r/SavedByTheBell

By itself the time capsule premise itself is a nice way to do a clip show for a high school sitcom. However, as soon as the VHS with the gang starts playing with the class (or at least 5 people from the class) of 2003 starts playing it gets weird.

As it uses clips from the show itself and it plays on the TV in Belding's office, it would mean that the gang knows or figured out that all of their high school antics were recorded on video. Not to mention the stuff that happened at home. Heck, they somehow even recorded Lisa's dream.

The gang also talks about the other characters, like somehow names like Lisa and Jesse would ring a bell with the 2003 students like Duddy.

I guess Belding hasn't opened the 3rd drawer of his time capsule for 10 years either.

Finally it's interesting to watch it in the context of the New Class. At the end of TNC Belding left Bayside, with Screech's fate undecided. I guess Belding got fired as Dean of Students at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, had to move back to Bayside, where he couldn't even get his new modern TNC office back and had to move into his older office and resorting to reminiscence about that magic class of 1993.

Relive your favorite moments of the show with the Becky the Duck pool float. I drew this. I know it’s dumb…but it made me laugh.

Edit: Reddit compressed the hell out of this image.

Lisa, is everything OK? Screech told me about the accident.

-He did?

Yeah. It's not every day a truckload of bananas spills on the freeway. I'm just glad your mother is all right. Terrible thing about those monkeys, though.

One of my favorite bits Belding did. He really sells it. 🍌🐒

Seems kinda expensive to me.

So they weren't gonna get Tiffani and Elizabeth back.

Instead of hiring two Kelly/Jesse clones they introduced a single completely new character, which for better or worse, added something new and fresh to the series. I like Tori as a character. She's different, doesn't take Zack's crap and gives a bit of an outsider perspective to the show, while being in the gang. Her wondering why they treat Screech as crap was a great example of that.

Not only that, I Lisa got a bit more time to shine in these as well, getting a slightly larger role. I also like how they elevated some of the minor characters like Ox, Big Pete and Ginger. Having these characters do more makes the school feel more organic and alive.

I don't think the scripts of these are necessarily worse than the other ones. Even though it's a small amount of episodes it has some really fun ones like The Will and Class Rings.

I can see why people dislike them and they do feel different, but quality wise, they're still pretty fun and interesting to me.

I always laugh at the moment Belding thinks he may have killed Zack.

Solid episode overall, with a wacky plot, fun guest star and some great jokes.

i swear he had some of the coolest outfits on the show imo. this one happens to be one of my favorites. 💗

Hey dan a tight ship, obviously proud of his job as Hall monitor in the one episode where the school needed one. That being said his Brown jacket with red Hall Monitor band does create some unfortunate associations.

Still, shouldn't have been fired. Dewey is apparently not capable of hearing the direction where sounds comes from.

Zack Attack was all lip syncing. So was the Glee Club. So were the dance bands (Slater and Jessie singing Michael Bolton during the Zack/Kelly breakup), etc.

But for some reason they let Lark, Tiffani and Elizabeth shine as Hot Sundae.

Should’ve done it more often.

What could go wrong?

Love this scene. The unseen image of Belding looking for her at the mall plays rent free on my head. That being said, he wasn't looking for long as he got back pretty quickly.

Excuse me, what? Dr Turtle wants to keep Zack overnight “for observation to run some more tests” for a torn ACL? I smell an insurance scam 👀

I got off work and turned on the tv, to which a rerun of Matlock was on (S6.E17- Mr. Awesome)

"Matlock's defense of a young waitress charged with murder is greatly aided by her talented young son, who drew a comic book that eerily depicts the crime."- IMDB

The kid in this episode is none other than actor Jordan Christopher Michael, who also played Kelly's child admirer at Malibu Sands. At some point he forgot the comic books and discovered Kelly. 😂😏