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Saved By The Bell was one of the best shows that ever aired on Saturday mornings. Ok so it wasn't a show full of Emmy quality performances, but it was a show that was an escape from the everyday pressure that school has on its students. Saved By The Bell centers on a group of friends and their ups and downs through high school. Filled with memorable moments and interesting characters, SBTB is one of the best young adult programs of its time. It has stood the test of time and still remains a popular program. I think it was a show made for the sure purpose of entertaining its young audience for a half an hour. There are a lot of episodes that were pretty amusing. Never again will a generation make such a connection as the one mine did with SBTB, the series starred Mark Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris, the main character who each week spun in and out of several pretty extreme situation. His main squeeze Kelly Kapowski played by Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, and the most popular geek Screech, played by Dustin Diamond. Also along for the ride were Slater, Jessie, and Lisa, who made up the rest of the gang. I don't think that it was ever aimed to break the barriers of great television it was what it was. Sure the series made high school look like a piece of cake, for example being able to go to The Max whenever they wanted, taking advantage of the principal, and tricking nerds into doing anything they wanted. But Saved By the Bell was one of those shows that as corny as it may be, it will forever remain one the most entertaining shows in the history of children's entertainment.

Revisiting the show has been fun i really enjoy the comedy from the leads and even the side characters like Ox and maxwell nerdstrom are really fun additions to the show.

Saved by the bell was a fun children's programme to watch when it aired here in the UK on ITV in the early 1990s. It was very good to pass the time and enjoy yourself with the intriguing characters and the actors who played them well.

The characters are well thought out with a set of boys and girls to match each other with fun storylines though some can very over the top and exaggerated it does not spoil the series.

The programme also touched on release life issues and other teenage related problems that had to be referenced though it was sanitised to appeal to a universal audience.

I feel this would of been better if it was an American Grange Hill were you have interesting characters, school politics, and a clash of the old and new worlds.

Saved by the Bell, wither you want to admit it or not, you have seen this show if you were a child of the 90's. While it had extremely cheesy and bad acting and horrible writing, it was a fun show for the kids and the pre-teens. I remember always dying of laughter when I watched this show when I was a kid on Saturday mornings. Screech to me was like Marlon Brando in The Godfather, I thought the whole cast was brilliant. Now I still watch this show as a grown up, I really can't help it, it's like a car accident, you know you shouldn't look, but you can't help it. I know the writing was very bad and the situations are beyond unrealistic, but I think the reason I love this show still is because of it's innocence.

The show had a good influence on kids, it sounds crazy, but it did deal with a lot of issues that most kids have to deal with school. While I admit that they acted like Jesse was on heroine when she was simply taking caffeine pills, it still tried it's best to show you to be a true original. The story is simple, just 6 teenagers going through their daily lives in Bayside High School. They deal with the daily pressures: homework, tests, love, drugs, popularity, and friendship. Together they deal with these pressures along with the help of their loving principal, Mr. Belding.

Each character was lovable in their own way. Zack who was the smooth talker and ruled Bayside who could get any girl he wanted. Slater who was the high school jock and Zack's best friend. Screech, Zack's other best friend, who was the geek of the high school. Kelly who is the hottie cheerleader of Bayside and Zack's love interest. Lisa who is the fashion icon of the group and is Screech's long time crush. And Jesse, the study addict goodie two-shoe's and is also the vice president of the student council.

While each the group isn't what normally clicked in high school, it still was a lot of fun to watch them because of how opposite they were. It was always so charming to see them work together, who wouldn't have wanted friends like them? True, the situations in the show are extremely unbelievable, the acting isn't up to par, and it's cheesy messages, this was always a pleasure to watch. You have to admit that sometimes it does bring a few laughs. I'm not afraid to admit it, I still enjoy watching this show and I think you will too, just have fun and admit it, there's something memorizing about it. Otherwise people wouldn't be talking about it still almost 20 years later.

I loved this show when I was younger. Even though when I watched the show it was re-runs that came at 5 p.m. I remember watching it once and being hooked on it. I think Saved By the Bell is an American classic like I Love Lucy. By watching the show now, you just realize that we live in a different TV era now, where shows like these are just not produced by TV networks. I guess in 90's there was a popular theme to show innocence amongst teens. I never really liked Beverly Hills because I felt it was just about rich teens, but Saved By the Bell had a realistic element where it's just about young people living every day life in High School.

