Thursday, August 24, 2006

Screech can't catch a break

Maybe Being Zach's little nerdy friend wasn't so bad after all

Beloved Dustin Diamond just can't catch a break these days. First of all, he plays the somewhat lovable, somewhat annoying nerd of the Saved by the Bell crew. Second of all, apparently he hasn't found a job since his Saved by the Bell days. In a heartwrenching story, Dustin can't make his house payment and has resorted to a new low, even by his standards. To help with the payment, He is selling T-shirts online which say "save my house" on the front, and then "I paid $15 to save Screeech's House" on the back. The hilarious part is, the three "e's" on his shirt are not a misprint. NBC still owns the rights to the name Screech, and therefore Dustin cannot legally put it on a shirt. You can even step it up a notch and purchase an autographed shirt for $20(I guess his signature is only worth $5). Like I said, the guy can't catch a break.

But today, just when it looked like it couldn't get any worse, scientists decided it was their turn to take a stab at Screech. Scientists have now changed the definition of a planet, thus excluding Pluto from its 70 year planet status. What does this mean for Dustin Diamond? Only that now one of his most famous lines in Saved By the Bell can't even be used any more. Remember when Screech made up the word"mvemjsnup", to serve as a learning aid for that goshdarn, confusing solar system. Well, the genius, training tool is officially useless. Without Pluto, the word is simply "mvemjsnu". How terrible is that!

Lastly, I think Alex would agree with me. One more thing we are against are these new "activities" which ESPN deems as sports. The trend started with ESPN showing the Spelling Bee Championship. Now, they also show Dog Shows and other ridiculous programs. The other day, i saw the "sport" of speed stacking. Liza and I were laughing out loud as we watched the "color commentator" attempt to analyze a competitor's technique. I know everyone is waiting for football, but lets be serious, I hope no one is so desperate that they resort to speed stacking as a sport. There are numerous reasons speed stacking should not be a sport, but the first and only reason that matters is: A GIRL HOLDS THE WORLD RECORD. I am done talking about this, I've given it too much credit already. Here is a video of the sport. Thoughts? Impressive...yes, sport...No!

9 Comments:

At 9:21 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

the best part of this video is the reaction of the boy in the background...someone needs to give him a football/basketball/baseball immediately...i predict years of abuse otherwise

 
At 10:30 AM, Blogger Brian said...

haha nice observation. Yea, they need to find some other mode of entertainment...fast.

 
At 10:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

That superfan in the background looks like the kind of boy I would torture to tears by twisting his arm when I was in 4th grade. By seventh grade, I would move on to more sophisticated forms of torture, like making him cry in class by convincing him he was gay.

Charles

 
At 12:42 AM, Blogger Brian said...

I'm impressed you gave it five seconds philip.

 
At 5:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i just pulled a chunk of my hair out.

-kelly

 
At 7:12 PM, Blogger joel kimmel said...

"play the double" of course is not to be confused with "kiss the double" as seen in the old (read: great) sportSCenter commercials for shelf ball. let us not forget that the scrabble world championships have also been aired, complete with interviews of men, MEN, who study the dictionary 5-6 hours a day

 
At 9:26 PM, Blogger kurt said...

I saw a "Magic: The Gathering" tournament on ESPN2 when I was in college...I watched for about 30 seconds...lets just pray that's probably the first and last time that those "athletes" will be on ESPN...

...ps...why did all the comments from the previous post get deleted?

 
At 1:36 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

it was magic

 
At 10:13 AM, Blogger Alex said...

Kurt, sorry your comment got deleted. That was an accident. The comments that were deleted were because they poluted the holiness of 'sweet emotion'. We will not welcome such trash and may be forced to take action. But again, sorry your well put comment was removed, administrative accident.

 

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