Saved by the Bell was fucked up, here's why:
The series was generally not one to take itself too seriously, and as a result, it contains a significant number of continuity errors, due to oversight or plot convenience.
- Some of the biggest continuity errors are between Saved by the Bell and Good Morning, Miss Bliss:
- Good Morning, Miss Bliss took place at John F. Kennedy Jr. High in Indiana while Saved by the Bell is set at Bayside High in Pacific Palisades, California.
- The California high school looks essentially identical to the old Indiana junior high.
- In an episode of Good Morning, Miss Bliss, Zack's father is a single, swinging bachelor named Peter with a laid-back attitude. On Saved by the Bell, Zack's dad, Derek, is married and is a lot more serious and mature, and is played by a different actor.
- In one episode of Good Morning, Miss Bliss, it's also mentioned that Zack has a sister and Screech has a brother, but neither has siblings in the Saved by the Bell series.
- In the two-part episode "Wicked Stepbrother", Jessie's stepbrother Eric (Joshua Hoffman) is introduced; although he makes a menace of himself and intends to return to his home in New York, the gang convinces him to stay in Palisades. He is never seen again.
- In the episode, "Miss Bayside," Kelly performs a song at the rehearsals for the Miss Bayside pageant, and her singing is very off-key (as it is in the episode, "Glee Club"). However, in other episodes, especially "Jessie's Song" and "Rockumentary", Kelly can sing very well.
- "The Last Dance" episode spawned two continuity errors: beginning with that episode, Kelly was usually waitressing at The Max. However, on the episode called "The Teacher's Strike," Jessie was waitressing. Also in "The Last Dance", Jessie was the lead vocalist for the band Zack Attack; "Rockumentary" had Kelly as lead singer. (It should be noted that Berkley and Thiessen were absent in "Rockumentary" and "The Teacher's Strike," respectively; thus the switch for the remaining actresses was necessary.)
- Another continuity error involves the relationship of Zack and Lisa, who in the episode "The Bayside Triangle" kiss each other and decide to become a couple. This upsets Screech, who decides to fight for Lisa's heart but is convinced by Zack (and more effectively, by Lisa herself) to get over her. Lisa and Zack become a couple, but it is never again referenced after the episode. In fact, Zack again continues to pursue Tori and Kelly, and Screech again pursues Lisa (after being seen briefly pursuing Jessie at the end of "The Bayside Triangle").
- During the show, Zack states that he will attend Yale, and Slater says he is going to attend Iowa on a wrestling scholarship, yet Zack and Slater end up as roommates at California University, with no explanation given for the switch.
- In the Saved By the Bell episodes where the gang all have summer jobs at a beach resort, Slater translates on behalf of the Spanish-speaking kitchen staff, but in the episode of The College Years "Slater's War", he tells his activist classmate Theresa that he doesn't speak Spanish because he took French, "the language of love".
- In the episode "The Election" when Slater finds Mr. Belding working out in the locker room, they can both be seen wearing shirts that say "Bayside Jr. High School", even though Bayside is a high school. The mascot on the shirt is also a bird instead of a tiger. This may be due to the fact that the original series was set in a junior high school, and initially it was not clear whether Bayside was a junior high or high school.
- Despite the fact that his door opens directly to the hallway, Mr. Belding is often contacted by a secretary via intercom who announces his visitors. This may be because in the early episodes with Miss Bliss, there is a reception area where Miss Bliss picks up her mail. This is later transformed into Mr. Belding's office.
- The season four episode "Screech's Birthday" was not shot around the same time as the other episodes from that season. It shows a much younger looking cast, having been taped two years before.[4]
- In at least one episode of the original and another in the College Years, Slater makes note of the fact that he's known Screech since they were little, even though Slater was introduced in the original as a transfer student.
- Zack and Jessie claim to have known each other since kindergarten, but Jessie was never mentioned nor did she appear in Good Morning, Miss Bliss. It was also mentioned in "Jessie's Song" that Zack and Jessie snuck out of their houses to see E.T. The Extra Terrestrial when they were six years old, before the start of "Good Morning, Miss Bliss".
The gang in Saved by the Bell has a very puzzling senior year. Kelly and Jessie disappear for a long period of time, replaced by Torri, with no explanation given other than the fact that Torri is a new student. Kelly and Jessie later return to the show, and Torri disappears. There are talks about college choices and SAT scores during both of these stretches.
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