Saved by the Bell is the 2020 revival of the NBC series of the same name, airing exclusively on their streaming platform Peacock. It was created by Tracy Wigfield (30 Rock, Great News) and developed by Peter Engel, who produced the original series.
Set nearly thirty years after the original series, Bayside High faces a new influx of students from working class communities when alumnus Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) —now the Governor of California— scandalously closes many lower-income schools statewide, while former star athlete A.C. Slater (Mario Lopez) and smart girl Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley) are faculty members at Bayside as a teacher and guidance counselor, respectively. Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani Thiessen) and Lisa Turtle (Lark Voorhies) also reprise their roles from the original series.
Among the new class of students are Zack's son Mac Morris (Mitchell Hoog), Jessie's son Jamie Spano (Belmont Cameli), Lexi (Josie Totah), Daisy (Haskiri Velazquez), Aisha (Alycia Pascual-Pena), and Devante (Dexter Darden).
The 10-episode first season of the series premiered on November 25, 2020 on Peacock. On January 19, 2021, it was revealed that it had been renewed for a 10-episode second season. The second season premiered on November 24, 2021. Due to both not reaching the ratings producers wanted and a change in Peacock's overall direction
, the revival was cancelled on May 4, 2022, a month after it won the award for Outstanding Comedy Series at the GLAAD Media Awards.
The Saved by the Bell revival contains examples of:
- Actor Allusion:
- Zack says that he was a lawyer before becoming governor, then shows a screenshot from Franklin & Bash.
- Jessie mentions she spent a few months living in Las Vegas in 1995, claiming it was a dark time and "I once pushed a woman down the stairs." She then dresses in a familiar-looking coat and hat, doing a "sexy" dance for a fireman on the pole.
- Armor-Piercing Question: The first season finale has Daisy repeatedly ask Zack "But what does that mean?" regarding his recent actions in order to invoke an Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! and resulting Heel Realization.
- As You Know: Toddman and Mac explain the Spirit competition to the Bayside student body at the start of final episode in season 2. Daisy tries to fast forward this while Mac explains he didn't want people watching the show to be lost if they haven't watched all the episodes.
- Betty and Veronica: Mac is the Veronica to Gil's Betty and Daisy's Archie.
- Betty and Veronica Switch: While Mac's pranks on Gil seem cruel, he turns out to be right about Gil being phony; Daisy finds the head of the school mascot in his locker, leading to the reveal of him being a mole for Valley. After Mac leads Bayside to win the Spirit competition, Daisy informs him that she told Gil she only dates guys who win spirit competitions.
- The B Grade: Following her grandmother's prophetic dream ("You got stung in the heart by a bee"), Daisy found out she got a B. It makes her consider breaking up with Gil because she has too much on her plate.
- Bilingual Bonus: A lot more Hispanic characters than in other versions of the programme, and accordingly a lot more Spanish dialogue.
- Big "NO!": Played for Laughs. Said by Ronald Toddman upon seeing their school mascot destroyed by Valley.Toddman: NOOOOOOOOO! Take me instead, GOD! MAKE THAT SWITCH YOU COWARD!
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Gil looks like a typical quiet, geek culture-loving nerd who romances Daisy. Then, it turns out he's Jake, a Valley student infiltrating Bayside to destroy the Spirit Competition and hates all the "geek" stuff he claimed to have loved.
- Book Ends: Episode 5 of season 1 begins and ends with Jessie using a fire extinguisher, although for very different purposes.
- Break the Haughty: Zack in Season 2. After losing a recall election, the former governor briefly becomes a teacher at Bayside and has to suck up some humility. Even worse, his relationship with Mac becomes strained. At the end, the two patch things up and Zack decides to run for superintendent....against Toddman.
- Catchphrase: Mac's "Hey Buddy!"
- Character Exaggeration: It's not that surprising since Dashiell Driscol is one of the writers for the show, but Zack seems to have been hit with a case of this; his selfish nature and tendency towards Zany Schemes are more prominent than ever and it's his thoughtlessness and inability to consider the consequences of his actions that gets Douglas High closed down and kicks off the series. That said, the series still shows that he does have a conscience and while he may occasionally have to be guilted into doing the right thing he'll get there in the end.
- Chekhov's Skill:
- Mac teaches Daisy that when you meet someone for the first time, put that person's name into anagrams in order to figure out what they are up to. Daisy does this with Gil Vatooley while confronting him, leading her to learn that he is really a mole from Valley High.
