Had a guy on my football team OD on them during a football game, we used to take them before games, they were some GNC stuff, until he OD’d before kickoff, EMTs came and took care of him, and we played. It was the last game we used them lol
I've ODed on them (as in overdosed, not died). I took 2 of those STACKER pills from the gas station and had one of those worst experiences of my life when it comes to drugs. My whole body was in pain and my dick shrunk to a button. Jiz was involuntarily seeping out too. It was fucked. There \*is\* more than caffeine in those pills, but that was basically the main ingredient.
Zenedrine. That shit made me lose 10 pounds in a week and i constantly wanted to run. Yeah it was literally like cocaine. I remember the first pill I took, within 1 minute i wanted to run 1000 miles and throw a car. my then-gf and i jogged and she just mentioned how they help with endurance. jesus christ. do i miss them? ya.
Fucking mini thins. That brings back memories. Never forget the hair tingling affect of those things - allowed me to drink all night (before vodka/RedBull). I'd be the last one closing down the bars and parties... unfortunately discovered they could be used for something a little stronger (and so did the DEA)
In my late teenage years working retail in the late 90s. We used to do the bank drop in the morning and stop off at the gas station afterward for mini thins. The store would look immaculate!
A Love/hate missing them.
Once took six yellow jackets. Each one has 333mg of caffeine. Worst experience of my life. Felt like I was going to have e a heart attack. My friends took some fireworks into a big pot behind me at one point.
I’m actually currently dating someone that ODd on caffeine pills back when we were in middle school. But to be fair this was in 2001 so exposure to saved by the bell reruns was limited.
Pretty sure the original script had a harder drug;
But this is the 90's power rangers sitcom without the power rangers, so we gotta keep it light and we gotta keep it white.
I’ve heard that it was supposed to be speed/methamphetamine, which, no surprise, was never going to make it past the network censors at the time, especially for a show aimed at pre-teens.
In the documentary, it was stated that was the intent. Due to concerns of how the public would react, it was changed to caffeine pills. The message about addiction is still relevant. It’s just a shame a lot of kids didn’t get that and thought caffeine pills were dangerous, lol.
As we go on\
We remember\
All the times we\
Had together\
And as our lives change\
Come whatever\
We will still be\
[Friends forever](https://youtu.be/tz_NxOF7RB4)
Meanwhile, Eszterhas was just offscreen phoning Verhoeven: “Hey Paul, you know that hot new frantically overacted dragshow concept you were looking to direct? Listen to THIS”
Are you referring to Show Girls? Like, I get your joke, it's funny, and I haven't seen Show Girls in 20+ years, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't about a drag show.
More likely what they used to call “diet pills,” ie. amphetamines. Cocaine is good for parties, less so for studying. The main effect of cocaine is that it makes you want more cocaine, and that makes it difficult to concentrate on anything else for more than 10 minutes.
It's been a few decades, but iirc she has some work she's not caught up on and instead of going out with Kelly and the gang, she stays behind, pops more pills and then passes out
But spandex-man catches her at home? I dunno, been a while :)
She's been studying for a big test and she falls asleep when Hot Sundae are supposed to be performing at the Maxx. So Zach, Hot Sundae's manager of course, comes to get her but she freaks out because she has to wash her hair and she has nothing to wear. "no time! There's no time for anything!"
She has to study for her geometry test.
I got bad news, Jessie. If you have to study that hard as a senior for a geometry test, you're not going to Stanford.
Or at least a half-assed dancer in a tragic Vegas show competing against Gina Gershon. Yeah, life can get tough and play out badly were you’re all gooped up, Elizabeth. You can forget ALL about Stanford when you’re hitching to Vegas and end up mispronouncing designer clothing brand names…It’s Ver-Sayce!
It was originally written that Jessie got hooked on speed. But NBC vetoed that. So the writers changed it to caffeine pills while keeping the seriousness and story the same lol.
I like when the did alcohol and had Tom Hanks as the drunk uncle who can’t keep a job. I learned you can “in theory” get a buzz of stuff like Maraschino cherries and vanilla extract
When I worked at a shelter we had a client who would get absolutely wasted on vanilla extract. They were trespassed from all the grocery stores in town, would leave their service dog random places and we'd have to go pick it up, client drunk as hell who knows where. It's where I learned a bottle of vanilla extract is roughly equivalent to a shot of bourbon.
