Happy Wrong Number By the Sea!

Today marks the first birthday of Buddy Bands!

It's been one whole year of examples of how some of your favorite shows relate to real life. To recap, here are a few of my favorite posts:

Anyone can find love

The serious stuff

Coasters

So, "Happy Wrong Number by the Sea" to Buddy Bands! Thank you so much to all of the readers!

Photo credit

PS. "Happy Wrong Number by the Sea" was written on one of Zack's birthday cakes. Sometimes I like to say this to friends on their birthdays. My favorite friends understand this without needing an explanation.


PPS. I am trying out a new look for the blog for the new year. Hope you like it!

Friends Forever,

AC Slater

These are my confessions...

Erika from the awesome blog, SBTB: Now! recently asked readers to send in their "SBTB Confessions". We were asked to answer the following questions:

1. What is your fondest memory of the show growing up?
2. If you could change one element of the show, what would it be?
3. Who is your inner character and why?
4.  Have you ever experienced a moment in life that you could relate to SBTB?

Photo Credit: SBTB Now!

I am so honored to be the first fan featured on the blog.  You can check it out my confessions here.


If you want to be featured also, please send your answers to the questions above to Erika at sbtbnow@aol.com. It would be fun to have some "Buddy Band-ers" submit something! If you do, please let me know!


Enjoy!



Friends Forever,


AC Slater

Real Live Buddy Bands!

Man, am I glad I joined Twitter! Otherwise, I wouldn't have seen this: another SBTB fan out there is considering making Buddy Bands for purchase. Who wouldn't want one of these?  I found this on the SBTB: NOW! Blog. This is a fun site to see the latest news on what the actors are up to now and some fun behind the scenes photos. Be sure to check it out!

Buddy Bands: Hey, they work!

Also, for the story behind Buddy Bands and the naming of this blog, check out this post.


Stay tuned for more on how you can get your hands on your very own buddy band!


Friends Forever,
AC Slater

SBTB: The Game

I had the pleasure of spending last weekend at a friend's cottage near the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan (Pure Michigan, anyone?). Much to my delight, stumbled across this little gem:

Saved by the Bell: The Game. Hours of entertainment

After dusting off the cover, instead of playing the actual game, we collected all the trivia questions and my friends quizzed me, rapid fire style. Either they were impressed or thought I was a complete loser, because I was able to answer almost every question without thinking. I did, however, find a few questions where the answers on the card were incorrect! I am half tempted to write the company and let them know of their errors, but something tells me it's too late. For example, one such question read, "What was Zack's S.A.T. score?" The card told us the answer was 1500, when everyone knows that in reality Zack scored a 1502. I mean, come on!

The game also included dreamy photos of all the characters, fun facts about the actors, and even love notes from Zack and Slater. Why was this my first time playing this game?

Friends Forever,

AC Slater

Stop the drilling! Stop the oil!

This post is waaay overdue. This BP oil spill business is out of control. And yesterday another oil spill very close to home.  And now Eric's secretary is in a coma. What's with this? Nevertheless, this sensitive topic of course makes me think of SBTB. We all remember the Oil Spill episode. The gang "adopts" pets from the school's pond and care for them in their science class. Zack becomes particularly attached to a duck he names Becky. (Coincidentally Becky is also Mr. Belding's wife's name..hmmm?). One beautiful afternoon, Slater saunters into the locker room covered in oil. What happened? They were doing some work on the football field and they struck oil!  At first, the gang is thrilled, imagining a "Better Bayside" where money is no object and the teachers wait on the students. Jessie and Kelly are the only ones against it, chaining themselves to a giant oil derrick (where did they get that?) and chanting, "Stop the drilling! Stop the oil!".  A nerd named Franklin also joins in with his own original cheer, "Stop the shouting, give me a kiss!".  But do they listen to the ever-protesting, tree-hugger Jessie? Noooo.

Zack, Mr. B and Becky the Duck pre-oil spill

Inevitably during the drilling, an "accident" happens covering all the precious animals in oil. Now the gang can see the real danger in all this oil business. Not only is the wildlife in danger, but the school campus will be littered with unsightly oil derricks. Zack comes through and saves the day with a dramatic presentation for the school board, complete with squirting oil on the shirt of the oil company representative. Lo and behold, he saves Bayside once again!  The episode ends with everyone participating in the group high five that was later featuring in the opening credits.

"She's where the oil can't hurt her now"

The moral of the story is that we need to get Jessie Spano down to the Gulf Coast to rally the troops in a  rousing cheer of "Stop the drilling! Stop the oil!". That should solve everything.

Friends Forever,

AC Slater

P.S. Buddy Bands is now on Twitter! Follow @buddybands

I missed him...

I found out tonight that Mark-Paul aka Zack Morris was at a local watering hole last night...I cannot believe I missed it and even worse that he didn't call me! I mean, didn't he read this post where I specifically said "call me!"??  Apparently I need to be on Twitter to find out about these things so I am signing up immediately. I will just call it blog research.


Tweet you later!


Friends Forever,
AC Slater

Which Saved by the Bell Chick are you? Fourth of July Edition

In honor of our county's independence, here is a little holiday weekend quiz for you:

Answer the following:

What does the Fourth of July mean to you?:

A.  A day we celebrate our country, well, technically not our country, we stole it from the Indians....

B.  Life, liberty and 50% off at all major department stores

C.  Family, fun and fireworks, that's the Fourth

D.  A day when we remember how our fore-fathers fought for something so precious: Freedom

Scroll down to see which character you are!

(Fireworks for Zack and Stacy's first kiss)

If you answered A: You are Jessie Spano! You are tend to dress as Lady Liberty on Independence day, you love woman's rights, and you are slightly neurotic.

If you answered B: You are Lisa Turtle! Always the fashion maven, you spend your summers watching your friends work while relaxing and charging things to your parent's tab. 

If you answered C: You are Stacy Carosi! You are living in Malibu with a New York accent, you have a hard outer shell, but a soft spot for "surfer dudes".

If you answered D: You are Kelly Kapowski! The all-American girl,  you are a hard worker, but know how to have fun too, especially on the volleyball court.

So, which SBTB chick are you? Leave a comment and let me know!

I hope you enjoyed this holiday quiz.  Have a safe and happy Fourth of July!

Friends Forever,

AC Slater