Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell
TV-G | 20 August 1989 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Solemplex

    To me, this movie is perfection.

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    WasAnnon

    Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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    Dotbankey

    A lot of fun.

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    AshUnow

    This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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    Dave

    This sitcom is set in a high school in Los Angeles. It centres on six pupils: narcissist Zack, his dorky sidekick Screech, muscular jock Slater, hot girl Kelly, 'princess' Lisa and ardent feminist Jessie - as well as their headmaster Mr Belding.This is a sanitised view of high-school life, which avoids many topics which should be covered. Sex is never mentioned, there's no significant violence and there's no swearing. Some of the situations are far-fetched. It seems to be aimed at kids who are younger than the main characters. Screech's intelligence is very inconsistent. In some episodes, he is shown to be very intelligent - but in others he is shown to be stupid.On several occasions, a new character becomes a major part of an episode or two - yet then disappears without explanation and is never seen or mentioned again. Examples of this include the girl wrestler, the fat girl who pays for a date with Zack, Slater's girlfriend who arrives from Germany, the school nurse, the gold-digging girl and the homeless girl and her father. The reason for the absence of Jessie and Lisa in many episodes is never indicated to the audience.The episodes were originally shown with several of them out of order, which is noticeable from the continuity of the story lines and the ages of the kids in each episode.The British teenage shows Skins and The Inbetweeners are much better.

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    willhaskew

    Saved by the Bell originated as a show called Good Morning Miss Bliss, based around a popular junior high school teacher named Miss Bliss played by Haley Mills. Mark Paul Gosselear was there as Zack, Lark Voorhies as Lisa, Dennis Haskins as Principal Richard Belding and Dustin Diamond as Screech. Miss Bliss taught history at JFK Junior High in Indianapolis, Indiana, with the show following her students' interactions along with some glimpses of Miss Bliss' home life. The show was made for the 1988-89 TV season and appeared on the Disney Channel but didn't last long. Since it was originally produced by NBC, the show was retooled as a teen sitcom focusing on Zack Morris, a fourth wall breaking popular guy who attended Bayside High School. The show was moved from Indiana to Malibu, California. Mr. Belding, Screech, and Lisa were all there but Mario Lopez as Slater, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie and Tiffany Thiessen as Kelly were all added. Zack's character was based on Ferris Bueller from the 1986 film with him being the most popular kid in school, though he doesn't have the adversarial relationship with Mr. Belding that Ferris did with Dean of Students Ed Rooney. Zack wasn't a slacker academically, seeming to at least do well enough to pass his classes and played basketball and ran track as well. Jessie, was an obsessive high achieving academic, class president and feminist. She seemed like she believed the school's self-appointed social conscience at times. Screech was a prototypical supernerd, he invented weird and useless things, excelled academically, was a chess champion, and always seemed hang out with the popular kids despite those things. The wardrobe always seemed to emphasize the nerdiness of Screech by dressing him in the worst clothes-rainbow suspenders, tie-dyed shirts, and ugly Chuck Taylor Converse were his typical costume. Lisa, she was the pretty girl who was into fashion, make up and seemed to be the most interested in dating despite rarely being shown with a boyfriend. Slater, he excelled as a star football player and wrestler, his dad was supposed to be an Army officer, and he had an on and off again relationship with Jessie. He was also shown as a dancer and enjoyed cooking. Kelly, she was the pretty girl next door, cheerleader, athletic, and the most popular girl at school. She and Zack were the main couple on the show and had on and off relationship too. All the other kids on SBTB seemed to come from wealthy or well-to-do families but we do see Kelly's family struggle financially at times. Kelly was also the oldest in a large family with her babysitting her younger siblings as part of her responsibilities. Sometimes the show got a little ridiculous in trying to teach a moral lesson, with the infamous caffeine pill episode where Jessie was using them to stay awake so she could study and get into Stanford.

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    iloveUGA123

    Event though I did not grow up with this show, even in 2013 it is still airs every morning on TV on some channel. I love this show and have been watching it since I was in elementary school, and I still watch the re runs even though I have already seen all of the episodes before. If you're into shows like the Cosby show, full house, the nanny, boy meets world, etc., this is such a good show to watch! I did not grow up with any of the shows that I listed but I love and watch them all! I would definitely recommend this show, it is and I think always will be one of my favorite TV shows. I would truly disregard any comments about the bad acting and poorly written scripts because it's a show about teenagers in high school, and in my opinion, the script matched it perfectly (I am currently a sophomore in high school)! A must watch!

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    jacksonXOXO

    There's a lot that might happen in this show and that's the best part; it twists and turns, like at the episode where Kelly and Zack get married. There's also a lot of struggle while they're in high school, but the realism of this show is at a minimum.The entertainment is good for thirty minutes, and this is probably a good show for its time. There's a lot about it that makes it different; it's unlike HSM, where High School is totally perfect, no worries at all, and it takes practically real high school kids and makes them have a story, and even though their journey isn't realistic, it's interesting to see what will happen next, and it'll hook you on it.

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