Mark-Paul Gosselaar wears a blonde wig to portray Zack rather than have his hair dyed as he did in the original run.
Dashiell Driscoll was well-liked by NBC executives and was hired as a writer for this reboot of Saved by the Bell (2020)
thanks to his funny commentary on the YouTube series Zack Morris Is Trash (2017), which he created.
At the beginning of the first episode during Zack Morris' campaign video, an image from Franklin & Bash (2011), which also starred Mark-Paul Gosselaar, was used.
Principal Toddman's diploma on his office wall is from Stansbury University. This is the college Jessie was rejected by in the original series, Sauvés par le gong (1989) episode, S.A.T.s (1991) because her S.A.T. score wasn't high enough.
On March 13, 2020, filming was suspended because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Filming resumed in August 2020.