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Saved By The Bell has been in constant syndication since it went off the air, but that doesn't mean Mark-Paul Gosselaar is feeling flush.

In fact the 44-year-old former child star revealed Tuesday that he and his castmates receive zero royalties from the popular high school comedy.

Mark discussed the life of a child actor while appearing alongside fellow former child star Marie Osmond on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

The admission was prompted when Andy asked if Mark and the rest of the cast got any kind of payment from the show's steady stream of reruns.

'We made really bad deals,' explained Mark. 'Poor deals, back then. It is what it is. You move on, you learn. Great experience.'

Despite not being suitably compensated for his most popular work, the NYPD Blue star seemed fairly positive about the experience.

Royalty payments can be major sources of income for stars of popular TV shows. The cast of friends each receive 2 percent of the show's annual earnings, which amounts to about $20 million per person.

Mark also took a call-in question from a fan who asked which episodes he was most proud of from the show's original run.

'When I watch the episodes, it's like a new experience for me,' he said. 'I don't remember, I wasn't sentimental, I didn't take anything from the set. My 14 and 12-year-old are watching it. They're kind of like, 'Eh…' They're unimpressed. But they're unimpressed about everything.'

Of course, his faulty memory might also have to do with the show being over 25 years old.

Mark starred on the NBC sitcom as incorrigible high school student Zach Morris from 1989-1993.

The main cast also included Tiffani Amber Thiassen as Kelly Kapowski, Dustin Diamond as Screech, Mario Lopez as A. C. Slater, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, and Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle.

The series continued for an additional year with only the male members of the cast returning as Saved By The Bell: The College Years.

Since then, Mark has been in demand as a popular television guest star and occasional lead actor.

His next big project is TV thriller The Passage, in which he plays a federal agent tasked with safeguarding a young girl who may hold the key to vanquishing a deadly virus with implications for the fate of humanity.

The Passage premieres on Fox on Monday, January 14.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar: Saved by the Bell cast doesn't get residuals due to "really bad deals"

“We made really bad deals,” he said on Watch What Happens Live. “Poor deals, back then. It is what it is. You move on, you learn. Great experience.” ALSO: Gosselaar also claimed he hasn't spoken to co-star Dustin Diamond in 25 years.