Having not seen this show during its original run, I caught much of the show in syndication and by streaming it. Thus, looking at this show with little to no bias in terms of nostalgia, I have to say that it's one of those shows that's so bad that it's good. With glaring continuity errors and even the addition of a main character without much context or introduction, this show was quite a ride to watch. It's more of a live-action cartoon due to all of its zaniness like Zack's unexplained ability to stop time, but the show works because of it.

Although some situations may appear dated and may not have aged well, this show is still better than some more recent shows. It served its purpose well, providing amusing Saturday morning fare for young Gen Xers. In this way, Saved by the Bell is essentially a time capsule comprised of late 1980s/early 1990s culture. Following Zack's schemes and watching the gang grow up makes this show well worth a watch today.

I love this show and think it is the greatest show that comes on television. I can watch saved by the bell at any time even if I am upset because I know it will cheer me up and put a smile on my face.

My favourite characters are everyone in the gang but I most particularly like Zach Morris, Samuel Powers (Screech), Lisa Turtle and Jessie Spano. My favourite episodes are Palm springs weekend in which the gang get invited to Jessie's fathers wedding but Jessie is not happy about her father getting married, so she tries and stops it and snow white and the seven dorks in which the class puts on a play similar to snow white and Kelly and Slater fall out with Zach and Jessie because they think they have feelings for each other.

Saved by the Bell follows the misadventures of a group of friends in high school consisting of Zach, Screech, Slater, Lisa, Kelly, and Jessie as they go about they're days in high school getting into various shenanigans and dilemmas that quickly get out of hand due to their default tactics of trying to do quick fixes instead of avoiding the problems in the first place.

Saved by the Bell is essentially fluff, but it's entertaining and well made fluff(for the most part). Saved by the Bell works not because it's challenging or thought provoking, but because it's escapist fantasy with likable enough characters and reasonably relatable dilemmas(even if they're taken to ridiculous extremes). At its core Saved by the Bell is essentially an update on the formula established by Archie Andrews and his gang's adventures in the eponymous comic series. Zach Morris even has similar foils to Archie's friends Jughead and Reggie with Screech filling Jughead's(goofy sidekick) role and Slater Reggie's(Nemesis/frenemy).

Saved by the Bell knows what it is and has no pretense beyond that, if you've an affinity for cheesy and inoffensive jokes and shenanigans that can be enjoyed by most then look no further.

Saved by the Bell is just amazing. I'm now 19 years old and i still watch it sometimes in the morning on tbs when i get up. There is just something about this show that stuck with me as a child. Maybe it's the characters and how well they went together, or maybe it was the situations that the gang got in daily. i just loved that show growing up.

i would say that the six of them and Mr. Belding mixed perfectly together. All the guys wanted to be Zack and all the girls wanted to be Kelly. It is just one of those timeless shows that won't go away anytime soon. Why do you think they still play it 2 hours a day in syndication? It's just great.

Even during this show's initial run, I thought it was hideous. The characters were lame, the humour was non-existent and the scripts were just plain bad. But, I came across the "Saved by the bell" page here on the IMDb and I thought that I would check out what other people's thoughts were...and boy was I surprised!

How can people be so blindsided by this show? Do they not see just how horrendous this show really is?

In the all time list of television crimes, "Saved by the Bell" is probably the worst show ever, with the possible exception of "Full House"....but that's another post for another time.

I used to find myself in a lot of trouble growing up. I used to get in fights all the time, experimented with drugs, didn't check my spelling. After running away from about my 7th foster home, I found my self behind bars. I was like a caged lion, wild and untamed. One day in lock down, one of the kids turned on TBS in the after noon. As I stood up to give him a trashing Saved By the Bell came on. Zack, Kelly, Lisa, and the gang became the family I never had but always secretly wanted. I felt like I was part of something bigger. I laughed with them when they made the swimsuit calendars, cried when Kelly broke up with Zack, and cheered when Screech beat the Russian kid in chess. Every good thing about me and everything I am learned from the kids at Bayside. I gave up smoking weed after I witnessed that horrible Johnny Dakota try and pressure Kelly into trying it, I would never have half a beer and then drive, and I stopped selling my home made zit cream. After I was freed I decided I would start my new life in Palisades CA and I moved out there. Now I realize that the place doesn't exist. Boy, do I feel like an idiot.

