‘Saved by the Bell’ EP Reveals Jessie’s Addiction Was Supposed to Be Speed, Not Caffeine Pills

‘Saved by the Bell’ EP Reveals Jessie’s Addiction Was Supposed to Be Speed, Not Caffeine Pills

Don’t worry, “Saved by the Bell” fans; if you always felt that Jessie Spano’s caffeine-pill freakout in the classic episode “Jessie’s Song” came off as a touch melodramatic, you aren’t wrong.

Stories of Life, Love and Dreams That Do Come True, the Saturday-morning show’s executive producer Peter Engel reveals that Spano (Elizabeth Berkley) was initially supposed to be hooked on something stronger than caffeine, but that network censors put the kibosh on his original idea.

[...] it’s sometimes laughed about now, as a lot of people look back and say, wait a minute, caffeine pills?

[...] to be sure, when you watch the scene where Zack discovers Jessie’s ‘addiction’ and intervenes, a lot of people today will say, as Dustin Diamond did years later, that Jessie was acting more like a heroin addict than someone on NoDoz.

Engel went onto explain, What fans don’t know is that, when I originally wrote the episode with Tom Tenowich, Jessie was hooked on speed, not caffeine pills.

[...] caffeine pills were a “very special episode” gateway topic?

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