Not only he wanted to earn more money being an assistant of Belding and also bringing back some of the old fans from the original.
Dustin and his role wanted to gain popularity, containing respect for relief, from all new class students.
I don't care if his role irritates Belding or not along the way, but at least he got along with the new class students, which is more important.
I think that he also returned because he was in love with Mr. Belding and wanted to be closer to his gay lover!
shareKurt_Stein:
What you are saying about "in love with Mr. Belding and wanted to be closer to his gay lover" is kind of too forward and too secondary.
I am more concerned about him "gaining more respect from all new class students to feel more relieved than the original class" which is considered more primary, first.
They say that he was too difficult on the original class, although, the original class was too difficult on him along the way.
The kids on the New Class clearly didn't respect him. They all treated him like a moron. In many ways, the characters on the original show treated him better than the kids on the New Class.
I'm not sure whether he had some form of adult-onset Down's Syndrome, but he sure seemed to get dumber and dumber each successive season. He morphed from the valedictorian of his high school class to an apparent college dropout who either worked for free or for minimum wage as Mr. Belding's assistant on the New Class!
Pardon me, Kurt_Stein?
The New Class kids did respect him and they did not treat him like a moron because they are not that difficult like that original class, what are you talking about?!
Being college dropout was not that severe because that college series did not last at all. He had to work as an assistant of Mr. Belding, first by free, then got paid during the entire third season, that's all.
I don't care if he annoys Belding or not along the way.
I haven't seen all of the episodes, as the New Class was pretty bad. However, I do recall the other students thinking he was a moron in the second and third seasons. Wasn't it during the third season when they all worked at a country club where they wore those hot pink shirts?
Screech should have taken night classes to earn his teaching degree and prove his worth. Remember when he worked at the store with Mr. Belding during the sixth or seventh season where he spilled soup on an expensive juke box and nearly burned down the store? He seemed to be borderline retarded during that episode!
Other students may think he was a moron in second and third seasons, but not yet completely a moron, Kurt_Stein.
While working in the store with Mr. Belding during the sixth or seventh season, Screech spilling soup on an expensive juke box and nearly burned down the store, was completely accidental, not on purpose.
He's only a strongly destructive moron in those two full episodes only, but that doesn't mean he's a complete type of strongly destructive moron in the entire new class series.
But if you want to say that he just came back needing complete help, which strict Bayside High doesn't tolerate any help at all, then fine go ahead!
Mr. Belding sure seemed to think Screech was a moron! Remember the episode where they worked at the country club and Mr. Belding asked Screech to rub suntan lotion all over his body? Mr. Belding seemed really annoyed when Screech screwed up and rubbed salad dressing all over him!
Mr. B also rolled his eyes at Screech during the ep where the class was in France and Screech asked him to ride a tandem bike through the streets in Paris!
Whatever you said recently, Kurt_Stein, is applies to Screech being a moron MORE on Mr. Belding THAN on all new class students.
Some of the moron incidents that Screech did were considered accident, not purpose. But yes, in the New Class, not only that Screech was difficult on Belding, there is also a case that Belding was difficult on Screech in the meantime.
Just tell me that all the new class students, including Screech, are considered helpless students, which are not tolerated by all strict public places, like Bayside, at all!
You must be an example of a strict person who does not like helpless people at all, Kurt_Stein?
Did you ever see Life Goes On, where the main character, Corky, had Down's Syndrome? Corky seemed more respected at his high school than Screech ever did!
I wish Corky had been in a few eps of Saved By The Bell: The New Class. It would have been funny to watch Corky slap Screech around or play pranks on him!
That's because Corky received both better help and better respect ahead of time, back then, than Screech, Kurt_Stein.
Corky is well-known as a helpful and respectable person right now.
Screech may not have Down's Syndrome, but Corky really did seem to be far more intelligent!
shareI know Screech does not have Down syndrome like Corky, but Screech has a partial Down syndrome with some intelligent, which is not as much as Corky.
But Corky was carefully both classified and included in his own original show ahead of time successfully and that is what Screech should have in his own original show ahead of time back then.
He was in it because no one else would hire him, he's been tycast as Screech since he was 14 - he only famous for playing that one character, he's not a good actor and playing screech is the only way he could get an acting job, he knew this, so he couldn't turn down 'the new class'. You're probably right about the producers adding him to bring back some of the old fans, I don't think Screech was THAT popular in the original version though, most people I know found him annoying.
shareKaydie-fee:
Whoever those original class producers and writers that included both Dustin and Screech in that difficult original class should be completely blamed for being in a hurry and careless.
If, in default for some other reason, the original class producers and writers have a reason why they were in a hurry to include both Dustin and Screech in the difficult original class to make it entertaining without a choice, then I might predict there is some kind of big bad recession going on back in 1989.
That big bad recession back in 1989 may have made a forced change on Dustin and his Screech role, which is very difficult to handle and deal with, by including him in difficult original class without a choice.
Age level is not the factor, it is the difficult level which is considered the factor, instead.
Some people think Screech is difficult on the original class, but unfortunately, the original class is difficult on Screech on the other way at the same time.
Dustin or his parents may have been broke in 1989 and that may have forced him to take the 'screech' role (or maybe not) but the point is if he wasn't Screech then he would have no acting career.
In his book he whines about being typecast as Screech but nobody forced him to be in the new class for five years, Dustin acts as if he could have been a great actor but being Screech killed his career, but the truth is, he is not a good actor at all and being Screech has no bearing on the scripts he wasn't offered - he should be thankful for the role in the new class because it got him a steady paycheck for a few years
First of all, that Screech did not make Dustin a good actor, even if he portrayed well or not.
Secondly, I keep on repeating this that the original class is most likely too difficult for both Dustin and his Screech role to be included in a hurry.
Thirdly, The New Class is not that difficult for both Dustin and his Screech role to get invited. He acted good in the new class and he portrayed Screech realistically in it along the way positively, even if he irritates Belding or not, in the meantime. He irritates a few times with the New Class, which is not as a worse as both the original members and Belding. But what made it worse is that they appraised the Screech character too strong along the way, beginning in the fourth season. Then in the last two seasons (sixth and seventh), the strong appraisal on Screech may have been overdone.
Kaydie-fee, you mentioned "Dustin or his parents may have been broke back in 1989", what do you mean by that?