Tiffani Thiessen, who rose to fame in the ’80s as the hottest cheerleader ever, Kelly Kapowski, made an appearance on the “Today” show on Tuesday and got way more than she bargained for.

She may have been there to promote “White Collar”, but she ended up handling snakes–a Burmese python, in fact–and receiving some awkward affection from a lemur who thought her head looked like a nice place to perch. As if getting a lemur paw in the eyeball on live television wasn’t bad enough, she also had a very awkward encounter with one of her former co-stars, Dennis Haskins, who played Mr. Belding on “Saved By The Bell” and made a surprise visit to the show.

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As you can see, Tiffani didn’t appear too happy to see old Belding, which makes this former fan of the show wonder what happened the last time they saw each other…