History Series / SavedByTheBellTheNewClass

* RecycledScript: It's been pointed out that a number of episodes have the same premise as episodes of the original series. Most notably the ones where a microphone was secretly hidden in Lindsay's bedroom, getting involved with a poker game where somehow, they lost on a billion to one odds.

** Also two episodes actually depict some of the main characters smoking Tobacco products whereas none of the main characters in the original show even considered such a thing. In "No Smoking" Tommy and Lindsay both take up smoking cigarettes with both eventually learning to quit. In "Cigar Wars" Tony, Eric and Maria smoke them and Tony is said to have done it regularly along with his dad after football games, Eric and Maria soon quit once they are informed that cigars are just as unhealthy as cigarettes but Tony struggles until the end before he quits.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Bizarrely enough, abuse on females is played for drama in the exact same episode where abuse on males is played for laughs. In the episode "Boundaries", a college boy assaults Rachel and is treated with the seriousness that the situation deserves. However, the B-plot involves lunch lady Mabel harassing Screech in a case of StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale.

** In the Season 6 episode "Mind Games" after Nicky overhears Eric and Tony talking about how they believe he lied about not being able to accept the reward money from an old lady whose bracelet he returned(because they saw him with a new jacket that Nicky claimed that Katie got him for his birthday which they don't believe since his birthday was three months ago)Nicky decides to troll them by borrowing expensive stuff from other people and pretending it's his, resulting in Eric and Tony saying this about Nicky.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: In "Fear of Falling", Lindsey demonstrates what is quite possibly the lamest gymnastics routine in the history of the sport, which seemingly consists entirely of a jump onto the uneven bars, followed by a dismount. This, at a high-school level competition, somehow merits a ''9.5 score.''

* CoolLoser: Liz in early season 5 is likely a deliberate example. In "Football & Physics", she has trouble fitting in with the other girls, just because she has different interests. Also, despite being as conventionally pretty as the other girls, she has never been on a date (at least before Ryan) and the others are surprised when two boys are fighting over someone like her. She grows out of it in season 6, as she's no longer a NaiveNewcomer.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Season 1 is quite distinct from the later seasons, even allowing for the frequent cast changes that ran throughout the show's run. Screech is entirely absent as he was still on ''The College Years'' meaning that Mr. Belding's role was much closer to that he had in the original series than the comic duo he was with Screech for most of ''this'' series. All the episodes were fixed at Bayside as against subsequent seasons where up to half the episodes could be focused on the mall or other out of school locations like a ski lodge or cruise ship. Scott is much more obviously the protagonist in a Zack Morris sense as against the more ensemble feel later on and like Zack he would regularly address the audience, a device later abandoned. Also Mr. Belding's office is the same as in the original series while from Season 2 on it is completely different.
* EnsembleCast: Once the show dropped Zack expy Scott, it became an ensemble with every character taking turns in the spotlight. Zack-like schemes and lessons-of-the-week would now be passed around from character to character rather than relegating them to supporting cast for one star schemer.
* EveryoneHatesMimes: In the Season 5 episode "Foreign Affairs", Liz, suspecting (wrongly) of Ryan cheating on her with a girl they encounter in Paris, spies on him disguised as a street-performing mime (with Maria and Katie in tow in the same getup), earning derisive comments from Ryan, who doesn't realize yet who the mimes really are. Once Liz comes clean to Ryan about spying on him near the end of the episode, Ryan reacts with near horror upon realizing what her method of spying involves.
-->'''Ryan''': Oh, no! Not the mimes!
* ExpandedUniverse: Beth Cruise (who also wrote novels for the original series) wrote ten short novel based on the show. The first five books focused on the first season cast while the last five focused on the second season cast.

* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In the Season 4 episode "The Fifth Wheel", Ryan buys Rachel a jacket with trinkets in the shapes of the moon and stars that glow in the dark attached to it. After Maria makes a BackhandedCompliment about the jacket, Nicky buys one for ''her''. Neither of the girls likes the jackets, and, after confessing to the boys at the end of the episode (which the guys take well), they ditch the jackets.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In seven seasons, a total of nineteen different main characters appeared in the opening credits, though not all at the same time obviously.

* TokenMinorityCouple: With the exception of the one-off episodes where Megan hooks up with Tommy D, which were never mentioned again, the black leads in the original series and in ''The New Class'' would never get paired up with any of the white leads. They would usually get their own boy or GirlOfTheWeek with most of them also being black. ''The New Class'' had three black male leads and Eric, the longest running black male lead in the franchise, was the only one who was romantically linked with one of the female leads and it wasn't until the final episodes of the final season. Even then, it was with Maria, the only other minority on the show.

** Katie's older sister Robin (Marnette Patterson) was apparently the object of Screech's affection when they were in high school together, he even refers to her as "the one that got away". Robin was never mentioned or shown in the original series.

** In the Season 6 episode "Mind Games", Mr. Belding, fed up with Screech's wonky organizational skills, has him attend an efficiency seminar. It works and Screech becomes more organized in his role... until he becomes obsessed with efficiency, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prompting Mr. Belding to get Screech to dial back.]]
-->'''Mr. Belding''': [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I've created a monster.]]

** In the Season 2 episode "Squash It". When Screech and Mr. Belding make the announcement for the annual school carnival, in which the winners, being the ones to sell the most tickets for their respective section of said carnival, get to share a fancy dinner and tickets to see ''Music/WhitneyHouston'', Brian tricks the students in charge of the dunk tank into bailing out so that he and Rachel take over, with Brian being the target, with the intention on Brian's part being that [[DoggedNiceGuy he intends to win the prizes in order to impress Rachel with said dinner and tickets]]. When he and Rachel realize that they won't get many sales due to Brian being too nice, Brian adapts a jerkass act that helps to increase the ticket sales, eventually guaranteeing that he and Rachel win the prizes. The problem? Brian's facade works so well that the entire student population sans the other main characters turns against him, resulting in him getting dunked so many times that he develops a fever by the end of the carnival and must stay home to recover, while Rachel shares the prizes with her boyfriend from college instead.
** In "Tommy the Tenor", another Season 2 episode, Megan, Rachel, and Lindsay join the Glee Club after Mr. Belding introduces the handsome new music teacher. When the girls realize that they all harbor a crush on said teacher, each of them secretly and separately buys a gag product from a peddler selling them and uses them later on the other girls before and during a Glee Club rehearsal. It wouldn't have been too disastrous, except for the facts that A) Mr. Belding and the school board director are also present during said rehearsal, and B) [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom one of the gag products gets unwittingly passed around and used by most other Glee Club members as well, so that the Glee Club performance ends up much worse for it.]] Mr. Belding calls the girls out on it after the fact.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The two part Season 4 finale 'Fire at the Max' sees the iconic Max diner destroyed by fire. The same episode sees the last canon appearance in the franchise by one of the original cast other than Screech or Mr. Belding with a cameo by Slater. In hindsight it also serves as the last episode of Rachel Meyers, the only 'New Class' student character to have remained from the first couple of seasons.

* ContinuityNod: In "Little Hero", Screech mentions Eric filling in for Kapowiski after running into Mr. Belding, a reference to Kelly Kapowski, from the original series, and one of her many brothers.