Did anyone actually find this show funny? Tommy D.'s cluelessness was a hoot!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Saved by the Bell: The New Class
TadowScott — 3 years ago(September 28, 2022 03:17 PM)
My top three favorite moments are coincidentally from the same episode: "Casino IDs" (season 3, episode 21). This was a three-episode story arc that took place on a cruise during a semester-at-sea program:
- While at the casino, Tommy met a woman old enough to be his mother, according to the actor and actress's birthdays confirming a 28-year gap. Although, for the sake of hilarity that was about to ensue, I suppose her character was supposed to be old enough to be his grandmother, judging by her much older appearance, and "old" name (Hilda). He was observing her playing Blackjack. The dealer asked, "Do you want a hit?" He then defended her honor, "Are you threatening to fight a woman?" She then fell in love with his clueless, overprotective manner and kept stalking him for the rest of the episode.
- Ryan Parker (the Zack Morris carbon copy) devised a plan to keep Hilda away from Tommy, by informing her that he has contracted "dolphin pox." When she caught Tommy out and about and carefree, she said in a frenzy, "Tommy! Why aren't you in quarantine?" He responded, "Quarantine? I didn't know the boat was stopping there."
- Finally, in a subplot that occurred much prior to the two I listed, the class took a figure drawing course while R.J. Collins (the token black guy) posed. Tommy was the first to finish his portrait, because he literally just drew the initials R.J.
Even though it was blatantly obvious that Tommy De Luca was a carbon copy of A.C. Slater, Tommy had more originality and was criminally underrated IMO, because I don't ever recall Slater having any gut-busting "dumb jock" lines. Not bad for a spinoff that was forgettable in comparison to its parent series.
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Rocco76 — 3 years ago(October 07, 2022 08:27 PM)
I loved how the kids were never in school during the New Class. They were instead at a country club, dude ranch, the mall, space camp, firefighters camp, Paris, Cruise Ship, and a ski resort. There were far more episodes where they weren’t in school then were. Mr. Belding and Screech for some reason had jobs where ever the kids did.
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TadowScott — 3 years ago(October 08, 2022 10:45 PM)
My only gripe with the “not in school” episodes was the continuity issue. Apparently the the country club episodes (where they had summer jobs with Belding as their boss) were filmed simultaneously with the ones of the class in school. Then when they were broadcast on Saturday, it would be two episodes: one of them in school and one of them at the country club. This is also the order of episodes on the DVDs, which is confusing. For example, Screech’s girlfriend Alison from the country club is referenced while they’re in school. How could he have known her if the gang didn’t start working there until after school was over? My head hurts.
Although, I chalk it up to SBTB catering to the kiddy demographic — like cartoons which also aired on Saturday mornings, nothing has to make sense. -
TadowScott — 2 years ago(June 07, 2023 04:12 PM)
NGL, after Screech's return in Sept. '94 when the second season premiered, I always imagined myself coming back to my high school as my principal's admin. assistant… and accordingly to when Screech came back: one year after graduation. True story: I graduated junior high school the same year that his class graduated high school: 1993. That means that if I pulled a Screech, then I would've returned in Sept. '98 as my principal's assistant. Oh the hilarity of something utterly ridiculous like that actually happening. But that's SBTB for ya.