BONUS EPISODE: Saved by the Bell [Patreon episode]

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This is the latest installment of our Patreon-only chats that we wanted to share with y'all because it's the Sunday before Covid Thanksgiving and things are weird! You could probably use a little Bayside in your life, so here we are. If this is the sort of things that appeals to y'all, we have weekly conversations about odds and ends over at our Patreon account. We call these chats "Shootin' the Shit w. Why Are Dads". This week we talked Zack Morris, Richard Belding, and the many dad issues that can be found in the Saved By the Bell universe. Specifically, we talk about the episodes Rent-a-Pop and A Tale of Two Beldings. We recorded this a while back, back before we knew what sort of format Why Are Dads would stick to. The only thing I wish, in retrospect, is that I [Alex] didn't refer to Dustin Diamond as "off the rails". Child stardom is fucked up and kinda (and sometimes very) abusive! On that note, you should totally watch Showbiz Kids, Alex Winter's HBO documentary on child stardom. You can find Why Are Dads here, and on Twitter and Instagram.

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0:00.0	Sarah Marshall, how are you doing?
0:02.0	I'm doing good, I think, actually.
0:04.0	I feel like I have good things happening in my life
0:07.0	and doing this show is one of them, and on Thanksgiving,
0:11.0	stay home alone in my own house, and I've ordered a charcuttery plate that's
0:18.1	intended for six to eight people, but I've purchased it for me by myself like Quint and I'm just going to eat
0:26.7	charcuttary and watch whatever movies I want and be all alone and I'm excited about it. Do you have any ideas about what it might be?
0:37.0	Oh I'm sure it'll be some horror, I'm sure it'll be some Christmas movies, those are two of my favorite kinds of movies.
0:43.2	Sure.
0:44.2	Sure.
0:45.2	So this conversation was from, you know, one of our first couple episodes before we knew
0:50.7	what the format of the show is really going to be and this will just be sort of a
0:54.0	snip of that conversation. What was your experience was saved by the bell as a young person?
0:59.7	It just was something that was always somewhere on TV and I remember finding it kind of a little bit eerily
1:05.8	charming actually because it was a sitcom about kids that took place in a little
1:11.3	bit of an unreal seeming world, right?
1:13.7	It's like the school where there's not really other students, they don't really bother to
1:19.7	pretend that they're around the way I do, the way they do on other shows like it's like this very sunny
1:25.2	kind of David Lynch reality you know like it's a it's a weird world they're in
1:29.7	don't you think yeah oh god that's that group is it. It's like it's like if Blue Velvet never turned.
1:36.5	Oh my God, but wouldn't you love to see like Blue Velvet but was
1:43.2	Zach Morris instead of the Kyle McLaughlin character but he keeps like turning
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