- Zigzagged with Jamie in the Spirit competition. It's his complete lack of talent for anything that makes him uniquely qualified to run the obstacle course. That, and as a final substitute for Mac, he's immune to all the distractions Valley left.
- Chew Toy: Principal Ron Toddman. Whereas his predecessor Richard Belding was definitely a Butt-Monkey, Belding at least occasionally came out on top and in the end knew how to put his foot down when things went too far. Ron, while a Nice Guy who tries to be a Reasonable Authority Figure, is an Extreme Doormat bordering on Straw Loser, whose entire existence seems to revolve around being the universe's punching bag.
- Cliffhanger: "The Todd Capsule" ends with everyone learning that the money that Daisy and Lexi raised will be used to renovate Douglas High, so that all the students will return to their old schools, much to the shock of Daisy, Aisha, Mac, Lexi, Devante, and Jamie.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Jessie wrote a best-selling parenting book, but struggles to discipline or disappoint her son. She also laments writing marriage advice after she gets a divorce in season 2.
- Condescending Compassion: This is the general attitude of Joyce Whitelady and the Parents Integrating Teachers and Youth (PITY) towards the Douglas students, whom they mainly regard as subhuman trash but try to be kind towards. With mixed results.
- Coming-Out Story: Season 2 features Aisha coming out as bisexual.
- Continuity Nod:
- Daisy calling a "time out" to talk to the audience, akin to the ones done by Zack.
- Slater dancing with his male students in neon-colored swimwear calls back to this moment.
- Slater recalling that he used to be in a love triangle with Mac's parents and eventually settled for Jamie's mom when he was unsuccessful in wooing her.
- There are numerous references to Jessie’s addiction to caffeine pills.
- Jessie's book on parenting is called "I'm So Excited, I'm So Scared... About Becoming A Parent".
- Jessie stops Mac from giving Daisy what she thinks are caffeine pills, complete with Big "NO!".
- During the Danceathon, Jamie starts chugging energy drinks, stating that his mom doesn’t allow caffeine in the house. When he starts crashing at the end of the episode, he quotes his mother’s iconic line from the original series.
Jamie: I’m so excited! I’m so excited, I’m so— [Jamie throws up]- Mr. Belding is no longer principal at Bayside, having taken a position at a college in the series finale of Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
- Slater mentions that Bayside hasn’t had a winning football team in twenty years; there is a roughly twenty year gap between the beginning of this series and the end of Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
- When Mac, Daisy and Lexi hire an actress to play Daisy’s mom to meet Jessie, they refer to the scheme as the “Giraffe’s Gambit”. When Jessie finds out, she refers to the scheme by name and points out that she was the titular giraffe - an episode of the original series featured Zack and the gang using the same scheme to get Stanford University to reconsider Jessie’s application.
- Cool Teacher: Slater, or at least he tries to be.
- Crazy-Prepared: During his "gentleman's prank war" with Jamie, Mac always has the exact counter for whatever Jamie thinks up already prepared. It's possible that it's easier because Jamie is just that predictable, but it's still impressive.
- Darker and Edgier: Compared to the previous shows, even The College Years. For starters, this features some swearing, whereas the previous shows didn't, while the subject matter is also markedly more mature in spots. The live-audience reactions are absent too, giving it a more somber feeling during dramatic scenes.
- Dawson Casting: Mocked in episode 4, where the seniors at Bayside are portrayed by senior citizens. Only Aisha seems to notice.
- Discontinuity Nod:
- Zack, Kelly, Slater and Jessie reunite as the Zack Attack during “The Todd Capsule” and try to apologise for forgetting Ron Toddman by singing “Friends Forever”. When Toddman points out that he doesn’t understand what they’re doing, Zack realises that Zack Attack were only successful in a dream he had.
- In the Season 1 finale, Zack offhandedly mentions Tori, but Kelly doesn't seem to know who that is. Tori was a character introduced in the final season of the original series, who only appeared in episodes that Kelly and Jessie were mysteriously absent from.
- During a therapy session, Slater lampshades his mother and sister being single episode characters in the original series by noting they just disappeared from his life.