For any kids that were alive in the 1980s or 1990s, Saturday mornings ruled the airwaves with classic cartoons like Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and many more, plus some live-action Saturday morning series like Pee-wee's Playhouse and this show. For anyone who didn't grow up in the 1980s and 1990s, this show was a teenager's paradise every week, and even though I wasn't born until the mid-2000s, I remember watching reruns back in the day as a young child.

Anyway, the show is about a group of teenage student friends in Bayside High: the smooth-talking troublemaker Zack Morris (my top favorite character, played to perfection by Mark-Paul Gosselaar), the jock and star athlete A. C. Slater (played by the talented Mario Lopez), the geeky Samuel "Screech" Powers (played by the late Dustin Diamond), popular girl Kelly Kapowski (played by the beautiful Tiffani Amber-Thiessen, who most boys have gotten crushes on over the years), the booksmart and liberal Jessie Spano (played by the lovely Elizabeth Berkley) and the spoiled rich girl Lisa Turtle (my 2nd favorite character, played by the lovely and beautiful Lark Voorhies), along with the school principal Mr. Belding (played to perfection by Dennis Haskins).

So, if you were alive in the 1980s and/or the 1990s as a young'n and want to travel back in time to Bayside High, then its all right because you're Saved by the Bell!

I know this show has fans, but as you can see from my vote, not me. Whenever I watched this program it appeared to me that it could be cute but not funny. What I saw with every character on the show was that they were all drawn as stereotypes of students. I thought all the characters were too plastic and the actors & actresses playing the character were nothing special.

Each show seemed extremely predictable to the point that this could have been a 1950's sitcom. While I have seen worse sit-Com's, to me other than My Mother The Car, & Happy Hour, this one has little that I like about it.

I used to kid people who watched it that the show should have been called Saved By The Screech since his character was the only one who had any spontaneous action in the show. The only thing was his playing off the cardboard stereotypes around him really wasn't even enough to save it for me.

Teenage comedy is something that is never done real well, but to me anyone who thinks this one is funny should pick up on some episodes of the series HEY DUDE which was running on Nick during this era. To me, even that show is a step above this one.

I read a few comments from some users about this show. Many were definitely fans of the show, while others dissed the show completely. I think that Saved By the Bell is a show that many kids grew up with. I know when reminiscing about times when I was younger with friends, Saved by the Bell was brought up. These aren't the friends which whom I grew up. These are the friends I met in college. It seems that pretty much everyone I know has seen Saved by the Bell and loved it. How many people can say they saw each episode about 5 times each? I know I probably did. I miss seeing the re-runs and I enjoy seeing each Saved by the Bell character when they accomplish something new like a new movie or show. It's just too bad you don't see many of the kids from the jr. high years. I remember this show well, and I always will.

SAVED BY THE BELL (1989-1992) was a really light-hearted, heart-warming sitcom that features a group of teenaged friends in Palisades, California, and their interwoven dramas, romances and adventures.

"A close-knit group of six friends get through their teens together while attending Bayside High School in Palisades, California."

This show was something I used to watch in its original run along with a few other shows. It was a memorable show. Overall, this series was a cute teen / family sitcom with drama, romance and comedy. Recommended if you like 80's abd 90's retro throwback series. An entertaining show!

Is screech the funniest guy in the whole world? Nah probably not

I watched this throughout my high school and middle school years. I must have watched each episode at least 5 times. Some scenes I know backwards and forwards. How is it possible to like a show about high school so much and to hate the real thing so much? That is the mystery of Saved by the Bell. I have theorized that I needed some type of high school experience, so in absence of a real high school experience worth having, I lived vicariously through these fantasy high schoolers in California, like so many others have. Real high school was 9-10 hours of classes a week and after school activities. Fake high school was 1-2 hours crashing after school in front of the TV set escaping into this magical fantasy land where the principal is everyone's friend and nothing has any weight whatsoever.

In real life, you have cliques and outcasts, and few ever associate with each other. They live in their own world. Saved by the Bell had the Fellowship of the Cliques, representatives of all the major cliques who in turn watch over the whole school to ensure that no evil shall come upon the The School beside the Bay.

Mr. Belding is the wise overseer of this chosen fellowship. He wields the mighty power of Detention, to banish evil doers for a whole hour after school. He is always curious about the events in his immediate locale, and therefore wants to know what is going on "here".

