Lisa Turtle Flashback

by sylvia

This weekend, as I was celebratin’, drinkin’, eatin’ and swimmin’, I was hit with a realization – there was more to the fat commentary on Saved By The Bell that I had remembered.

As I had posted here, Saved By The Bell does not always have the most sensitive commentary about people not as cool as them, even if they disguise it as help on the “Teen Line”.

As you recall, Lisa was trying to help someone who called in about feeling fat.  She asked how much she weighed and then referred the caller to Overeater’s Anonymous (of course, after the audience laughed at Lisa’s reaction to whatever the caller said his/her weight was, because – FAT PEOPLE ARE FUNNY, just because they are fat).  What I had apparently blocked out, and which serendipitously was revealed to me whilst drinking, was this:

Lisa: Honey, don’t ever wear white, you’ll look like Shamu at a wedding

Or something to that effect.  I know the “white” and “Shamu” parts were in there.

I wanted to jump out of the pool, dry off, and compose this letter:

See You Next Tuesday, Lisa Turtle.

But then I realized no one cared, cuz that POS show had been off the air for a long ass time.

~ by Sylvia on July 6, 2009.