This teaches me a huge lesson to stop playing drunken Cake Mania 3 and start watching Jimmy Fallon. Mark-Paul Gosselaar dressed up as my very first crush, Zach Mothalovin’ Morris. The skit was Gosselaar’s idea and I thought it was a stroke of corny, but funny brilliance. This was part of his deal to come on the show and do a reunion.
Via Starpulse:
“I’ve never been opposed to the reunion but it’s got to be, sort of, under our terms. If someone puts a gun to your head and says, “You know, you should do this reunion,” like Fallon kind of has done — and I love Jimmy by the way, I think he’s awesome — he kind of put us under the gun in a way. I wanted it to be a win-win situation for everybody. I said, as we were driving, to my wife, “Hey Lisa, what do you think if I went on as Zack Morris and that was reality? That Zack is alive, Zack is me and I just play the character Mark-Paul Gosselaar.”
“There were three things that I asked for. Number one: That I look into the camera and I do the time out. The phone was a big thing that I wanted to use as well. And [playing] “Friends Forever” with The Roots. And that was it, that’s all we came up with, then I called Jimmy Fallon. I said, “Hey, Fallon, this is what I want to do.” and he goes, “Well, wait, at the end you’re going to say you’re Mark-Paul?” I said, “No, I’m going to go on, never break character and that’s going to be the reality.” He says, “I don’t know if the producers are going to be into that, but I’ll get you in touch with my writer.”
Jimmy has been trying to get a “Saved by the Bell” reunion going since the start of his turn at “Late Night.” So far Lisa Turtle (Lark Voorhies), Mr.Belding (Dennis Haskins), Albert Clifford ‘A.C.’ Slater (Mario Lopez), Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley) and Zach Morris (Mark Paul Gosselaar) are all up for the reunion. Kelly Kaposi (Tiffany Amber Thiessen) and Screech (Dustin Diamond) are holding out. Which is odd, because last I heard Screech was making sex tapes and selling t-shirts to pay his bills.
Is it only slightly odd to me that Mark has aged a day and looked exactly the same? Saved by the Bell is back, New Kids on the Block are touring again and I my friend used the term “sike” the other day. It’s like I am 12 again and no longer bitter about my thighs.
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