Zack Morris is the king of kings, and ruler of the student body. He is representative the preps, the brick-phone wielding scholastic pre-cursor to yuppiedom. As this group's Aragorn, he leads the way against the evil forces in the great Valley. Not of flawless moral standard, he is known to lie at times...okay he's a compulsive con-artist. Still his brains and cunning ensure the Fellowship will never be overthrown.

Kelly Kapowski is head of both the female jock and cheerleading factions of The School beside the Bay. Her cheery temperament and boundless optimism helps the Fellowship through even the harshest of trials. Oh, she's hot too.

Jessie Spano represents the Fellowship on the Student Council, and ensures that they stay on top of the school politics. She is an exemplary student, and any teacher's dream. She also provides a moral compass for the Fellowship.

Albert Clifford Slater, otherwise known as A.C., is leader of the mighty jock contingent. He leads the front line of the physical warfare against the savage Valley fiends. Once a love interest of the fair Kelly, he now shows affection towards Jessie.

Lisa Turtle is the queen of fashion of gossip. This materialistic diva often gets the Fellowship into trouble with her desire for more material possessions and beauty, but her silver tongue can spread rumors to maintain control of the school, and keep the evil Bulldog forces of the great Valley at bay.

Samuel Powers, a.k.a Screech, is the glue that keeps the whole unit together. This seemingly clueless member of the Dork, Nerd and Geek factions may seem like a lot of trouble, but he is sincere and honest. Sometimes this honesty exposes the Fellowship to its enemies, but in the end his innocent nature keeps the group grounded. His Achille's Heel is his attraction for Lisa, from whom his love is not returned.

Okay, maybe not, but this interesting assortment of characters is the primary reason for the show's success. Whether people think it is realistic or not (I didn't), it still works, and makes for a very entertaining show. Saved by the Bell was one of TV's last triumphs as an escapist medium. It is much like a Gilligan's Island for teens in its odd collection of characters that would probably never even talk to each other in real life (in fact Gilligan's Island is referenced a lot in the show, so maybe this is an intentional connection).

Sure there are many negative reviews for this show. But keep in mind, this was made for kids with kids in mind. There wasn't a lot of work put into scripts, and yes it was unrealistic as can be. And yes the show did reinforce high school stereotypes (the prep, the jock, the nerd, the cutie, the feminist, and the mall brat). Still, it was lots of fun and it didn't take itself seriously. That is until you ran across one of those 'A Very Special' episodes (ex. Jessie gets hooked on caffiene pills, the kids try to stop an oil company from ruining their school).

Saved By The Bell was also NBC's venture into leaving Saturday morning cartoons behind. The gamble paid off and it saved NBC a ton of money. I do think they went too far with The New Class and The College Years. I think everyone knew The College Years wouldn't fly in primetime. And their wasn't the same fun chemistry in The New Class that their was in the original. It was still nice that the creators did bring some closure to the show with the wedding movie.

Don't expect a reunion show with the cast. Many of them have tried to distance themselves as far away from the show as possible. Mark-Paul Gosselaar has moved into becoming a serious actor; Mario Lopez has moved into the role of TV host; Dustin Diamond works as a stand up comedian; Tiffani-Amber Thiessen has tried to shed her good girl image; Elizabeth Berkley....let's just say she's mad some bad career decisions; and Lark Voorhies hasn't been heard from that much as the other five.

If you want want to watch a really good show based on high school, watch Degrassi High. But if you want to turn your brain off for a half an hour and laugh, check out Saved by the Bell.

'Saved By the Bell' focuses on a group of pretentious, entitled and shallow high school students whose repugnant behavior is always somehow justified at the end of the show. Deceptive, lying, cheating, insulting and rude behavior all forgiven by a hug and an 'I'm sorry' at the end of the episode only to do it all over again the next episode. The message this show sends? It's ok to behave reprehensibly as long as you say you're sorry afterwards. Keep impressionable kids away from this show.

Saved by the Bell simply is the greatest kids'/teens' show of all time. Every single episode, apart from the Miss Bliss season, is entertaining. The actors and their characters are amazing and make the show work perfectly. The show's episodes almost always have a theme of friendship. No matter what happens the group will be friends forever. It's a very lighthearted, fun show. I remember watching it every morning (7:00-7:30, and the the next three time slots if I faked sick ;), before school when I was in seventh and eighth grade. I just finished watching it on Netflix the other week and boy, it brings back some good memories. I don't know why it has a 7/10, though. Apparently every reviewer is a renowned critic. The show was never supposed to thrive because of spectacular acting; it was supposed to thrive off of its great cast and great themes/plots. Every episode was something new, and very rarely was there a continuity. All in all, this show is great. It makes the viewer happy. If you ever need to cheer up, turn on Saved by the Bell. :)

Lets face it, this show isn't very good.

