RIP thread

[Rev. Rye]

"Saved by the Bell" is one of the crappiest TV shows ever. I remember watching it in disbelief that it is an actual show and not some parody.

I guess the bizarre thing was that in the end, all the characters moved on (to college) except Screech who still stayed in high school for some reason, making him even creepier, and now when these desperate actors gathered back to continue the show, they ditched Screech - I guess for some snobbish reason that he was not good enough for the show's high standards.

Okay, so, as a fan of the show, here's my response:

• Screech actually did go to college with the rest of the gang (except Lisa, who went to FIT, Jessie, who I'm fairly certain ended up going to Stanford, and Tori, who presumably ended up going wherever Chuck Cunningham went when the showrunners decided her existence didn't matter anymore.)
  
• While The New Class wasn't part of the syndication package I watched every morning before high school, it looks like there's a legit reason he ended up coming back to Bayside: he was in a work-study program and became Belding's assistant.
  
• Even before he got into legal trouble, he had pretty much burned his bridges with the rest of the show, particularly after he published a book (which, by all accounts, is pretty questionable in its veracity, and even Diamond would eventually claim most of it was fabricated), however, by most accounts, his relationship with the cast was only a few steps removed from this:
  
  
  
  So, it's no wonder he decided not to do Bayside.