What happens to your memory when Zack (Attack) Morris calls for a time-out to stop time?

Lately, it has become a morning ritual of mine to wake up early (say 5:30 am) and watch about 4 episodes of Saved by the Bell while I drink my usual amount of coffee (about one French Press caraffe a day).  One thing has continued to puzzle me about Zack Morris and his antics, and as the title of this post indicates, it has something to do with the scenes in which he yells, ‘Time Out’. [I couldn't find online footage of a Time Out moment, but I did find this clip of the 'There's No Hope With Dope' episode, so enjoy that]

In each case, it not only freezes the movements of all parties involved, but causes them a lapse in short term memory.  Whatever Preppy does in this time frame is not remembered by anyone he freezes.  This is, however, admittedly strange.

It seems like when Morris calls for a time out that causes a brief memory lapse, something must happen to the brain.  However, were the brain to all of a sudden fail to function, the most likely outcome wouldn’t be for one’s body to freeze; rather, it would cause one’s body to fall dead and not to freeze.  So, it seems like, since all parties are frozen in place,  Morris isn’t stopping the brain, he’s rather altering the control of one’s muscles; otherwise, they would in fact fall flat.  But, how can we explain the loss of memory each person seems to exhibit?

I’m not sure that there’s a good answer.  Perhaps it’s the case that he can also control what one sees via muscle control?  For example, since he can freeze the movements of our muscles, that might entail control of the contractions and muscle movements required to control our eyes, or whatever.  So, from the inside, the frozen party would want to move their muscles in some way, yet would fail to grasp that kind of control to see what’s going on.  I don’t know; maybe this is a decent explanation of the phenomenon.  If it isn’t, I’m not sure how to clear up this inconsistency in the use of time stoppage.

Trickeration

As most people who often use the internet know, Rick Rolling has become a huge phenomenon. The Rick Roll is a deceitful little trick.  To Rick Roll a person is to embed the link to one of Rick Astley’s video (This is controversial. Some argue that the only Rock Roll song is his hit, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’, but other believe that the Rick Roll is complete when any Rick Astley video is used.)  under a link to a different site.   April Fools’ Day saw Google redirect all YouTube links to this video, Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’:

Now, the worst thing about being Rick Rolled is the extreme catchiness of Astley’s song.  You can’t get it out of your heads for days.  You catch yourself humming the tune while doing the most remedial, mundane tasks.  Further, I have now grown to love this song because I have now listened to it more than I would like to admit.

What I would like to do here is to introduce a different trick of the same sort, I like to call it ‘getting Cardiganed’.  The Cardigans have a song called, ‘Lovefool’ that is incessantly catchy, and served with a side of cheese.  Try getting it out of your head, I dare you.

Do it.  Cardigan someone.

Cabins

Have you ever noticed that cabins are constantly seen as death traps in television and cinema.  It’s always where the nasty things happen.  For instance, in Twin Peaks Laura Palmer’s sexual deviant activity occurs in a cabin with red drapes, and there are two lodges in the woods, the White Lodge and Black Lodge, that house the good and evil spirits of the world.  Or, in Friday the 13th, (**SPOILER**) Jason’s mother murders several teenagers on the property of an old camp, which housed the campers in cabins (**END SPOILER**).  Maybe you remember that piece of shit Eli Roth movie, Cabin Fever in which a few teenagers go out for a nice wooded vacation, only to watch each other slowly decay from some weird toxin in the water.  There are many more to note, but I don’t want to take up space listing them all (Evil Deads).

I just wanted to announce my stance on the issue.  I feel that cabins have received a bad wrap.  I’ve stayed in quite a few cabins in my day and haven’t died yet. I mean, that might be because of my Rambo like skill, but nevertheless, the attacks have never been that brutal.   This is just another attempt at the ‘Hollywood elite’ to misconstrue the facts.  You may want to prevent me from going into the woods Hollywood elite, but it isn’t working.

It’s back

My MacBook is back, but without all of the files on the previous hard drive.  Since my MacBook is back, this site is back up and running.  This song has been running through my head for the past week.  I thought I’d post the video here.  It’s Hey Mercedes’ ‘Boy Destroyers’.  If you’re a Boy Destroyer, this one’s for you.

Also, I was at this show. It’s Bob Nanna (The City on Film, Braid, Hey Mercedes) and Mike Kinsella (Owen). I’m pretty sure that’s my round haired silhouette near Bob Nanna’s crotch (the guy with the mic). I’d recognize that thick, wavy hair anywhere.

From the same show, only this is just Owen.  This song always gets to me. I’m not sure why.

Batman is a gangsta

Whoa:

MacBook down

My MacBook is having some hard drive issues, so it is temporarily in a coma.  For the duration of this coma, this little site will be on hiatus.  I hope to get Black Betty back from Apple in a couple weeks with a new hard drive.  While I’m away, keep it classy.  

 

 

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The state of Indiana has a craving, and that craving is for the state motto to be changed to “the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.  C’mon, it’s an Indiana Jones movie!  Jones takes a relaxing job as a professor, then joneses for some adventure.  It is the same formula used for the last 3 movies, only this time poorly executed.   Whatever happened to this kid?

DOCTA JONES!

addendum:

This little Lego video is kind of cute: