Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Lark Voorhies.Photo:Astrida Valigorsky/Getty; Ella Hovsepian/Getty
Astrida Valigorsky/Getty; Ella Hovsepian/Getty
In Sunday’s episode of thePod Meets Worldpodcast, the actor spoke withBoy Meets WorldstarsRider Strong,Danielle FishelandWill Friedleabout a “tough” season 1 plot involving his costarLark Voorhies' character Lisa Turtle.
The actor, who playedZack Morrison the ’90s sitcom, recalled the episode “The Lisa Card,” in which Lisa panicked after going over her dad’s credit card limit. In an effort to make the money back, Zack charged the boys in their class $1 each to kiss her “without her consent.”
“I was basically whoring out Lisa Turtle,” he told thePod Meets Worldhosts. “I charged people to kiss her without her consent. That was a tough one.”
The star noted that they felt the need to include a disclaimer at the start of the podcast episode saying, “We do not condone this. We’re here just to discuss it.”
He also reflected on another problematic storyline he felt uncomfortable with. In the season 3 episode “Running Zack,” his character claimed to be Native American and appeared in a traditional headdress.
“Seeing Zack Morris in a full headdress… that was one we had to be a little sensitive on,” the actor said. “There’s things that you just would not film these days.”
In a 2020 episode ofhis own rewatch podcast,Zack to the Future—which he cohosted Dashiell Driscoll, who was a writer on thePeacock rebootat the time — he said he felt “conflicted” about the Lisa episode.
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“It wasn’t as carefree and innocent as the last episode,” he said at the time. “But maybe it’s because I’m watching it through these eyes and not the eyes of a 13-year-old or the audience that watched it back in the ’90s.”
He also acknowledged: “We’re not gonna say that we don’t see some of the morally abhorrent or dated situations and responses to certain things.”
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