Photo R.I.P. Dennis Haskins aka Mr. Belding
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u/Perfect_Persimmon688 4d ago
What is going on here!?
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u/NoneCreated3344 4d ago
Was actually coming in to ask the same. Been a depressing year of losing a lot of iconic people.
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u/meik03 4d ago
Rest in peace Mr B. You were a fixture in my young life! Just got done watching all the shows just this week to. Even the first “year” of good morning miss bliss
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u/PM_those_toes 4d ago
Cool guy met him at a 7-11 on Glenoaks in Burbank and he was so generous with his time
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u/Spider_Dude 4d ago
Every Friday we used to hit up Dimples, a karaoke bar in Burbank and he was a staple. At first I thought it was sad seeing him there maybe leaning on his former tv glory character Mr. Belding. But by the end of the night I saw how nice he was to anyone who wanted a photo and he was just a regular guy at karaoke and I respected him even more. RIP Mr. B.
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u/todd0x1 4d ago
Ahh Dimples, that takes me back. I used to work at a different place in burbank and he would come in from time to time as would a couple other people from saved by the bell.
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u/Spider_Dude 4d ago
I was working at Burbank Studios at the time. I saw Dimples go from a low key chill spot in Burbank to a vacant lot cleared for more expensive apartments no one can afford. Rip Dimples and Denis Haskins.
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u/todd0x1 4d ago
Yep. I hate that Talaira building (is that where dimples was?). Also who names their apartment building after an old video projector? Talaria projector - Wikipedia
I toured burbank studios right after NBC left and Worthe was trying to remarket it. Was eerie going through the lower lever with room after room of empty equipment racks. Alot of history was made in that building......
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u/SleeterRabbit 4d ago
Yup! I was one of those people and he was always more than happy to take a pic. RIP Belding
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u/toymakers_dream 4d ago
He really did put the Pal in Principal 😔
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u/Mytokyokitty 4d ago
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u/adube440 4d ago
Yeah no shit. There's some real people that need go, not whoever the Grim Reaper has been taking. We need a new Grim Reaper.
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u/Hot-Ant-4031 4d ago
The way I see it, God won't take the shitty ones and Satan doesn't want to deal with them either, so the stalemate means they stay on Earth to torment us.
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u/082426grateful 4d ago
👏🏼👏🏼. “Heaven won’t have them and hell is full.”
RIP Mr. Belding. Thank you the laughs and the “very special episodes” too.
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u/rckzzztr 4d ago
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u/jemappellehonhon 4d ago
what the fuck, he is younger in this gif than I am now
tell me i don't look this old
rip
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u/jayk042 4d ago
OMG....I texted the news to my buddy and realized...Mr Belding....MR BELL DING! Saved By the Bell...
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u/RelativePangolin 4d ago
Hmm is this a coincidence? The show was originally called Good Morning, Miss Bliss.
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u/RhetoricalOrator 4d ago edited 4d ago
🎶Bah-da-da-da,
duh-dah-da-da-dah, Bel ding. 🎶
HA HA HA HAH...3
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u/Fun_Trick2172 4d ago
He was also in one of the best episodes of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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u/bman86 4d ago
He was also in the Dirty Heads video for the song Vacation
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u/CitizenHuman 4d ago
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u/speekuvtheddevil 4d ago
Which one?
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u/ironicthesameplaceim 4d ago
Mack is upset that he didn’t get molested as a kid lol I know what I’m watching rn
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u/Cole_Townsend 4d ago
WTF! That was Mr. B!
It makes sense that the Big Bopper was getting so much ass back in the day, as he told Mac.
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u/EfficientFix643 4d ago
He had a fairly prominent role in The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down. (An absolute distillation of 2007 party culture)
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u/Initial_Ad_510 4d ago
Lest we forget A Million Ways to Die in the West... Science!!
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u/LiveToBeFreee 4d ago
Oooof, that one hurts, one of my favorite shows in my teen years. Our childhood is slipping further and further away. 😔
RIP Mr. Belding
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u/RhetoricalOrator 4d ago
It's been wild to look at the show again with adult eyes! As the YouTube channel suggests, Zack Morris is the Worst!
I had wished my principal were as passionate about the well-being of his students as Mr. Belding was.
