During one season of Saved by the Bell, two characters, Jessie and Kelly, are replaced for 12 consecutive episodes by a new girl Tori (Klosterman, 145). New girl Tori possesses traits that both Jessie and Kelly exhibit and is immediately accepted and placed into Kelly and Jessie's group of friends (Klosterman, 145). While the aforementioned girls are gone and Tori is around, none of the girls' friends mention them at all, Klosterman concludes that this is the most realistic part of the show (Klosterman, 145). This conclusion is reached after Klosterman does some psychoanalysis and evaluates his own experience with the “Tori Paradox” (Klosterman, 146). When first considering the idea of the "Bulls Paradox", Klosterman describes it as "idiotic, bordering on offensive, [... and] unreal" (Klosterman, 146). After thinking back to his experiences in high school and college, he realizes that he and some of his friends have disappeared for long periods of time just like Kelly and Jessie did (Klosterman, 146). Furthermore, as in Saved by the Bell, whenever he or one of his friends were not present they were not mentioned (Klosterman, 146). His initial rejection of authenticity, he concludes, is the result of his “memory [always creating] the illusion that [they] were constantly together, just like those kids from Saved by the Bell” (Klosterman, 146). However, in reality, there were “long stretches where someone who […] seemed among [his] closest companions was simply not present” (Klosterman, 146). In the essay “Being Zach Morris,” Chuck Klosterman explains his well-supported theory that “important things are inevitably cliché” (Klosterman, 136). He uses many approaches to help with his explanation, one of which is psychoanalysis. By using this approach, Klosterman is able to help his readers fully understand his point of view
tags