Saved By the Bell: The New Class

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welcome to the 24th episode of the Telecast brought

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continuing our kids sitcom block with the last

of our series of Saved by the Bell entries and

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to talk about that today is none other than TFG1

Mike. Hello. Hello, yes, there's 11 episodes

left in season one of the telecast. Yes, and

we're only we're under 10 for actual like regular

episodes So well yeah, but I'm winding down Before

you continue that thought let's uh, I know listeners

in on what the two of us will be talking about

That's right folks. We are talking about Saved

by the Bell the Rejects. I mean the new class

and before we get too far into our discussion

here's some quick background information on the

new class. It debuted in 93 as Saved by the Bell

Classic was ending and simultaneously with Saved

by the Bell the college years as far as when

they're starting. Ran from 93 to 2000 on NBC.

It's a 30 minute show and it lasted Seven did

I see that right? Yes seven seasons and a hundred

and forty three Episodes for those you that don't

know what saved by the bell the new classes basically

take saved by the bell classic Change all the

characters into new characters and try to continue

with what they were doing same formula same Few

other things but uh, it's basically a complete

spin -off ripoff of saved by the bell classic

so Let's start this trainwreck right away. What

are all your sighs for, Mike? What do you remember

about the show? Why does this series exist? Well,

to answer that question, basically the creator

of Saved by the Bell and all those people said,

we have a problem. Saved by the Bell is super

popular. We need to keep this going. Anybody

have ideas? And they had two ideas. Let's do

a spinoff and let's do a sequel. or whatever

you want to call it. So they came up with the

idea of doing the college years where they follow

the kids into college and at the same time let's

keep going with the high school just with new

students. So that's why we have these two because

Zach and all them had to grow up. See, we've

already covered college years. College years

was awesome. College years was great. This fucking

sucks. So they were 50 -50 out of there. What

do we do with the Saved by the Bell franchise?

They got half of it right and half of it awfully

wrong. I would say it's more like 90 -10. So

to all those, before you give your other thoughts,

to all those people that are wondering why or

where the hate's coming from, the only people

that like this show, I'm going to go out on a

limb here, are people who grew up on it, who

did not know - And people that didn't know about

the original show. Who did not know what Saved

by the Bell classic was because Saved by the

Bell, the original show, not Good Morning Miss

Bliss, but Saved by the Bell, the original show.

Oh, yeah. is is about a thousand times better

than this and you the only way you can like this

is if you didn't know the other one existed in

my opinion you know so there's your spoiler alert

we are going to hate this episode yes the this

episode is going to be be filled with what with

hate um challenge out there though if people

are upset with my hate all i'm asking is for

them to send donate DVDs of the later seasons

not season one but anything season two and above

For this this series send them to me and I'll

give them a watch and maybe I'll change my mind

So that's the challenge if you like this show

prove me wrong send me DVDs Yeah What are your

thoughts? Okay What was the original air date

for the very first episode? Do you know off the

top of your head? I know it was 93, but... It

was the fall of 93, I believe. See, the thing

of it is, is... Like, say... What they should

have done was... I know college years only lasted

one year, right? 93 to 94? Right. They should

have waited for this series until 94. So Screech

could have aged another year and they could have

put him in some sort of role in the new class

with like, as some sort of guidance, not guidance,

not guidance, I don't know if anybody wants guidance

from Screech, but some sort of like non -teaching

role but still working at the school, maybe -

He could have ran the max. Huh? He could have

ran the max. The Screech, lovely. Yeah, he could

have been in charge of something like that. He

shouldn't have been in school though. But, I

mean, something where Screech was teaching a

new generation or something like that, what they

had him doing in this, because it aired at the

same time as college years, was just so fucking

stupid. Outside of building in Screech, I know

none of the characters. Do you remember watching

this though at all? remember watching like the

first three episodes and I after the first episode

I was like When's college years coming back on

and I watched the second episode and I'm like

mmm again I would this was obvious though to

anybody outside of the thing like when saved

by the bell I've said this before when saved

by the bells I mean I wasn't alone everybody

was like wait a second this can't end you know

we got to have some more this can't be you know

we got to figure out a way to keep this going

and when you hear the ideas of we're gonna follow

the same people to college I was like yes I can

get on board with this right from the get -go

and then when there was like we're gonna do a

regular save by the bell with just new people

right away I'm like this is gonna be terrible

yeah like I don't know understand why they thought

one of the why they thought this idea was gonna

work I mean I guess it did last for seven seasons

so maybe it worked a little bit but This is just

not the same. It shouldn't even be called Saved

by the Bell, except for they're using the same

hallways and the same principle. I don't understand

how this show lasted. Maybe it's because people

like bad TV. I don't understand how this show

lasted seven fucking years. Yeah. Well, you know,

I remember, like you said, watching. I gave it

a chance. I watched a few episodes the first

season, mainly because it was back to back with

another show that I liked a little bit even better.