I laugh sometimes, usually never, and its really corny, predictable, and everything most mediocre sitcoms are.

But for some odd reason, I love watching this show. It's not particularly good, bordering on bad, but I just love the show. Which is why it gets a 6/10.

I don't really know...how to explain it...this show, and my affection for it, truly is enigmatic. Well, the only thing that matters is I enjoy the show I suppose. I'd recommend it, if I didn't think people would hate the show. But I like it, so...whatever.

I find it rather surprising how many positive reviews Saved by the Bell has received, overall, as I had been under the assumption that the show was almost universally hated. I've never really cared for the program; even as a child I could not quite understand the public's love of it. Watching the show as a kid, I was under the impression that the six main characters "ran" Bayside High School, with the faculty wrapped around their fingers. I never found the material to be that funny and I would raise an eyebrow at some of the plots' lack of realism. Returning to this show as an adult, I am no less baffled.

Please do not misunderstand, as I am all for nineties nostalgia. I grew up in that era. It only strikes me as odd that this program has survived into syndication along with its unsuccessful spin-off, while other worthy programs, such as 'Life With Louie,' 'California Dreams,' or 'Wonder Years' seem to have fallen by the wayside, occasionally revived but ultimately forgotten. I don't associate 'Saved By the Bell' with the good days of the nineties, as many others apparently do.

All I can really see is a show that appears to have been hurriedly put together without much thought with substandard performances by mediocre actors. Jokes delivered are often dead-pan and one-liners too often seem uncreative or not natural enough in their delivery. Compare the cast of SBTB's stilted performing with the almost flawless comedic work presented in the first two seasons of Nickelodeon's 'All That.' I don't doubt for a second that Josh Server, Kel Mitchell, and Lori Beth Demburg could wipe the television screen with Mark Paul Gosslar, Dustin Diamond, or Mario Lopez any day of the TV schedule's week, with the exact same material. OT, 'All That' is what I think of when I think of "nineties nostalgia," not 'Saved By the Bell.'

But, its not just the actors or the dialogue... the whole show seems so removed from real life that it is hard to accept it as quality entertainment. I understand that television sitcoms need not be too concerned with being "realistic" as, say, 'Law and Order,' but how are we supposed to relate to characters who are but stereotypical caricatures of high school clique-members? They are almost always compelled to "do the right thing," without ever questioning their actions. I am all for moralistic episodes, but in real life, when a kid finds a used "joint" in their school high school restroom, its no big deal and most likely they'll go on with their lives and stay the heck away from drugs, unlike Zack and Slater, who vow to hunt down the poor soul with the gall to smoke pot in their vicinity. None of the characters are relatable, nor does there seem to ever be a reasonable explanation for their actions.

For a person with severe depression or a person who is suffering great personal loss, 'Saved By the Bell' is a show for you, just like 'Full House' or 'Who's the Boss' is a show for you. It is light and not occupied with the harsh realities of the real world. But, for anyone else, I am surprised that the stilted performance by the actors and the frightening removal from reality has not set more viewers to changing the station, as I continuously find myself compelled to do.

This is the spin-off show to "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" and it's 100 times better than the original. This show was awesome! I guess that the switch from Disney to NBC and from a kids to a teen program helped a lot. While Miss Bliss was pointless and had no interesting characters, this show was funny and it had a brilliant cast of interesting characters. Then again that is what this show is about. Many people think this show is about High School but it isn't, it's about people. While they get themselves into stupid situations you must think back and remember that everyone gets themselves into stupid situations when they're in high school and that's where the humor comes in. While for some reason the main characters here are like the most popular people in school you might or might not relate with that but you could at times relate with what's going on in their lives. Which is why this show is good. Sure it might be silly but then again it's a comedy and high school was pretty fun and silly at times.

Like Zack would say: I like school. It's just too bad classes get in the way.

Now a little side note: This show was awesome but this is like the only good show NBC has had in it's Saturday Morning line up. It just makes you wish NBC would have never stopped giving cartoons on Saturday morning. Anyway, atleast the new line up gave us Saved by the Bell.