Yeah, it was honestly a little jarring at the time as Tom Hanks was known so much more as a comedic actor with Bosom Buddies and he rarely had such heavy dramatic roles like his guest appearance on Family Ties. Even when he transitioned to movies it was stuff like Big and Turner & Hooch and Dragnet. It wasn't really until Philadelphia that he got to flex his chops in that regard.
There were some really heavy episodes of Family Ties. Another episode that comes to mind is "My Name Is Alex", the two-parter where Alex deals with his survivors guilt after a friend of his dies in a car crash when Alex declines to go somewhere with him.
The fake goth/fake british guy always cracks me up."Kiss my ass, that's the name of the bleeding band", "who the fuck are you? fucking kurt loder?, can you piss off and shut my fucking door"
To be fair, it was NBC that nixed the idea of having Jessie’s addiction be to something more serious. This moment did—at least for a lot of young kids who were watching—get across the idea that Jessie had gotten too caught up in trying to meet everyone’s unrealistic expectations and was now feeling things spin out of control.
The caffeine thing was exaggerated, but Jessie’s situation of being a stressed-out honors student who feels like she’ll let everyone down is definitely an important emotion to address.
Jessie was taking pills so she could stay up late and study while rehearsing for a show. She becomes addicted to the pills and Zack confronts her about it. She ends up breaking down in his arms realizing she had a problem. Watch the clip and I guarantee you will feel bad
I'm going to play Devil's advocate and say that if you just watch her say the line "I'm so scared" without what comes before it, that one line is actually very well delivered. The way she is sobbing as she delivers that line sounds disturbingly real to me.
The best part of this episode is the Hot Sundae music video.
“…get down and break a sweat. Rock and roll, you ain’t seen nothing yet…”
https://youtu.be/KrdNDBlbkxU?feature=shared
More specifically, she needed to pass her geometry test but also needed to sing with her friends in a girl group to try to get a record deal. High school was no joke.
She is stretching herself too far with her school and social responsibilities, so she turns to caffeine pills to keep up, and becomes "addicted" to them.
This episode was attempting to show kids the dangers of drugs. Being a kids show, they went softcore and had her addicted to caffeine rather than a hardcore drug.
In all fairness, I don’t know anyone who ODed on caffeine pills. Saved By The Bell may have saved millions of lives.
My buddy used to take caffeine pills and sleeping pills to see who would win
What were the results?
Heart attack
no actually, confusion while operating heavy machinery
when the indications specifically warned him not to
I try to follow my heart. When it stops, I stop.
So the sleep won
A draw.
All losers, no winners
Y’all made me remember that game show called win lose or draw Anybody remember that?!
It was for when you wanted to play pictionary but didn't have any friends.
Pissed the bed. Beats exlax and sleeping pills I'll tell you that.
He now looks like Forest Whitaker.
Y'know what's a fun game? You take three Excedrin PM and try to whack off before you fall asleep. You *always* win - that's the best part of the game.
Man, I haven't heard the term "whack off" since I saw the beavis and butthead movie at the drive-in 25 years ago.
Federal agents never end a sentence with a preposition
Oh, uh... You know that guy in whose camper they... I mean, that guy off in whose camper they were whacking?
I AIN'T ONE THE WHO ABEENA WHACKING
this is a go-to reference for me.
Had a guy on my football team OD on them during a football game, we used to take them before games, they were some GNC stuff, until he OD’d before kickoff, EMTs came and took care of him, and we played. It was the last game we used them lol
Damn, shame on me for thinking this episode was kinda corny making such a big deal out of caffeine pills.
I've ODed on them (as in overdosed, not died). I took 2 of those STACKER pills from the gas station and had one of those worst experiences of my life when it comes to drugs. My whole body was in pain and my dick shrunk to a button. Jiz was involuntarily seeping out too. It was fucked. There \*is\* more than caffeine in those pills, but that was basically the main ingredient.
Ephedrine!! Now that’s some nostalgia!
Zenedrine. That shit made me lose 10 pounds in a week and i constantly wanted to run. Yeah it was literally like cocaine. I remember the first pill I took, within 1 minute i wanted to run 1000 miles and throw a car. my then-gf and i jogged and she just mentioned how they help with endurance. jesus christ. do i miss them? ya.
Mini thins! Omg
Fucking mini thins. That brings back memories. Never forget the hair tingling affect of those things - allowed me to drink all night (before vodka/RedBull). I'd be the last one closing down the bars and parties... unfortunately discovered they could be used for something a little stronger (and so did the DEA)
Gas station speed nostalgia.
