Saved by the Bell

So I learned today something that stirs up memories from my childhood. Going off of a link from Facebook to youtube there is a video of from the Jimmy Fallon show where he is interviewing Zack Morris. Yes. Zack Morris. Not Mark Paul Gosselaar, but Zack Morris. There were the familiar rolled up jeans, time outs, pictures of Kelly, and yes the Zack Morris cellular phone.

Little did I know before the interview, Jimmy Fallon had started a push to get the entire cast to have a reunion on the show. Mr. Belding, Liza Turtle, AC Slater, Jessi Spano, and now Zack Morris have all agreed to do a reunion. The only two that haven't agreed yet are Kelly Kapowski, and Screech. I am hopeful that both of them will come back to what started there acting careers but I doubt that Screech will.

Thinking about Saved by the Bell made me go back to my childhood. While I was just a babe when the show originally aired, I distinctly remember watching the show every morning on TBS before I went to school. I was also a huge fan of tNBC. tNBC was NBC's Saturday morning lineup. It was real actors and not cartoons. It had shows like California Dreaming, Hang Time, City Guys, Saved by the Bell: the New Class, and One World. These shows were geared more towards teens and were, simply put, awesome.

They were all pretty much the exact same show, but they were all great in their own different, cheesy ways. They were all set in a high school setting and involved problems of a "typical" high schooler. I look back at these shows and realize how cheesy they were but how awesome they were at the time. It makes me think about kids now and the shows that they watch and how they will view them in ten years or so.

So for you fans of the early morning TV, hears to living in the past and hoping that Saved by the Bell will soon grace us with a reunion on the Jimmy Fallon Show. Come on Kelly and Screech