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Get on board the flashback train, because I’m here to bring you one of the greatest scenes ever created on television. Seriously, Elizabeth Berkley should have won an award for this. This is the finest acting I’ve seen since Angela Lansbury in “Murder, She Wrote.” No seriously, it is. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, I am filing a complaint with you all. I don’t care if this took place a decade ago, or that “Saved by the Bell” is a TELEVISION show. I do not care, do you hear me? Jesse Spano deserves to be heard! Why? Because she’s so excited, she’s so excited, she’s so scared!

And for added pleasure, here is a re-enactment of Jesse Spano’s caffeine pill freakout, courtesy of me (pseudo-jesse) and Nathalie (pseudo-zac)

  • pseudo-zac: Jesse spanno? Is that you?
  • psuedo-jesse: Yes its me zac! I HAVE TO PERFORM, you don’t understand. I have to take my caffeine pills.
  • pseudo-zac: JESSE! No! What are you doing!
  • pseudo-jesse: I HAVE TO SING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • pseudo-zac: Are you on DRUGS?
  • pseudo-jesse: NO!!! I have to sing! I must!
  • pseudo-zac: Jesse!! JESSE!!!
  • pseudo-jesse: My life depends on it!!!
  • pseudo-zac: JESSE! THESE THINGS CAN KILL YOU!!!!!!!
  • pseudo-jesse: IM SO EXCITED…IM SO EXCITED!!!! IM SO…SCAREDDDDDDDDDDDDD
  • pseudo-jesse: UGH HUH UHUH HUHUH (SOBBING)
  • pseudo-zac: It’s ok. Come here. I will help you. I am Zach Morris. LET ME HELP YOU
  • pseudo-jesse: AN ANGEL. FROM HEAVEN. With a big grey cellphone and miami vice jacket has come to my aid.
    pseudo-zac: HELP ME HELP YOU.
  • pseudo-jesse: Give me my CAFFEINE PILLS!!!

The end. Ah-thank you.

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