Film Story

In the early 1990s, Carl’s agent told him Peter Engel, the exec producer of Saved By the Bell, had read a pilot  had written for comedian Louie Anderson for NBC, and was offering Carl to come on as a writer/producer.  At the time, it was still unusual for screenwriters to do TV, but Carl loved television and his agent assured him this silly show would probably only last another season and it would be a fun experience.   Carl visited the set and met Peter as the cast was doing their Rockumentary episode about the Zack Attack and was hired on.

Shortly after, Saved By the Bell evolved into the College Years and Carl ended up working on Saved By the Bell: The New Class, which never quite captured the magic of the original.   Carl did write a few memorable episodes.   One the Homecoming King featured one of the first roles for West World and Enchanted star James Marsden, a drunk driving snowmobile episode which was a first role for Grounded for Life and Rules of Enchantment star Megyn Price, and a now famous episode where football coach Jim Harbaugh had a cameo playing Screech’s Cousin.

As described in this Wall Street Journal article, one of the new cast members Eric Little let catching a big pass on the football field go to his head, and the next game, he does a touchdown dance pre-maturely and becomes a laughing stock.  Screech keeps offering to bring his “less popular” football playing cousin to talk with Eric, but the gang dismisses him, until his cousin shows up and turns out to be legendary football player and coach Jim Harbaugh.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vuLo85T0g3U