This morning's 7:30 Saved By The Bell was one we all remember and love. More importantly, it was one that taught us a lasting lesson of friendship, scholarship, and trust. Trying to study for a geometry midterm that no one else is worried about, while at the same time trying to break into the music industry with the group Hot Sundae (comprised also of Kelly and Lisa), Jessie Spano becomes addicted to pep pills. Speed. Mini-thins. Caffeine pills. Whatever you want to call them.
In an Emmy-worthy scene, Zack (Hot Sundae's manager) finds her asleep in her room when she is supposed to go with him to Hot Sundae's audition for a record exec (which is obviously taking place at the Max). Jessie becomes distraught, then reaches for the bottle of pills. Zack tells her to calm the fuck down and put the pills down. She says that she can still sing, and in a dramatic, tear-jerking climax, belts out the now-famous, "I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so . . . scared." Then she starts crying. Then I started crying because it was then that I realized Hot Sundae had missed its big chance.
For those of you worried, my Key West weekend recap will be along later today.
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Especially poignant given the death of Pointer Sister, June Pointer.
Maybe if she hadn't gotten hooked on speed pills she would have fulfilled her dream of getting into Stanford and avoided having to strip for money in Vegas
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