The Almanac ([info]pseudohistorian) wrote,
@ 2009-06-11 14:02:00
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I Grab My Books and I Give Myself a Look
Before I completely neglect to mention it, Zack Morris made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this week to update us all on what he's been up to since his days at Bayside:


I was surprised at the attention to continuity in his interview, referencing everything from Zack's (impossible) SAT score to his Wedding in Las Vegas--even addressing the retcon of Good Morning, Miss Bliss (the precursor to Saved by the Bell where some of its characters debuted), which was set in Indiana--and I have to say that The Roots can rock out that theme music rather well. :) It's also a little disturbing how easy it is to make Mark-Paul Gosselaar look the part again...

I'm glad to see Zack's kept his brick of a mobile phone (no text messaging, alas), but sad to learn of his divorce from Kelly Kapowski...although of course, that all depends on whether this appearance could be considered canon. ;)


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[info]lampbane
2009-06-11 07:26 pm UTC (link)
I actually got to see that on live TV, thanks to the bf actually watching the show on a semi-regular basis. Weird to see it without the clip, but I guess that's the way rights clearance goes...

Surprised at the lack of Tori references... or maybe we shouldn't speak of that.

Also? His SAT score? Not so impossible. I have a friend who got a 1560, and he never went to class (also never graduated).

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[info]pseudohistorian
2009-06-11 07:36 pm UTC (link)
True, Tori Scott and the resultant Tori Paradox were not mentioned, even though it would've made for a funny "she was only there half the time in senior year" joke that fit with the rest of the interview. :)

I didn't mean that Zack's score was impossible because it was so high (the SAT's are out of 2400 now, but would've been out of 1600 when he took them in 1993), but rather because SAT scores are in increments of 10. ;)

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[info]lampbane
2009-06-11 07:40 pm UTC (link)
Oh duh, I completely didn't think of that. Probably because I'm used to shows getting stuff like standardized testing wrong all the time. It's depressing, if only because unlike medical or law school, high school is something that almost everyone has done, and yet they don't strive for accuracy.

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[info]pseudohistorian
2009-06-12 08:16 am UTC (link)
After seeing many examples of what you're talking about on The West Wing, I've taken to calling this Sorkin Syndrome, where a series can be completely accurate about obscure things (Bartlet's tirade against God in unsubtitled Latin), yet completely wrong about other basic, easily verifiable facts (Ontario and Vermont do not share a border).

I'm not sure why Sorkin Syndrome exists, but it is indeed depressing...

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[info]polypolyglot
2009-06-12 01:31 pm UTC (link)
Aside from the Good Morning, Miss Bliss/Saved by the Bell connection, does SBTB have any kind of crossover with other series?

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[info]pseudohistorian
2009-06-12 04:50 pm UTC (link)
Despite the fact that NBC loved gratuitous crossovers between its series during that era, it seems that Saved by the Bell is a closed system--limited only to connections with its own spinoffs, Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Saved by the Bell: The New Class, along with the two TV movies.

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[info]absente
2009-06-15 04:35 pm UTC (link)
Hey there,
I'm not really accepting any new friend requests on LJ because I rarely write here anymore. I do most of my (lazy, 140-character) blogging on the Twitter like the rest of the kiddies.
www.twitter.com/killahmcgillah
xo
Addy

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[info]pseudohistorian
2009-06-18 06:39 am UTC (link)
I'm not really accepting any new friend requests on LJ because I rarely write here anymore.

I guess I'm surprised to hear this because your "last updated" info tells a different story...

I do most of my (lazy, 140-character) blogging on the Twitter like the rest of the kiddies.

I'm afraid I'm not on the Twitter (even though, as I mentioned in my most recent entry, I'm considering it), so I'm not capable of the same following as the rest of the kiddies at the moment. :/

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