The _Beverly Hills 90210_ thread

She was in a semi-recent episode of Law And Order too - playing a messed up drug dealer.

Carteris was also in the first season of The Surreal Life

Lindsay Price turned up in a couple episodes of Kitchen Confidential

I still don't understand how the cowboy hat he was wont to wear didn't protect him.

And you realize he died so that his best friend David could join the Cool Kids, right?

yeah, but that was when Dylan became intolerable, too! and Kelly was always intolerable.

I was just thinking about that the other day. The most WTF? moment I'd seen on commercial television in a long time.

-- DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!! DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!! DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!! DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!! DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!!

-- Brenda ripping into Dylan and Kelly on the street when she found out they'd been seeing each other during the summer. This might have been Brenda's finest moment (the ep when she snuck away to Baja with Dylan is right up there) but it was also one of her last scenes that was decent in any way.

-- Dylan giving David the straight talk on drugs and helping him flush his stash down the toilet.

Remember the episode in which Dylan, curled into a ball on the couch, remembered his father playing with him on the beach? REM's "You Are the Everything" was on the soundtrack.

Mr. Walsh was Mr. Hogan of "The Hogan Family"!

1. BAG getting hooked on speed or meth or whatever and zooming through his college radio show
2. The “racism is bad” episode, post L.A. riots
3. Jason P’s descent into alcoholism and exit from the show (what happened there plotwise? I had stopped watching by the time this went down – once they got to college and Brenda left it got boring boring boring)
4. Gabby having an affair with a heartless married dude that was discovered by sensitive Luke Perry
5. the episodes that spun off into Melrose Place
6. Perry’s dad’s (grizzled vet from Days) boat blowing up real good
7. The episodes where Dylan rescues his sister from a kidnapping so convoluted I can’t recall teh details now

Nope, that was Dylan's dad (also a Days of Our Lives regular, as Raymond noted).

Another daytime soap connection: Kelly's dad was played by the actor that played C.C. Capwell on "Santa Barbara".

He's also Roman Brady on Days Of Our Lives, which my wife shamefully watches.

In the fall of 1999, I started watching re-runs of 90210 on FX every night from 5-7 when I was getting home and making dinner and such. This was the last year that actual new episodes were on the air, so I ended up watching the entire ten year run of the show (reruns on FX, new epidoses on Fox) in about 9 months. It was pretty intense, and I've not watched it or even thought much about it since then.

There was a time though when I was really drunk and trying to make up rap lyrics about 90210 - the only bit I remember was "getting lost like the Martian lander / cheating on the big test like Steve Sanders".

And what is Jamie Walters doing RIGHT NOW?

There was a time though when I was really drunk and trying to make up rap lyrics about 90210 - the only bit I remember was "getting lost like the Martian lander / cheating on the big test like Steve Sanders".

And what is Jamie Walters doing RIGHT NOW?

Brandon got a journalist job in NYC after much Kelly angst.

... to some guy hasseling Scott (cowboy-hat-suicide-guy), probably was BH90210's finest moment. This sentence at least flames on, not only in my world.
And Super Cub OTM. You *knew* this show was wrong, but *knew* it was grebt at the same time.

It scares me that I could literally go on about this show all day

I mean, FFS, I was well old enough to know better but still remember getting into fake spats about whether Dylan or Brandon was hotter.

My former housemate in NYC was also hooked - but, as she pointed out "It's only really good when someone has a really awful addiction" which was, like, every other week.

What happenned with Kelly's mum and David's dad? And whose mum was having the affair, was that Donna?

I was pissed off when Dyl first started up with Kel but then I came to have a sick enjoyment of her worrying little rodenty fussing.

The Walshes agree to let their maid's extremely intelligent "niece," Carla, use their address to enroll at West Beverly. Brandon falls hard for her, but doesn't understand why everyone seems opposed to their relationship. Carla reveals that she witnessed a drive-by shooting that claimed the life of a four-year-old; she had moved in with Anna while waiting to testify, with protection from the D.A. Carla returns to her family after one of the killers confesses. Jim and Cindy organize a soiree for his new client, a sportswear designer. Dylan, Steve and the girls receive free clothing. David wants MC Hammer to perform at the school dance.
Music: "Let's Go Deeper" by MC Hammer; "Finger Poppin' Time" by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (#7, 1960); "Deep Down" by Debbie Gibson

wish I saw or remember this one:

. Stand (Up) and Deliver (edit)
Community Score
7.5 Good
First aired: 3/7/1991 Production Code: 2190016

Andrea persuades Brandon to run for class president. Kelly seizes control of the campaign and encourages Brandon to capitalize on his looks and image. She even agrees to a date with David in exchange for his help producing a campaign video. Brandon decides that he isn't the best man for the job after talking with his bright and dedicated opponent. Brenda, feeling neglected by family and friends, begins hanging out at a coffeehouse. Sky, a performance artist, convinces Brenda to drop out of high school and get her GED so that she can "experience life." Brenda moves out of the Walsh house to apartment-sit for Sky. She learns that life as an artist is not as romantic as it seems, as Sky's utilities are turned off and her furniture is repossessed. Music: "Hippychick" by Soho

man they actually played heaps of good music on this series at first!
(episode guide)

I think you just did. If memory serves, the professor's wife was played by Dina Meyer.

