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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 11:59:12 GMT
Mike, I give you permission to kill me. If the original Saved By the Bell was stupid fluff, then this show is idiotic junk food for kids who had no taste. Why is that? Because it was the exact same show, only with different actors and names for the characters! You had a new schemer, a new bad boy, a new ditz, a new love interest, and a new dork! I think his name was Moose. And if I'm right...MOOSE?! What the hell? I'm reminded of a Seinfeld episode where Elaine meets the bizarro versions of her friends. Kramer's bizarro guy is named Feldman. I mean, Feldman? Please! Oh, AND MOOSE? What is going on in those producers' heads, anyway? Then they somehow convinced that Mr. Belding fella to come back. I don't know how much they gave him, but it could not possibly have been enough. Then they even managed to pull Screech back into the mix! And sorry, but when Screech is no longer a skinny little guy but someone who is taller than Belding, the annoying voice and clumsy antics just aren't funny anymore (if they were at all). I would like to apologize to the guy who played him, however. I've seen his stand-up comedy and it's obvious how much he hates these shows now. Props to ya, buddy! Anyway, they cancelled this show pretty fast, because everyone had moved on to Beverly Hills 90210 or the Smurfs or something. I don't know. But these characters were not interesting in the slightest, and none of them could act. Especially the bad boy/idiot who wore the leather jacket. He went out with the love interest and eventually they broke up in a scene that's so high school theater it made me want to gag. And I don't know what these kids went on to do afterwards, but I hope it was an Ovaltine commercial or work on the radio. They deserve it! 1/4 stars
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 12:02:04 GMT
Pure Rip-Off The thing that made Saved By The Bell such a classic show was because it was so outlandishly stereo-typical ... but was able to get away with it. This lasted for four years of highschool, plus a year of college. Definitely a classic series.
Enter Saved By The Bell: The New Class, and any true Saved By The Bell fan will roll their eyes in disgust. SBTB: The New Class was nothing but a cheap mirror of the original series. By the time "The New Class" entered the halls of Bayside, all of the jokes have been done, and the storylines were tested. Translation: THERE WAS NO NEED FOR A NEW CLASS.
Saved By The Bell: The New Class serves so night in carrying the title of the Saved By The Bell series. I wish it was possible to easily eliminate things from memory, because Saved By The Bell: The New Class would be far gone.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 12:03:31 GMT
Why? ? What in God's name was the use for this show? It was a poor man's version of the original. The original was starting to wear out its welcome, before it was timely removed, this junk should have went after the first season. Why would Screech come back, did he need money that bad? Was he so typecast that he could not get a job in acting anymore? I woke up early one morning ca 1998, and I could not believe that this crap was still on, I guess Saturday morning programming aimed at the children-teen market does not have to be Sophisicated. I am supposing the show executives thought that all the old fans of the original series moved on and a younger generation needed their own Saved by the Bell. Crap!!!!!
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 12:07:40 GMT
I began high school in September of 1993, the exact same month & year that "Saved by the Bell: The New Class" premiered. So I thought it was cool to grow up with this show... until I noticed that it was still on after I graduated high school in June of 1997. So this show didn't conclude until the year 2000! That made absolutely no sense.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 13:21:00 GMT
Bayside's BORING Class! There isn't much to say about this gig except for how it very much tarnished Saved by the Bell's reputation. I can not come to grips with how long this boring class lasted. What makes me shake my head is that a spinoff of Saved by the Bell would be so lame. Another thing is the comeplete mishandling of College Years. Peter Engel was a genius to continue Saved by the Bell in a College Years format with the many of the original friends from Bayside. What hurts loyal followers of Saved by the Bell is how the Saved by the Bell project was 1 for 3 with TWO MAJOR failures and only ONE HUGE success. The most ironic thing about the two major failures, New Class & College Years, is how one was the opposite of the other. What I mean is that College Years had a great deal of potential and should have lasted on NBC television in primetime or simply pulled back to Saturday Mornings. New Class on the other hand, had little to offer after seeing Zack and his friends at Bayside from 1989 through 1993. College Years should have actually lasted as long as New Class, which should have had the plug pulled on it in 1994 and been replaced by College Years. Looking at how many episodes of Bayside's BORING Class were made, makes a lot of people realize that it was basically shamefully taking the place of College Years on Saturday mornings. I'll never forget the direct connection New Class has to College Years. This TV show with Zack and his friends at CALU in the Golden Bay Area will probably and shamefully enter TV lore as the only prematurely cancelled show with the most potential. In a funny way you can say that there are two versions of College Years. One version is what we saw in primetime which was 17 episodes; don't count the last two with the rediculous plot about Zack and Kelly deciding to getting married. The other version is the one that never played out in front of our eyes on television, which should have been all those episodes that the cast of the New Class were SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, allowed to do. New Class should go down in television history as the only totally undeveloped show that lasted too many years without ever having any potential.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 13:24:37 GMT
Oh good heavens!! This was a mistake from the very begining! Just a replacement of the old cast. What i can't get over though is Screech. His VOICE!! WTF is that about? He had a normal male voice squeeky only here and there, in the last year of the original show and in the college years. SO WHY ON EARTH DID HE HAVE TO GO BACK TO THAT GOD AWFUL VOICE IN THE NEW CLASS?!! Oh it makes me even madder when i think about it. gotta go before i through something!
