It’s back to school time for most kids and we thought we would start the month of August off with a school-themed quote of the month courtesy of the television show ‘Saved by the Bell’. The television show is based on the adventures of a bunch of high school students and their principal at Bayside High school in California. The show would launch the careers of several of its stars including Mario Lopez and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen while other stars such as Dustin Diamond and Mark-Paul Gosselaar had trouble escaping being typecast for their roles on the program. The main character played by Gosselaar is Zack Morris who is popular student at the school and is always trying to find an excuse to skip school and have fun. A large percentage of the episodes deal with Zack’s schemes to skip school by creating elaborate plans that end up backfiring and having to deal with principal Richard Belding played by actor Dennis Haskins.
Another recurring theme in most episodes deals with Zack’s interests in All-American Sweetheart Kelly Kapowski. This storyline would go on for several seasons with Zack and AC Slater trying to outwit each other in order to win Kelly’s love but ultimately Zack would prevail and AC would then go on to date Jesse Spano played by actress Elizabeth Berkley. The show would go on to feature 2 spin-offs which included ‘Saved by the Bell – The College Years’ and ‘Saved by the Bell – The New Class’ which featured a whole new cast of characters with Screech and Mr. Belding being the only characters from the original show to return. We finish off by giving you one of Zack Morris’ quotes on school tests from the episode entitled ‘Zack in the Gift’.
| “The three worst things that can happen to a kid are measles, mumps, and midterms.” – Zack Morris |
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