't even get me started on Zack.

They were so many girls in the whole damn school. Did the calender only have to feature the girl's swimteam? So just because there were only 11 girls on the swim team, they use a picture of a freaking man, to make it up? Ugh.

If you really sit back and think about all the **** these kids did....they should all be locked up in prison for a very long time. What an absolute HORID bunch of people they are.

This show was terrible. Zack's hair was disgusting.

i wish tory would have died in that earthquake she sucked big time

New Class is a completely different shows and should be removed. So is College Years.

The Show either jumped when Screech (like Homer or Michael Scott) got really, really, really stupid to the point of acting mentally handicapped (Season 4).

Or when Zack broke up with Kelly (end of Season 2).

I can't believe what I'm reading here. This show was a piece of crap. It was never funny.

The message that this show sent out to kids was a very bad one. The constant putting down of "nerds". the reinforcement of the good looking kids running the school. The teenage hottie, Kelli wearing what amounted almost nothing.
How about how the teachers and principal were portrayed? One was a clown, all the teachers were either deaf, blind, or oblivious to these 5 kids running the school.

Zack is the mimbo at Bayside. He first dates Kelly, has possible feelings for Jessie, tries to run his game on Slater's sister, goes after Lisa and then Tori.

I'm surprised he didn't go after Kelly's little sister, Jaime!

I can't believe they made a 'new class'. Is anyone even brave enough to admit they watched that crappy remake? The only clip I ever saw of it was Zack, Lisa and Slater showing up to save Bayside, and their appearances were the only thing getting the audience hyped.

Let's face it, the show well and truly ended when Zack and Kelly got married. That's the perfect ending because the show was pretty much centred on their relationship even when they weren't together. Anything beyond that, without the original cast, is jumping the shark.

How is this even up for discussion? The fact that virtually nobody even talks about "The New Class" on a board about when shows go to hell says it all. Most people didn't even see the New Class it was so horrible. That's the obvious shark-jumping moment. Can anyone even name any of the pathetic Zach-clones they tried? Wasn't one named Skunk or Rat or something? From what little I could stomach of the New Class, it was basically a constantly rotating cast of pretty, no-talent, uninteresting robots trying to rehash old episodes. The fact that Screech was still on the show years after all the other kids graduated as some sort of Mr. Belding ball-washer was the saddest thing I've ever seen on broadcast television.

It's a stupid show. The main message of Saved By The Bell is "If you are not pretty enough, you are nothing". They used way too many stereotypes. I don't think teenagers should watch it, unless you are the most popular girl in school.

I loved the show, i watched it every saturday on NBC and then when it went to TBS i watched it everyday. i had a huge crush on mark paul gosselaar, i had to buy his doll when they came out. As for lark voorhies and mark paul dating, i heard they dated from 1989-1992. the site i saw that on (i think it was imdb.com) didn't mention him dating the other girls just her, but ya never know.