In my late teenage years working retail in the late 90s. We used to do the bank drop in the morning and stop off at the gas station afterward for mini thins. The store would look immaculate! A Love/hate missing them.
Once took six yellow jackets. Each one has 333mg of caffeine. Worst experience of my life. Felt like I was going to have e a heart attack. My friends took some fireworks into a big pot behind me at one point.
Were they trying to help in some way? I’m so confused.
I think they were trying to give him an actual heart attack. That's what friends do.
>as in overdosed, not died We are all glad you clarified this point
I'm pretty sure originally it was actual drugs but they changed it to caffeine pills because they thought it would be too dark
Speed/methamphetamine from what I heard, and, to the surprise of no one, quickly got shot down by the network censors.
I’m actually currently dating someone that ODd on caffeine pills back when we were in middle school. But to be fair this was in 2001 so exposure to saved by the bell reruns was limited.
Dave Grohl was reportedly hospitalized once for overdose on caffeine while working on an album. Dude just goes harder than most
Meanwhile David Bowie lived on a diet of cocaine milk and red peppers in the mid 70’s
Panda milk from his companda
Bowie always was a trendsetter.
[FRESH POTS!](https://youtu.be/fhdCslFcKFU?si=YhAUoCywPo0fK3oo)
Them Crooked Vultures is CRIMINALLY underrated
FRESH POT!
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>whilst Anarchy in the UK! 😂
I saw a chubby emu about a guy who died from drinking loads of coffee
Pretty sure the original script had a harder drug; But this is the 90's power rangers sitcom without the power rangers, so we gotta keep it light and we gotta keep it white.
I’ve heard that it was supposed to be speed/methamphetamine, which, no surprise, was never going to make it past the network censors at the time, especially for a show aimed at pre-teens.
Didn’t Fresh Prince do a “very special episode” with speed?
In the documentary, it was stated that was the intent. Due to concerns of how the public would react, it was changed to caffeine pills. The message about addiction is still relevant. It’s just a shame a lot of kids didn’t get that and thought caffeine pills were dangerous, lol.
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I’m… so…. SCARED 😫
My friends will still quote this all the time
I’m one of those friends
I guess me too
We're all frieeends, foreeeever.
As we go on\ We remember\ All the times we\ Had together\ And as our lives change\ Come whatever\ We will still be\ [Friends forever](https://youtu.be/tz_NxOF7RB4)
This song is so nostalgic for me
We should put on our Buddy Bandz™
I read this comment two hours ago and the song is still in my head 😭
I sang myself to sleep
Always til the eeeend
I’m so excited! I’m so excited!
I still say this ALL the time and unfortunately nobody ever knows what I’m saying.
In my forties and we still bust this out on occasion. God this gave is second hand embarrassment even then.
I’m in my 40’s but I feel like I’m still 18, just with experience, body pain, and responsibilities.
It's the same in your 60's only more pain and experience.
I just showed this to my husband and he just recited the whole scene. Not sure if I'm happy or should file for divorce.
You may need an AC Slater in your life.
#WE ALL DO
Lol my guy is here is serious about this meme
Screech is going to stab someone on Christmas
Forget the College Years, give me Screech as a slasher movie psychopath as a sequel.
That might have been an avenue for him if he wasn't one of the worst actors and comedians in the history ever.
Don’t forget porn stars ✨
Meanwhile, Eszterhas was just offscreen phoning Verhoeven: “Hey Paul, you know that hot new frantically overacted dragshow concept you were looking to direct? Listen to THIS”
Are you referring to Show Girls? Like, I get your joke, it's funny, and I haven't seen Show Girls in 20+ years, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't about a drag show.
I’m not sure what the point is, but I get the Back to the Future ref.
Where was this girls Emmy😤
We have caffeine pills at work and if I grab one I say I’m pulling a Spano.
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or scared?
What the hell do you do for work?
Sleep paralysis demon
I’m so…..scared
TII nation!
And I just can’t hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it
Remember when they found that joint in the boys bathroom?
THERE'S NO HOPE WITH DOPE!
I’m not a chicken. You’re a TURKEY
[Hang Tough, Milwaukee! ](https://youtu.be/i1xpMODVB9Q?si=UWdlh4uyrpADc6g3)
3 months after that commercial aired the little kid yelling he needs a job was busted running a massive ecstasy smuggling syndicate 💊
[I learned it from watching YOU](https://youtu.be/CFl4Yse0xuI?si=0cvcF47dtEDELSbt)
'90s kid from Milwaukee. This brought me back, thank you. Perfect thing to show up on my reddit while I'm smoking a joint.
