AC Slater Was Gay for Zack Morris… for Five Seconds
Added 2020-12-03 08:55:15 +0000 UTC“The Zack Tapes” (December 2, 1989)
What’s gay about Saved By the Bell, aside from Slater’s singlets and Tori’s leather jacket? Well, there is one episode that very briefly demonstrated that same-sex attraction was a thing — on Saturday morning, no less. It’s all he more surprising because the new Saved By the Bell manages to make amends for all the things the original series did wrong except feature any kind of same-sex love. And yes, we’re doing this episode because we really dug the reboot anyway.
Watch the little-seen original pilot for Good Morning, Miss Bliss here, and watch the very un-Saved By the Bell opening credits here.
The Neverending Story theme as performed by Kids Incorporated is as weird as Glen remembers.
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The outro track for this episode is “Go for It” by the little-known Los Angeles girl group Hot Sundae. Listen to it on YouTube here.
Comments
I never got into "Saved By The Bell" because the episodes I did watch Zach is always a douche. To my delight (and maybe yours), Funny or Die has a collection of YouTube videos called, "Zach Morris Is Trash," breaking down all the episodes and their shenanigans and how Zach is absolute trash.
Vanessa Lopez
2022-12-12 22:34:58 +0000 UTCIn my local friend group, we all have one person the rest of the group is friends with that we have never met, or didn't meet for YEARS after everyone else knew them. They're the person who "doesn't exist."
Lea Susan Engle
2020-12-11 08:14:09 +0000 UTC
