Whenever a show’s characters need a retreat from the daily grind, where do they turn to? They turn to their favorite hangout spots. Almost every show has one, whether they’re a comedy, drama, or science fiction, though it’s often the comedy shows that have the most memorable hangout settings, thanks to these places’ abilities to let the characters relax and go wild with their best one-liners. These places aren’t the places where the main characters lived, and, though a few are workplaces, these aren’t the places where the characters simply made a living, either. These are the places where the characters got together and did what friends like to do best: hangout.
10. The Max – Saved by the Bell
Far from being the high point of television, Saved by the Bell nonetheless had a surprisingly strong resonance with its audience, especially those who were still in grade school in the late '80s and early '90s, and some of the most iconic images of this series were of these attractive, mostly popular kids that the show followed as they ate unsupervised in The Max, a day-glow diner-like hangout that was usually packed with kids around their age, and rarely an adult in site, save for Mr. Belding, the principal of Bayside, and Max, the mostly forgotten owner of the restaurant. The Max broke up the usual school monotony by being a catalyst for the characters’ casual conversations. It even became the setting for some rather hysterical dancing sequences and a few awful drama club-like routines. The Max, however, was so iconic of its time and within the show itself that it even made it into the show’s spin-off, Saved by the Bell: The New Class, where it was burned down and rebuilt with a new design to fit the mid to late '90s cast.