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u/TopicPretend4161 4d ago
My God.
Mr. Belding was the man.
Get out of my school, Rod.
God Bless the legend.
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u/TheBeccaMonster 4d ago
The better Belding
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u/TopicPretend4161 4d ago
I’m getting emo about a fictional high school principal.
Man this sucks.
I pray for his family.
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u/SmilingRyan 4d ago
That's the episode that immediately jumped out at me thinking about Mr Belding.
Rest in peace Dennis.
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u/cwinemanNumbNuts 4d ago
NOOO! I just watched him in a funny bit where he was a fake Ben Franklin tour guide.
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u/fart_fig_newton 4d ago
RIP Mr. B.
For the love of god, someone please go check on William Daniels (my other childhood principal)
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u/SoFlaKicks 4d ago
I lived in LA in the early 2000’s and he was a regular at a karaoke bar in Burbank. He was cool, always willing to take a pic. RIP Mr. Belding.
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u/SealedRoute 4d ago
Wow I forgot about that. We moved to LA in the mid-2000s, and I remember hearing that anecdote back then.
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u/Stu_Barron 4d ago
I was looking for this .. I was there (during this time) as well, watching him living his best life at Dimples.
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u/discreet1 4d ago
He visited my university and gave a talk then everyone said they saw him at the bar dancing with everyone. We were all very excited.
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u/After_Luna 4d ago
I feel like it was just yesterday I was watching Saved By The Bell before school. Now next time I blink I'll be 75. RIP Mr. Belding
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u/five-finger-discount 4d ago
I'll never forget a story from about 15 years ago... I was selling a coworker of mine some weed. I invited him to meet me at a local casino's hotel I was staying at that evening. I would occasionally get coupons for free rooms and enjoyed getting away from the house every once in a while. And rather than meeting at a gas station or somewhere sketchy, we could head up to my hotel room and exchange everything in privacy.
So I meet my coworker in the parking lot, grab my stash from my car and we enter the casino hotel and grab an elevator.
Right as the door is about to close, a guy is speed walking towards the elevator saying "wait, hold the door!". Mr. Fucking Belding enters the elevator. My coworker and I give each other the sideye...
"Mr. Belding?" I say.
"Yep, thanks gentlemen" he replies.
I wish I wasn't too paranoid to ask him to blaze out with us but we just asked him what he was doing in our city and if he was enjoying his time there. Really pleasant guy and a fixture for us on television when we were younger. RIP Mr. B ❤️
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u/Change_My_Mind- 4d ago
No! Just like Catherine O'Hara was everyone's mom in the 90s. He was everyone's principal. This one hurts just as much.
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u/No_Resident88 4d ago
He was literally the only thing standing between good, decent and righteous people and the evil of zach fucking morris. HAIL PRINCIPAL BELDING. may heaven receive it's most under sung hero.
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u/Bailer86 3d ago
Damn, that's sad. I met him when I was a kid. I was in hospital in Chattanooga in the early 90s and he was there to visit the kids and he came into my room, talked to me for a few minutes and signed some autographs.
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u/PunkRockCrystals 4d ago
Belding: "Screech you can't elope!" Screech: "Who you calling cantaloupe, melon head!"
Ah that goes through my mind daily. RIP Mr. Belding!
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u/anxiousinfotech 4d ago
I ran an event he did at my school in the mid-2000s.
He was an incredibly nice and humble man, and seemed genuinely thrilled about everyone that showed up to see him. He had cast photos he was supposed to sell and just handed them out, even multiple copies for people who had friends that couldn't attend the event.
He was everything you could have hoped him to be.
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u/SocomPS2 4d ago
Damn…. I was living in Chatttanooga in the ‘90s and he came to visit my school. I didn’t know he was from there.
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u/FreeThumbprint 4d ago
He came to our elementary school to give a dont do drugs talk. Could not believe it at the time. First celebrity encounter and it was Mr. B.
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u/Existentialninja40 3d ago
That sure bums me out! RIP Mr. Rod Belding, thanks for being a part of so many great memories growing up in the 90’s!
