Aggghhh! Zack Attack! Mark-Paul Gosselaar dropped by this morning to tell us all about his new series Raising the Bar (premiering Monday night), in which he’ll play a public defender with plenty of heart, hair. Mandi’s dutifully compiling a sure-to-be-amusing Mark-Paul Through the Years gallery that’ll post on Monday. Meanwhile, let’s talk about how his awesome TNT publicist (and PopWatch reader — hello again!) Susan brought a dozen obscenely oversized cupcakes for all of us aging Saved by the Bell superfans to graze on. This worked out perfectly, because I’m not allowed to eat obscenely oversized cupcakes unless a dreamy ’90s high school TV icon feeds them to me. What are the odds? Mandi would like to point out how EW’s various awards for "excellence" appropriately serve as a backdrop for photos of two loons eating cupcakes.
Yesterday, Zack’s impending Attack had a bunch of us attempting to out-Saved by the Bell trivia each other in the hallway. Tim Stack absolutely won, nonchalantly name-dropping the duck killed by the oil spill near Bayside’s football field in an emotionally charged impression of Zack Morris cradling said duck: "Don’t worry, Becky. You’re where the oil can’t hurt you now."
Dear lord. What’s the weirdest thing you remember from SBTB?
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I think the girl who played “new girl/leather jacket wearing tomboy, Tori” is currently on one of those progressive auto insurance with the tricked out nametag girl.
When Pluto was dethroned as a planet, I immediately though of the the SBTB episode where Screech taught Zack an unhelpful mnemonic to remember all the planets in order, which he later used to win a big “battle of the brains”-type contest. MVEMJSNUP tragically is no more.
The constant hair and fashion faux-pas
The gang–while at a mall to buy U2 tickets–picks up a briefcase full of money that is the property of the Mob. Two burly guys with bad greasy hair chase them until it is revealed that the whole thing was a candid-camera type TV show.
i thought that was tori in the progressive commercial too, but i guess she is a triplet in real life and it’s actually one of her sisters?
Jessie Spano’s caffeine pill “I’m so excited! – I’m so scared!” freakout… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c
I don’t know why that particular moment is etched into my subconscious, but still…
I want to watch the show, but every time I see that hair, I reconsider. It doesn’t even look like it is attached to his head.
To this day, my favorite episode is when Mrs. Belding has her baby while stuck in the elevator.
Same here Winona, my sister still re-enacts that scene every time that song comes on or anything with someone for the cast is on.
Put your mind to it, go for it,
Get down and break a sweat,
Rock and Roll,
You ain’t seen nothing yet!
The name of the group? Hot Sundae
It’s a toss up between the Jessie Spano “I’m so excited!” drug episode, the “Buddy Bands” ep or the episode where Jessie and Graham, aka the male Jessie, protest the use of styrofoam cups in the cafeteria.
Everyone remembers “I’m so excited! I’m so… scared!” I am a true dork because I remember the words to the actual song that was going to make the girls music superstars if only Jessie hadn’t become a drug addict: “Put your mind to it/Go for it/Get down and break a sweat/Rock and Roll/You ain’t seen nothing yet!” And they sang it AEROBICS gear, people!
Damn, Arsenio beat me to it! I also loved when Jessie & Slater sang “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You” at the dance when Kelly & Zack broke up, and n eithereven TRIED to hide that tehy were lip-syncing!
Whenever Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys come on, my sister and I talk about the episode where the guys dance to it in their underware and Slater does the splits while the girls are watching at the door with Violet played by Tori Spelling.
Just say nope to dope.
When Zach dated cute homeless girl Laura and then invited Laura and her dad to spend Christmas w/him and his mom. Oh Bayside…
Also T-I-G-E-R-ESSSSSS, T-I-G-E-R-Essss. We’re the bayside tigers and we’re on the prowl…
It would be a lot easier to list the things I don’t remember from that show. My knowledge of SBTB trivia is almost disgusting; I’m thinking of organizing trivia tournaments and hussling unsuspecting casual fans. It’ll pay my way through college!
My friend and I enjoy performing the choreography from the triumphant “Buddy Bands” commercial/music video. “They work.”
When Zack was dressed up like a girl (I forget why) and Screech wanted to go steady with him/her right after they “met.”
Haha…the caffeine pill meltdown is totally my most memorable SBTB moment!
Weirdest? Either Jessie all whacked out on uppers, singing “I’m So Excited” or Leah Remini as Zack’s summer love interest.
Or “The New Class”. God, what was THAT all about?
The weirdest thing?
The dream where Kelly was wearing a pizza as a hat. Also, that Screech is one of the biggest geeks in school but he’s best buds with the cool kids. That’s really weird.
I heard J-Hud was coming to eat those cupcakes, Zack! Better run!
I have an oddball connection to Mark Paul. Back in 2000, I started a job with a Senator at the same time as a few other colleagues. Rollcall, the local Hill newspaper did a piece on the new staffers. Opposite our photo was a promo (with a photo) for Mark-Paul’s new show “DC”.
What struck me most was that while our group consisted of some relatively good looking people, the photo across the page of the “DC” cast made us look like junkyard dogs. It just stood to bring out just how out of touch with the real DC that show was.
Anyway, Mark Paul made his comeback later and the show was forgotten, but I’ll never forget what a contrast those photos seemed to make.
How about how the Zack Attack gang had two graduations and three proms!
I also love the birthday party for Screech in Belding’s office. I mean really, that is THE most logical place for a birthday party.
how, HOW, i ask has no one mentioned:
“the sprain”
the episode where Zach drives drunk (on a very special episode…)
the “beautiful dreamer” episode with Miss Tori Spelling as Violet
and of course, the college years and that odd roommate with the really weird voice!!
How can anyone forget the Barbara Ann dance?! Screech, Slater, and Zack singing Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann Risky Business style at the party?!?!
I can’t believe no one has said that mystery-dinner episode that was SO random. Why were they there again? who was that dude? did they really NOT know they were in the Clue house playing Clue?
and WoW, knowing the name of the duck? awesome. but i love the episodes in the beginning with Miss Bliss (aka Hayley Mills) and her CrAzY best friend/fellow teacher with that annoying soft voice. Loveddd it when she had that random game-show thing with that weird big machine? HOW COOL?
I met MR. Belding a few months ago. He came to my school and was pretty awesome. He gave us his life story and talked about how he got the role on SBTB; it was actually kinda a motivational speech but it worked. He picked me to play a SBTB trivia game with a couple other people and I won a picture of the cast. He signed it for me after and took a picture with me. He thought I was awesome because during the game I gave one of the most obvious answers ever: Belding-What was my wife’s name on the show?
Me-Mrs. Belding
Totally got a high five out of that one. He thought it was the funniest thing, but the people who were more serious and knew the correct answer just gave me death stares. But now I have my picture hanging up in my dorm and show it off as often as possible.
“It seems like only yesterday we started… but soon we’ll put away our books and pens. We’ll go on with our lives once we have parted… But how can we say farewell to our friend. The double dates, the parties, and the dances. Cramming for a midterm until 3. The football games, the laughs, and the romances. Soon Bayside will be just a memory (memory)…”
or maybe Annie can ask Zack to sing “Cool School” in his throaty lemony voice??