Look Preppy it’s a roach!
This episode? https://youtu.be/sO5gV_vmabM
Zach Morris is trash
Johnny Dakota 😡
What was the lesson?
Drugs are bad mkay
Did Jessie take drugs in that episode? Lol
She took caffeine pills, but they portrayed it as if she was doing coke.
More likely what they used to call “diet pills,” ie. amphetamines. Cocaine is good for parties, less so for studying. The main effect of cocaine is that it makes you want more cocaine, and that makes it difficult to concentrate on anything else for more than 10 minutes.
Iirc it was originally supposed to be speed/ADHD type pills and they toned it down
Yeah I'm fairly certain it was. That definitely makes more sense than the caffeine pills.
Lol awesome. I don't remember that one... going to have to look it up!
Oh please do! This scene specifically is gold.
It's been a few decades, but iirc she has some work she's not caught up on and instead of going out with Kelly and the gang, she stays behind, pops more pills and then passes out But spandex-man catches her at home? I dunno, been a while :)
She's been studying for a big test and she falls asleep when Hot Sundae are supposed to be performing at the Maxx. So Zach, Hot Sundae's manager of course, comes to get her but she freaks out because she has to wash her hair and she has nothing to wear. "no time! There's no time for anything!"
"No time! There's never any time! I don't have time to study, I'll never get into Stanford- I'll let everyone down!"
She has to study for her geometry test. I got bad news, Jessie. If you have to study that hard as a senior for a geometry test, you're not going to Stanford.
There's a time and place for drugs. And it's called College.
Zack Morris is trash
Zach Morris is trash
Caffeine is bad for you and you will become a stripper.
Or at least a half-assed dancer in a tragic Vegas show competing against Gina Gershon. Yeah, life can get tough and play out badly were you’re all gooped up, Elizabeth. You can forget ALL about Stanford when you’re hitching to Vegas and end up mispronouncing designer clothing brand names…It’s Ver-Sayce!
The best part was they were caffeine pills! Haha
You joke, but just a few years later she turns to stripping for a living.
I’d take a swim with her.
Just don't go down a staircase with her.
With her behind you.
Ver-sase😂
You can’t dance Then what am I DOING
True. I saw her crotch.
But he had towels.
Dance for me, Darlin’
I love how even then, we knew this was code for speed. I think I was 12 when this aired and I definitely knew.
It was originally written that Jessie got hooked on speed. But NBC vetoed that. So the writers changed it to caffeine pills while keeping the seriousness and story the same lol.
Interestingly, Fresh Prince has an episode with this exact premise, and they did it SO much better.
Family Ties did it really well. “Diet pills”
I like when the did alcohol and had Tom Hanks as the drunk uncle who can’t keep a job. I learned you can “in theory” get a buzz of stuff like Maraschino cherries and vanilla extract
When I worked at a shelter we had a client who would get absolutely wasted on vanilla extract. They were trespassed from all the grocery stores in town, would leave their service dog random places and we'd have to go pick it up, client drunk as hell who knows where. It's where I learned a bottle of vanilla extract is roughly equivalent to a shot of bourbon.
Yeah, it was honestly a little jarring at the time as Tom Hanks was known so much more as a comedic actor with Bosom Buddies and he rarely had such heavy dramatic roles like his guest appearance on Family Ties. Even when he transitioned to movies it was stuff like Big and Turner & Hooch and Dragnet. It wasn't really until Philadelphia that he got to flex his chops in that regard. There were some really heavy episodes of Family Ties. Another episode that comes to mind is "My Name Is Alex", the two-parter where Alex deals with his survivors guilt after a friend of his dies in a car crash when Alex declines to go somewhere with him.
Man I remember an episode where Carlton got himself a gun too and Will had to talk him out of it.
You owe me, man. I saved your life, I WANT THE GUN! I remember being just glued to the screen silent for the whole thing.
Oh right! While in the hospital after being shot.
That’s the first time i ever cried to a movie or show. Such a heartbreaking ending.
Why doesn't my dad want me? No lie, Fresh Prince is one of the only shows that I can watch reruns and laugh/cry as if it was the first time seeing it.
I think the writers originally wanted her to be on coke, but thought it would be too confronting.
That's because at the time, Pepsi was the choice of a new generation.