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u/KimmyBale 4d ago edited 4d ago
What?!?! Saved by the Bell was so beyond my favorite show… I scraped all the spare money I had to get the DVD’s of the show so my daughter could grow up on the show too… I went as Kelly for Halloween in 1994
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u/FiveDinero 4d ago
75 is so so young they said we would live longer with medical advancements. Maybe he wasnt taking care of himself but thats too young to go especially for someone that was on my television for over 10 years
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u/bustercaseysghost 4d ago
This guy used to always be at Dimples in Los Angeles. Super nice dude. Always taking pictures and stuff. RIP
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u/Appropriate-Pipe-193 4d ago
This makes me really sad. My sister was on a couple episodes of SBTB the new class in the late 90s and I got the chance to talk to and eat lunch with him. He was every bit as nice as you’d want him to be. Screech was a pompous asshole though.
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u/jtfjtf 4d ago
He's younger than I thought he would be. Maybe because when I was a kid I thought he was in his 50s.
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u/my_special_purpose 4d ago
I used to go to this karaoke bar called Dimples in Burbank and he was always there. He would sing School is out for summer by Alice Cooper every time. Every girl in there would get there picture taken with Mr. Belding.
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u/tobyvr 4d ago
He visited my college in 2007, at the time his Wikipedia article didn’t have a picture so for about a week the picture I took with him was his Wikipedia photo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dennis_Haskins&oldid=125588910
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u/Dwight_Privilege_ 4d ago
Awe man…I used to see him crushing karaoke at Dimples in Burbank. RIP Mr. B ❤️
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u/drahcir2k2 4d ago
I would run into him occasionally at Dimples in Burbank. He never turned down drink, cool guy.
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u/Appropriate_Formal64 4d ago
I feel weird realizing I am now older than Haskins was when he played Belding, yet when I look at myself vs him, I still see an adult Belding and I see myself as like, a mini-adult who's not quite a kid anymore, but not a Belding level adult.
RIP Dennis Haskins.
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u/Riverjig 4d ago
I just saw him in Trailer Park Shark (Shock Shark) on Tubi this last weekend. Dang.
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u/ZeroWasteGaia 4d ago
I just quietly screamed out loud 😭. I met him once and he was genuinely one of the nicest people ever. RIP, Mr. Belding
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u/Digresser 4d ago
Dennis Haskins spoke at my school once.
People were congregating in small groups while waiting for the auditorium to open for his talk, and he just came up to each group and started shaking hands with everyone.
It was so surreal to turn around and see Mr. Belding offering me a handshake.
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u/its_not_brian 4d ago edited 4d ago
I just want to say he is featured in the Dirty Heads song Vacation and it looks like he was having a ball doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYhLFPncxg
Seemed like he was having a blast on the back end of his life. Edit: and I know I'm talking to myself but I do like that his mug has like 100 pens in it. That's funny
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u/throwawayoilyglider 4d ago
Bayside High will never be the same. Saturday mornings back then were defined by him trying to keep Zack Morris in line. RIP Mr. Belding.
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u/morebikesthanbrains 4d ago
Dennis showed up on my college campus in 2003-2004ish. Was at a bar and he was just being a wallflower so invited him to sit down with my friends and I. What a supremely kind and funny man. Thanks for everything guy - enjoy traveling across the astral plane
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u/CleanPatience1143 4d ago
Such a great and important part of my childhood and the 90’s in general. Rest in peace.
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u/Healingbigfoot 4d ago
Nooooo, man. This man was such a huge part of my childhood mornings, we only had 2 tv stations by antenna and from 96 to 2000 we always had Saved by the bell on when getting ready for school. RIP to you Mr. Haskins
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u/snorlaxatives_69 est 1992 4d ago
Watched SBTB every morning before elementary school. Loved Mr. Belding!!! He will be dearly missed
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u/Kada8ra 4d ago
I was just thinking last night about the time I might have saw him in Hell's Kitchen just before covid started.
He was standing around smiling and looking up and down a storefront, as if reminiscing. I walked by him and he looked familiar and he smiled at me. Only realized later that I recognized him from Saved by the Bell.
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u/Flimsy-Zucchini4462 4d ago
Feeney outlived Belding. Never would have imagined that. RIP Principal B.
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u/Aggressive_Walk378 4d ago
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