Model Idiot

This morning, the unthinkable happened: I caught a "new" episode of Saved by the Bell! This was the 4-episode movie where the gang goes to Hawaii. As soon as they land at the airport, Zach spies a pretty woman and offers to carry her bags for her. She insists that he doesn't, but Zach shoves through anyway. Then her boyfriend comes to pick her up at the airport, and Zach demands, "Is that your boyfriend?" When she says, "More or less," Zach replies, "Let's hope less" - and amazingly, doesn't get told off to mind his own business.

Also, why she doesn't bust out her pepper spray right then is beyond me.

Afterwards we find out that this woman is the mother of a four-year-old child. At which point Zach starts saying boneheaded things like: "I'm almost eighteen. I can drop out of school and move here to be with you. I love you, and I love Jennifer (the four-year-old child)."

Then it becomes clear: had this woman been the owner of some pepper spray 4 years ago, she never would have shacked up with these kinds of idiots.

It's astounding what gets put on TV. In this same episode, not only does 17-year-old Zach fall in love with a single mom (she missed her graduation because she was in labor; so about 22 years old), but Kelly falls in love with a sleazy lawyer (4 years college + 3 years law school = minimum 25 years old). But the fact that he's hitting on a minor is not enough indication that he's a sleazebag; it's not until they catch him double-crossing them that they get wise to that fact.

So apparently, statuatory rapists are not prosecuted in Saved by the Bell's state of Hawaii.