Zack Morris is Trash!

in THE 1990s5 years ago (edited)

There's this playlist on Funny or Die's YouTube channel that currently at the time of this posting has 51 videos exclusively proving that the fictional character Zack Morris is just the worse.

There's a fan theory that the entire Saved by the Bell series takes place in Zack Morris' imagination during the only season of Good Morning, Miss Bliss. I've only seen about five episodes total of Saved by the Bell and no episodes of Good Morning, Miss Bliss so I am not qualified to write a post about it in the Fan Theories community. However, the Wikipedia entry for Good Morning, Miss Bliss describes that series' Zack Morris as "...a charming, manipulative scamp; lazy and not a good student and always looking for the easy way out." Maybe that makes the fan theory consistent with Zack Morris being trash. Zack Morris may fantasize his own characteristics to be an advantage. I don't know. Maybe someone who has seen the show more can fill me in on this '90s sociopath.

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 5 years ago  

Did the Good Morning, Miss Bliss television show predate Saved by the Bell and Zack Morris was in both shows? Same actor and same character? I say I like this theory.

According to IMDB yes, both shows had Zack Morris as the same character/actor and Good Morning, Miss Bliss came first.

Oh, no! See what you made me do? I just saw on IMDB starting this year a Saved by the Bell reboot has the character Zack Morris as governor of California in the series. How did that happen?

 5 years ago  

Zack is now a governor or is this a different character by the same name?

From IMDB:

A follow-up series to the 1990s sitcom. A group of California low-income high school students are transferred to Pacific Palisades' wealthy Bayside High, following a program by California Governor Zack Morris.

From Wikipedia:

The series will center around a new group of Bayside High students from "overprivileged" and working-class families, among the latter of which were transferred to the school as part of a plan by now-California Governor Zack Morris—whose administration experiences controversy for closing too many low-income high schools—to send lower-income students to the highest-performing schools in the state.

 5 years ago  

When did this reboot start?

It hasn't yet. It's supposed to be sometime this year on NBC's streaming service.

Oh, they're also rebooting Punky Brewster. We have some '80s also.

 5 years ago  

I will check it out.

From IMDB:

A follow-up series to the 1990s sitcom. A group of California low-income high school students are transferred to Pacific Palisades' wealthy Bayside High, following a program by California Governor Zack Morris.

From Wikipedia:

The series will center around a new group of Bayside High students from "overprivileged" and working-class families, among the latter of which were transferred to the school as part of a plan by now-California Governor Zack Morris—whose administration experiences controversy for closing too many low-income high schools—to send lower-income students to the highest-performing schools in the state.