Things I Think About At Work : Everything On TV And In The Movies Can Be Linked Back To Saved By The Bell

Following up my last blog post, when I was left to my own devices I still had Saved By The Bell on the brain.  Coming up with the whole Saved By The Bell could easily be Scream thing was just the start of the gears spinning.  At first, I was just going to mention how the secondary characters on Saved By The Bell were way more interesting after the show then during the show.  But then my mind went into overdrive and I created a theory.  My senior thesis when I finish college is going to be based on this blog.  You can trace every movie and TV show back to Saved By The Bell.  This will be very similar to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but I can pretty much fit everything from pop culture into this theory.  I'm not going to put it all into this blog, just a taste of it.

First, I will start off with a few things you didn't know.  Professor Jeremiah Lackey, the teacher in college Kelly was dating to get better grades, was so heart broken over losing Kelly to her former high school flame/current husband, he moved to the South and became a preacher and an exorcist.  Sadly, he fell in battle against the demon Abalam (The Last Exorcism.)

Staying with the College Years, Dean Susan McMann spent her off hours tormenting her two sons Alan Harper and Charlie Harper. Let's face it.  They deserve to be tormented.  Alan Harper needed to stay on the straight and narrow after being arrested by Superman after high school.  Charlie Harper also needed to stay straight after taking a deal that landed Gordon Gecko in jail, and leading police on a chase across California after kidnapping Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

But if you want to totally get your mind blown, after Alex Tabor graduated from college with Slater, Zach, Screech, and Kelly, she went on to become a stripper (since her major in college was drama, and a starving actor has to work.)  While being a stripper, she met the Fresh Prince Of Bel Air's girlfriend, Jasmine Dubrow.  Unfortunately for Alex, she was killed when she was atop one of the buildings destroyed by the aliens during the first attack on Earth.  The aliens however were repelled by The Fly, before he turned into the Fly, but after he survived Jurassic Park, and also a former college football coach who's star quarterback would later go on to create the Quantum Leap Project, and would later have a descendant be one of the first captains of the USS Enterprise.

How does any of this tie into Star Wars though?  What a great random question!  You see, before the Fresh Prince defeated the aliens, he was a cop in Miami.  While trying to protect a witness, he killed Noah.  Noah had a twin brother, Dante, who was a guard at a bank that was robbed by The Punisher.  Before Frank Castle became the Punisher, he used to wrangle sharks where he met Mace Windu's however many great-grandfather, Russel Franklin, who was eaten by a shark.

Did you just connect AC Slater's girlfriend to Mace Windu?  You bet your ass I did!  But one more, to really solidify my theory.

During a couple of episodes, the Bayside High Gang met an actor named James.  James is a direct descendant of Blinkin, Robin Hood's faithful servant.  Robin Hood is the descendant of Wesley and Buttercup, and much further down the line of descendants is Dr. Gordon who was Jigsaw's right hand man all along, not Amanda Young who was so clearly out of her mind after surviving The Blob, she resorted to torture and murder.  That's right.  I just went from a random waiter at The Max, to one of the heroes who stopped the Blob.

Much like Pigman in PCU, who was trying to prove the Caine-Hackman theory (no matter what time of day it is, you can find a Gene Hackman or Michael Caine movie on TV,) I will cap off my college career by proving without a shadow of a doubt that Saved By The Bell is the epicenter to which every movie and TV show can be linked back to.  There are so many cases of Saved By The Bell linking pop culture together, I can't put them into one simple blog!  My thesis would be longer then great works of literature like The Stand by Stephen King, or War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.  I have given you a taste though, consider yourself lucky.