Boy Meets World And Saved By The Bell Analysis

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In the past many television shows have been enjoyed by families across the country. Two of the ones that stand out the most even today are Boy Meets World and Saved By the Bell. Many people in America loved and still love watching each episode and finding out what schemes either Cory and Shawn or Zac and Slater are getting into next. Although both Boy Meets World and Saved By the Bell have many common qualities, the differences within each of them stand out as well. Boy Meets World and Saved By the Bell, interestingly enough, have very similar story lines even though one is set in the 90’s and one in the 80’s. Both give the inside scoop into the lives of a core group of friends as they grow to be young adults and face uncertain times. Just …show more content…
In both of them, their high school principals are highly influential in what they do for the good and helped raise them into who they later become. In Boy Meets World, family seems to be a really huge deal and is mentioned and showed in every episode, while in Saved By the Bell, friendship seems to be more of a vital concept and viewers rarely see any of their families or hear them mentioned. Both way, many great lessons were learned along the journey for both of these popular shows and viewers always enjoyed hearing Mr. Feeny’s and Mr. Belding’s words of …show more content…
Even though they are from different time periods, viewers were able to walk with both series’ through the teenage years. Many people have longed to have the kind of relationships that these characters have, whether it is for forever like on Boy Meets World, or just a high school fling like on Saved By the Bell. The lessons learned along the way from both shows can help us today. Boy Meets World favored the help of family and Saved By the Bell favored just their friends but in both, lessons that last a lifetime were learned. Both of these television series placed a little more fun, along with a little bit of mischief, into the lives of their

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