What other strange bands played at the Peach Pit? I can only remember the Flaming Lips, The Corrs, and Color Me Badd.

37. U4EA (edit)
Community Score
8.2 Great
First aired: 11/14/1991 Production Code: 2191036

Emily invites everyone to join her at an underground club. The location is a secret; the gang must exchange an egg at a convenience store for this information. The others leave without Steve and Andrea, who end up going to the wrong store and embarrassing themselves. Kelly is mortified when David drinks an entire bottle of whiskey, but Donna dances with him and has a good time. Emily slips a drug called U4EA into Brandon's drink to get him to loosen up. He is too wasted to drive, and vandals trash his car when he leaves it at the club overnight. Brandon does not expose Emily's deed to his parents, but breaks up with her because he no longer trusts her. Music: "Hold on to Love" by T'Pau

And she walked around in a bathrobe all day!

lol remember when she wouldn't lie about her address for Andrea's sake about

about

YES. omg Andrea got so upset. honestly Andrea upset is one of the most comical things to watch, she just gets so worked up

wait I thought Andrea played Andrea and Andrea's grandmother

lol. did you know that Andrea is the current president of the Screen Actor's Guild??!??!?!?! like where did that come from?

lol remember when she wouldn't lie about her address for Andrea's sake about

this is what came to mind when I read "Andrea's grandma". so yes I remember. can't remember the name of my friend's stepdaughter but I remember a minor plot point from 90210.

i mean, it was a big deal for Andrea

what *isn't* a big deal for Andrea

I like how her husband (MARK DAVID ESPINOZA) got an opening credit after being on the show less than two seasons - up yours, Joe E. Tata!

Ta-ta!

musta had a mafia-backed agent, tho you'd think Joe E Tata would be the one with that

That actress is Lainie Kazan!

holy shit

Her popularity increasing, Kazan posed nude for the October 1970 issue of Playboy, which was reused in Pocket Playboy #4, issued in 1974. Her appearance in the magazine opened the door for her to headline at, and operate, two different Playboy Jazz Clubs. Overseen by Hugh Hefner himself, the clubs were called "Lainie’s Room West" and "Lainie's Room East," each on opposite coasts, with the first one located in Los Angeles and the other in Manhattan. Her Playboy photographs inspired the look of Jack Kirby’s DC Comics superheroine, Big Barda.

She’s also only 21 years older than Gabrielle Carteris.

(bolded text most likely only of interest to Jewish comic nerds like me)

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STOP
OMG
so funny because in Desp Housewives she played like a Digital madame
this is AMAZING!

I have a couple of her records, I can’t remember if I have that one.

Squash it!

Increase the peace.

Streaming on Amazon Prime. I'm going to die.

“Well, this man is dead.”

“What killed him?”

“*glances at TV* My guess? Sideburns and bangs.”

I just started rewatching this. Brandon is such a judgy asshole. The Walshes are giving Minnesota a bad name.

The signifiers of wealth are hilarious though. Valet parking at school, school radio station, brick cellphones, absent parents. BMWs and mopeds (??).

It's quaint to see this kind of midwestern liberalism proudly asserting itself during the Poppy Bush Interzone

Also, Brenda tricks a 25-year-old guy, over several dates, into thinking she's 21-22 y/o. When he finds out the truth he gets angry and drops her straight home. Her reaction is 'Don't you think this is hard for me????' She runs into her mother's arms who tells her 'Its okay! Its okay!'

I mean, IS IT???

Damn, I didn’t remember that plot point at all! But I haven’t watched these since they were airing…

The rave episode, the Flaming Lips appearance but honestly maybe the musical moment that marks a time and place is right in the pilot where Brenda goes to that nightclub and Gene Loves Jezebel's "The Motion of Love" is what's on their soundsystem. (Especially since it was 1990 and that came out three years prior, but maybe that makes sense for the sleazy lawyer making the moves.)

I distinctly remember "Hippychick" and PSB's "So Hard" soundtracking a couple episodes.

Truly the Poppy Bush Interzone soundtrack!

need footage of Steve and Dylan gettin' down to "Kinky Afro."

I was too young to watch this at the time, but have been dipping in when I feel like some '90s cheese--so I tend to go straight to the "very special" episodes such as "Ashes to Ashes", where a Black family moves in next door and face hassles with the neighborhood private security. ("A scheduled April repeat of this episode was pulled from the air without notice following the Los Angeles riots because it was supposedly too controversial" sez Wikipedia.)

Having served their afterschool special role, this family is never seen again on the show.

A kind soul on the internet has done editing work to restore the original music back into the episodes and uploaded them onto Google Drive. If the email linked to my ILX account still existed I'd be happy to share the link, but alas.

^^^ Ah, yes! The “squash it” episode