- Y'know, I'm really glad I'm not the only one who's always felt that those episodes felt like a
Mary Sue self-insert fanfic. It would totally have been plausible too. I mean think about it this way:
- Y'know, I'm really glad I'm not the only one who's always felt that those episodes felt like a
- Time Lord?
- Marty Stu!
- First, the Gods created the name/identity "Zack Morris" for the Trickster, and placed him as a pre-teen in Indiana, at JFK middle school with Miss Bliss. Eventually, they decided that JFK middle school wasn't bizarre enough, so the Gods literally retconned that away, and relocated the entity now known as "Zack" to the Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles. They also decided to transport Mr. Belding, Screech Powers, and Lisa Turtle to LA with Zack, because they felt that these mortals had potential to teach him about life (or something).
- After relocating Zack and those 3 mortals to Bayside High, the Gods apparently felt satisfied that this was a better fit than JFK middle school, and let the story proceed. Any and all continuity errors were the result of the Gods retconning certain details in order to craft the scenario that they wanted. Throughout his new life at Bayside, Zack/Trickster still created all kinds of zany schemes and froze time, as was his way, but also interacted with the other characters, and gradually formed true friendships and learned little things about life from them. He even fell in love with the mortal girl Kelly Kapowski.
- By the time of The College Years, Zack was no longer freezing time (although he still came up with pranks and zany-yet-harmless schemes). This is because in the process of living among the mortals of Bayside and falling in love with Kelly, he had finally decided to become human permanently so that he could be with Kelly. Zack had finally learned humility, and the Gods were pleased.
- First, the Gods created the name/identity "Zack Morris" for the Trickster, and placed him as a pre-teen in Indiana, at JFK middle school with Miss Bliss. Eventually, they decided that JFK middle school wasn't bizarre enough, so the Gods literally retconned that away, and relocated the entity now known as "Zack" to the Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles. They also decided to transport Mr. Belding, Screech Powers, and Lisa Turtle to LA with Zack, because they felt that these mortals had potential to teach him about life (or something).
OR....
In the early episodes we saw that Screech was quite intelligent. In the later seasons he apparently Took a Level in Dumbass...or did he? Since it's unlikely that Screech would somehow lose his intelligence overnight, there's a much more likely explanation: he was sick and tired of being treated like a second-class citizen just for being a nerd and he was particularly annoyed at Zack and the rest of the gang for under-appreciating him (the big hint is in the episode where Screech is forced to make Fake ID's for the rest of the gang; when they leave the room and he's by himself, he's seen grumbling "'Screech do this! Screech do that!' They'll be sorry when I'm gone!"). He was also extremely embittered by Lisa's repeated dismissal of his affections. All of these emotions kept building up until one day Screech finally snapped.
So at some point during the high school years, Screech decided to start trolling the rest of the gang, just to annoy them as revenge for using him as their workhorse and under-appreciating him.
Any time Screech "accidentally" messes up one of Zack's schemes or puts the gang in an awkward situation...it is NOT an accident. He's doing it on purpose.
The only time he let his cover slip and accidentally revealed the bitter, resentful person underneath was during the episode where he and Zack were fighting over Lisa during senior year.
Needless to say, if true, this would completely change the tone of the series.
- It also explains why Zack and the others don't talk about those days much. Because they want to forget about it and because they're afraid they might end up being targeted again somehow.
- Maybe Miss Bliss was killed by that nutty science teacher who got so infuriated by the fact that "one of YOUR students" (nevermind the fact that Nikki was also his student as well) freed the frogs from the science lab. C'mon, that guy just exuded insanity, it's not that hard to imagine him being the one who killed Miss Bliss.
- She just showed up out of the blue one day during their senior year. This was because of the suddenness of her entering the witness protection program and being quickly relocated to the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of LA. The fact that she constantly seemed on edge when she first arrived was because she was still terrified that whoever was chasing her might find her.
- The reason she rode a motorcycle was so that she would be able to make a quick getaway if it ever became clear that her pursuers had found her. Evidently this became the case towards the end of senior year, as Tori suddenly disappeared just as suddenly as she had appeared.
- It's well-known that her father, the rich and powerful TV producer Aaron Spelling, was the driving force behind her career. It's entirely possible that he used his clout to force NBC and the SBTB crew to create a guest-starring role for his daughter. This would explain why in "The College Years," the show eagerly had Alex make a Take That! towards Tori Spelling in one episode; they resented being arm-twisted and wanted to get in an insult once she was gone.
- How do you explain Beverly Hills 90210, then?
...and the reason Zack is dreaming about it is because the residents of that universe...having apparently gone through years of pain and turmoil before setting things right...built a device to beam their history into the mind of our world's Zack in order to warn him not to make the same mistakes they made. The reason they were able to build such a device is because A: The wealth that they gained from being pop stars gave them the resources, and B: Because in their universe, Screech never lost his Mad Scientist skills.
OR....
And the future!Zack and friends built the above-described device to beam the memory of their history back in time to early 90's Zack in order to make him have the Future Me Scares Me reaction and thus prevent him from making the decisions that led to their Bad Future, in order to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
And just in case that didn't work, their Plan B is to personally travel back in time and assassinate Mindy the evil music exec before she gets a chance to corrupt Zack.
- How do you explain Good Morning, Miss Bliss?
Well it certainly felt like it sometimes. And it'd sure explain why in the Tori episodes nobody ever references Kelly or Jessie and why in the "Kelly and Jessie" episodes nobody mentions Tori. It's because senior year followed the events of two alternate universes, the regular continuity we'd been following since Season One and a second continuity, the Toriverse.
The writers were planning to reveal this in a Wham Episode at the end of the season and do a big crossover event (caused by the two Screeches both simultaneously doing some sort of cosmic Mad Scientist experiment that accidentally opens a wormhole between the two worlds), but NBC decided not to grant them the extra episodes required to do this final part of the storyline.
In addition, if the Crisis Crossover had occurred, the writers would have done a twist where, although he doesn't end up with Lisa, the regular universe's Screech ends up in a relationship with Toriverse!Lisa.
We also would have learned that the "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" episodes are the early history of the Toriverse, not the regular universe, thus explaining why Kelly and Jessie are absent in GMMB just as they are in the Tori episodes, while the regularverse Zack has apparently known Kelly and Jessie since childhood.
Tori suddenly left either because a) she would be turned back into an adult soon, or b) the change ended up killing her.
Or C. She left to go help her best friend Miss Paladrino achieve the same de-aging effect.
- Thinking about this really hard, this troper believes in two categories. 1) That explains a lot. and 2) Zack almost went out with his teacher.
His Stand's name is clearly "Time Out" (named after the 1959 jazz album). The reason he can stop time longer than Dio is unlike The World, Time Out has no combat powers (such as The World's super-strength and speed) or humanoid form, so all of its strength is poured into time manipulation.
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