Episode
Saved by the Bell: Close Encounters Of The Nerd Kind
Overview
After Zack breaks the school's video camera, he and the gang pretend Screech is an alien in order to win a photo competition. However, their picture soon arouses government suspicion.
Details
- Series
- Saved by the Bell
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1990-11-23
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Close Encounters Of The Nerd Kind is Episode 12 in Season 2 of Saved by the Bell. It aired on 1990-11-23. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 11: 1-900-CRUSHED
In an attempt to make money, Zack sets up a 900 number hotline, with Lisa offering advice to the students of Bayside. However, things go awry when Zack decides to keep the line running by dishing out bad advice.
Episode 13: Running Zack
If Zack wants to run the track meet, he better prepare his ancestry report where he gets help from an Indian.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: Model Students
After a heated debate about the school calenders, a photographer decides to use Jessie, Lisa and Kelly in a photo shoot where Kelly is chosen as the winner of a contest that'll make her famous in France.
Episode 14: The Babysitters
Following a mix up, Kelly has to bring her baby brother Billy to school, and the gang must look after him.
Episode 9: Jessie's Song
Jessie turns to caffeine pills to keep up with her studies and her new singing group, Hot Sundae.
Episode 15: The Fabulous Belding Boys
Mr. Belding's brother, Rod, a substitute teacher, arrives at Bayside to take the gang's History class. Rod proves instantly popular, and soon Mr. Belding is dismayed to find that the kids prefer his brother to him.
Episode 8: Miss Bayside
Bayside holds it's annual beauty contest. Jessie thinks it's sexist, even when Screech enters, but Belding says that it's only for girls.
Episode 16: From Nurse to Worse
Zack and Kelly's relationship is going from strength to strength, but is soon jeopardized when Zack falls for the new school nurse.
Episode 7: Rent-a-Pop
When Mr. Belding tells Zack that he would like to see his father to discuss his bad grades, Zack hires an actor to play his father. However, things soon become complicated.
Episode 17: Breaking Up is Hard to Undo
A.C. Slater and Jessie are finally a couple, but messes it up by disagreeing about how they will celebrate their coupledom, football versus ballet. Zach makes all the wrong moves by getting jealous of Kelly going out with an ex-boyfriend. After a fight breaks out at school, Mr. Belding tries to set the example of how couples should communicate, and after failing miserably, sides with the boys. Neither the guys or the girls want to be the first to apologize, but are miserable without their counterparts. Can Slater and Zach make up for their shortcomings to their girls before it's too late?
Episode 6: Blind Dates
Zack agrees to go on a date with Mr. Belding's niece Penny, but when Kelly invites him to her birthday party, he sends Screech instead.
Episode 18: Glee Club
After finding out that Bayside's glee club will travel to Hawaii if they reach the finals of a nationwide competition, Zack signs up, and convinces the rest of the gang to join him.