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In a recent appearance on the Pod Meets
World podcast, saved by the Bell star,

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Mark Paul Gossler reflected on just how
ridiculously problematic his character

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Zach Morris was the second
episode of the series.

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The Lisa Card is particularly
hard for Gossler to look back on.

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For those who don't remember in
the episode, Lisa played by Lark.

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Vorhees needs to pay back her dad after
she exceeds her credit card limit being

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the lovable scam that he is.

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Zach Morris comes up with a
solution for Lisa's financial woes,

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and that solution more
or less is sex work.

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Zach takes it upon himself to charge the
boys in school a dollar to Kiss Lisa.

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There was one where I
was basically horing out.

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Lisa Turtle Gossler said I charged
people to kiss her without her consent.

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That was a tough one.

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There are things every single episode
that we could pick out at that point. You

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try not to be negative. It's a watch
party. It's a tight rope walk. Overall,

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you try to be positive about the work
and say that was a different time.

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This is, of course,

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just one of the litany of morally
reprehensible things Zach Morris did.

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Over the course of the
show's four season run.

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There was that time he framed
a hate crime on Slater,

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the time he faked being terminally ill.
The list goes on and on. Of course,

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none of this is Mark Paul Goss's
fault, who was just a teenage actor.

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Looking back, however, it's hard not
to wonder just what in God's name.

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Those saved by the bell
writers were thinking.