Saved By The Bell Cast Reveal What Their Kids Really Think of the Show

‘Saved by the Bell’ Cast Reveals What Their Kids Really Think of the Show

Time-out—the cast of Saved By The Bell have their own kids now?

Indeed, while it seems like just yesterday Tiffani Thiessen, Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley Lauren were on our screens as high school students, the truth is the sitcom debuted more than 30 years ago. And in the years since, all three of them have become parents—though their kids aren’t feeling the same love for the show the rest of the world feels.

As Tiffani—mom to Harper, 16, and Holt, 10, with husband Brady Smith—explained to E! News in an exclusive interview, “TV is very different now. I think my daughter definitely laughed more than she did resonate. It wasn't her type of show.”

Plus, as Elizabeth, now mom to 13-year-old son Sky with husband Greg Lauren, put it, “To see your own parents in adolescence is its own funny thing for them, to see you in these moments and different looks.”

Though the 53-year-old revealed that Sky did watch the series when he was younger and that he was especially partial to the episode where Screech (Dustin Diamond) makes a robot named Kevin for the science fair.

“But it is such a different type of show,” Elizabeth continued. “The pace of it and the storylines. But he definitely liked it when he was little, just, I think more out of the fun to see mommy, you know?”

Meanwhile, Mario said his and wife Courtney Lopez’s two older kids, daughter Gia, 15, and son Nico, 12, have no intertest in seeing their dad as A.C. Slater.

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“They won't give it a shot,” the 52-year-old joked, before adding that his only hope for fandom within his family lies with his youngest son, Santino. “Maybe my six-year-old would be... Maybe he’ll give it a shot.”

But while their kids aren’t fans of seeing their parents onscreen in Saved by the Bell, Tiffani, Mario and Elizabeth say that fun dynamic they shared at Bayside hasn’t gone anywhere—and they especially felt it during their recent reunion while partnering with Box Tops for Education.

And while the Saved by the Bell stars put together some totally rad ads for the organization in honor of its 30th anniversary, Tiffani, 52, said that dynamic went “right back” to their time on set together.

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Elizabeth, too, cited “a closeness that's really special,” adding, “I'm sure everyone has someone in their lives where when you're around them, you feel 15 again. We really were teens on the show, so even though we know each other currently in our adult lives, we know each other's children and spouses, we go back to feeling like we're teens.”

And working with Box Tops for Education felt like the perfect, full-circle way to give back.

“Being that the show is about school and this initiative is about school, it’s beautiful,” Tiffani said, “At the start of all our careers, people first met us in those hallways with red lockers. And the ads are really fun, with the retro kind of feel. And we are parents now, so it has great meaning for us.”

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