You know, so I gave it a chance and I watched

some of the first season. But the first season

was so bad that I never got past that I understand

that it's supposed to apparently improve as the

seasons go along But the first season was too

bad for me to give it that second chance Yeah

No, no, I know I agree. It's it's one of those

things where So we did watch this we both watched

it when we were kids we were I was about 12 ish

When it debuted so I was still you know of an

age that should have been I'm the demographic

I am the target audience here folks Yeah, I mean

we were we were the target audience not through

its entire run But we were for the beginning

of it You know we're junior high kids fifth fifth

sixth graders or whatever when it starts and

We watched some of it and we both came to the

same conclusion that that's terrible. It sucks

So let's get right into a brief Talk of the who's

who and basically what we're gonna do is we're

just gonna talk about the characters that we

remember We will get more into all the individual

characters a little bit later on I'll let you

start because I know there's two characters for

sure that you have So I'll let you talk about

those two We've already talked about them in

in episode 23 episode 22 and talk about them

in this show. I know but There's no difference

though, that's the problem. The two characters

that they brought over that they continue the

journey on with is Principal Belding and Screech.

Screech from Good Morning Miss Bliss, and I know

that's technically not in the saved universe,

it came before it and all that, but for Screech's

purposes, he started there. He is the only one

that has made it to all of them. Exactly. As

regular. Exactly so screech from Good Morning

Miss Bliss through Saved Classic through college

years and now this might take that back building

made all of them to just not the Yeah, just not

the pilot of Good Morning Miss Bliss. Yeah Screech

is the equivalent to Sam Witwicky because Except

Screech is ten times worse because you don't

throughout every single series. He gets no overall

character development He doesn't grow he doesn't

they they don't do anything with him They still

make him the class fucking clown the the moron.

Oh, yeah, it's just it's just Screech Oh, just

ignore it. It's just Screech blah blah blah They

don't make they don't give him anything to do

in the new class They just say hey Dustin Diamond

show up and just play Screech how you play Do

your stick. Yeah, it's kind of like Mark Hamill

and the Joker from the DC Animated Universe.

In the original Batman the Animated Series, Mark

Hamill played the Joker as like really manic

and funny and just really out the wall crazy.

When they brought him back to do Batman Beyond

Return of the Joker, when they brought the Joker

back, they're like, Mark, you got to tone the

manic stuff down. We want a darker Joker. That's

a character turn. If you want a darker, still

funny, but not like... high up here and you know

all that but screech has no fucking character

development whatsoever from the only the only

character development i can even see with him

is minor and it's between good morning this place

and the classic series realm but just because

it was so freaking young good morning this place

so they had no yeah little stuff that they did

with them but and as i said before i'm sorry

to interrupt you but if they had If they had

just focused on college years from 93 to 94 and

then started new class in 94 and have it maybe

ran 94 to 2000 or 94 to 2001. If they had started

it a year later after you finished Screech in

the college years, it would have been so much

better because you could have come up with an

actual story of, hey, Screech graduated college.

But because he loves Bayside so much, he's going

to come back to Bayside and he's going to be

a teacher's assistant. He's going to be a volleyball

coach. He's going to be something. You're going

to actually do something with him instead of

just making him the goddamn moron class clown

that he's always been. I still think owner of

the Macs would have been the best. I'm just saying

the weird thing is though that he was playing

the college years and the new class at least

for the the first year this at the same time

and his character was way more Or like it was

way better on college years That's what yeah

see that's what character was way better on that

than it was on new class and I can't quite understand

or explain it but Geez and he gets worse as the

seasons go by with the new class I've seen some

clips from him in like the later season season

five six and seven of the new class and he's

by that point awful Yeah, like he's lost it at

that point. I think that was the beginning of

him going crazy And so even his acting is terrible

I'm not saying he was ever like a fantastic actor,

but some of his acting even in the new class

gets awful Like there's a clip on YouTube of

him spilling coffee on a jukebox of Belding's

like $10 ,000 jukebox and the way he spills it

is so fake looking Yeah, it's like come on really

Belding on the other hand I like in the new class

I actually like Belding. I like Belding in every

incarnation I've seen him in because his character

just the type of character he is It and the fact

that he was the same playing the same age kind

of person the entire time He's always been an

adult. It didn't seem as as forced as having

screech who is obviously Different age than we're

used to and doesn't really fit an age that should

be in the school at this point Doesn't really

have a place here. It just seemed forced with

screech. Whereas building that's what he's been

doing the entire time. So it just seemed more

natural Yeah, I mean building I From what I remember

of seeing of the series I liked building building

never needed to change at that time of You know

filming these these television shows because

he was playing the same character You didn't

need a whole lot of character development for

building You just needed to stick with you know

you just you couldn't have him You know do a

complete 180 and come in you know an all -black

leather motorcycle outfit and an eye patch and

be like I'm Mr. Belding and I'm not going to

be a pirate today. Right. You know, you couldn't

have him do something like that, but the way

that Belding was from Good Morning Miss Bliss,

at least after the pilot and up until new class,

you don't need him to change as a character.