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 13:26:28 GMT
The Franchise Takes a Major Dive! What went through the heads of Executive Producer Peter Engel and director Don Barnhart when they conceived this concept. After the success of the original show there were a string of imitators and this show seems to be one of them. It is like a self-parody with a cast who's chemistry are no where near the excellence of the original. And why is Screech an assistant principal?!
What a sad show this was!
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 14:00:13 GMT
Excellent show I love Saved by the bell the new class it is very different to saved by the bell. I first started watching it every morning at 8am. I love this show it is one of the best series I have ever watched it is wonderful. I love the cast it is very good excellent actors. I think I have watched every episode from season 4 to 7. I do not know why so many people don't like this show I don't see what is so horrible about it. I think this series is a very well acted. I like saved by the bell but I like saved by the bell the new class better. I have gone all around many websites and many people consider this show one of the most horrible show on tv. Well I can tell those people that don't like Saved by the bell the new class that they don't know what they are missing. I rate this show 10/10.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 14:31:53 GMT
Guilty Pleasure This show was one of those rainy day holiday programs along with such other classics such as the original SBTB and (the superior)California Dreams.
Even though we were effectively served up the same old nonsense each and every episode (normally Screech helping the students, being sacked and then reinstated with Mr Belding giving us a dose of his fatherly advise on how honesty is the best policy etc etc..) somehow my friends and I enjoyed this show...
The main thing that separates this from the original was the fact that in the uk they broadcast out of sequence and you'd never see the same cast two days in a row and they'd age up and down so it was a lot harder to like the leads - except Dennis Haskins who probably looks exactly the same now - 10 years later.
If I had to use three words to describe it they would be : Corny, Predictable and Classic.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 14:32:05 GMT
A Very Noticeable Crack in the Bell Now. "Saved by the Bell: The New Class" wore on and on for eight seasons and an amazing 143 Saturday morning episodes from 1993 through 2000. None of the students in the revolving door of Bayside High in California make much of an impression and we are left with old alums Dennis Haskins and Dustin Diamond trying to salvage any dignity the concept once had. Nothing is very successful though as the premise is old and tiring with past situations played out by lesser performers who may have careers as models, but not legitimate television actors and actresses. More proof that old ideas played out with new people is rarely successful in American television programming.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 14:43:58 GMT
This is NOT a bad show I liked this one better myself. First of all Screech and Belding made a great comedic duo. They were two of the only people doing modern slapstick and they did it well. Granted Screech's fake voice in later seasons was not needed but they were very funny. The kids were also a little nicer to Screech. OK so he is older, but the kindness they showed him was so much better then the nasty put downs from the original. I mean it just made Lisa, Jessie etc. look bad. Natalia and Sarah are two of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen. The guys who played Ryan, R.J, and Tommy were all funny and the only real drawback was the changing cast. I think season 2 and 3 are the best cast wise because of Natalia and Sarah but all were decent. It is just that even if these were more likable characters, you hardly got to know them. I did not mind the life lesson part. I was pretty innocent when the show first aired and these (along with City Guys, and Hang Time) were the only T.V. kids my age I related too. I was nothing like the people on 90210, and was not ready for sex or drugs. The New Class was a clean cut alternative that made me feel good watching it.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 14:45:59 GMT
Good show 8/10 I used to watch this show when I was growing up. Anytime it enters my mind, I remember it vaguely. If you ask me, it was a good show. When I think about it, I remember the opening sequence and theme song vaguely, too. In addition to that, everyone was ideally cast. Also, the writing was very strong. The performances were top-grade, too. I hope some network brings it back so I can see every episode. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that I'll always remember this show in my memory forever, even though I'm not sure if I've seen every episode. Now, in conclusion, if some network ever brings it back, I hope that you catch it one day before it goes off the air for good.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 14:55:33 GMT
The only reason I'm giving it a seven is cause it lasted longer than its original 7/10 This show was certainly not as good as the original. As good as the original was, it lasted four years, which was appropriate given that most if not all high school students endure four years in high school. It did make some good attempts to be as good as the original, with the inclusion of Mr. Belding. However, I think it's kind of creepy that Screech would still be hanging around his alma mater so much. It's like he doesn't want to move on from his years at Bayside. Oh well, at least he adds a little bit of the original to this spin off. The reason why I'm giving it a seven is because it managed to last for seven seasons. Why? That is the billion dollar question.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 14:59:53 GMT
Only for Natalia Cigliuti fans like me!
