Engel, interested in covering more serious topics, initially planned to have Jessie addicted to methamphetamines. NBC would not go for it. He said they told him the topic was too serious for a Saturday morning show.
Engel almost scrapped the episode, and then someone suggested using caffeine pills instead. Regardless, he carried on. Even with the change, the writing team persisted with the episode, leaving almost everything the same. The dad of three is the host of celebrity gossip factory Access Hollywood and is reprising his role as Slater in the reboot of SBTB.
More surprising than her love life with meathead Slater on Saved by the Bell was Elizabeth Berkley's transformation into showgirl Nomi Malone.
Two years after playing feminist-minded Jessie Spano. Berkley took the racy role in Showgirls as a way to shed her "good girl" image and make her way onto the silver screen. The move didn't go according to plan, as the film turned out to be a major fail at the time. As an outspoken animal rights activist, Berkley has been the centerpiece for PETA campaigns and has even won the distinction of being nominated as the "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year" on multiple occasions.
She also started her advice website and book, Ask-Elizabeth , where she helps teen girls with life's problems. Married to artist Greg Lauren in , Berkley gave birth to their son in She starred on the seventeenth season of Dancing with the Stars , coming in sixth place.
Berkley is also reprising her role as Jessie in the Saved by the Bell reboot. Every group of friends needs the token nerd, and Dustin Diamond played one of TV's most iconic.
When not expressing his unrequited love for Lisa Turtle, Diamond has had a knack for sticking his neck into precarious situations, much like his onscreen counterpart. In , he came back into the media's lens after releasing a foul-named sex tape. He also received plenty of flak from his fellow Saved by the Bell colleagues after airing their dirty laundry in a tell-all titled Behind the Bell.
In he was sentenced to four months in prison for carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct. Diamond sadly passed away in February due to carcinoma. And it's easy to see why as Lark Voorhies' photogenic looks landed her acting work since the age of two. After her time as Lisa Turtle, Voorhies went on to play various roles in much of 90's television most-loved shows. Michael, i. She changed leotards in the video, then changed emotional gears. Engel insists that the scene was filmed more than 25 times.
Mark-Paul was almost in tears at that point. Elizabeth was amazing. Then they did it on the 26th take. Everyone in the studio started to break down and cry. So she just kind of had that flip.
For Jessie to not rise to an occasion meant having a breakdown. Bario says that the emotion was so palpable while shooting that he still tears up thinking about it.
Bario, by the way, pulled double-duty in that episode. He also played the shaggy-haired record producer sitting silently with his arms folded at the Max cafe to watch the ill-fated Hot Sundae audition. Screech wound up filling in for Jessie. Decades before social media, nobody reacted on Twitter using hashtags like Jessiebreakdown and soexcitedsoscared.
But for impressionable viewers used to watching screwball hijinks, it quickly became obvious the episode was a fascinating outlier. Wigfield remembers watching the scene as a 7-year-old in Wayne, New Jersey, and wondering why Jessie was acting so hyped-up.
No matter that only 40 episodes were in the cannon. All of a sudden, Saved by the Bell was airing multiple times a day in the afternoons five days a week on far-reaching cable networks like TBS and WGN—right when students were getting home from school. Fresh installments were pumped out on Saturday mornings as well. The show, which had a minuscule budget, went on location to Hawaii for a TV movie.
It lasted 19 episodes before becoming part of the syndication package. At this point, a third-tier fan has vague knowledge of Zack Attack and poor Becky the Duck just through sheer osmosis. Engel and Co. Berkley started doing professional autograph signings and engaging with her fans over social media, acutely aware that her episode was the one constant.
And when she, Gosselaar, Thiessen, and Lopez reprised their characters in an iconic sketch with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in , she belted out her anthem to rapturous audience cheers.
Those four cast members and offscreen friends gamely appear in the new series as well, while Voorhies pops up in a special reunion episode. And the fact that a few generations love it and the episodes have such visibility can only be a positive. Is it the impassioned tone? The over-the-top reaction to caffeine pills?
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