Although I guess he didn't appear there. I've

been wrong like three times and I've changed

my stance on this. He really wasn't in the college

years. So Screech is really the only person that

was a regular in all of them. Yeah. I forgot

about that. but you know building doesn't need

to change because that's he's the principle he's

the steady person yeah it almost would have been

better if screech wasn't there to me oh yeah

so i don't know i mean maybe they could have

got some other maybe they could have focused

more it almost would have to me would have been

a good time to almost take a step in reverse

not adapt the good morning miss bliss uh like

philosophy or strategy, but it would have been

better to me in the new class if they would have

taken a step back and almost reverted more to

having a few more steady teachers where they

focused on some more storylines like that. Like

have a few regular teachers and then they have

the kids not necessarily be like front and center,

but kind of sharing the star. Yeah. I don't know.

And the thing of it is though, you know, I know

we're going to get into this here in a minute,

but outside of building and screech, None of

the people that played any of the new class characters

None of the, like, I've gone down the script

information. I don't, I mean, out of stuff that

they might have done in the last, I don't know,

five or ten years now, back then, I didn't know

who the hell they were. I mean, you could have

- Well, and that was the problem, is - Yeah.

You had no, that's what I'm saying, maybe if

they would have found a teacher that could have

been a star, or somebody else, the problem is

they have no star. It's a show with no star.

Because it's like Save By The Bell Classic without

Zack. But see that's what they were going for

here. I know but it's just terrible Well, what

I'm saying is you said it's a show with no star

They wanted to because Dustin was so hooked up

on oh, I love doing saved by the bell Give me

more say by the bell. It was their star He technically

is the star of the new class. But that's what

I'm saying. That's the problem. That's the big

issue. The big issue is they promoted him as

the star, but they gave the character of Screech

no development whatsoever. It almost would have

been better, and I know this seems weird because

I understand the choice they made. They said

Screech because he's the comedic guy. To me,

if this show would have had Slater or Zack, their...

They have enough presence, they have enough character,

and they could have actually been somewhat the

serious character, but they would have had the

star power, and you could have let some of the

students be the comedic relief. Like, to me,

it would have worked if they would have chosen

Zack or Slater, or if they would have found any

of the students that could actually be a star.

Yeah. Streets should not do it. Yeah, exactly.

And the thing of it is, though, you know, you

look at... Actors, you know, even young actors

and actresses back in 93, 94, you know, throughout

that whole generation from 93 to 2000. You look

at all the actors that were kids back then, I'm

sure you could have gotten some well -known actors

that we know now. back then as kids to do these

roles because I don't recognize any of these

people. Well I'm just picturing like Zach coming

back as like a student teacher or a young teacher

or like a dean of students or like Slater coming

back as like a coach or like a vice principal

or something like that and them being more the

serious side but then being able to relate to

their stories when they were in Bayside or whatever

and kind of taking kids under their wing whereas

the kids would be the comedic relief I could

have bought into that. That would have been a

hell of a lot better show than what we got. I

agree. The only problem with Mario coming back

to do Slater is Mario over the years, it's like

the guy is stuck in a time warp. Yeah, he looks

exactly the same. He looks the exact same way.

See, at least Zack somewhat looks like a teacher

now. Not a teacher, but he looks enough different

where you could buy it. I real quick just want

to touch on who we saw, because the important

thing for this show to me is how it launched.

Because that was the key in carrying over a huge

fan base from classic to this, was how are you

going to start it? What's the first year going

to be like? So regardless of if it gets better

after that, to me the first year is the crucial

year. And so we're going to go with just real

quick touching some of the characters that were

on the first year. We'll get to the ones that

come later on in the show. Basically what they

did with this first year is they're trying to

basically imitate the classic Save by the Bell.

So we have Scott, Scott Erickson, who is Zach

Morris basically, except he was a dark haired

kid. We have Tommy D, who was Slater, but he

was just kind of like a tall athletic guy instead

of like a stocky muscular guy. Barton Weasel

-Wisell, who was Screech. We have Lindsay Warner,

who was Kelly Kapowski. Megan Jones, who was

kind of half Lisa, half Jesse. And then Vicki

Needleman was also half Jesse, half Lisa. So

those were the characters we have. Just almost

direct crossovers from the regular one. I do

got to say, as far as those characters go, Scott

was terrible. He was Nozak. He couldn't act,

just got awful. Tommy D looked the part, like

he looked like the jock, even though he didn't

look anything like Slater, but he couldn't act.

