Okay, I am back with another Saved by the Bell Review. This time it is with the season that was the height of the show's popularity: Season 3. Now in my opinion Seasons 3 and 4 are really the same season but the DVD box sets separate them into two so my reviews will follow suit. This is part 1 so it will only cover the episodes on the first disk.
Episode 1: The Fabulous Belding Boys (F):
In this episode Mr. Belding introduces his younger brother who becomes real popular with the kids especially Zack until he wants to bail out on taking them on the class trip and Zack realizes that Richard is the better Belding.
Episode 2: Breaking up is hard to do (F):
In this episode Slater and Jessie want to start dating exclusively but can't agree on their first date. Kelly wants to have dinner with an ex-boyfriend but Zack forbids it. The couples split. When this leads to chaos and Mr. Belding is thrown out of his own home and is spending too much time with the boys, they come up with a scheme to get their girls back called "What I should have said theater".
Episode 3: The Glee Club (F):
In this episode Screech comes to the rescue of his girlfriend when she has to sing a solo for a glee club competition after being chewed out by her parents for being in the same location with the boy when they were the ones not supposed to be back there.
Episode 4: The Last Dance:
Zack and Kelly break up after she falls for her new boss. Oh and the song that Jessie and Slater sing relates to this situation more than I ever thought. I never paid a attention to the song before but the verses they sing is exactly what was going on between Zack and Kelly.
Episode 5: Zack's Birthday Part (F):
This begins a series of episodes that take place during the summer and are about the gang working at a beach club (except Lisa who was a member). In this one Zack's birthday is coming up. The gang throws him a party at the club late at night and it almost gets them fired if the boss' daughter didn't step in and she wouldn't have if Zack had revealed that friendship is more important than looking down on everyone like they're subordinates.
Episode 6: The Aftermath:
This is the conclusion to episode 4. With them showing two episodes a week. This was shown one week after Part 1 so that is why part two doesn't follow part 1 on the disk. In this episode Zack deals with his grief over losing Kelly. His friends and fellow students don't make it easy for him. First they set him up on blind dates (which must means he went to the same movie four time that week) and then he gets slapped when he takes that last of those dates to the Max and dances with her to his and Kelly's song. When Screech gives him useful advice on what idiots are he shows up at Lisa's party and clears the air with Kelly and her new boyfriend.
Final thoughts:
Now as you have notice two of these episodes are not my favorites. They are not bad but I've seen them too many times to really enjoy them anymore. The truth is whenever I would watch this show (usually on TBS) it would always be at the point in the cycle they were showing the episodes I have not marked as favorite. The ones I have marked as favorite are ones I can watch over and over again many times and still be entertained. These are not two of those episodes. Okay and another beef I have is with a scene in "The Aftermath". They are giving names of girls for Zack to date to cheer him up and they don't show his date with the girl Slater mentions (although the clip is kept in later episode that is a clip show but I will discuss it when I get to it). They completely skip it.
Well this is the end of this review. Part 2 will be coming soon. I don't know exactly when because I am trying to concentrate on watching other DVDs I have to watch. Until next time.
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