Saved by the Bell was a show that survived against terrible odds on numerous occasions. It started out as an NBC pilot for a different show, called Good Morning, Miss Bliss that focused on a teacher and the faculty at her school. This pilot led to an initial season, which was passed on by NBC and picked up by the Disney Channel. The show would later be retooled into Saved by the Bell, which focused on the kids at the school.

Saved by the Bell was savaged by critics throughout its run, as they felt that the humor of the show was juvenile and the storylines were trite. The opinion of the critics would turn out to be meaningless, as Saved by the Bell was a huge hit i🌼n the r☂atings and would go on to be fondly remembered by the audience for years to come.

The cast of Saved by the Bell had to endure a lot of hardships on the set. This was due to the cast all being teenagers when the show began, which meant that they were scrutinized by the whole world as they grew up. The impact of Saved by the Bell would also have a negatiꦉve effect on their care♊ers and make it harder for them to find work as they grew older.

We are here today to uncover the uncomfortable tru🍷ths behind Bayside High and the students who attended the school. From Zack's misguided attempt at discovering his heritage, to the alleged reason behind the changing of the cast's appear♎ance.

Here are Twenty Secrets About Saved By The Bell That Makes Us Screech!

20 Saꦐved By The Apology ꦇ

It's not uncommon for actors, producers, and writers to regret their association with certain movies and TV shows, due to changing sensibilities. The recent controversy surrounding Apu in The Simpsons is a recent case where a classic character has come under scrutiny due to the changes in soci๊ety, which was only inflamed by the show's peculiar ♕response to the issue.

Saved by the Bell has several episodes that seem shady in hindsight, but these are mostly written off as products of the time. 

There is one episode which has caused one of the Saved by the Bell stars ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚto issue due to its offensive content. The episode in question is called "Running Zack" and it 🐷focuses on Zack learning about his Native American heritage.

"Running Zack" is highly inappropriate for many reasons, but the reason Mark-Paul Gosselaar apologized was likely due to a scene where Zack comes to terms with his heritage, which involves giving a speech that lists off a bunch of Native American stereotypes, which he performs while wearing a giant feather headdress. This follows a scene earlier in the episode where Zack lists off a bunch of stereotypes while ไScreech ta꧋lks like a caveman and has his face painted.

19 ♉ Saved By The Contract Dispute

The show that we know of as Saved by the Bell lasted four seasons, which ran from 1989 to 1993. You can extend this further by adding in the retooled Good Morning, Miss Bliss episodes, as well as the short-lived Saved by the Bell: The College Years and the two TV movies.

The fourth and final season of Saved by the Bell was intended to have a shorter run than the previous season, with only fifteen episodes covering the🦂 cast's final year 𓄧at Bayside.

The network suddenly asked f💎or an additional eleven episodes while the final season was being produced. This caused a huge issue for the producers, as Tif🌼fani Amber Thiessen and Elizabeth Berkley refused to return for more filming and were not contractually obliged to appear in any more than the originally planned number of episodes.

This is why the divisive character of Tori for the final season of the show. The produ💙cers wanted another girl on the show, so they decided to create a biker chick who would initially clash with Zack, before becoming his love interest.

The final run of e🀅pisodes mixed the Tori and non-Tori ones together. This means that Kelly and Jessie were absent from many episodes without any explanation and Tori didn't attend her own graduation, as she hadn't been created when the episode was filmed.

18 🎃 Saved By The Budget

It's not unheard of for famous TV shows to share sets, even if they are filmed years or even decades apart. This mostly happens with shows that have a contemporary setting, as you are more likely to see homes, schools, and shopping malls appearing in multiple different stories that are set in the present day. You aren't likely to see many shows that need to reuse the bridge of the Enterprise or the Red Keep from Game of Thrones, which is part of what makes those sh♏ows so unique.

Saved by the Bell and That's So Raven were two shows that shared a set, which led to speculation that the two might share a continuity. 

Saved by the Bell and That's So Raven shared a writer, which means that the fact that both series use for a school called Bayside High was likely an intentiona🍰l shoutout.

They can't actually be the same school, considering the fact that Saved by the Bell was set in Los Angeles and That's So Raven was set in San Francisco. This means that the That's So Raven incarnation of Bayside High could be thought of as a homage instead of being the same p꧒lace.

17 𝔍 🅷 Saved By The Spin-Off

The X-Men movies weren't the only media franchise to use a reboot that removed unwanted parts of the continuity and kept the pieces that everyone liked. Saved by the Bell was doing it back in the '80s, as it originally started out as a different show, called Good Morning, Miss Bliss. 

 starred Hayley Mills as the titular teacher. This was the main difference between the two shows, as Good Morning, Miss Bliss focused on the faculty, while Saved by the Bell was all about the lives of the students at ♒the school.

Three of the students in Good Morning, Miss Bliss proved to be so popular that they would later be made into the stars of Saved by the Bell, these were Zღack Morris (played by Mark-Paul Gosselaarꦛ), Lisa Turtle (played by Lark Voorhies) and Samual "Screech" Powers (played by Dustin Diamond.)

Good Morning, Miss Bliss was later repackaged as Saved by the Bell: The Junior High Years, which included a new opening scene where Mark-Paul Gosselaar explained the context of how the show predated Saved by the Bell and why the characters and scenarios are difꦕferent from the later incarna💞tion of the show.

16 Saved By The𒆙 D﷽ancing

Elizabeth Berkley played Jessie Spano in Saved by the Bell and Nomi Malone in Showgirls. These are by far her two most famous roles and she will likely be associated with them even🐓 after her demise.

