What I have learned from "Saved by the Bell".

Cafe Society
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In the episode “Teen Line” Zack starts dating a girl in a wheelchair but does not know how to react to her disability. He goes out of his way to help her do things that she is obviously capable of doing herself, often to the point of embarrassing her. Finally, after Zack organizes a game of wheelchair basketball to raise money for disabled students, she has to tell him that all of his “help” isn’t really helping.

I learned that the disabled are people too, who are not helpless or even all that different from the rest of us and who should be given the same respect and love afforded to others.

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I’ve learned that drug use can lead to poor (though excited) singing.

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I learned that there’s stripper inside all of us - even the most conservative, tight lipped, boring and obnoxious ones among us.

4

I learned that a show doesn’t have to have decent actors, scripts, sets, direction – or even a basic plot – to suck like an Electrolux.

5

I learned that my theory that Violet Bickerstaff and Kelly Kapowski were secret lovers was true when the two got a place together in Beverly Hills…

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I learned to “Pity Screech…'cuz we all pity Screech.”

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Saying “Time out” into a space where no one is will freeze everyone around you but yourself.

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I learned that if you are going to use subliminal tapes to turn the school’s hotties into your and your friends’ girlfriends, then be sure to throw in some suggestions about obedience, not saying the implanted ideas out loud, and not suspecting mental tampering. I also learned that I would need to make a tape for myself with suggestions to ignore future subliminals.

I never had as much fun as those wacky SBTB kids, so my high school must have been part of a Secret Government Experiment in not-fun education.

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I’ve learned that resultion to my problems will usually come around 1 minute before the top or bottom of the hour.

10

I learned how to… uh…

Let’s just say Tiffany Amber Thiessen helped me through puberty. :cool:

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And I learned that I love Mario Lopez!!!

12

I learned to never leave my pet Gecko Artie with my careless friends and not to EVER trust anyone when they ask me to join the Rigmas.

13

I remember that episode. I learned that disabled people are ingrateful motherfuckers. Zack should have rained blows down on her paralyzed ass.

:eek:

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I learned that you can tell the nerds because they’re the ones in the thick glasses, too high pants who don’t get invited to the cool kids parties. And that Dustin Diamond is “the…greatest…actor…who…ever…lived…”

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I learned that you can tell the nerds because they’re the ones in the thick glasses, too high pants who don’t get invited to the cool kids parties. And that Dustin Diamond is “the…greatest…actor…who…ever…lived…”

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And that (in the early seasons) they are capable of building sentient robots, probably armed with 1920’s style death-rays.

Remember how Screech was changed from being a science nerd into a, well, freaky weirdo?

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I learned that high school kids have maybe one class that they only have to go to about once a week.

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I learned that you can cheerlead, play volleyball, swim, be a waitress, sing in choir, and be in an all girl group ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

Kelly Kapowski, you’re a role model to us all.

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I learned that all it takes is a duck covered with oil to trigger a Very Special Moment about environmental awareness and The Man.

And that cell phones weight 30 lbs. and are the size of watermelons.

And that you can camp out overnight in a large shopping mall simply by hiding inside a tent in a sporting goods store.

And that due to ruptures in the space-time continuum, it’s not unusual for a member of your circle of friends to completely dissapear for a while and be replaced by a biker chick, and that your friend will eventually come back.

And that people make friends with while working at a beach house over the summer should never, under any circumstances, be referenced again.

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I learned that you can get completely inebriated on one beer. Also with the help of a few good friends and a dead duck, it is possible to stop the construction of an oil well in the middle of your school field