"There's No Hope With Dope"

IMPORTANT GMYH ANNOUNCEMENT: I started up a GMYH MySpace page. It's in its formative stages, and it essentially worthless right now, but I figured I would spread the word, since having only one MySpace friend (Tom, the guy who runs MySpace) is horribly weak.

This morning's Saved By The Bell block was one of the best I've seen in a long time. I didn't happen to catch the 6am show (although it was no doubt awesome), since I was getting totally buff at the gym during that time, whaling on my glutes and such. But the 3 shows that followed were simply classics:

6:30: The Johnny Dakota episode. Jake Ryan wannabe Johnny Dakota chooses Bayside HS as the location for an anti-drug PSA. He then courts a more-than-willing Kelly, taking her on a couple dates. Just as most movie stars do, Johnny invited a group of high schoolers to a totally awesome party at his house. Even Screech was gonna get laid. Then some total stroke busted out a joint (that's slang for "marijuana cigarette"), and guess what? Johnny was all about it. He even offered Kelly a hit. "No f'n way!" she said, in so many words. Then the next day everyone backed out on Johnny's anti-drug PSA because he's a hypocritical, lying dope smoker, and who wants to be in a commercial with that? Then he backed out of the PSA. As luck would have it, one of Richard Belding's good friends growing up was none other than NBC President Brandon Tartikoff, so he filled in for Johnny, and (with the help of Zack, Kelly, Screech, Lisa, Slater, and Jessie) made a heartfelt -- and more importantly, honest -- anti-drug PSA.

7:00: The Murder Mystery episode. The gang wins a weekend at a murder mystery mansion, and things start to get hairy when one of the other contestant's jewelry gets stolen. So then the guy in charge calls "the game" off. Or does he? This episode had everything: cross-dressers, a French maid (in the appopriate outfit), deception, and intrigue.

7:30: The Zack Attack episode. Unfortunately, I had to leave 5 minutes into it to go to work, but this episode was about the likely story of the gang (minus Jessie, because she was probably stripping at the time) forming a band and, while practicing in Zack's garage, they get discovered by a bigshot producer who happened to be jogging by and heard the sweet sirens of the Zack Attack calling to him. While the band totally rocks in every possible way, they eventually break up because of creative differences, only to reunite several minutes later and totally rock like they've never rocked before. What was most disappointing about this episode was not the canned melodies of "Friends Forever" (which is my GMYH MySpace song), but rather than it turned out to be just one of Zack's dreams. I cry nearly everytime I see the end of the episode when he gets jostled awake as the others are arriving at his garage to practice music that will not get them a random huge recording contract.

AL Wild Card
1. White Sox 73-51 --
2. Minnesota 72-51 0.5
3. Boston 69-55 4.0

(Note: I am not going to show the NL Wild Card stats unless the Astros are within 5 games)