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.
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.
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…”
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…”
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.
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