Weasel actually was a decent actor and actually

I think played the part of the screech role fairly

well. So he's the one guy that I was okay with.

And then with the girls, I do have to say, After

you know having Kelly in the original one who

is such a hottie Lindsay was a hottie Lindsay

who was played by Natalie Sigliotti or however

you say her name is and we'll get into what she's

done recently and how and why you would recognize

her but she was a hottie I did like her as far

as Bianca and Sorry Megan and Vicky It was just

for me almost like Lisa and Jesse I could care

less about him. Yeah, so I mean they did okay

replacing Kelly they did okay replacing screech,

but then Here lies the other problem. You've

brought in a student screech, and you still have

the adult screech. Yep. That's what I was going

to say earlier. You have two screeches. And that

makes no sense. Nope. So those were the first

season players. You don't remember any of those

guys? Like I said, I only watched the first three

episodes of season one, and that was... all the

way back in nineteen hundred ninety three so

you know my memory is failing me. I almost wish

you would have found comparison pics because

the pics in the behind the scenes or behind the

where are they now thing that we do it's all

what they look like now. But I just just from

hearing you describe it and and the whole adult

screech young screech that that that's just dumb

Yeah, again why I think Dustin Diamond should

have just maybe been beat He could still be involved

with say by the Bell just have him behind the

camera Just don't you know make him an executive

producer give him something else to do other

than being screech The max he doesn't have to

appear every hour every show you can just appear

randomly like That's true. And but even then

I just think you know somebody else would have

been the better choice and to me the obvious

choices were Zack or Slater just for the star

power. Yeah. Unless they found a kid that could

replace Zack and I understand I'm glad that they

didn't go with a blonde haired kid. I'm glad

they tried something a different look but the

guy they picked was just awful. Yeah. And there's

a reason and we'll get to this later why certain

people we have never heard from since. Let's

get into the next segment, which of course is

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly. Alrighty, that's

right, it's time for The Good, The Bad, and The

Really Ugly of Saved by the Bell, the new class.

Like we said, there was an original format, we'll

get to that first note in a second here, but

there was the original format which was basically

copying the exact same cast. and also having

Belden and Screech there. Also in the same setting,

we have the same hallways, you know, the same

Bayside school for the most part. I don't remember

hardly any changes as far as the environment

goes. And like we said, most people were pretty

unhappy with this original format. It just, I

don't know, the plots and the episodes are almost

like complete duplicates of episodes we've already

seen in classic. The characters are basically

second -hand characters from the first one. And

the acting was terrible, for the most part. This

just goes to show you, and I'm starting to interrupt,

but it just goes to show you, even back then

in 1993, Hollywood doesn't have an original bone

in its fucking body. I know I'm jumping ahead

here, but I'm sorry. I thought, and again, it's

been so long since I've even paid any attention

to New Class, I thought there was an original

theme song to this show. Oh no! We have to just

copy, we just have to reuse the original classic.

Are you fucking kidding me? So for those of you

paying attention and wanting to win in our theme

song contest, this episode should give you a

tip. So yes, the theme song for Save By The Bell

The New Class is the exact same as the theme

song for Save By The Bell. At least it was in

the first season. I'm not sure if they got a

different version at some point in the seven

seasons, but for the most part, they're using

the exact same theme song, same color scheme

as far as I'm going to actually look it up and

see if there was a different theme song. But,

you know, I had the same colors and graphics

and the same theme song for the most part. So

the moral of the story is the first season formula

did not work. Epic. fail so what they did decide

to do and unfortunately this is where they lost

almost the entire save by the bell population

of fans is because it was so terrible the first

year most people probably never even saw the

second season I'm the people that saw the second

season were people that were watching this stuff

for the first time so they did try to revamp

it they realized that the first season was terrible

so they tried to redo things in the second season

So, we'll just go over a few of their changes

here. First of all, they realized that Scott

was a poor substitute for Zach, so he was fired.

They determined that Weasel, which actually I

thought Weasel was alright, but they thought

he wasn't good enough as Screech, so he was fired.

The adult screech is really coming back into

being so maybe he wasn't around that first season

when weasel was there Maybe he only came around

after that because I guess that's when the adult

screech comes back So I think that was a poor

decision. I think they should have kept weasel

and not brought screech back also Vicky was also

fired. So they brought in three new characters,

which is Brian Keller Bobby Wilson and Rachel

Myers Who played a Were played by Christian Oliver

spanky Rogers and Sarah Lancaster. So it's so

basically replaced three people now most people

thought this was an improvement But most people

were upset that weasel was gone because like

I said, that was one of the one characters that

Was actually all right so they tried that and

It seemed like they were doing a little bit better,

but the main viewing audience still probably

wasn't buying into it quite as much as maybe

they would have liked so then we go through a

third season revamp so again I have to say this

again I have to say this how the hell did this

show last seven years yeah exactly and no there

is no Look saved by the bell the new class season

two. I searched everything I could and it's just

the original classic rain So between first season

second season, we've kicked three people out.