- In the Season 2 finale, Zack admits to his son that he went to middle school in Indiana, then woke up in California with no one explaining how it happened. A clear reference to Good Morning, Miss Bliss, the predecessor series of the original Saved By The Bell that was eventually merged with later series with strange continuity snarls.
- Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: Deconstructed. One episode has Slater sitting backwards on a chair, but not only is it lampshaded in-universe as weird, but given he's not a teenager anymore, it's somewhat painful to do.
- The End... Or Is It?: The first season ends with the gang celebrating the Douglas kids staying at Bayside, only for Mac to get a notification about the coronavirus.
- Enemy Mine: In the first season finale, when the various clubs and cliques that make up Bayside’s student body detail plans for the walk out by squabbling over petty demands, Lexi proceeds to insult all of them to reunify the student body by giving them all someone to hate.
- Everyone Has Standards: Toddman is a goofy principal who gets walked on over by his students (especially Mac), but he is quick to fire a teacher for talking down to Aisha and referring to her dialect of Spanish as "street Spanish".
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!:
- In the Season 1 finale, in order to save school funding, Zack Morris is cornered and repeatedly asked "but what does that mean?" in regards to his actions. Zack's statements turn from saying that it's hard to do the right thing as an adult, to how doing certain things is unpopular with voters, to how he'll stop being a "winner" and return to being a mere lawyer if he doesn't listen to voters, leading to a Heel Realization and deciding to reprioritize doing the right thing over his own popularity.
- When Daisy angrily confronts Gil over destroying the school mascot, she mentions that he doesn't recognize the author of his favorite book, and that she knows nothing about him throughout the entire time they have been dating except for his name. She pauses at that and, remembering what Mac taught her about meeting someone for the first time and making anagrams of their names to find out who they truly are, she realizes that he is actually a mole for Valley. Gil's creepy smile at the end confirms this.
- Expy: A lot of the main group of students seem like composite versions the original Saved By the Bell characters at first, but almost without exception they subvert the trope and turn out to be very different characters.
- Daisy, as the arguable central character, gets Zack Morris-esque fourth wall breaking time-outs, but otherwise has a lot more in common with Jessie Spano than she does with Zack.
- Mac Morris at first seems to play the Generation Xerox trope straight; like his father before him he's a smooth talker with a talent for pranks and Zany Schemes, as well as getting by on charisma rather than hard work, but you soon realize that he's simply a Tiny Toons version of Zack, having only half of his brains and being much more of a Cloudcuckoolander, like how Screech was.
- Jamie, despite being the son of Jessie, has a physical appearance that makes him look strangely similar to Slater. He shares the best friends dynamic with Mac much like the close friendship Slater had with Zac later in the original series and also takes the mantle of being the group's Lovable Jock, despite not being good at football. Like Mac, Jamie also takes after Screech, having his flanderized lack of intelligence that was also found in the later seasons.
- Lexi, like Kelly, is the cheerleader of the group and arguably the school's number one hottie. Her fashion sense and personality on the other hand, echoes Lisa's Lovable Alpha Bitch, with much more differences. She also has more of the Vitriolic Best Buds vibe with both Mac and to a lesser extant Aisha in the way Slater had with Zack starting out.
- Devante inherits Slater’s role as the Troubled, but Cute macho guy, but his talent for singing instead calls to mind Eric from Saved by the Bell: The New Class rather any of the characters from the original series.
- Aisha also inherits Slater’s role as the Lovable Jock star athlete, but being that she’s the sole girl on the boys football team, she arguably draws more inspiration from Hang Time’s Julie Connor.
- Extreme Doormat: Ron Toddman just can't stand up for himself, ever. Students, staff, parents, politicians, and his old "friends" alike walk all over him and he's powerless to stop them; more often than not he doesn't even try to stop them but just immediately gives in. He seems to grow out of it in the season one finale, when he gets over his natural tendencies to just give up and actively stands up for his students.
- Face/Heel Double-Turn: After Valley destroy Bayside’s mascot, Mac proceeds to target Gil with increasingly cruel pranks rather than get revenge on Valley. When his latest prank seems to traumatize Gil, all of his friends and the whole school start to turn on him... only for Daisy to come in and reveal that Gil destroyed the school mascot, as well as him being a mole for Valley.
- Foreshadowing: There were a number of clues that Gil was a Valley mole over the season. The earliest one is that Beatrice, the Valley mascot, got along well with Gil. When the truth is revealed, a series of them are mentioned, only for Mac to admit he noticed none of them.
