15 Facts About 'Saved by the Bell'
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Saved by the Bell is one of the most popular shows of the ’80s and ’90s. Before Friends or Seinfeld, there were the students of Bayside High and their multi-colored adventures. A daytime soap opera set in high school, and our favorite show to write about circa ten years ago or so.
Today we live in a world where the biggest movies and shows are about a man named Doctor Strange attacking a multiversal cabinet of past superheroes, and all of the television shows anyone cares about are tie-ins to that film. So let's forget the dry media wasteland of today, and look back upon the days of Bayside High and Zack Morris. Let’s stop time for a little bit and remember what the media used to think schools were like before the days of Degrassi and Euphoria. Man, can you imagine if they rebooted Saved by the Bell with Zendaya as Zack Morris, and made him an opium addict and that explained time stopping? While we wait for that to happen, here are 15 facts.
Speed
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell Jessie's pills weren't originally caffeine. What made Jessie Spano so excited in Jessie's Song was supposed to be speed - and we don't mean the Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock film. NBC nixed this for being too cool for Bayside High.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/0/839800.jpg)
Source: Vulture
Lin-Manuel Miranda
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell Lin-Manuel Miranda has seen every episode. Не even said that Saved by the Bell's diversity inspired him for Hamilton.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/8/839798.jpg)
Ferris Bueller
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell zack Morris was Ferris Bueller. Surprising no one, Zack was created to be television's own Ferris Bueller. (Good, as the Ferris Bueller show was nothing to write home about.)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/3/839793.jpg)
Source: People
Facts That Stand The Test Of Time!
![R LATE SH stephen col saved by the Bell stephen colbert auditioned for screech. Yes, Screech was almost the host of The Late Show. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/0/839790.jpg)
Source: Today
Saved by iCarly? That’s so Raven!
![FREN PEP RAILY SOV you Cok Sard CLUB WO THIS THURS CLASSROOM saved by the Bell The school set was the same as in That's SO Raven. Saved by the Bell, iCarly, Victorious, and That's so Raven were all filmed on the same high school set. In That's So Raven, it's actually called Bayside High. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/1/839801.jpg)
Source: HuffPost
Slater’s Sanchez
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell А.С. slater's last name is sanchez. The executive producer wrote Slater as white, but then decided to expanded the casting pool. This was referenced in The College Years, wherein Slater's last name is revealed to be Sanchez - changed by his father to avoid prejudice.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/9/839799.jpg)
Source: Remezcla
Pop-Up Restaurant
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell The show has a pop-up restaurant. Saved by The Max, in West Hollywood, is based on the Max in the show. It costs $40 a person, and you're encouraged to wear your best '90s gear. ICERS](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/5/839795.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Like the Olympics In Here
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell Everyone dated everyone else. All of us dated at one point or another, Mark-Paul Gosselaar has said. It was incestuous! So that ship? It happened.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/2/839792.jpg)
Source: People
No S#$&@s
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell NO one could swear. There was no cursing allowed on set.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/2/839802.jpg)
Source: Mark-Paul Gosselaar.net
Musical
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell There was almost a musical. The writer was Debbie Gibson, whose name you probably recognize if you care about Saved by the Bell. If not... she sings? We've got nothing for ya.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/6/839796.jpg)
Source: Broadway World
Lisa Lark Voorhees
![saved by the Bell Lisa Turtle was written as a Jewish-American princess. After Lark Voorhies was in for a guest role, she was asked to read for the part. They said, 'She's not black.' And I said, 'She is now. - Peter Engel, executive producer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/7/839797.jpg)
Source: Today
First Kiss
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell screech's first kiss was Dustin Diamond's first kiss. Introduced early in the first season, Tori Spelling's brief role as Violet Anne Bickerstaff led to Dustin Diamond's first kiss - on camera, for the show.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/1/839791.jpg)
Source: International Business Times
Comic Time
![- .. THE $1.25 US COMICS CODE $1.50 CAN. K46090 I'M EVEN AND WE'RE BETTER LOOKING ALL EVEN COLLECTOR'S IN COMICS! FUNNIER! #1 ISSUE! saved by the Bell There are saved by the Bell comics. In addition to tales like What if dating was hard? or Failing math is sad, this comic collection also includes a Warriors pastiche with the characters of Bayside High called, creatively, Bayside Warriors. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/4/839794.jpg)
Source: MyComicShop
Natural Blonde
![saved by the Bell Mark-Paul Gosselaar wasn't a natural blonde. Не had to dye his own hair for every episode to play the towheaded Zack Morris. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/9/839789.jpg)
Source: ABC News
Saved by the Bell
![CRACKED.COM saved by the Bell The show was canceled every year. The cast ended each season thinking it was the last.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/8/839788.jpg)
Source: People