"Saved by the Bell" - Where are they now?

After several comments, e-mails, inter-office requests and one co-worker on the verge of relating an entire episode of E!'s True Hollywood Story, we decided to extend yesterday's Saved by the Bell - themed post and make it a two-parter.

You're welcome. (Unless your our dad who, if he's reading this, is probably yelling across the house right now asking our mom what this "Saving the Bell" show is all about.)

The rest of the post will be devoted to the original cast and where they are now. What sort of career choices have they made? Did some get serious about their profession and study method acting? Did others spurn the life of Hollywood and pursue public service in politics?

Did any of them spend all their money, have their house foreclosed on, attempt to save it by leaking a sex tape and then star in a reality TV show where they made Marcia Brady cry?

Anything is possible when you have a fake degree from Bayside High School. Here's what the cast of Saved by the Bell has been up to in the past 20 years.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar/"Zack Morris" - After marrying "Kelly Kapowski" in Las Vegas, Gosselaar floundered through a few TV movies and guest spots before landing a grown-up role on NYPD Blue. Now he's on a TNT lawyer show and, presumably, has updated his cell phone plan.

Tiffani Amber Thiessen/"Kelly Kapowski" - Just so you all know, it's nearly impossible to find a picture of Thiessen where she's fully covered. She seems to have adpoted the need to bare her midriff the same time she dropped her middle name and starred as 90210's awesome bad girl "Valerie." Since that, she's jumped from one marginal television show to the next but will always be the girl we wish would have said "Yes" to our repeated date requests instead of threatening a restraining order. That was not cool...

Mario Lopez/"A.C. Slater" - After playing Bayside's favorite alpha-jock-with-a-mullet, he donned spandex and a bicycle for USA's Pacific Blue. After that, he got naked on Nip/Tuck, cheesy as the host of several beauty pageants, and beaten by Emmit Smith on Dancing with the Stars.

Elizabeth Berkley/"Jessie Spano"- Girl went and solidified herself as the queen of "I've got to shed my good girl image" by getting all kinds of naked in the uber-bomb/pioneering-movie-as-drinking-game Showgirls. Where does one go after that? She hosted a low-rated dance show on Bravo and currently has an advice/talk show in development. We hope it's called "Don't Call ME Hot Mama," and will be about pole dancing while on caffeine pills.

Lark Voorhies/"Lisa Turtle" - After guest starring in a couple soap operas, acting alongside both Method AND Red Man in How High, and singing in an alternative rock band, Voorhies decided to release a solo album this later this fall. Compared to Stripper McPole-humper up there Voorhies is kind of a yawner, but refreshingly normal is...well...refreshing, no?

Dustin Diamond/"Screech Powers" - Who would have thought the mild-mannered dorky one would drink all the Crazy Juice? He milked his role as "Screech" through four years of the (lame) SBTB spin-off, then spent all his money and was bombarded by creditors. After trying to market a self-made sex tape he was spotted rummaging around a flea market in Boston, then went on VH-1's Celebrity Fit Club and threw multiple tantrums making both Maureen McCormick ("Marcia Brady") and rapper "DaBrat" cry. Pop singer Tiffany was also featured on that show and, reportedly, just wished she was alone now.

Dennis Haskins/"Mr. Belding" - Ditto the milking his role as everyone's favorite Principal - emphasis on "the last three letters that spell P-A-L!" For a while he grew the most unfortunate of all moustaches, then shaved and embarked on a college tour where he probably spoke about the need for increased safety in high school Driver's Education. He teaches acting at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and, occasionally, is said to have used his "celebrity" status to pick up women at Hooters. Stay classy Mr. B!