Saved By the Bell

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Last night, Jimmy Fallon’s obsession with Saved By the Bell climaxed in the appearance of Mark-Paul Goselaar, who was somehow talked into plugging his show (Raising the Bar, as he keeps telling us over and over) by doing the entire interview in character: putting on a blond wig, reciting SBtB facts, exercising temporal control over the universe (matched only by Evie) and allowing Fallon to call him “Preppie.” I can’t decide if this is awesome or disturbing, but it certainly is going some way toward giving Fallon’s show its own identity.

Trick question. Of course we’re all going to read Dustin “Screech” Diamond’s tell-all book about Saved By the Bell, imaginatively titled “Behind the Bell.” The only question is which of us will admit that we’re already saving up for a copy.