Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar speaks onstage at the 'Pitch' panel discussion during the FOX portion of the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 8, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo : Getty Images / Frederick M. Brown)
Mark-Paul Gosselaar will lend his voice to an upcoming episode of "Family Guy" Season 15 to reprise his role as Zack Morris in NBC's "Saved By the Bell" during the 1990s. He will help re-enact an iconic moment when Morris finds out that Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley) is abusing caffeine pills.
The animated sitcom by Seth MacFarlane for Fox, "Family Guy" centers on the Griffin family - parents Peter and Lois, and their kids Meg, Chris and Stewie. The family has a pet dog Brian who can talk.
The father, Peter, is an endearingly ignorant character while his wife is a stay-at-home mother. The eldest child Meg is a social outcast while Chris is an awkward teen. The youngest Stewie is a genius baby who wants to kill his mom and destroy the world.
The dog Brian is looking after Stewie, making sure he is in check while dealing with his own issues. While the people behind the show wondered if Gosselaar would try playing Morris again in the scene where Stewie plays Berkley, the 42-year-old Los Angeles-born actor was enthusiastic, great and hilarious, according to TV Line. "Family Guy" Season 15 debuts on Sept. 25 at 9/8c on Fox.
Meanwhile, Gosselaar lead starred in "Saved by the Bell," a light comedy sitcom which focused on the lives of high school students. Running from 1989 to 1993, it touched on serious social issues like drug abuse, homelessness, women's rights, environmental issues, remarriage and death.
From "Saved by the Bell," teens in the 1990s learned that taking caffeine pills could result to a condition of manic-depressive dementia from which one may never recover. The scene about Berkeley's Spano taking caffeine pills has been referred to by many, even those who never watched the sitcom, according to A.V. Club.
It is the very scene that Gosselaar willingly wants to unearth for "Family Guy." Whatever kind of variation Gosselaar will apply in his "Pills?!!" line before Stewie says "I'm so excited!" and cry "I'm scared," is still to be seen.
Watch the soon to be re-enacted iconic moment when Morris found Spano was taking caffeine pills.
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