Saved by the Bell Characters - List of Minor Saved by the Bell Characters, Zack Morris, Kelly Kapowski, A.C. Slater, Jessie Spano, Lisa Turtle (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Minor Saved by the Bell Characters, Zack Morris, Kelly Kapowski, A.c. Slater, Jessie Spano, Lisa Turtle, Samuel "Screech" Powers, Tori Scott, Stacey Carosi. Excerpt: A.C. Slater Albert Clifford "A.C." Slater is a fictional character in the U.S. television series Saved by the Bell, played by Mario Lopez . In the show, Slater was a popular jock who excelled in most sports (particularly football and amateur wrestling ). Slater's appearance and personality are said to be loosely based on a relatively unknown personal trainer from England called Shane Dickens. Background Slater is the token "jock" of the group. An army brat, he was an outsider, having transferred to Bayside in the first filmed episode (which aired later as a flashback). A.C. mentions that he has been to Bolivia, Italy, Iceland, and Berlin among other places. He becomes the school's star athlete, excelling as a wrestler and the quarterback of the football team. His father (a Major) appears in two episodes and his mother in one episode, where Zack ruins Slaters date at the cinema by embarrassing him. He also has a younger sister named JB whom Zack briefly began dating, much to his chagrin. In the season 4 episode "Love Machine," his ex-girlfriend from Berlin visits and calls him by his real name, "Albert Clifford." Much like Voorhies, Lopez was able to captivate the show's producers into casting him into a role that was originally written to be Caucasian. This issue of Slater's ethnicity is addressed in an episode from The College Years, where it is revealed that 25 years earlier A.C.'s father changed his last name from Sanchez to Slater so he could get into the military academy. Although the episode reveals that A.C. does not fluently understand Spanish, A.C. is seen speaking broken Spanish to the kitchen s...