Saved by the Bell reunion on the Tonight Show

Jimmy Fallon continues to impress me. I didn’t like that he was taking over for Conan, and I liked it even less that he was taking over Tonight. But dammit, the kid’s got game. I seem to love him a little more every week.

Latest example of Jimmy’s awesomeness: Saved by the Bell reunion.

And it looks like Belding ate Screech and Lisa.

Granted hair and make up helps, but it was kind of crazy how much the actors for slater, jessie and kelly look like their mid-90s selves

Say what you want about Fallon’s interview style and laughing at himself, but he has a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm. And he and/or his staff must work very hard to do all they do.

Srsly. After watching that video, I began to wonder if all four of them had paintings moldering away in their attics somewhere…

Amen…IMO, especially Slater (Mario Lopez)! I’ve been watching Zack (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) on Franklin & Bash and Kelly (Tiffany Thiessen) on White Collar, but I hadn’t seen either Jessie (Elizabeth Berkley) or Slater in a while.

Surely you’re not suggesting Zack can freeze time.

Zack can do whatever he wants. It’s Zack’s world; we’re all just living in it.

ETA: It was eerie seeing how MPG could get back into character so well after seeing him play thoroughly creepy psychopathic twins recently on CSI.

Where was Screech and Lisa, I asked as I was watching.

A quick look at Google answered that all too well. Screech has had quite the post-Saved By the Bell career. I could see why they balked at including him.

And doing a Google Images search on Lark Voorhies (SFW, but disturbing) shows that it would’ve taxed Fallon’s makeup staff to make her look like the show.

If you’d asked me to pick which one would’ve had the best post-Saved-By-The-Bell career, I would’ve been way off.

That was really cool.

I bought Screechs’ book about his Saved by the Bell days. I didn’t get very far in because it was mostly him talking about boring behind the scenes stuff and trashing everyone else and how cool he was and everyone else was an idiot. It just got annoying.

Time out!

Jimmy Fallon strikes me as a guy who is having a hell of a lot of fun doing what he’s doing.

I was scrubbing through the video, just wanting to get to the part where you saw what they look like today, and thinking, “Man, this clip from the old show just goes on and on and… oh!”

Was it the big Belding that finally clued you in?

Screech (Dustin Diamond) now lives north of the Milwaukee area. A few years back I heard him and his girlfriend(wife?) had some kind of on-line halloween mask business. And then this past year he was arrested in some kind of bar fight.

I’m guessing Fallon didn’t even bother calling him.

Screech is awaiting trial for stabbing a guy in Wisconsin. Unfortunately he wasn’t Saved by the Bail.

Thanks, I’ll be here all night.

Rimshot

He also wrote a book trashing the rest of the cast and made a porn movie where he does a Dirty Sanchez move. He’s quite the character.

I loved the line about Jessie becoming a stripper. Hilarious.

And yeah, Belding gained a huge amount of weight. Still, he seems like a fun guy.

I’m pretty sure that Elizabeth Berkley’s been in hiding for quite some time now.