“Hey Hey Hey Hey” – It’s America’s Favorite Principal
Comments: 4 - Date: February 6th, 2012 - Categories: Uncategorized
Flannel shirts, overalls, crimped hair, and scrunchies are all parts of the 1990s.
So is the high school sitcom “Saved by the Bell” — and one of the stars of the show — principal Mr. Belding was in D.C. last Saturday at Eden night club.
Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” Spice Girls “Wannabe,” and Will Smith’s “Getting Jiggy With it” blared from the speakers. Party goers broke out their spandex leggings and Converse All-Stars.
“When I heard about the 90s party and Mr. Belding, I was so excited –I wanted to find a slap bracelet that night,” said Leslie Mathews, 26, student at George Mason University.
Around 11:20 p.m., the DJ announced that Mr. Belding was on the premises, and started to play the show’s theme song as club goers screamed for him in excitement and sang out loud to “I’m at the corner just in time to see the bus drive by.”
Dennis Haskins — who more people in the room knew as “Mr. Belding”– approached the DJ booth, thanked everyone for coming out that night, and said he would meet each and every person and take a picture with them. (There were about 60 fans in the club.)
As he put down the microphone, Mr. Belding fans either ran toward for a picture or sang along to the Saved by the Bell girls workout video track “put your mind to it and go for it, get down a break a sweat” which the DJ played as Haskins made his way onto the crowds level.
“I got my camera phone ready, handed it to a friend and ran up to him for a picture,” says Rebecca Grant, 31, a consultant in Fairfax, Va. “The thought of meeting Mr. Belding is just too cool. I know every word to the theme song. The show just makes me think of when I was younger. I wanted to be just like them, the coolest kids in school.”
4 Responses
Avery Cheatham - February 9, 2012 @ 10:25 pm
I’m a 90’s baby to the core, so this post really got my attention. I love the way you wrote it; it made it feel like I was there. I could perfectly envision the club and practically hear the girls singing the famous theme song. It was punchy and fun.
zalnoor - February 9, 2012 @ 10:28 pm
AHH! If I had known that MR. BELDING was going to be in town, I would have TOTALLY been there! I’ve been obsessed with Saved By The Bell since before I could remember! So when I saw this post, I knew I would love it before even reading it 🙂
I really like that you kept your post fun and interesting and it wasn’t a hassle, or a nuisance reading your article. Great work! I really enjoyed it!
-Zohra Alnoor
jfarley2 - February 16, 2012 @ 11:21 pm
this is great! I wish I had known about this; it sounds like it was SUCH a cool event.
dhall8 - March 12, 2012 @ 4:29 am
How awesome! 90’s dance parties are always the best. Especially when you’ve got a straight up 90’s television star on the grounds.
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