The _Beverly Hills 90210_ thread

what's wrong with the egg

i knew which episode that was as soon as i looked at that screengrab. otoh what i remember from college = 0

kinda miss gathering together with friends to watch melrose place. and, the heights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQU7HRJWS1s

I'll bet songs like this are what won over Megan Fox.

omg that song, i can't

i like sing that song sometimes

having a slumber party tonight, 90210 all night

shd probably start with "SLUMBER PARTY"

HAPPY 90210 EVERYBODY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZrUakzNBxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB7Ztq16A7M&feature=player_embedded

ilx, you're so precious to me.

Poor AHHHN-drea, trying to fit in.

hahaha

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That picture is so mesmerizing.

lol @ Ghostbusters shirt

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lamhsmLSDK1qzozj1.jpg

lol @ Ghostbusters shirt

The Jareth/Labryrinth shirt cracks me up more, I don't know why.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lamhvij5p61qzozj1.jpg

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this makes me very happy that I am not famous

http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/1368942961/twenty-ish-things-pictures-of-luke-perry-with-fans-at

omg this one

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lami4rPDFc1qzozj1.jpg

Surm u watching the new season?

The second episode of the new season is where my wife and I finally threw in the towel. Its just too ridiculous at this point.

I mean, it always kinda has been, but the lame excuse for Liam to buy the bar, making the black kid the one who drops out of college and gets addicted to pills, and the fucking pig dinner were just all ugh, can no longer waste my time on this shit.

haha can't say i blame ya

i have to say that i threw in the towel a bunch of episodes ago. it was like ... the writing is just ...

but i watched an episode the other night and naomi clark is just ...

perfect.

^^^^^ exactly why I keep watching

yeah sometimes there's that shining star

listen, i'm watching the old 90210 now. valerie's in jail.

for smothering Jim and Cindy Walsh with a Guess? sweater.

what the world was waiting for

She lost her virginity upon being date raped. She was almost burned alive at a rave, and later developed a coke habit of her own which she went to rehab for, then was stalked and almost killed by her roommate. Kelly became unexpectedly pregnant before having a miscarriage and told she may never carry a child to term. She was shot during a drive-by shooting at LAX and suffered amnesia. She was raped in an alley and later shot the rapist, with the police clearing her on grounds of self-defense.

Steve Sanders is almost 50!?!?

Oy

"We had shirtlessness on 90210"
GASP
Chippendales? More like Dudes Gone Lame

btw I have a very clear memory of every kelly scene in mizzells post.

She lost her virginity upon being date raped. She was almost burned alive at a rave, and later developed a coke habit of her own which she went to rehab for, then was stalked and almost killed by her roommate. Kelly became unexpectedly pregnant before having a miscarriage and told she may never carry a child to term. She was shot during a drive-by shooting at LAX and suffered amnesia. She was raped in an alley and later shot the rapist, with the police clearing her on grounds of self-defense.

which Joyce Carol Oates story is this?

I am enjoying rewatching this show as a kind of inversion of Twin Peaks (the only other non-sitcom show about teens on TV at the time), it's so goddamn ridiculous

It hews closely to realism for the first three seasons. It turns into a Melrose Place knockoff after 1993.

idk if knockoff is really the right term there

MP was a 92010 spinoff, then outdid in the Dynasty claptrap. 90210 had to compete.

90210 is also pretty much a "trauma/issue of the week" show right from the beginning - Dylan's in AA, Kelly gets raped, Brandon gets drunk for the first time and crashes a car, Brandon has to talk a classmate out of killing himself, Brenda has a pregnancy scare etc etc. melodrama was it's core modus operandi.

oh no doubt but it took a few years for Kelly's lesbian paramour to burn down her house.

haha lookin forward to that. also Dylan's gangster hitman plot, which I had totally forgotten about

there's so much

Valerie is the best thing that ever happened to this show besides maybe baby Brenda or Dylan-stealing Kelly

or Tori's acting when she gets pushed down the stairs

last night I annoyed my wife w an extended comparison between "let Donna Martin graduate" partisans and Trump voters

BHHAHHAHAHA

I can see Alfred's point that past season 3 or so the unlikely scenarios and "everybody gets a trauma!" plotting begin to pile-up to ridiculous degrees. Like, Brenda having a pregnancy scare (however contrived and telegraphed) in season 1 is not really outside the bounds of normal teenage experience, as opposed to being caught in the middle of a mob war with exploding boats and shit.

does anyone ever get amnesia on this show? or come back from the dead? (pretty sure both things happened on Melrose Place iirc)

the Brenda pregnancy scare was persuasive, actually. That's the summer when the show took off.

omg in S2 ep 4 Kelly is complaining about David's dad dating her mother and she says... "it's like something out of a David Lynch movie"

zeitgeisty!