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Inside the real-life high school classes the teen actors of The Saved by the Bell went through (and their schedule)
The Saved by the Bell cast took real high school classes on the set of the sitcom (and one actor admits he cheated)
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It turns out that you can’t play hooky from school, even if you’re starring on a successful teen sitcom. That’s why the cast of the ‘90s television comedy Saved by the Bell were forced to attend school, while simultaneously filming a show about attending school. In other words, there was the fake classroom in front of the cameras, and the real life classroom on set that the cameras never saw.
“We were under 18. We had the rare show where we were actually playing the age that we were,” Elizabeth Berkley says during a panel at GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2025. “So many shows, people are 25 playing 15, but we were 15, 16, and 17, so the child labor laws I think at the time were nine hours a day, and three of those had to be school. So, we were in a school room together doing our homework with our tutor Sidney Sharron. And then someone had to break to do a rehearsal. They had to get up from social studies and drop back into Zack.”
“We got so much great education,” Mark-Paul Gosselaar recalls. “Nothing against Sidney Sharron who was our teacher for the many years that we did the show. He was amazing. But for someone like me that could steal the answers to the test, that was my schooling.”
It’s unclear if Gosselaar was joking, but honestly, stealing test answers is pretty on brand for Zack Morris. He can admit it now. I think the statue of limitations for detention have ran out.
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