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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Somebody please explain to me where Tori fits into the time line. It's been bothering me for over a decade.
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I can't believe I am about to admit I know this...
Tori was added when Tiffani Amber Thiessen and Elizabeth Berkeley left the show. This was the senior year, oddly in the middle of the senior year, since Kelly and Jessie opened and closed the season, but did nothing else. They needed a new regular character to be a love interest for Zack, and rather than go the same "pretty girl" route, they tried to jazz it up by having more of a tomboy-ish girl. Thiessen and Berkeley wanted to expand their careers and not just be known as the girls from Saved by the Bell. I don't fully recall what Thiessen did at the time (I remember she was in "Son in Law"), but Berkeley tried a couple of episodes of Baywatch as more of a bad girl. Anyhoo, Tori wasn't really working out as a character in that she didn't add to the chemistry of the cast, and this can be seen by how some of the quieter background characters had to start filling in the gaps (including a young Brigitte Wilson-Sampras). The series finale (for this cast) was the high school graduation episode, when they asked Kelly and Jessie to return to say goodbye.
I need a shot now. That made my follicles hurt.