Current Events > Was it a shitty thing to not include Screech in Saved by da Bell reboot?

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You think he was very sad and devastated about dat?
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Didn't he release a "tell all" book about the cast that he later admitted was bullshit?

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Very sad that he passed so young, but he was a total asshole

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I was under the impression that everyone else on the show hated him, and for good reason

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Even putting aside Dustin on a personal level, Screech would be a hard character to bring back.

If they kept him as an awkward, bumbling loser into his adulthood then it would be a bit depressing really, but if they brought him back as someone who had come good in the end then there wouldn't be enough that was recognisable about the character to make it worth bringing him back. For example, if Family Matters came back and Urkel was a forty-something but still Did I Do That-ing while dressed like clown vomit, it wouldn't be funny, it would just make him look damaged, but if he'd turned into a functioning adult then it wouldn't really be recognisable as Urkel - some character archetypes only work as children/teens.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure Dustin's antics in the last twenty years are the sole reason why he never got brought back, but it's the right call either way.

Although full disclosure, I haven't seen the new series, so what do I know? Maybe all the characters are behaving just like they did as teens...

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eston posted...

I was under the impression that everyone else on the show hated him, and for good reason

He wrote a tell all book years back to make money where as everyone else seems to have remained friendly.

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Tom Clark posted...

Even putting aside Dustin on a personal level, Screech would be a hard character to bring back.

If they kept him as an awkward, bumbling loser into his adulthood then it would be a bit depressing really, but if they brought him back as someone who had come good in the end then there wouldn't be enough that was recognisable about the character to make it worth bringing him back. For example, if Family Matters came back and Urkel was a forty-something but still Did I Do That-ing while dressed like clown vomit, it wouldn't be funny, it would just make him look damaged, but if he'd turned into a functioning adult then it wouldn't really be recognisable as Urkel - some character archetypes only work as children/teens.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure Dustin's antics in the last twenty years are the sole reason why he never got brought back, but it's the right call either way.

Although full disclosure, I haven't seen the new series, so what do I know? Maybe all the characters are behaving just like they did as teens...

That's an interesting insight, never thought about it like that.

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I'll always remember him for the sex tape where he gave a girl a dirty Sanchez. I never watched it, because ew, but just knowing it exists is enough

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eston posted...

I'll always remember him for the sex tape where he gave a girl a dirty Sanchez. I never watched it, because ew, but just knowing it exists is enough

Did you have to curse the rest of us with this knowledge tho

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Ivynn posted...

Did you have to curse the rest of us with this knowledge tho

Not sure if it makes it better or worse, but he later said that he hired a stunt double for the sex tape, rather than doing it himself.

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Tom Clark posted...

Even putting aside Dustin on a personal level, Screech would be a hard character to bring back.

If they kept him as an awkward, bumbling loser into his adulthood then it would be a bit depressing really, but if they brought him back as someone who had come good in the end then there wouldn't be enough that was recognisable about the character to make it worth bringing him back. For example, if Family Matters came back and Urkel was a forty-something but still Did I Do That-ing while dressed like clown vomit, it wouldn't be funny, it would just make him look damaged, but if he'd turned into a functioning adult then it wouldn't really be recognisable as Urkel - some character archetypes only work as children/teens.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure Dustin's antics in the last twenty years are the sole reason why he never got brought back, but it's the right call either way.

Although full disclosure, I haven't seen the new series, so what do I know? Maybe all the characters are behaving just like they did as teens...

I think it would still work, adult screech. He'd basically would be like Artie the strongest man in the worlld from Pete & Pete.

But yea obviously Dustin Diamond being a jerk didn't help, though how he was made Celebrity FIt Club funny.

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Tom Clark posted...

If they kept him as an awkward, bumbling loser into his adulthood then it would be a bit depressing really, but if they brought him back as someone who had come good in the end then there wouldn't be enough that was recognisable about the character to make it worth bringing him back. For example, if Family Matters came back and Urkel was a forty-something but still Did I Do That-ing while dressed like clown vomit, it wouldn't be funny, it would just make him look damaged, but if he'd turned into a functioning adult then it wouldn't really be recognisable as Urkel - some character archetypes only work as children/teens.

Make it a gag. Have him introduced as a awkward, bumbling loser. Then about half way through the show have his hot supermodel girlfriend turn up in his ultra expensive sports car, and reveal he only still seemed awkward due to being nervous about meeting his old friends again.

JE19426 posted...

Make it a gag. Have him introduced as a awkward, bumbling loser. Then about half way through the show have his hot supermodel girlfriend turn up in his ultra expensive sports car, and reveal he only still seemed awkward due to being nervous about meeting his old friends again.

That could work to be fair.

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Maybe the reason he wasnt involved is because of his cancer.

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SauI_Goodman posted...

Maybe the reason he wasnt involved is because of his cancer.

He supposedly just went to get it checked out a couple of weeks ago, sounds like he didn't even know he had it sadly until it was too late.

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Was he out of prison?

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DoubleDare posted...

He supposedly just went to get it checked out a couple of weeks ago, sounds like he didn't even know he had it sadly until it was too late.

It happened so fast
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