The _Beverly Hills 90210_ thread

And I remember there's was a minor scandal when it was found out that the actor who played her was 30 or something in real life.

As opposed to Luke Perry, the oldest "teenager" not in the cast of Grease?

I don't want to jinx myself.

Uh, you were in BH90210!

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.

Voted most likely to do just that at West Beverly iirc

lol

most unlikely to be granted her own talk show

in the episode where the gang wrestles with an anti-semitic/Nation of Islam-type "controversial" african american speaker coming to campus, Brandon gets in the classic line "Maybe we should have just invited Bill Cosby instead"

omg i just saw that episode

gotta be honest tho that grandma's got nothing on Andrea's first grandma

haha yes, too many grandmas!

possibly the most "LOL 90s" episode

nobody knows how many grandmas Andrea actually had, but they all survived Buchenwald

Grandma Rose (Grandma 1 )

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this actress is amazing, she also played Maxine on Desperate Housewives lol

lol xp. sorry image so big. but tbh she deserves it

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