My brother recently purchased the DVD set of SBTBTCY, and I've watched the entire series a couple of times. I've decided this series was given up on by NBC far too early.
I hadn't seen this show for about a decade, and watching it again, even though it's 12 years old now, I've decided it had way too much potential to have been canceled so quickly. I found myself belly-laughing more than once.
The pilot episode is probably the weakest one, but it didn't take long for the show to begin to click, and even though it had a bit of a cartoony feel to it at times, that was pretty par for the course in the early 90s for sitcoms. The middle episodes are by far the best written and produced, I think Zack & Kelly story was supposed to be a cliffhanger moment to start the second season off with, but instead, we got the "Wedding in Las Vegas" movie. At least we got some resolution.
I think NBC either had high expectations for this show or never felt serious about, considering they ran it against Full House, which was either a huge sign on confidence or a death sentence from the onset. Whatever the intention, they gave up on the show WAY too early, as it was actually much better written than Full House, I guess not enough fans followed it from Saturday morning like I did.
So "The College Years" didn't even really tell the story of their entire freshman year, and it's a shame. This show had so much potential that was left untapped, it's sad. I guess I'll just have to make do with the 18 episodes we do have.
I hadn't seen this show for about a decade, and watching it again, even though it's 12 years old now, I've decided it had way too much potential to have been canceled so quickly. I found myself belly-laughing more than once.
The pilot episode is probably the weakest one, but it didn't take long for the show to begin to click, and even though it had a bit of a cartoony feel to it at times, that was pretty par for the course in the early 90s for sitcoms. The middle episodes are by far the best written and produced, I think Zack & Kelly story was supposed to be a cliffhanger moment to start the second season off with, but instead, we got the "Wedding in Las Vegas" movie. At least we got some resolution.
I think NBC either had high expectations for this show or never felt serious about, considering they ran it against Full House, which was either a huge sign on confidence or a death sentence from the onset. Whatever the intention, they gave up on the show WAY too early, as it was actually much better written than Full House, I guess not enough fans followed it from Saturday morning like I did.
So "The College Years" didn't even really tell the story of their entire freshman year, and it's a shame. This show had so much potential that was left untapped, it's sad. I guess I'll just have to make do with the 18 episodes we do have.