I don't know if anybody else noticed that the episodes in this sitcom were THE EXACT SAME situations as in the original "Saved By The Bell". Yes, the same situations with some slight changes.
Heck they could even put more effort in the new characters! most of them were carbon copies of the original cast members. Even Weasel is a sad attempt of Screech. But whatever, I must admit I liked this show for only one reason: NATALIA CIGLIUTI. She was smoking hot, beautiful, cute, and had good acting skills.
She's by far the hottest member on the series. Yes, she was that beautiful. I wonder why she isn't more famous. But that's another thing.
This new class had it's moments but never matched the charisma of the original series, but on it's positive side, it had elements of 90's pop culture that weren't good capitalized by the original. I really liked how they displayed most of the early 90's craziness.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Jan 29, 2014 15:05:31 GMT
not as good as original but not too bad either
It has been over a decade since I last watched Saved by the Bell: The New Class but remembering how I grew up watching the hilarious series, I was not able to hesitate borrowing the DVD tapes from the library to watch again.
After watching several episodes of seasons 3, 4, and 5 again, the first thing I have to say about this series is that true enough, the plots and story lines cannot match the original SBTB series. The acting was very wooden at times, the scripts likewise seemed too scripted, the story lines seemed rehashed from the original series, and there weren't as many serious issues the characters dealt with as compared to the original series that hadn't been covered already. All of this made SBTBNC rather average.
Yet there were some things that made SBTBNC very worthwhile to watch. The fashion was definitely better than the original series though that's my opinion because I was teenager myself during SBTBNC's years. Seasons 4 and 5 also hit well with the stepbrother duo of Ryan and Nicky and the hot tempered Maria also being a delight to watch. This series also branches out of the high school and shows what teenagers can do outside of school such as obtaining part time jobs, doing community service at a hospital, and travelling (all courtesy of a good economy during the Clinton years). Surprisingly, the odd and unlikely duo of Mr. Belding and Screech also helped keep the series alive.
One may wonder why Screech is not in college but working as Mr. B's administrative assistant and that is because his days as a Bayside student prepared him for this. After being tormented, cheated, used, bullied, mocked, and ignored throughout high school, Screech very likely felt like an insecure loser, and this was his opportunity to relive high school and try his luck again. His emotional outbursts (though sometimes overacted), his obsession with being the save-the-day know-it-all, his off-campus ventures such as an out of control lottery ticket gambling habit and balloon business (season 4) to a second job as mall security guard (season 5) also proved that Screech was more insecure than ever and was trying to come out as a hero and overcome his perception of himself as a loser. Yet there were times that Screech would cunningly outsmart the students or even Mr. Belding himself which showed that he did shed some of the his old timid self.
This same goes for Mr. Belding who is always friendly to his students but by this late a time is clearly suffering some sort of midlife crisis and tries to deny that he is getting old by refusing to wear glasses (season 4), trying to prove that he has special abilities in all areas (running a hospital experiment, taking ballet classes, running outside businesses at Palisades Mall, and living in a mock space shuttle) and desperately trying to be the best mentor and friend to his students. Underlying the comedy, the theatrics, and the overacting,these two characters reveal very serious, scary, and at times depressing issues that have to do more with life after high school and sends a potent message to young viewers.
All in all, the series is not as bad as one thinks.
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