An Ode To Saved By The Bell

To tell you the truth, it was pretty shocking to hear that Dustin Diamond, aka “Screech” had passed away yesterday. Now it was pretty publicized that he had been hospitalized but to find out he’d passed pretty quickly from Stage 4 lung cancer at the age of 44, it’s incredibly sad that a person that had reached so many was in fact gone.

To me, and for a lot of millenials, Saved By The Bell was an institution. Whether it was hanging out with this crew on Saturday mornings or everyday after school, there was something in the characters that the viewer saw in themselves. And at times, we really wanted to be Zack Morris but really you were Screech.

Even now, if you see Saved By The Bell on, you stop and watch. It’s not objectively good. Heck, you knew that even back when you were a kid that it was cheesy. But it was fun! Although, every time I see it on now, it’s always the episodes where they’re working at the beach resort. I can’t stand these episodes.

Oh, and can we talk about why these kids are actually friends with Zack Morris? He’s constantly trying to scheme, get an edge over, and generally screw the people that are closest to him. And these people just forgive him at the end of the show?

Anyway, I’m rambling. But overall, I think it’s fair to say that the world lost an icon in Dustin Diamond yesterday. And it’s impossible to think that he’ll be forgotten.