Saved By the Cheesy T-Shirt

'Screech' Selling 'Save My House' T-Shirts to Avoid Foreclosure
AP

MILWAUKEE — More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series "Saved by the Bell," is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn't lose his gray two-story house under a foreclosure order.

"If the public didn't care, I as an entertainer wouldn't have been a success," he said.

Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts — at $15 or $20 (autographed) each — to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn't have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee.

The T-shirt has a photo of Diamond holding a sign that says, "Save My House." The back of the shirt reads, "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house." The third "e" was added to get around copyright laws, he said.

What a hair brained scheme. This is worse than the time Zack tried to sell Lisa's clothes at Bayside or the time he came up with Zit-Off. I wonder, is there a way for me to do the exact opposite of this? Can I buy a t-shirt from someone who pledges to burn the house down? Or can I buy a t-shirt from the mortgage company and they promise to make sure Screech becomes homeless? Because I'd be up for that.