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Nothing kick-starts an aging drama series like an occasionally naked Saved by the Bell alum, as the good folks at NYPD Blue learned when Mark-Paul Gosselaar replaced Rick Schroeder. With this in mind, kudos are in order for whichever genius at FX leaked these images of Mario “Slater” Lopez’s homoerotic shower encounter with Julian McMahon in Nip/Tuck’s incipient fourth season. Looks like all those burgers and shakes at The Max had no adverse impact on Slater’s physique.

Here’s a lasting benefit of Elizabeth Berkeley’s timeless performance as Nomi Malone in Showgirls (as if you needed another one): It has rendered her Saved by the Bell castmates incapable of shocking us. Lark Voorhees could upload a series of personal, homemade donkey show videos onto YouTube, and it would still seem wholesome compared to Berkeley’s epileptic dolphin act with Kyle MacLachlan.

We’re just glad these crazy kids - unlike Dustin Diamond and Hayley Mills - still keep getting work.

Mario Lopez’s bare butt on ‘Nip/Tuck’ [JustJared]