We fired Three of them and brought three people

in and third season. We we do a lot of the same

here This one it's just a bunch more firing like

the people they just brought in either left the

show or were fired and then some of the original

people were you know, the only people that survived

I believe are Tommy D and Lindsay Which which

are just two people left from the original cast

of this show So that's just kind of weird And

of course Dustin Diamond was back Which didn't

make any sense. Well, it didn't make any sense,

and this is what I'm saying. They didn't even

have a place for him because he would have never,

even if he was here as some type of work study,

some type of student teaching or something, he

would have never been there past one year. So

the fact that he's there a second year makes

no freaking sense whatsoever. Just so terrible.

So then we get Ryan Parker, RJ Collins, and Maria

Lopez added. And this is also a time where basically

some of the plot changes because this is when

the whole FCC mandate of having three hours of

education content came into play and they started

trying to dumb down the comedy and add more educational

content to the shows. So that's why even the

people that say it gets better, I question that.

And through the rest of the seasons, four, five,

six, seven, whatever, there are minor cast changes

and whatnot. But, you know, we basically only

had two people that even made it through the

first three seasons. So that's why I have a problem

with this show even being called the new class,

because it's two kids that somehow stay and everybody

else is getting changed. So there is no class.

It's like everybody's constantly changing. And

second, if the show lasted for seven seasons,

how are we still following one class? Exactly,

yeah. Shouldn't we have had, like, save by the

bell the new class and then save by the bell,

like, the newer class? The newest class? The

second new class? I do have to say, with you

talking about, like, people getting fired and

them hiring new people and then them firing the

new people, I know you're gonna hate this, but...

It reminds me of every time a new power ranger

season comes on where you have a new new storyline

except here you have the same damn storylines

but with new characters but take take money more

from power rangers season one they had you know

the original cast season two they had partially

the original class by the end of season two middle

of season two going into season three they had

a whole new cast so it's the same thing of You

know stuff happens with the actors or they didn't

just want to be there maybe the producer said

something oh well hey this person's or not this

person's word outlets but again it goes to my

point. Why are they not if they wanted this to

succeed they wanted new class to continue to

save by the bell popularity. Why didn't they

actually find the casting people for the show

should have been fired. Exactly because they're

so terrible that they for seven seasons are Interchanging

actors and actresses over and over and over again

because they cannot get it right. Yep Like they

found a couple people that were acceptable and

a whole bunch of terrible people Yep, and it

just doesn't make any sense. Look at the difference

though Look at the difference between that and

like Good Morning Miss Bliss and Save by the

Bell the original one Save by the Bell or look

at Good Morning Miss Bliss. They had freaking

Jonathan Brandis Frickin' Urkel, Brian Austin

Green, and then, which would have all worked,

those people would have been fine in that show.

You know, then they turn it over and they get

all the original cast members basically, even

the, whatchamacallit, I'm forgetting his name,

the kid that played kind of the Slater part before

Slater came in in Good Morning Miss Bliss was

fine. He was a decent kid. He was watchable then

look at say by the bell even when people Were

having you know issues as far as like Kelly and

Jesse they brought in Tori who was fine You know,

you could watch her when they go to the beach.

They had Leah Remini who was fine Like all even

college years the people they brought in were

fine Yeah, Bob Golic and and you know the other

girls, you know, they did the part fine Like,

this is the one show in the entire franchise

that could not find anybody that worked. Yep.

And it makes no sense. This show just is, it

doesn't exist, it's in an alternate universe,

it just doesn't fucking exist to me at all. Yeah.

I'm gonna at some point hopefully watch some

episodes from a couple of the later seasons just

to reaffirm my belief that it sucks, but I don't

want to just base everything on the first season,

but good lord, it's hard to get past it. And

again, the problem is, it's the same thing as

what they do today. Oh hey, we have three Spider

-Man movies. No matter what people's opinions

of the Spider -Man movies are, we have three

Spider -Man movies. But oh wait, Columbia, Fox,

whoever has the license for Spider -Man now.

Oh hey, but we can't do a Spider -Man 4, let's

just... Rebooted and tell the origin story over

again this is the same thing with with new class

you have good morning miss bliss saved classic

in college years. Yes it's a stretch on good

morning miss bliss and save classic but they

still have some of the same characters. What

specifically save classic and college years you

have characters continuing to grow you have characters

moving on where is new class it's like. Sweep

everything else under the rug and just give you

a pile of shit. Yes A couple other last things

I want to talk about as far as the good the bad

and the other because we have to have some good

somewhere My only good part that I can find on

this is episode in which Slater Lisa and Zack

made a cameo appearance appearance Yeah, I don't

remember what the context of the episode somebody

had bought the the school and was going to demolish

it Right. No, no, no. I mean, as far as like

the episode title or whatever, like in college

years, they had a Thanksgiving story. So, yeah,

someone had bought Bayside and they were going

to demolish the school. So Slater comes back.

