Mark-Paul Gosselaar Says ‘Saved by the Bell’ Forged Forgets Episodes (Unique)

If the teacher pops a test about what occurred on any given Saved by the Bell episode, Mark-Paul Gosselaar is aware of he’s in a large number to reply.

The 51-year-old actor, who performed Zack Morris within the ’90s teen sitcom and its two sequels, lately informed PEOPLE that he and his unique Saved by the Bell castmates have “a really restricted reminiscence” of particulars about particular episodes.

“I at all times thought that I had a foul reminiscence about sure issues,” Gosselaar recalled of a fan as soon as speaking a couple of plot from a season 3 episode titled “Mystery Weekend” from 1991. “It was a couple of homicide thriller dinner or no matter. And I knew about it due to my podcast.”

“However Mario [Lopez] had no concept what this individual was speaking about — neither did Elizabeth [Berkley],” he added of his fellow alums, who performed A.C. Slater and Jessie Spano. “I used to be happy to know that they’ve a really restricted reminiscence of these occasions as nicely. I believed it was simply me.”

The Found star then defined why they’ve forgotten sure plot factors from the unique Saved by the Bell, which ran for 4 seasons — totaling 86 episodes — from 1989 to 1993.

“This, for us, was over 30 years in the past … It was work, so I don’t assume most individuals can bear in mind their work days, however they’ll bear in mind the lunch that they had with a coworker or they’ll bear in mind occurring a visit with a co-worker,” Gosselaar stated. “And that’s how we bear in mind our reminiscences as nicely.”

“We bear in mind the seaside episodes, however not particularly the seaside episode,” he elaborated. “We bear in mind simply that point or the filming — something we did on location was like a deal with for us. And so we bear in mind these issues. Now we have reminiscences outdoors of being on set, however the precise episodes, it’s like we couldn’t inform you.”

The father of four additionally shared that the remaining alums nonetheless communicate. 

“We textual content one another on a regular basis,” Gosselaar revealed. “Folks at all times ask, ‘Do you guys hang around?’ We don’t hang around as a result of I reside some place else, all of us have schedules, all of us have children, however we at all times textual content.”

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“I’m not on social media, so I’m not capable of see what everybody’s doing, however we really feel like we’re household,” he continued. “You don’t have to speak to your brother or sister each day or each week and even each month, however the second you do join once more, it’s such as you haven’t skipped a beat, and that’s how we’re. We’re very lucky to have had a solid like that.”

Apart from castmates Lopez and Berkley, Saved by the Bell additionally starred Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen and Dustin Diamond as Zack Morris’ fellow classmates Lisa Turtle, Kelly Kapowski and Screech Powers.

Gosselaar, who’s married to wife Catriona McGinn, can now be seen starring in NBC’s Found, which aired its season 2 finale on Might 15. Seasons 1 and a couple of can be found to stream on Peacock.