When Elizabeth Berkley appeared in the seventeenth season of Dancing with the Stars, she decided to perform a dance based on her most infamous scene from Saved by the Bell. This was the smart choice, as even her worst scene in Saved by the Bell is better than anything related to Showgirls. 

The scen🔴e in question happened during the episode called "Jessie's Song" where Jessie became addicted to caffeine pills♑, as she had taken on too many different responsibilities. This led to a scene where Zack catches her taking the pills, which causes Jessie to break down and start singing "" before admitting that she needs help.

It was during the fifth week of the show that Elizabeth Berkley and her partner performed to "I'm So Excited" by The Pointer Sisters. This erupted from a skit where she reenacted the famous caffeine freakout scene from Saved by the Bell. 

Elizabeth Berkley was eliminated during the ninth week of Dancing with the Stars.

15 𝓡 Saved By The Re⛎tcon

Good Morning, Miss Bliss was repackaged as Saved by the Bell: The Junior High Years, which meant that it now became an unofficial prequel to the show. We say that it's unofficial due to the fact that many story elements were abandoned when the show turned into Saved by the Bell. 

One of the biggest changes between Good Morning, Miss Bliss and Saved by the Bell was the location. Good Morning, Miss Bliss was set in John F. Kennedy Junior High, which was in Indianapolis, while Saved by the Bell was set in Bayside High School, which♌ was in Los Angeles.

Mr. Belding was also different in the pilot of Good Morning, Miss Bliss. 🔴He was originally played by Oliver Clark, who was an older man 💛with less of an interest in engaging with the kids. The role of Mr. Belding was recast when the first series was produced, with Dennis Haskins taking the role. He would go on to appear in the most episodes of any character in the series.

Screech also underwent some changes during the transition of Good Morning, Miss Bliss to Saved by the Bell. He was originally said to have had a brother, yet this aspect of his character was abandoned in the later iterations of the show, where it was established that he was an on🅘ly child and that Zack & Sဣlater fulfilled brother-like roles in his life.

14 Sav♑ed By The Scam 🔯

The people at Adult Swim are known for being pranksters and riling up their audience with false announcements. This has included several April Fools' Day pranks, such as playing Mr. T and Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos and numerous showings of The Room, featuring new🎶 bumpers, and interviews with Tommy Wiseau.

Adult Swim fans suspected that they were up to shenanigans once more when they started to show random episodes of Saved by the Bell during their programming hours. This led to a backlash from the fans, as Saved by the Bell is the opposite of what peoꦺple tune in to Adult Swim for.

It seemed for a moment that Adult Swim airing episodes of Saved by the Bell was making sens♛e, as they released a statement claiming that they were col꧑laborating with Cartoon Network on producing new episodes of the show. A lot of news outlets picked up this story and ran it, even though the whole thing seemed fishy.

The skeptics of the story were proven to , as it turne🌌d out that the statement had been released Matt Laster, who claimed to be the VP of the '80s Reclamation Department, was actually just a regular employee at Adult Swim.

13 ♊ Saved By The Adaptation

It's surprising that we have yet to see any kind of modern reboot of Saved by the Bell. The show certainly has the popularity and the name value to justify a new iteration. All you would need to do is use the same characters in a modern setting and see how they would react to how society and technology have changed since t🔯he '80s/'90s.

You have a setting where Screech's interests have become mainstream and where Jessie is constantly looking for things on Tumblr to be outraged by. 

A modern Saved by the Bell remake has already been done in the form of a comic book story, where we get to see a Bayside High School that has students watching videos on their tabl🀅ets and auditioning for lame reality shows.

The Saved by the Bell comic series was created by Lion Forge, which was a company that had bought the rights to several old TV shows in order to make comic books out of them. They also purchased the rights to make comics based on Airwolf, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, and Punky Brewster. 

IDW Publishing released a of their Saved by the Bell series, which helped to modernize th❀e series and show the old characters in the ever so slightly more modern world than the one they lived in before.

12 Saved By The Casting Di⛄rector

Lisa Turtle might be the most one-dimensional character on Saved by the Bell, though that isn't really saying much. Lisa was obsessed with fashion and popularity, which earned her the unwarranted🌸 romantic attention of Screech. This meant that she spent most of 𒈔the show turning down his lame advances.

Lisa has since become infamous for the relationship that she did not have, as many fans wanted her to date Zack, as they believed that 𝕴the two of them had far more in common than the other girls on the show. This was restricted to a single episode story arc which resulted in them remaining friends. There have been a lot of rumors that the episode was controversial and resulted in complaints, due to it showing an interracial relationship on a show meant🌟 for kids.

Lark Voorhies should be commended for nailing the role of Lisa, to the point where she changed how the producers originally envisioned the character. 

The original casting call for Lisa was 🔥for a girl who was described as a "Wღhite/Jewish Princess" who was obsessed with fashion. Lark Voorhies was during the audition that the producers threw out everything they knew about the character and tailored it to her performance.

11 �💛� Saved By The Defense Lawyer

The global popularity of Saved by the Bell has ensured that the cast will forever be known for the roles that they played in their teens. It would take a massive amount of success for one of the cast members to become known for something different, such as starring in the next Star Wars movie or coming up with a cure for cancer.

The Saved by the Bell cast has also become known for their behavior outside of acting. The biggest example of this has to 𝓰be Dustin Diamond, who has run afoul of the law on since leaving the show. Dustin Diamond in 2014 for having a blade which he was said to have drawn during a fight. D🐬iamond's fiancee was also arrested during the altercation.

This arrest led to Dustin Diamond being convicted of carrying a weapon and disorderly conduct, which resulted in a sentence of three months in the clink. Diamond served three months of the sentence and was released on probation. This would lead to Diamond's probation officer ruling that hไe had of his probation, which led to him being sent back to jail to serve the remainder of his sentence.