Lisa comes back. Zach's aunt. How the hell did

that happen? Zach's aunt comes back. And oh,

my God, the guy that is buying the school apparently

is for old flame. Yeah. It was just classic Zach

though, and it was great. And I love the line

because Slater looks at Zach and goes, how's

the miss? Yeah. I was like, they were trying

to get everybody there. Yeah. But you know, that

was a good moment. Let's talk about this clip,

though, because you have them at some sort of

like, I don't know if it's a Halloween dance

or if it's a festival dance or something. Most

of them are on my thing. You have Belding and,

oh yeah, it was some sort of prom or something.

You have Belding and Screech as Elvis's. And

apparently, the two of them planned all, well

Screech didn't, but apparently Belding planned

this. Apparently he called ahead to Zack Slater

and it doesn't show this to my knowledge. You

know, he called the three of them to come back

to talk this guy out of, you know, doing what

he was going to do. And, you know, as soon as

you see Slater, it's like, oh, hey, it's Slater.

He hasn't aged a bit. You know, you see Lisa.

Oh, hey, it's Lisa. She's wearing a business

suit and she has a $1 ,000 credit limit. Wait,

that's not very good. She's not doing very good

for herself. I know, really. Then you see this

other guy walk through. Oh, my God. That's like,

Zach went back to the 70s and became a hippie

without the beard. Like, who's that guy? I mean,

it's like, it's like, oh my god. And what really

pisses me off about, I love the clip. I love

that they came back. But again. Dustin diamond

and the character screech not getting any development

whatsoever and he sits there and says Zach really

loud three times in in Zach's face and it's like

oh hey screech you know it's like. Is that knows

he's there but it because screech is being the

obnoxious douchebag these days entire life. You

know, it's like, oh whatever, it's just screech.

Yeah, and who knows how well they were getting

along at that point in real life either. Yeah,

that's true, too. Yeah, so it was just an interesting

moment, you know, a little bit of a refresher

when you're watching all these people that you

have no idea who they are when some familiar

faces show up. So anything else you want to say

about good, bad, or ugly about this show? Nope.

Alright, then let's move on to... Things that

make you go, hmm. That's right. It's time for

a quick version of things you might not know

about Saved by the Bell, the new class. The first

thing that you might not know is even though

we're saying this show is pretty terrible, it

was actually nominated for a Daytime Emmy in

2000 for best children's programming. Now according

to my script, it says 200 BC, so... Nominated

for a Daytime Emmy in 2000. Also got a ton of

nominations for like Young Star and Young Artist

Awards, which I think people were smoking crack.

Second thing you might not know about this show

is it was originally set to only last two seasons

but somehow lasted seven which again it reaffirms

my thing of people like watching bad fucking

television which ties into the third and last

thing that you might not know about save by the

bell the new class is well not as popular or

as well known as the original save by the bell

the new class actually had a longer series run

and also produced more episodes than save by

the bell classic which is just shameful that's

a travesty Alright, well let's get right into

what some of these people are doing now and I

have just a few because if I don't mention them

it's because they've dropped off the face of

the earth and that was their only acting gig

in their life. But we'll start with Samantha

Esteban, who played Maria Lopez in seasons three

through seven. In 2001, she worked in Training

Day Movie with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke

and everything. She played the pivotal role of

Letty. And most recently, you may know her as

Sonia in Hard Times, RJ Berger, whatever that.

Craptastic TV show is I have never even heard

of the show. I've heard of it. I think it's like

on MTV or something. Oh lovely So so she's still

around and whatnot and then you have Sarah Lancaster

who might be the most well -known One of the

most well -known out of this cast and she played

Rachel in seasons two through four She had starring

roles in what about Brian? Dr. Vegas Everwood

and scrubs and most recently you may know her

as Ellie Bartowski on the series Chuck So I think

most people would recognize her if they saw a

picture of her Yeah, we have Richard Lee Jackson

who is Ryan Parker for season 3 through 5 He

hasn't done much acting but he was featured in

People magazine with his brother Jonathan Jackson

in the sexiest man alive issue and apparently

these days he's into filmmaking and Music he's

in a band called a nation So, I don't know. We'll

see if he does anything spectacular with his

life, but So far, it's just kind of like, looks

like some independent work. Yeah. Put it nicely.

