"SAVED by the the bell" The star Mark-Paul Gosselaar calls "morally odious" scenarios
The old teenager's idol said that he "crumbled teeth" re-regulating offensive episodes.
The series of successful teenagers of the 90s Saved by the gong We usually remember being a light sitcom - and for its "very special episodes" discussed with more serious subjects. (Which can forget the Infamous caffeine pill scenario ?) But the comedy was also a product of its time and included an offensive and dated content which would probably not be on television today. Saved by the gong star Mark-Paul Gosselaar , the most recent guest on the Boy meets the world podcast Pod meets the world , opened up to his colleagues idols of adolescents about some of the "morally odious" scenarios in which he was involved as a character, Zack Morris.
Read the rest to see what specific episodes that the 49 -year -old actor called and what he feels for him to see them again today.
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Gosselaar called some of the episodes "morally odious" and "dated".
Gosselaar hosts the Saved by the gong Rewatch Podcast Zack to the future with Dashiell Driscoll , a writer for the 2020 Saved by the gong Revival Series and writer of the video series of Funny or Die "Zack Morris is trash", which humorously dissects the most annoying decisions of the character. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
As Buzzfeed reported, on a first episode of Zack to the future ,, Gosselaar and Driscoll have discussed The second episode of the series, "The Lisa Card", which implies that Zack brought the students to embrace the classmate Lisa Turtle ( Alouette voorhies ) without his permission for money.
"I feel a little conflict by this particular episode, it was not as carefree and innocent as the last episode," said Morris on the podcast. "We are not going to say that we do not see some of the situations and morally odious or dated answers to certain things, but we are also there to give you a fun podcast, it is a celebration of Saved by the gong . ""
He also called an episode for cultural appropriation.
On the new episode of Pod meets the world , Gosselaar and hosts Danielle Fishel ,, Ryder Strong , And Will Friedle Apart from the experience of reviewing his 90s series. Gosselaar underlined two scenarios that presented certain sensitivity problems in terms of discussion.
"There was one where I was essentially walking Lisa Turtle, you know, to load people to kiss her without his consent," he said about the episode of "the Lisa card". "It was difficult, that we had to, you know, preface the episode [Podcast] by saying:" We do not tolerate this. We are just here to discuss it, but it's in the past. ""
He said they had to do the same about the episode "Running Zack", in which Zack claims to be Amerindian. "Seeing Zack Morris in a complete hairstyle ... It was the one on which we had to be a little sensitive," said the actor. "There are just things you just don't spin these days."
He said he doesn't remember having turned "Running Zack".
THE Mixed Star declared on his own podcast that he had blocked memories of the threading of a stereotypical interpretation of native clothes for Saved by the gong .
"I crunched teeth when I saw myself portraying a white guy being Zack Morris, who is like white guy with entirely American blond hair in an Indian Native American hairstyle," said Gosselaar (said (said (said (said (said (said (said (said via People ).
"This is one of those I don't like, I don't like me to remember putting the hairstyle. I don't remember putting the face of painting," he said. "I do not remember standing in this clumsy way that I stood where my arms are folded and like a very stereotypical way ... This episode would never be done at the time, and rightly so. ""
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He apologized publicly for the episode.
In 2016, Gosselaar apologized For the "Running Zack" episode.
"The only part of the episode - well, there are probably more games - that I think that specifically deserves a` `I am sorry for that ': it gives one - I do this in air quotes -" prohibition " which consists in putting war painting on cries [ Dustin Diamond ] And giving him a Tomahawk toy - and he has halet Weekly entertainment . He added that even when Zack took the presentation more seriously, "of course, he puts himself in a full American costume with painting and a hairstyle. It's another moment" I'm sorry "."
He revealed how he would have managed the material today.
According to Buzzfeed, on the episode of Zack to the future About "The Lisa Card", Gosselaar spoke of the way he would manage an offensive scenario today.
"This is one of these things now, being the actor I am, I would protect myself as well as my character," said the actor. "It would be one of those moments when I would have a dialogue with a writer, a producer and have a discussion and say:` `I think we should look at this a little more deeply, it will think well for me, for the character , for the future of the show? '"
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The series of renewals has enjoyed the original.
In 2020, Saved by the gong Back for a series of renewals which includes most of the original actors, including Gosselaar, is as main characters, recurring characters or in cameos. The show, which lasted two seasons, focuses on current Bayside High students, who is shaken when students from a recently closed sub-financial school join the mainly white and rich population of Bayside. The first episode reveals that Zack is now the governor of California, a position for which he presented to get out of a parking ticket. The show also presents him to make bad decisions which have much broader consequences than those of his high school days, such as the reduction of the budget for state education.
As indicated above, Driscoll de "Zack Morris is trash" was a writer for renewal. In an interview with TVLine, Gosselaar said he was a "big fan" Web series on his character. "And part of this is in [the renewal], which I absolutely like: Zack Morris being a little offensive and not being on the right side of things," he said.
"It's much more current," said Gosselaar about the new show. "Regarding the script, these are not the scripts that we obtained [31 years ago]. I don't think you can do it. It is somehow in all we do not do now ... And I don't necessarily know that it would be appropriate [to do things in the same way]. "
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