During Saturday night’s Seahawks-Cowboys playoff game, Fox ran a promo for The Passage, a new series premiering on Jan. 14.
The series stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Joe Buck gave Gosselaar a very odd pronunciation. Buck clearly wasn’t a Saved by the Bell fanatic.
https://twitter.com/Ethan_Booker/status/1081755577381015552
Did Joe Buck just pronounce Mark-Paul Gosselaar's name like he's a pirate?#NFL #SEAvsDAL
— Dee Buttersnaps (@JP_Judd) January 6, 2019
Mark Paul GOSSiLARRRR? Really, Joe Buck?
— Philip M.H. (@kingofleos) January 6, 2019
Dammit Joe Buck. You really just pronounced in Mark Paul Gas-ee-lar. You don't disrespect Zack Morris like that.
— Andy (@AndyPacconi) January 6, 2019
Please tell me you guys heard the way Joe Buck pronounced Mark-Paul Gosselaar's last name 😳
— Lisa B (@TheeElleBee) January 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/CoreyGriffinNBC/status/1081755462809329664
And as a quick Twitter search shows, this has been a thing from Buck in the past. Like on Dec. 9, 2018:
https://twitter.com/greater_dan_/status/1071909469410525184
And Oct. 27, 2018:
ummm how did Joe Buck just pronounce Mark-Paul Gosselaar's name?!?
— David (nobody/somebody) (@LaichItIs) October 28, 2018
And during the 2016 MLB All-Star Game.
https://twitter.com/ThaBasementBoys/status/753051843241050112
Joe Buck keeps pronouncing "Mark-Paul Gosselaar" with the tentative tone of somebody who seems not to have even heard of Saved By The Bell.
— Eric Bienenfeld (@EricBien) July 13, 2016
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