You had Lindsay McKeon, who played Katie Peterson

in the last three, four seasons, season four

through seven. She has been on Supernatural,

Veronica Mars, One Tree Hill as Taylor James,

not getting light, but she's also in two movies

called Shredder and Class Warfare. I don't know

what those are, but the interesting thing I think

about her is that she has appeared - She's a

Miller Lite girl. She's a Miller Lite bartender

on Miller Lite commercials. I would say Lindsay

and Sarah are the two well -knowns as far as

like what we might have seen them in recently

because everybody knows Supernatural, Veronica

Mars, Wintry Hill. Yeah. The next one though,

I definitely know and that's Natalie Sigliotti

because I thought she was a hottie and save by

the bell the new class She was supposed to be

the Kelly type person and she played Lindsey

Warner on the first three seasons she This is

a crazy coincidence and I've even seen an interview

of her on this She played detective Harper on

the on the glades, but she played Bobby Galardi

on raising the bar opposite Zach Paul Gosler.

Yeah, so and I remember in her interview you'd

like all the new class people were always like

kind of like enamored with the regular cast and

So when she actually was starring then with Zack

on a show it was kind of like a star -struck

moment for her The reason I know her most right

now is because she provides the voice of scarlet

on GI Joe renegades Which she does pretty good

actually So I like her as she's done some other

voice work and some video games and whatnot But

I just think it's funny that she's on reason

the bar with Zack Let's see, we only got a few

more here. Ashley Tesoro who played Liz Miller

in seasons five through seven. She had a major

role on Bold and the Beautiful that started while

she was on the new class and kind of lasted after

that. She's also into music. She's released a

self -titled country music EP and just last year

she released a country gospel titled Oh You Angel.

So apparently she's a singer nowadays. Last girl

we got Bianca Lawson who played Megan Jones in

the first two seasons. In December 2009, Lawson

plays in the cast as Maya St. Germain in the

TV series Pretty Little Liars. She also appeared

as Emily Bennett in The Vampire Diaries. I've

never seen either of those, so couldn't tell.

Pretty Little Liars, I believe, is a new series

on, well, not a new series, but it's a recurring

series on ABC Family, and Vampire Diaries is

the WB, or not WB, WBS gone W's version of Twilight,

okay, and this is an interesting twist here because

we all know what happened with the original screech

Crazy now, let's take a look at the replacement

screech In 2009 he was named one of four temple

bar scholars by the American Inns of Court And

he spent a month in London representing the American

legal profession as he and currently the CEO

of an up -and -coming construction firm in central

Florida, and he's also the head of a charity

group called Hope for Vision. So apparently he

did a little bit better for himself than the

original Screech. Maybe it was good that he got

fired. So that does it for the where they are

now like I said, I think most people might recognize

Sarah Lancaster maybe Natalie Sigliotti a lot

of the other people have kind of faded off into

the distance and all the characters that I haven't

mentioned have really faded off into the distance.

Yep. So earlier there really is no You don't

have like a like a young Spencer Breslin. You

don't have uh... spencer breslin for those of

you that don't know was uh... one of the elves

in uh... storm one of the santa claus movies

uh... you don't have someone like that you don't

have all the young bruce willis you don't have

a young and i know bruce willis at that time

was like an adult but i'm i'm just using that

as you don't have these big star power so of

course you know you have these people that are

pretty much no names fade into obscurity so great

So, I think we're going to take a quick break

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How is that you may ask? Well, because we have

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and rise up. Enjoy your prom, Belding. The bulldozer

will be here in the morning. Not so fast, buddy.

Slater? Slater, what are you doing here? Well,

I heard Bayside was gonna be torn down, Mr. B.

And I couldn't let that happen. Really? Now,

how are you gonna stop it, Big Shot? Tell him,

Slater. Right. Well, I'll arm -wrestle you for

it. Nice try, Hercules, but if you'll excuse

me, I've got to... What is this? What is this

that I hear about some creep tearing down Bayside?

Lisa! You've come back to be my prom - Come back

to save the school. Oh, I missed your elbow.

All right, young lady, I'm the creep who bought

Besa. Oh, you are, huh? Okay, how much should

I have to raise to buy back? $5 million. Oh,

well, I've got a $1 ,000 limit on my credit card.

Will you take it down payment? Hildy, I've had

enough. I'm leaving before the next coot comes

in here trying to change my mind. Oh, and McMillan

is... Sandy! It's me, Wally. It's been a long

time. But... but what are you doing here? I thought

we could finally go to the Bayside prom together.

I, uh, was just leaving. Maybe I could, uh, stick

around a little while. Well, what made you change

your mind and come back? My nephew. When I told

him Bayside was in trouble, he insisted I fly

back down and come to the prom. But why would

your nephew care so much about Bayside? He flew

back down with me. You can ask him yourself.

Zach! Zach! Hey! What's going on? Zach! Hey!

How's it going? Zach! What? You're the stupid

nephew? Well, I wouldn't put it that way, but

yeah. Zach, this is Wally McMillan, an old high

school friend of mine. How do you do? Mr. McMillan,

why don't you think about what you're doing?

