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.

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