- The Generation Gap: Acknowledged by Slater in the first season finale, as he points out to Jessie that today's kids are much more socially conscious than their generation.
- Gender-Blender Name: Jamie Eleanor Spano. "Jamie" is a gender-neutral name, but "Eleanor" is more often used as a girl's name.
- Generation Xerox:
- In both appearance and personality, Mac Morris is almost a modernized version of his father Zac Morris, albeit living under his shadow.
- Averted with Jamie Spano, who has neither his mother's activist tendencies nor intelligence, instead being a coddled Manchild.
- Genre Shift: While the previous Saved by the Bell shows were sitcoms, this one is more of a dramedy. It also uses a single-camera format rather than a multi-camera set-up. They also did away the audience laughter, since post 90's single-camera sitcoms run without one and are successful.
- The Ghost: Screech, the only member of the original gang who doesn't return in the first season, is mentioned as being on the International Space Station with his robot sidekick Kevin. Following Dustin Diamond’s death in February 2021, the second season premiere pays tribute to the character, going as far as to have Kevin return for the sequence.
- Happily Married: Zack and Kelly, making it a Continuity Nod that they got married in the Grand Finale of the original run.
- Half-Arc Season: The final episodes of the first season feature the kids trying to stop the Douglas High students from being sent back to their old school now that the Bayside PTA have raised money to reopen the school.
- Heel–Face Turn:
- Episode 1 ends with Mac and Lexi at first appear to realize that there is more to being class president than getting a good parking spot (though in reality, they just didn't want to attend a leadership program during spring break). As a result, they both decide to set up a win for Daisy — Lexi drops out of the race and instead focuses on campaigning for Daisy (whilst ignoring Daisy's original platform), while Mac begins putting himself up as the world's worst candidate so that nobody will vote for him.
- The Season 1 finale has Zack Morris forced to realize he's been caring more about his status than his ethics, and announces plans to reevaluate how to handle the educational system, even though it immediately leads to bad press and phone calls about lawsuits.
- Heel Realization:
- Devante gets hit with one big time in the fourth episode, when finds out just why Lexi got so hurt when he told her he thought she looked like a joke — after she transitioned from male to female, she was terrified that her friends wouldn't accept her and just think she was a joke.
- In the season 1 finale, Slater realizes that constantly telling Jessie to calm down in high school whenever she was campaigning against a perceived injustice was the wrong thing to do, especially since she was usually right; he proceeds to apologize for behaving that way.
- In the first season finale, Zack realizes that he's been prioritizing remaining governor over actually doing the right thing when Mac and Daisy confront him over making an empty gesture instead of using his powers as governor to actually do something to help the students.
- Defied in the second season - just as Mack is beginning to realise how horribly he’s treated Gil, Daisy storms in and asks Gil why he had the decapitated head of Bayside’s mascot in his locker, outing him as a mole from Valley.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Gil’s plan to sabotage Bayside’s attempt at qualifying for the Spirit Competition ultimately fails because he had enrolled as a student at Bayside, allowing Daisy to manipulate him into unwittingly participating in the Danceathon.
- Hollywood Autism: Mac has been confirmed by Kelly to have ADHD, but also has several characteristics that may suggest that he's also on the spectrum.
- Hypocrite: Jessie always tries to convince others to stand up for themselves, but she catered to her husband's flaky whims. She tells him off in the first season finale, and is the midst of going through a divorce at the start of the second season.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode title, with the exception of the pilot, is taken or altered from an episode title of the original (including two from Good Morning Miss Bliss).
- Insistent Terminology: Even after being outed as a mole, people still refer to Jake as Gil, even the Valley principal.
- It's All About Me: In classic teenage fashion, you get this attitude from most of the students from time to time. It's clearest with Lexi, though; she really likes to make everything about herself when it really isn't.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's a pretty common theme with the main student characters.
- Daisy's not as free of prejudices as she thinks she is and is sometimes rather haughty and judgmental, but she genuinely wants justice and equality for all of Bayside's students.
- Mac is shallow, self-centered and thinks everything can be solved with a Zany Scheme, but he genuinely means well.
- Devante is aloof, unfriendly, and so jaded he just takes it for granted everyone will assume the worst of him, but he's a good friend once you manage to get through to him.
- Lexi is a Lovable Alpha Bitch who may have her mean and callous moments but is also generous and welcoming.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The entire series has winks and nods to the audience about the artificialness of the series.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Lexi tries to play the Alpha Bitch for all it's worth, especially in the first couple of episodes, but it's quickly established that she's not actually the mean girl she likes to think of herself as. She's self-centered, manipulative and sometimes catty, but she's also genuinely helpful and encouraging towards others. The episode "House Party" reveals that she used to be a lot meaner when she was younger, and though it's not directly stated, it's pretty heavily hinted that transitioning was a big reason why she developed into a better person.Jamie: The old Lexi wasn't a very happy person. And sometimes unhappy people take their feelings out on the people around them.
- Love-Interest Traitor: Gil turns out to be this for Daisy.
- Mirror Character: Mac and Gil. They have the same position in their friend group at school, have similar personalities and come up with similar pranks. The biggest difference between the two, however, is that Mac has never pretended to be anything other than himself to win anything, whereas Gil creates an entirely different identity to go undercover at Bayside in order to beat them at the Spirit Competition.
- Mythology Gag:
- Daisy's phone is an ancient circa-1990 "brick" like Zack had in the original series.
- Lexi calls Mac "preppy" in the pilot, much like Slater did to Zack.
- Slater mentions that he didn’t learn Spanish until “the college years” to Aisha, who’s just confused about his terminology - the sequel to the original series is commonly referred to as “The College Years”
- Never Say "Die": Following the death of Dustin Diamond in February 2021, the second season premiere heavily implies - but never outright states - that Screech died in the intervening time between seasons.
- Noodle Incident: Zack's Zany Scheme to get out of paying a parking fine that landed him the job as Governor of California.
- Only Sane Man:
- The first episode seems to set Daisy up as this, as she's by far the most vocal about how weird everything is at Bayside, but later episodes subvert it by having her adapt to the weirdness better and displaying by far the most oddball quirks of the Douglas students. In fact, the real Only Sane Man is Aisha, who is more accepting of the madness early on but is far less likely to be carried away with it and is definitely the student with her feet most solidly planted on the ground.
- In Season Two, Mr. Davis (formerly the principal of Douglas High) gets a job as a teacher at Bayside and quickly takes on this role for the school in general, being the only one to realize how absurd Bayside is and even wondering out loud "what the hell is wrong with this school?"
- Present-Day Past: Invoked as Toddman attempts to tell the story of how Zack failed to win the Spirit Competition - as the scene fades in on the flashback, Mac interrupts and says he can only visualise his parents and their friends as “old”; subsequently, the flashback depicts the aged actors playing their teenaged selves.
- Pretentious Pronunciation: In the second episode, one of the mothers is named Joyce Whitelady, but she says it's pronounced "Whit-liddy".
- Rearrange the Song:
- The opening theme is a completely new arrangement of the original theme song.
- Episode 9 of the second season uses a rewritten version of the original theme song.
- Remember the New Guy?: Parodied with Ron Toddman. In "The Todd Capsule" it's revealed that he went to Bayside with Zack and the gang, as shown in flashbacks where he's obviously green-screened into scenes from the old show, but nobody except Lisa actually remembers him being there. He even lampshades and laments the absurdity of Slater and Jessie not being able to remember him from their high school days, when they've worked with him at Bayside for years.
- Replacement Goldfish: Starting in the second season reunion episode "Wrestling with the Future", in an extension of Remember the New Guy, Toddman officially fills the vacancy left by the implied death of Screech. The original cast treat him as one of the gang and heartily invite "Ron-Ron" to party with them as the sixth member of their group. He is even (platonically) paired with Lisa, who never forgot him.
- Reunion Show:
- Season One’s “The Todd Capsule” pushes the kids to the side, and focuses on Zack, Kelly, Slater and Jessie reuniting at Bayside's homecoming, with Lisa making a cameo and numerous callbacks to the original series. The episode even goes so far as to bring back the original theme song and various pieces of music from the original series.
- Season Two has "Wrestling with the Future" features the kids attending a career fair that causes them to consider their future careers, with Lisa and Kelly amongst the exhibitors.
- Ripped from the Headlines: The season 2 premiere opens by saying Zack faced a recall election much like real-life California Governor Gavin Newsom did over having much of the state shut down through 2020 and early 2021 for the pandemic. In real life, Newsom defeated the recall by an overwhelming margin while Zack loses a close election (more for his actions with Bayside than pandemic).