Sir, Bayside might not mean anything to you,

but it means everything to me and all my friends.

Sir, we have spent the greatest years of our

lives here. The kids love this place. Leave it

alone. Please. I don't know what to say. You

don't have to say anything now, Wally. Come on,

let's dance. So how's the missus? Pretty much

DVD is going to be it. All seven seasons are

on DVD. Seasons one through five are all separate

season sets. Season six and seven are in one

set together. And the reason that is is because

it was originally only going to be one season

of 26 episodes, and they split it into two seasons

of 13 episodes. Yes. It does say, now, I am a

Netflix instant watcher. I am a Netflix instant

subscriber. I do not subscribe to their DVD plan.

It does say that you can get the new class on

DVD. It does not say how Netflix distributes

that, whether it's like one disc with four episodes.

You know what I mean? Something like that. I

don't know. And the thing about Netflix now is,

for those of you who are DVD subscribers, You're

paying $7 .99 a month for the DVD subscription

and if you also went one instant you have to

pay another $7 .99, but if you want like additional

DVDs at a time The price increases. I think I

saw a news article that said if you want like

four four movies out at one time It's gonna cost

you 20 bucks So the Netflix DVD through the mail

thing is just gone downhill Unless you don't

get the streaming if you just go DVDs by mail,

you're still getting good prices. It's if you

want to go Well, no, you're not really not no

because my mom gets it just through the mail

and her prices did not go up at all Right. Okay,

but I'm talking about like for like someone who

subscribes today you're gonna be paying the $7

.99 a month rate for the DVD through the mail,

but What I'm saying is say you want say you want

to rent Tron Assault Knock around guys and They

die hard okay for those four movies Netflix is

gonna charge you $20 to have them out at one

time That maybe I would never get four at a time,

but I don't know I know but I'm just saying I'll

I'll show you the the news article later. It's

I read one of them. Yes, the one -at -a -time

thing is still $7 .99 for the DVDs, but if you

want more than that, it's going to cost you more.

So it's not on Netflix Instant. You can get it

through DVD through the mail from Netflix, and

it's not on iTunes either. And as far as YouTube

goes, I was able to find one episode. One clip

no, I was able to find one three part three out

of four parts of one episode I wasn't able to

find the very first part, but I could find parts

two three and four an episode where From the

first season where weasel is like the star kicker

on the football team or whatever other than that

You can find like little 1030 second clips here

and there but it's basically not existing on

YouTube, which is surprising Yep, because it's

you know you would think that generation more

so than even the originals generation would have

things online But like he said you got to go

through the DVD so maybe you can get a good deal

on Amazon or something like that Let me actually

look that up really quick and actually see how

much the DVDs would run somebody just to get

the seasons on Amazon. So if you want to prove

us wrong and tell us that season 7 is really

good or season 5 is really good, go to Amazon

and donate it to us and we'll do a special episode

just on that season. Donate it to Kevin because

if I get it I'm burning the DVDs. Here we go.

Here we go. Same with it all, the new class,

season three. You can buy it new for $14 .88.

Season four, $17 .88. So all about probably $10

to $20. Season two, $17. Season two and season

one are on Amazon Instant Video, 99 cents per

episode. But yeah. uh... season five years while

twelve new from three dollars twenty nine cents

for season five interesting they'll be with someone

who will donate that and then the most expensive

one season six and seven DVD set buy new for

twenty two thirty six so they're all about twenty

to fifteen dollars or whatever so That's interesting.

Alright, let's get right into the IGN replacement

crew. Zero. I'm breaking the rules and I'm giving

it a zero. No, number one means the show did

not appeal to you then or now. Zero. So you're

giving it a one. Zero. I will give it to a one

as well. The show did not appeal to me then,

doesn't appeal to me now. Unless somebody can

prove me wrong by letting me watch some season

six or seven episodes or something. Zero. No,

there is no zero. So lowest rating I think of

any of our show so far everybody has given it

a 1. What's your last words? You have no last

words. Don't watch it. Just stick to Good Morning

Miss Bliss new class. Wow. Stick to Good Morning

Miss Bliss classic in college years. Just stop

after the college years. The point is in the

Say By The Bell franchise you watch the classic.

Then, if you want to keep watching, you watch

College Years, and then if you really want to

keep watching, watch Good Morning Miss Bliss,

and then if you really want to start watching,

watch what we're going to be talking about next

week. It has nothing to do with Save By The Bell.

Exactly. That it's Valley High School. So, all

right, I'd like to thank Mike for joining me

today, rounding out the Save By The Bell part

of the block, but we also have one extra episode

here for this. Kids sitcom block, so we'll see.

I don't remember who's on that one with me, but

we'll talk about that later. I think it's JT.

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