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Tiffani Amber Thiessen started dating a 19-year-old guy when she was only 14! She also moved out of her parent’s house when she was just 17! It made total sense that she made a quick jump into modeling gigs right around the time she was working on the set of Saved By The Bell.



During the show, Mario Lopez was accused of date rape. The case was eventually dropped and settled out of court. Dustin Diamond claims in his tell-all book that NBC paid the victim $50,000 not to talk.



Lark Voorhies & Mark-Paul Gosselaar dated in real life. During filming Zack and Lisa were just friends, but off-screen the two were lovebirds and even had a 3-year relationship!



Mark-Paul Gosselaar was accused of taking steroids in-between “Saved By The Bell” and “Saved By The Bell: The College Years”. Although there’s no way to prove this is true, there was a big change in Zack’s physique, which speaks for itself.



Mark-Paul Gosselaar aka Zach, is a natural brunette! He had to dye his hair blonde every two weeks during filming of “Saved By The Bell!”



Lisa Turtle was originally meant to be a character who played a spoiled, Jewish girl from Long Island but producers loved Lark Voorhies so much that they changed the part so she could play it.




Zack and Screech are the only two of the entire cast to appear in every episode, starting with “Good Morning, Miss Bliss” up until the finale of “The College Years.”



The school set used to shoot “Saved by the Bell” has also been used in the famous Disney series “That’s So Raven” and Nickelodeon’s “iCarly.”


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Peter Engel wrote a musical in hopes of bringing “Saved By The Bell” to Broadway, but this never worked out. The cast did test their musical abilities in the rockumentary fantasy episode where they formed a band called Zack Attack!




In Bayside High School there was only one classroom, and it was rearranged for different scenes and class subjects.





Lark Voorhies sacrificed going to her prom and graduation because she was busy filming the show.



Almost all of the cast dated off-screen and Peter Engel said that it was terrible because when they broke up, they still had to act in love on-screen. Imagine what Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Mario Lopez's fingers must've smelled like during that time.



Many have referred to “Saved by the Bell: The New Class” as a failure, but it actually ran three years longer than the original “Saved by the Bell!”



At its height, Saved by the Bell (1989) managed to attract more teenage viewers on Saturday mornings than the #1 show on television at the time, which was The Cosby Show (1984), did at primetime.



After Saved by the Bell (1989) had already been on television for around four weeks, NBC conducted research which showed that fifty percent of teenage girls in the United States were watching the show regularly.



The original series “Good Morning, Miss Bliss” on The Disney Channel was set in Indianapolis. It showed Zack, Screech, Lisa and the other characters in middle school. But when Zack and the gang moved to NBC and on to high school in “Saved by the Bell,” they relocated to sunny Pacific Palisades, California without any explanation.



You may or may not have noticed, but the nerd characters usually had a last name that contained the word “nerd” or some synonym of it. Examples included Nerdstrom, Poindexter, Geekman, etc.



Lisa’s last name is Turtle, Jessie’s middle name is Myrtle, and Zack’s pet turtle’s name is Myrtle.



Jaleel White, Jennie Garth, Jonathan Brandis, and Brian Austin Green all auditioned for the show in hopes of scoring a spot!



Swearing was banned on the set of “Saved By The Bell.” Producer Peter Engel wanted to keep the vibes innocent so he forbid all cast members to swear while they were on the set of the teen series!

26 Saved By The Bell Secrets Fans Never Knew - WorldLifestyle
 

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Many have referred to “Saved by the Bell: The New Class” as a failure, but it actually ran three years longer than the original “Saved by the Bell!”

Interesting. Never noticed this. Probably because I didn't watch the trash

They went through 2 new classes. The first new class graduated after four years and then they brought in a new group. I think the show was cancelled before they graduated.
 
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