- Sexiness Score: In "The Bayside Triangle", Mac and Jamie get involved in a Love Triangle with Head-Turning Beauty Pamela who's described as a "perfect 10".
- Ship Tease:
- Slater and Jessie are hinted to still have feelings for one another after dating in high school in the first season. Evolves into a full blown Will They/Won’t They in the second season.
- Mac and Daisy get this a few times, especially towards the end of the second season.
- Show Within a Show: Lexi is the star of a Reality TV series entitled “Becoming Lexi: I Am Me”.
- Similar Squad: Season 2 had a team of 6 from Valley that mirrors the Bayside students. They even hang out at a mirror restaurant to The Max called The Min.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Zack and Kelly, the latter admitting that Zack doing the right thing is a turn on for her.
- Special Edition Title: Season 2 Episode 9 changes it to show the kids of Valley, complete with a different theme song.
- Spoof Aesop: Done a few times in the series, usually the Bayside kids learning a non-lesson despite there being an actual lesson in the episode.
- In the pilot, Mac and Lexi throw the presidential race when they learn about all the responsibility the position holds and give Daisy the position. They claim they learned a lesson in sharing, but really the lesson is not to be afraid to do what it is you want to do.
- In the third episode, Slater tries to teach Mac and Jamie that it isn’t worth destroying their friendship by fighting over a girl, pointing out how he used to fight with Zack over Kelly. Instead, Mac points out that Zack and Slater aren’t really close anymore, and Jamie points out that Zack married Kelly - so the random girl in high school could be his future wife. The boys instead decide neither of them really liked the girl that much and agree to become friends again until the next girl comes along that they’re both attracted to.
- Spot the Imposter: Subverted for laughs. When Gil asks how Mac knew he was a fake, listing his various actions, Mac laughs "You fail to realize... I'm too self-absorbed to have noticed any of that. I just hated you for no reason."
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- In the second season premiere, Daisy is eager to pick up where she left off with her presidency, only to learn that she has competition who promises more frivolous things. When she complains to Mac the situation, he reminds her that everyone just spent a year at home dealing with important things and now want to have fun.
- When Slater suffers a neck injury and football is cancelled as a result, Aisha joins the wrestling team, only to struggle greatly as she has never really done it before.
- Aisha finds herself in a conflict with a Spanish teacher, who criticises her for using the Dominican dialect of the language as opposed to what is in the textbook. When the fight goes in front of Toddman and Slater, the argument ends with the teacher saying that Aisha speaks "street Spanish". An angered Toddman fires him on the spot.
- Take That!:
- The opening scene of the second season features Zack and Slater lamenting that Americans have a history of voting for celebrity candidates in elections.
- When Daisy asks how Lexi got an office at school, she responds:
Lexi: The same way Max Landis got his career - I asked my dad.- After Aisha explains how she and Lexi have an unspoken agreement not to bring up Jamie, Daisy draws a comparison to “the one shall not be named from Harry Potter. When Aisha asks if she meant Voldemort, Daisy clarifies that she meant J. K. Rowling.
- Jessie describes styrofoam manufacturing as “one of the largest creators of toxic waste in America, outside of The Bachelor franchise.”
- Season 2 has Jessie bring up her time in Las Vegas in 1995. She tries to seduce a fireman with a "sexy" dance that looks ridiculous. She moans that "I was trying to be sexy but I looked insane" while Slater blames it on "the direction she was given."
- Tempting Fate: The season 1 finale has Daisy saying that they now don't have to go through this drama again. Almost immediately, Mac gets a notification on his phone about coronavirus.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: Kelly has been hit with this as season 2 reveals, becoming more of a Cloudcuckoolander who believed in mythological signs that influenced many of her life decisions. She also didn't realize that boats have phones.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Mac and Lexi have shades of this; they get along great but also cheerfully scheme against and try to one-up one another... when they're not teaming up to scheme against a third party, that is.
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: Played with. Mac tries to bribe a guy with expensive concert tickets, but when he turns that down, instead accepts $5.
- Zany Scheme: They're not as prominent in this series as they were in the original, but they're still very much a feature of life at Bayside. Mac and Lexi seldom let an episode pass without trying some scheme or other.
