The plot of "Baywatch" "really wasn't that good," according to the show's biggest stars years later.

"Baywatch" starred David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, Jeremy Jackson, Alexandra Paul, Carmen Electra, Yasmine Bleeth, David Charvet, Nicole Eggert and more. The show ran from 1989 through 2001 and at its peak drew 1.2 billion viewers per week. Eggert, who portrayed Summer Quinn, teamed up with her former cast to reflect on the TV series in the docuseries "Baywatch: Moment in the Sun."

Nearly 35 years later, the cast can admit the plot lines were a little absurd.

"The show really wasn’t good," Hasselhoff admitted in the docuseries, via People magazine. "But we made it good because we had passion."

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Kelly Slater, who portrayed young surfer Jimmy Slade, recalled filming an episode where an octopus stole their surfboard and held them hostage. 

"I felt like the writing was so nonsensical in so many ways," he said.

However, the "nonsensical" writing seemingly helped the show.

"We were the butt of jokes on ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’ all the time, and every time he said a joke, our ratings went up," co-creator Douglas Schwartz explained.

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Despite the success of the show, the "Baywatch" actors weren't paid much. Each star earned $3,500 per episode, according to Eggert.

"'Friends' at that point I think they were each making $1 million an episode," she said during the docuseries.

Adds Erika Eleniak, "I actually remember freaking out seeing my first paycheck after the taxes were taken out. How am I honestly going to live on this money?"

"There's not one rich actor on ‘Baywatch.’ Not one," said Billy Warlock, who starred as Eddie Kramer for two seasons of the show.

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Eggert, who spearheaded the "Baywatch" docuseries project, gave fans an update on her cancer journey at Monday's premiere.

"I am good," Eggert told People magazine on the red carpet. "I am in sort of a gray area and I finished my treatment, waiting for more imaging and hopefully maybe surgery."

"And there's a lot of waiting in this and it's sort of something I didn't really realize and nobody really talks about," she explained. "But the gray area is the hardest because you don't know what's happening, and you're just, when I'm doing treatment, I felt like I was doing something productive."

Eggert was diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in 2023.

Deion Sanders is no stranger to media criticism these days. 

The Colorado Buffaloes head coach was asked specifically about ESPN pundit Paul Finebaum calling the Colorado program irrelevant during a recent episode of "Outta Pocket with RGIII."

"But he’s talking about us. How could we be irrelevant and you talking about me? Like every time I turn around somebody sending me a quote that you talking about me."

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Robert Griffin III’s wife and co-host of the podcast, Grete Griffin, said Finebaum must be a fan then.

"The thing about a fan, you got to understand a fan only blows when you hot." Sanders responded. 

"A fan only blows when you hot, so we must be hot. I know what he’s doing, and I’m proud of him that he is smart enough to understand that this generation, and the thought process and the way we communicate in sports is different, and he’s a dying breed." 

"So, what does he have to do to stay and keep up with this change, ‘Oh I got to find that big bad wolf and talk about him, so now I keep my relevancy.’ And I’m cool, but I’m not going to help you, I’m not going to add to you, I’m not going to respond because that’s what you want. Yeah, you just want me to respond, I don’t do that. I’m not going to help you come up."

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Finebaum responded to Sanders' comments during an episode of ESPN’s "First Take."

"(Sanders' comments) didn’t really mean much to me because it was a fairly irrelevant reaction. He did say something that I agree with. He called me a 'dying breed' in the profession, which I'm proud of. Because I really do believe that the media should be treated with respect and not have selective persecution like he is using out there."

Finebaum is referring to Sanders banning Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler from asking questions to Sanders himself or anyone else involved in the football program.

Keeler and Sanders had a tense exchange on Aug. 9 at Colorado’s media day.

"You don’t like us, man. Why do you do this to yourself?" Sanders asked Keeler at one point during the press conference. "No, I’m serious. Why do you do this? Like you know you don’t. Like, why do you do this?"

Last season, Sanders led the Buffaloes to a 3-0 start before going 1-8 in their next nine games, creating a national buzz during the season. 

Sanders will begin his second season when they host the North Dakota State Bison on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. 

Fox News’ Chantz Martin contributed to this report. 

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