Broadcasting from the safety of his bunker in the year 2037, host Bruce Campbell revisits humanity’s greatest pop cult | dHNfbm04c0h5MXZwWUE
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00:00People often ask me,
00:01how is it that you look so darn handsome all the time
00:04despite being in the year 2037?
00:06Three words, folks.
00:08Moisturize, moisturize, Botox.
00:12They also ask me, what was high school like for you?
00:14Well, I tell them that high school was a blast.
00:18I dated this hot girl, Kelly,
00:19although she ended up hooking up with my friend, AC.
00:22Then my friend, Jesse, started abusing caffeine pills.
00:26Oh wait, that's not my high school.
00:27That's actually Saved by the Bell.
00:31Nothing can change a mood faster
00:32than hearing that theme song from your favorite show.
00:37But for every kid in the 90s,
00:38it was hearing that iconic school bell
00:40from the living room TV.
00:42I dare you not to smile.
00:45It's all right, cause I'm saved by the bell.
00:48Saved by the bell was my...
00:51Saved by the bell is probably some of my earliest memories.
00:53That was literally part of my everyday life.
00:57And he wasn't alone.
01:00Saved by the Bell first aired in August of 1989 on NBC
01:05and audiences couldn't get enough of these high schoolers.
01:10You had Zack Morris.
01:11Time to rock and roll, let the party begin.
01:14And he was just the man, he was cool.
01:17Mark Paul Gosler played Zack Morris.
01:19He was charming, he was a lazy man,
01:22he got into a lot of mischief.
01:23Zack Morris was kind of like a not nice person.
01:26Don't be cool.
01:28But his hair was amazing.
01:30But before Zack and the gang were partying at Bayside,
01:33they were somewhere in Indiana
01:35on a series called Good Morning, Miss Bliss.
01:38Started out as Zack, they kept Screech,
01:40they kept Lisa, then you have Mr. Belding,
01:42the principal who's way too involved
01:44in the students' lives.
01:45And then those characters carried over
01:46into Saved by the Bell.
01:47It was one of those wacky 90s transitions
01:49where they didn't tell you anything.
01:50Really?
01:51I didn't notice.
01:52After 13 episodes, the producers took a...
01:54Time out.
01:55To restructure the show.
01:56They moved to California, added three new characters,
02:00and focused more on friend dynamics,
02:02sparking the age-old schoolroom debate.
02:04Which one are you?
02:06I wanted to be like Zack Morris.
02:08I wanted to be buff like A.C. Slater.
02:10Ding dong.
02:11Come on now, everybody wanted to be Slater.
02:13You know what I mean?
02:14That fool had me doing crunches after school
02:17like every day.
02:18Slater had the, what was that?
02:21The mullet with the jerry curl.
02:22Mario Lopez's curls and signature dimples
02:25had America's youth in a chokehold during the 90s.
02:28Add Screech into the mix, and they were quite the broso.
02:31Screech was my guy.
02:32Awkward, but funny.
02:33Do I have to wear your Aunt Helen's bra again?
02:36He kept hitting on Lisa.
02:38She kept saying no.
02:39Can't wait for you to guess.
02:40You love me?
02:41Never.
02:42Lisa Turtle, of course.
02:43Hey, hey, hey.
02:46Okay, Lisa Turtle.
02:48First of all, why'd they give her that last name?
02:49She's the only black character you give a turtle
02:51as a last name.
02:53How could you do that to me?
02:54Clearly, there was no shortage of crush-worthy characters.
02:58Kelly Kapowski.
02:59Oh my God, Kelly Kapowski.
03:02Kelly was added as the all-American girl next door.
03:04Kelly, you can DM me.
03:06What's up, girl?
03:06You're embarrassing me.
03:08I feel like that was every boy's crush at some point.
03:10And then you grow up a little bit,
03:11and you think, no, Jessie was the one.
03:13Jessie, I mean.
03:16Elizabeth Berkley originally auditioned to play Kelly,
03:18but the producers decided to create a character
03:21just for her.
03:22I think I was looking for Jessie
03:24in every girl that I dated.
03:26I'm still looking for Jessie.
03:27But Saved by the Bell wasn't just crushes
03:29and character flaws.
03:31The series was also known for dealing
03:33with relatable high school issues.
03:34I do remember Jessie had a drug problem one time.
03:37Very excited about this drug problem.
03:38I'm so excited!
03:40She was so excited.
03:42I'm so excited!
03:44I'm so excited!
03:45And then, you know, Zach's shaking her,
03:47and then she's so scared.
03:48I'm so scared!
03:50I'm scared!
03:52That's a really powerful moment.
03:53As a kid, you're just like, whoa.
03:55Where can I get coffee pills to get a chick
03:57like Jessie Spanoff?
03:58And after four years, the actors grew out of Bayside,
04:01and the show was canceled.
04:03But unlike our other discontinued items,
04:05everyone wanted more.
04:07So the network gave us more.
04:09But then they had Saved by the Bell, the New Class,
04:11which lasted seven seasons.
04:13Then in 2020, Peacock rebooted Saved by the Bell.
04:16We're back!
04:17But the nostalgia wasn't enough.
04:19Saved by the Bell was discontinued for real.
04:22Looks like the king is dead!
04:25So in the end, Saved by the Bell
04:26was too much of a good thing.
04:28And after 30 years, America finally tapped out.
04:31For now, anyways.