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- culture
- August 20, 2019
30 things you didn't know on 'Saved by the Bell'
Hint: There was a lot of dating going on.
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Tori Scott, who briefly dated Zack, was named after Tori Spelling, the daughter of mega producer Aaron Spelling.
Swearing was banned from the set by Peter Engel, according to MTV.
Almost all of the cast dated off-screen. \"All of us dated at one point or another -- it was incestuous!\" Gosselaar told People magazine in 2009.
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Peter Engel added that Thiessen dated Gosselaar and Lopez, and that it was terrible because when they broke up, they still had to be in love on-screen. \"Everybody dated everybody else except Screech.\"
Berkley told People she went through almost a can of hairspray per episode. \"They diffused my hair, flipped it, teased it, sprayed it with hair spray. I practically went through a can of hair spray a show.\"
According to IMDB, Zack and best buddy Screech are the only characters that appeared in every episode.
Gosselaar told People magazine he broke a few rules. \"At 16, I was hanging out in adult clubs. But I didn't abuse it, and neither did my castmates. I can't stress how good we were.\"
Johnny Dakota, the hunk and actor that tried to get Kelly to smoke weed, was once a backup dancer for Janet Jackson, according to his Broadway Dance Center bio.
Malibu Sands, the beach club in Santa Monica where the gang worked for the summer, actually was the same beach club used in \"Beverly Hills 90210.\"
In every show, the same classroom was used, but just rearranged and the set of the school was never destroyed and even used in later shows like \"iCarly\" and \"That's So Raven,\" according to IMDB.
Scott Wolf, Denise Richards, Soleil Moon Frye and Tori Spelling all made cameos before hitting it big.
\"We were supposed to finish [the series]. We had already shot the graduation and that was supposed to be the end,\" Engel told the Outsider's podcast about the final season. \"We were supposed to end and not do another season. … So we shot the graduation, but Tiffani had an offer to go with Aaron Spelling for '90210,' and Elizabeth -- I didn't know it was going to be 'Showgirls' -- wanted to do movies. So we didn't re-sign them because we couldn't re-sign them.\"
So, to keep the impact of the finale, they pretended that Kelly and Jessie were off doing other things while Tori came in to play a female lead. Then, they aired the graduation show last with Kelly and Jessie, who came back out of nowhere.
Dustin Diamond's father played a science teacher in two episodes, Mr. Bennett.
The names of characters came from people Engel knew growing up.
\"I knew a guy named Screech Washington. He was a producer. I said I'm not going to hire him, but I'm going to steal your name,\" he said. \"Slater was a kid who was in my son's kindergarten class, Zack was named after my dear, dear friend, John DeLorean. ... His son's name was Zack. Lisa Turtle was a girl I knew and Mr. Belding, Richard Belding, had been my cranky editor when I worked at Universal.\"
While on the show \"Bethenny\" in 2013, the actress said she hated the fact that Jessie was a feminist but didn't always dress the part.
\"Just because you are a feminist, why can't you also dress in things that make you feel girly and empowered?\" she said.
In his memoir, \"Just Between Us,\" the now-TV host said, \"I was more interested in chasing girls than trekking up to L.A. to read for a part that had barely been sketched out on paper.\"
The team and cast behind the show tried to keep the magic moving forward for \"Saved by the Bell: The College Years,\" and even though they brought most of the gang back, it lasted only 18 episodes.
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