‘Saved by the Bell’ Stars Reunite to Celebrate ‘30 Years’ of Friendship

Actors Tiffani Thiessen and Mark-Paul Gosselaar attend 2011 Kiehl's LifeRide for amfAR finale at the Kiehl's Since 1851 Flagship Store on August 6, 2011 in New York City. Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images

The cast of “Saved by the Bell” had a mini-reunion over the weekend—decades after the show ended.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, and Tiffani Thiessen got together to have a reunion dinner, according to People magazine.

“This is what 30+ years of friendship looks like,” Gosselaar, who played Zach Morris on the show, said on social media.

Berkley, posted the same photo, and added: “FRIENDS FOREVER.”

“Fun dinner tonight with some old friends,” Lopez said in a video, Fox News reported. “We ate an obscene amount of food. Great group right here, now it’s time to play credit card roulette for the bill.”

“Saved by the Bell” ran from 1989 until 1993 on NBC and was among the most popular shows on television.

The show also featured Dustin Diamond, Lark Voorhies, and Dennis Haskins.

Gosselaar once explained that he was unaware of his popularity.

“No social media. The only barometer was whether or not you were on Teen Beat, on the cover. If you weren’t on the cover you weren’t [expletive],” he told Entertainment Tonight.

He added that “the other one was if you went to a mall signing and depending on and depending on the crowd size. So you go to The Mall of America and you do a crowd signing, if 2,500 people show up you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m pretty hot sh*t.’ But that’s pretty much it. Or people come to the show, it’s taped in front of a live audience.”

“There was really no way to gauge how big you were,” he added.

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