Good Morning, Miss Bliss

On the first day of school, Zack is surprised to meet up with a girl with whom he'd had a little summer romance. She was in the 9th grade and he'd lied to her, telling her he was also in the 9th grade. He tries telling her more lies, such as that he has a driver's license and is in a special 9th grade homeroom. He had been elected a class representative, but resigns so that he will not have to appear in front of the assembly as an 8th grader. Miss Bliss catches on and urges him to tell the girl the truth. He finally admits the truth to her, but only after she guesses most of it for herself. She is angry and refuses to have anything more to do with him.

Zack wants Screech to write his history report for him, but Screech will only do it if Zack gets him a date with Lisa. Zack writes Lisa love letters from a secret admirer, and eventually arranges a meeting between Lisa and her secret admirer. This convinces Screech to write the report for him.

Everyone in the class contributed $2.00 each to invest in the stock market as part of a class project with Miss Bliss, buying stock on the internet. Zack is interested in the concept of earning a lot of money with little work involved. He learns just enough that he convinces everyone else to change from investing in an airline to investing in potatoes. This plan backfires because they bought on margin. At first they make a lot of money (about $6,000), but then they lose a lot of money (over $1,000) which means Miss Bliss will have to pay it back, since it's her account. She was just about to buy a new car, but now she won't be able to afford it after paying for the lost investment. Miss Bliss loses her temper and scolds the class. All the kids feel really bad about the whole thing and try to think of ways to pay her back. Miss Bliss thinks of a way. She brings the potatoes to school and wants the kids help her sell them to earn back the money.

The kids have to dissect frogs for a biology class. Nicki is not only squeamish about the dissection process, she doesn't like the idea of all the innocent frogs being killed just for a class activity. She tries to get everyone to support her campaign to free the frogs, but nobody is interested, though Zack and the other kids say they'll lie for her and cover for her if she wants to skip class. She goes to Miss Bliss and Miss Bliss tries to talk the biology teacher into allowing Nicki to abstain from the dissection process, but he refuses. Seeing no other way out, Nicki frees all the frogs. Meanwhile, Miss Bliss received a letter from an exclusive private school. Mr. Belding assumes they are trying to lure Miss Bliss away with a new job, so he starts being extra nice to her and also giving her all sorts of visual aids and extras (a globe, and encyclopedia set, a VCR & TV, etc.). When Nicki is brought to him to receive her punishment for letting the frogs go free, Mr. Belding sees

It's Parents Week at JFK Jr. High. Lisa is worried that her parents will find out she wears makeup at school. Miss Bliss assures her in a roundabout way that she won't tell. Nicki is worried that her parents will be disappointed in her and Lisa reassures her that they'll always be proud of her. Screech is worried that his parents will find out that he's not the coolest guy that he's told them he is. Miss Bliss reassures him also. He tells his parents the truth and they understand. That afternoon, Zack's father shows up to meet Miss Bliss and it turns out that they've met each other before on a special weekend trip on which they exchanged first names only. They are surprised and pleased to find each other again until Miss Bliss discovers that he's Zack's father. He tries to charm her and even kisses her--and just then Zack walks in. They try to explain and Zack's father invites her to go out to dinner with them. She is reluctant, but Zack says he doesn't mind. In the next s

Screech's friends encourage him to stand up to bully Deke Simmons