Post by tbsbell on May 30, 2008 7:42:54 GMT -5
(I got the basis for this idea of the IMDB board, and posted essentially the same thing there, but the Miss Bliss board there isn't too active)
So how do you find a meeting point between the two shows? The core group of Zach, Kelly, Screech, and Belding are easy. Screech's and Zach's fathers could work for the same company, which relocated, and Lisa somehow got her doctor parents to move with them. Their long-standing relationships don't paradoxically clash with the group move. The problems are Kelly and Jesse. Kelly is Zach's long time crush, and Jesse is a life long friend "like a sister to him". A scenario has to be worked out to match all the established backgrounds with the move.
It is established that:
- Kelly has a dad that works for a defense contractor. (loses his job when "world peace" breaks out).
- Zach has a dad that has a profession that requires very frequent trips and a cellphone.
- Lisa has doctor parents, who work at the hospital.
- Jesse has a dad that divorced her liberal activist mom and manages hotels in remote vacation spots (or Palm Springs was his only one).
- AC is said to be a complete stranger to the rest of the group before 10th (or was it 9th in the first season?) grade. His dad is in the military.
- Judging strictly by Screech's heredity and his dad's lack of presence, I'd imagine his dad is a grown-up geek working as a researcher or scientist somewhere. Maybe even an engineer.
- Belding is a principal who attended high school at Bayside, and has a slacker brother that sometimes served as a substitute, who probably never left California (not much in the way of white water rafting in relatively flat Indiana).
With that, I will make up a scenario that may work.
- Kelly's dad's defense contractor moves workers from Indiana to California for whatever reason. Maybe he and his family left a year before everyone else.
- Zach's father served as a traveling representative for the contractor, but since Zach's friends were moving, he moved as well.
- Jesse's mom either works for the contractor, or has some job where she can move around. The divorce may have happened a year before the Miss Bliss year, due to the father leaving for California to work at a sunny desert resort hotel to chase young "bimbos" around. He may have won a settlement requiring Jesse to be close-by in California, so Jesse and her mom moved to Palisades (the mom didn't want to be too close to her ex).
- Screech's dad could be a researcher, engineer, or some scientifically-oriented employee of the defense contractor in need of high tech expertise.
- Lisa convinced her parents that moving to Calfornia would be better for her health, as well as a way to be close to her friends, while secretly wanting to be near the fashion mecca of Rodeo Drive. Also, one day a certain Leon Carosi came through Indiana to look into business ventures there. He fell ill and was rushed to the hospital where Lisa's parent's worked. After they treated him, he thanked them and offered them a summer membership in his beach club along the the Pacific Ocean. Putting all these into consideration, and noticing openings in a LA area hospital, they applied for positions and were accepted onto the staff.
- Belding, who had been constantly trying to work for his alma mater, finally found the opening he was looking for when his old principal stepped down. He found a house near his brother's slacker apartment by the beach. Rod was already subbing part time at Bayside and other area schools, so he lived close by.
- Nikki and Mikey did not have parents that were moved, and they could not convince them to move. Maybe they were just replacements in the group for Kelly and Jesse who had moved a year earlier (they were also absent in the Tori episodes, so this is pretty consistent with the show). They probably stayed in Indiana high schools and colleges for the rest of their education.
- Milo became new principal of JFK, and Miss Bliss (along with Ms. Paladrino) stayed a teacher, while living in Indianapolis. She may have taken a trip to California to meet this lookalike that was starring in Disney movies from the 60s & 70s, but other than that she would have probably never seen the gang again.
Little to no holes that I know of, but highly implausible. Possible nonetheless. Maybe I'm wrong on some of the parents. I was unsure about the fathers of Zach and especially Screech. I guess Screech's Disneyland expertise/obsession may be a problem, but maybe his family traveled there a lot while living in Indiana.
So how do you find a meeting point between the two shows? The core group of Zach, Kelly, Screech, and Belding are easy. Screech's and Zach's fathers could work for the same company, which relocated, and Lisa somehow got her doctor parents to move with them. Their long-standing relationships don't paradoxically clash with the group move. The problems are Kelly and Jesse. Kelly is Zach's long time crush, and Jesse is a life long friend "like a sister to him". A scenario has to be worked out to match all the established backgrounds with the move.
It is established that:
- Kelly has a dad that works for a defense contractor. (loses his job when "world peace" breaks out).
- Zach has a dad that has a profession that requires very frequent trips and a cellphone.
- Lisa has doctor parents, who work at the hospital.
- Jesse has a dad that divorced her liberal activist mom and manages hotels in remote vacation spots (or Palm Springs was his only one).
- AC is said to be a complete stranger to the rest of the group before 10th (or was it 9th in the first season?) grade. His dad is in the military.
- Judging strictly by Screech's heredity and his dad's lack of presence, I'd imagine his dad is a grown-up geek working as a researcher or scientist somewhere. Maybe even an engineer.
- Belding is a principal who attended high school at Bayside, and has a slacker brother that sometimes served as a substitute, who probably never left California (not much in the way of white water rafting in relatively flat Indiana).
With that, I will make up a scenario that may work.
- Kelly's dad's defense contractor moves workers from Indiana to California for whatever reason. Maybe he and his family left a year before everyone else.
- Zach's father served as a traveling representative for the contractor, but since Zach's friends were moving, he moved as well.
- Jesse's mom either works for the contractor, or has some job where she can move around. The divorce may have happened a year before the Miss Bliss year, due to the father leaving for California to work at a sunny desert resort hotel to chase young "bimbos" around. He may have won a settlement requiring Jesse to be close-by in California, so Jesse and her mom moved to Palisades (the mom didn't want to be too close to her ex).
- Screech's dad could be a researcher, engineer, or some scientifically-oriented employee of the defense contractor in need of high tech expertise.
- Lisa convinced her parents that moving to Calfornia would be better for her health, as well as a way to be close to her friends, while secretly wanting to be near the fashion mecca of Rodeo Drive. Also, one day a certain Leon Carosi came through Indiana to look into business ventures there. He fell ill and was rushed to the hospital where Lisa's parent's worked. After they treated him, he thanked them and offered them a summer membership in his beach club along the the Pacific Ocean. Putting all these into consideration, and noticing openings in a LA area hospital, they applied for positions and were accepted onto the staff.
- Belding, who had been constantly trying to work for his alma mater, finally found the opening he was looking for when his old principal stepped down. He found a house near his brother's slacker apartment by the beach. Rod was already subbing part time at Bayside and other area schools, so he lived close by.
- Nikki and Mikey did not have parents that were moved, and they could not convince them to move. Maybe they were just replacements in the group for Kelly and Jesse who had moved a year earlier (they were also absent in the Tori episodes, so this is pretty consistent with the show). They probably stayed in Indiana high schools and colleges for the rest of their education.
- Milo became new principal of JFK, and Miss Bliss (along with Ms. Paladrino) stayed a teacher, while living in Indianapolis. She may have taken a trip to California to meet this lookalike that was starring in Disney movies from the 60s & 70s, but other than that she would have probably never seen the gang again.
Little to no holes that I know of, but highly implausible. Possible nonetheless. Maybe I'm wrong on some of the parents. I was unsure about the fathers of Zach and especially Screech. I guess Screech's Disneyland expertise/obsession may be a problem, but maybe his family traveled there a lot while living in Indiana.
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