Saved by the Bell - Part I
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2015
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Boy oh boy did we all adore Saved by the Bell when we were kids. Donna thought this is exactly what high school was going to be like. Chris and Carlos knew better, but actually loved the show because of how heightened and ridiculous it was. As we got older, it didn't take long to figure out that this series was objectively pretty awful and that most of these kids were terrible people. And yet - we remain incredibly fond of it. Listen in as we attempt to figure out why...
Topics include: the show's origins as Good Morning Miss Bliss, the various spin-offs and TV movies that kept the Saved by the Bell brand alive for years after the original series ended, how disturbing it is that no one involved with this seemed to notice that all of these characters were dangerous sociopaths, the murky sense of morality that undermines a lot of the lessons these episodes were trying to teach us, the secret truth about Bayside's miniscule number of students, why the show is at its best when it commits to being a live-action cartoon, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Saved by the Bell? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome, Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.4 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.3 | And today we're revisiting Saved by the Bell. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Saved by the Bell. Before Slater, Kelly and Jesse, before Bayside and the Max, there was Good Morning Miss Bliss, a sitcom that starred Haley Mills as an eighth-grade teacher who often took on a maternal role in the lives of her students as she tried to instill them with values and discipline. |
| 1:09.1 | The pilot was produced for NBC, but the network |
| 1:11.3 | ultimately passed on it. The Disney Channel saw its potential, however, and agreed to air the show |
| 1:16.1 | for one season. After those initial 13 episodes were produced, Disney canceled the series, |
| 1:21.5 | and the rights reverted back to NBC. Rather than drop it altogether, they decided to revamp |
| 1:26.4 | Good Morning, Miss Bliss, and give it another shot. |
| 1:28.8 | The result was saved by the bell. |
| 1:31.0 | In addition to a substantial overhaul of the main cast, the revamped format also meant that the setting was switched from Indiana to California. |
| 1:38.5 | The students were now in high school, and the focus was on them instead of their teachers. |
| 1:43.1 | The reality was heightened, the hijinks were emphasized, and the series was on them instead of their teachers. The reality was heightened, the hijinks were |
| 1:45.2 | emphasized, and the series was an enormous hit. Saved by the Bell ran until 1993, at which |
| 1:51.6 | point it was essentially split into two spinoffs, saved by the Bell the college years, and |
| 1:56.2 | saved by the Bell the new class, neither of which were as successful or influential as their predecessor. |
| 2:02.0 | There were also two made-for-TV movies, saved by the Bell Hawaiian style, and saved by |
| 2:06.9 | the Bell wedding in Las Vegas, the latter of which served as a definitive finale for the |
| 2:11.5 | original group of Bayside students. If you've listened to our Are You Afraid of the Dark or Pete |
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