The television show Saved By The Bell was an integral part of 90’s American pop culture. Not only did it did provide audiences with a deep understanding for the American high school experience, but it served as a great reference point for the impending sluttification of stars Tiffany-Amber-Thiessen (Kelly) and Elizabeth Berkley (Jesse) - neither of whom even let guys get to second base during their high school years. The show featured the emotional ups and downs of your typical, tight knit group of friends, each member an easily digestible character type, with a black girl and a Hispanic guy with jheri curls thrown in for good measure.

After the gang graduated from Bayside High, a large number of them went onto to the same crappy community college, where America continued to enjoy their antics and general hilarity. While Zack and Slater slacked off and seemed destined to flunk out of school, Kelly and her new compatriots seemed equally stupid, but were somehow scraping by with decent grades. As a whole, the gang from Bayside High seemed destined for post-college unemployment. However, America was tragically deprived of this stage in their lives, particularly unfortunate because so many Americans experience post-college unemployment, and could have benefited from watching the gang struggle and fall on their faces. Thus, for the sake of both America’s education and entertainment, we desperately need one more round of our favorite 90’s high school sitcom, Saved By The Bell: The Unemployment Years.

Saved By The Bell taught Americans many things throughout the series’ tenure: how to cope with the pressures of high school and college, how to treat your friends, and of course, how a laugh track can make everything seem vastly more funny than it actually is. However, Saved By The Bell failed to teach Americans about the dark times that set in when you reach your mid-20s and instead of hanging out with your friends everyday, you’re hanging out with sketchy people from your apartment building, your marijuana dealer, and some drunk strangers you met at the bar who may or may not end up sleeping with you. Certainly, Americans facing their own unemployment years can cope without a parallel Saved By The Bell experience, and have done so for years, but it’s nowhere as fun, and it’s not like the Saved By The Bell cast has anything better to do with their careers. Reality TV, crime dramas, and films where the central character is a stripper aren’t exactly the makings of A-list talent.

Even those Americans who aren’t facing and/or have never faced unemployment would enjoy Saved By The Bell: Unemployment Years. Sure, Americans love watching shows where attractive people have fun and exciting experiences, but we also love when those people slip up and make asses of themselves. Americans still talk about the Saved By The Bell episode in which Jessie Spano (played by Elizabeth Berkley) got addicted to caffeine pills and crashed into a brick wall called “reality.” It was depressing in some ways, but at the end of the day… hilarious.

It’s widely accepted that Saved By The Bell peaked when the gang was still in high school, and I confess there’s a chance that another spin-off would fall flat. But even if the show only lasts one season, at least America’s future unemployed will have benefited: not only will they learn from the gang’s struggles, but they will have something to watch when they’re sitting at home during the work day.

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