Fridge examples in Saved by the Bell.
Fridge Brilliance:
- In "Wrestling with the Future", Jessie repeatedly gets rejected from college after college in spite of having straight-A's and being involved in many different school activities, including school president. At the same time, Screech is accepted to all the same colleges and even some he didn't apply for and is as heavily involved in extracurricular projects. It's entirely plausible (if not downright possible) that these schools look at personality as well. Screech, even with all his clumsy awkwardness and Brutal Honesty, is rather laid back and friendly; Jessie, by comparison, is an uptight and quasi-abrasive Soapbox Sadie, which can rub many people the wrong way.
- Adding onto this, it's also quite possible that the colleges caught wind to her little gratuitous breakdown in "S.A.T.s" due to her less than expected score and the dismissive attitude of the recruiter from her choice college, Stansbury. While she is a straight-A students and has a slew of extracurricular activities to her name, it's unlikely that a school would accept someone who comes off as unstable as she did.note
- This was originally going to be placed underneath Fridge Logic, but one may wonder why Slater and Jessie became a couple even though they are almost always arguing with one another, then it hit me; being teenagers and as teenagers with emotions and hormones, they most likely started dating due to the time spent together in their group of friends and being attracted by their looks (especially him). Also, it's said that although they do have fun together and are close, namely in Slater calling her "Mama", ultimately they found that they had little in common (he's a jock and she's a bookworm), which was the source of a plot of a couple of episodes (like "Breaking Up is Hard to Undo" and "Cut Day" with the latter being the one where they break up for good).
- Also considered as Fridge Horror, as far as Screech's infamous Flanderization goes, notice what a brainy (if not nerdy and awkward) kid he was in the first season. During this season, he had mentioned to Zack in one episode that after he gave him a punishable noogie that his doctors told him that his skull hadn't hardened yet. Then realize all of the various Dope Slaps that the rest of the gang had given him over the years...
- It was noticeable how much younger Screech was than everyone else (as Dustin Diamond was at least three years younger than the rest of the cast), but given how smart he is, it's entirely plausible that he skipped a couple of grades.
Fridge Horror:
- The pianist and the detective from "Mystery Weekend" both die in the episode, with the former being poisoned through his water and the latter being shot repeatedly in the back with arrows, yet they are never seen or referenced again in the episode, no one gives a toss after they both perish and we never find out who killed them or even if it was all an act or not.
- The pianist and the detective are the victims from the game, while Jameson and the butler fake their deaths to throw off the trail for the game.
- In "Earthquake!", if Tori was her sister's coach when she gave birth, then why did she let Zack deliver Mrs. Belding's baby, even after getting over her initial fear of the said earthquake? She may not have been a doctor, but she would have more experience with a delivery than he would. What if something had went seriously wrong? It's unlikely that even an ace like Zack could have handled complications.
- By definition, phobias are not rational fears and people suffering from them cannot be expected to act rationally during an occurrence of the phobia. Besides, even if Tori had been perfectly in control, being a birthing coach would do nothing towards helping complications from a birth.
- It has been pointed out that had Frank from "A Home for Christmas" not had a beautiful teenage daughter, how likely would his situation of being homeless had improved, or that Zack and his mother would have invited him in their home or shown him that much kindness?
- In the "Save That Tiger" episode, Zack, Slater and Screech mention that one of the pranks that they pulled on rival school, Valley, in their mutual prank war was to pump helium into their glee club classroom. Hopefully, they knew how much helium to use, since too much is deadly.
