#284: Saved by the Bell - "The Prom"

It's prom season at Bayside... but when Kelly runs into a string of setbacks that threaten their big night together, the gang gets pulled into one of the show's most unexpectedly bittersweet episodes. Listening Portal: https://linktr.ee/averyspecialpodcast

In this episode, we go back to 1961 and crack open one of the strangest network TV experiments ever aired: THE HATHAWAYS. A show about a suburban family… that just happens to include three chimpanzees. Listening Portal: https://linktr.ee/averyspecialpodcast

Before Gordon Shumway smashed his spacecraft into the Tanner household, he lived on Melmac, and NBC had this grand idea to turn those years into an animated series in the late '80s. Listening Portal: https://linktr.ee/averyspecialpodcast

Hello.... is it us you're looking for? Patrick and Kat return to the world of music videos, and in doing so, stumble into the creepiest short form musical theater to ever invade the airwaves of MTV, and most likely VH1 at some point. And with that said... It's Lionel Richie Day here at the podcast! Listening Portal: https://linktr.ee/averyspecialpodcast

Patrick and Kat head to the movies, and all the way to 1988, to discuss the Bette Midler / Lily Tomlin film in which they portray two pairs of identical twins mismatched at birth. It's a whole comedy of errors, and well, kind of a retro modern retelling of The Comedy of Errors.  Listening Portal: https://linktr.ee/averyspecialpodcast

Originally recorded in the fall of 2016, but never released, our dive into the Nickelodeon made-for-tv movie, Cry Baby Lane. 

Before our next episode drops, we're presenting to you something from our Patreon archives.  Another installment of Commercial Corner, an AVSP spin-off that takes a peak at the commercials that made us. This go around, we're talking about a series of 1-800-Collect ads, which is how we used to communicate before cellphones.  Originally recorded in 2020. 

Patrick and Kat spend Christmas with the Bunkers. Listening Portal: https://linktr.ee/averyspecialpodcast

Patrick and Kat discuss a holiday themed episode of The Drew Carey, in which Drew Carey dates an older gal (Shirley Jones), and Mimi sells Christmas trees door-to-door.  Listening Portal: https://linktr.ee/averyspecialpodcast

Patrick and Kat find themselves pleasantly surprised with a 2016 episode of Kevin Can Wait.  Listening Portal: https://linktr.ee/averyspecialpodcast