The rebirth “saved by the bell”: where is the cry? – Dustin Diamond

The quartet also reconnects with the aforementioned Parisian fashionista, who is on FaceTime just long enough to make her selfish friends feel bad for forgetting that they all attended Bayside with principal “Ron Ron” Toddman (who is screened in green in several flashbacks from the original series, including scenes from the Season 3 classic “No Hope with Dope”).

As for Screech, his distant whereabouts are revealed during a conversation between Slater and Jessie. At one point, Slater mentions that Screech and his robot Kevin (remember Kevin?) Currently reside on the International Space Station, which currently revolves 248 miles above Earth. So yes, he couldn’t do it.

You had to expect to ditch Screech from the franchise. In 2009, portrait painter Dustin Diamond published a book titled Behind the bell, which included sordid details about her co-stars taking drugs and using drugs while filming the NBC sitcom. It would ultimately serve as the source material for Lifetime’s 2014 made-for-television film, The unauthorized saved by Bell history. (In 2016, Diamond appeared on Dr Oz and apologized for Behind the Bell, alleging that a ghostwriter wrote the tell-all on his behalf.)

There’s also the fact that in 2015, Diamond was sentenced to four months in prison for stabbing a man in a Wisconsin bar. He served a three-month sentence, walked out in good behavior, then broke his parole and served two more days in prison.

And who can forget that in 2006 Diamond released the infamous sex tape Screeched: saved by the smell? («Zoinks!»)