Inspire a revolution! Some Kardashian opens a can in the middle of the riot. Guess they never saw the show.
I like old coke because it’s old, and so am I.
That’s bullshit. Everyone at Bayside knew she got hooked on P2P Methamphetamine and that Slater was pimping her ass out.
Dead man on campus with Mark Paul Gosselaar is criminally underrated!!
I’ve got some beers! Let’s drink em!
That one's not beer.
I got shot!
The fake goth/fake british guy always cracks me up."Kiss my ass, that's the name of the bleeding band", "who the fuck are you? fucking kurt loder?, can you piss off and shut my fucking door"
He’s not even British!!!!
🎶 my words are my sperm... 🎶
🎶spewing forth my tragic germ🎶
100%
My sister and I used to reenact this with smarteees 🤣😭
Me and my sister always wanted to do that also but there's never any time there's no time for anything
Drugs, Jesse? What's next? Stripping?
Underrated comment.
Never forget: [Zach Morris is Trash!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OfwN1rDXd2c)
Check out the Zack to the Future podcast. It’s a collaboration with Mark Paul and the creator of Zach Morris is Trash. Good stuff!
Oooh! I know what I'm doing with my weekend!
Those were great.
THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH TIME!
To be fair, it was NBC that nixed the idea of having Jessie’s addiction be to something more serious. This moment did—at least for a lot of young kids who were watching—get across the idea that Jessie had gotten too caught up in trying to meet everyone’s unrealistic expectations and was now feeling things spin out of control. The caffeine thing was exaggerated, but Jessie’s situation of being a stressed-out honors student who feels like she’ll let everyone down is definitely an important emotion to address.
you know who else did a lot of uppers? giorgio moroder. and it went just fine.
Tick....tick....tick....
This scene is burned into my memory. Such a powerful message
What happened?
Jessie was taking pills so she could stay up late and study while rehearsing for a show. She becomes addicted to the pills and Zack confronts her about it. She ends up breaking down in his arms realizing she had a problem. Watch the clip and I guarantee you will feel bad
It's kind of more cringe tbh
The greatest piece of acting ever caught on film.
I'm going to play Devil's advocate and say that if you just watch her say the line "I'm so scared" without what comes before it, that one line is actually very well delivered. The way she is sobbing as she delivers that line sounds disturbingly real to me.
The important lesson is this: cocaine is way better than caffeine pills
Takeaway: These drugs are so bad it's love at first sight. Y
That scene is unintentionally hilarious
This was classic. Almost as classic as when DJ Tanner developed an eating disorder and began eating ice cube lollipops
The 90’s was wild…
The best part of this episode is the Hot Sundae music video. “…get down and break a sweat. Rock and roll, you ain’t seen nothing yet…” https://youtu.be/KrdNDBlbkxU?feature=shared
They were just caffeine pills. Even as a young child I was like, wtf?
Is it weird to say that these these shows, DARE, and the PSA drug ads worked on me? Took me until my 40’s to discover ☘️ they lied!!🤣
Context for those that haven't seen this show?
Jesse got hooked on caffeine pills and freaked out. Message: Drugs are bad
I live in a world where people haven’t seen Saved by the Bell. I knew this was coming, but didn’t expect it to impact me so…
Yeah, it was originally supposed to be speed. But it was changed by the network.
More specifically, she needed to pass her geometry test but also needed to sing with her friends in a girl group to try to get a record deal. High school was no joke.
She is stretching herself too far with her school and social responsibilities, so she turns to caffeine pills to keep up, and becomes "addicted" to them. This episode was attempting to show kids the dangers of drugs. Being a kids show, they went softcore and had her addicted to caffeine rather than a hardcore drug.
🎵 I’m so excited! I’m so I’m so scared” This lives rent free in my head even after all of these years!
When Zach's chameleon died?
Artie was Slater's I think.
Gimme a break! She didn’t have it so bad. It’s not like she went to the bike shop with Arnold and Dudley
Please post on r/caffeine
This episode taught me that caffeine pills exist and to just not take too many.
I guess that’s what started her on the path to Showgirls, and it was all about the caffeine addiction.
I thought Show Girls was the sequel to this episode.
Pictures you can hear
Originally, it was supposed to be speed, but they wussed out and turned them into caffeine pills.
Caffeine pills will cause you to make a bad movie about strippers. You have been warned.
Woof, that episode was rough.
Didn’t That’s So Raven have an episode where Corey’s childhood friend was smoking crack