Eldergays, tell me about Beverly Hills 90210

Oh god, how old are you, kid? If you’re too young to remember the original 90210 then you’re too young to be on this site. The sandbox is awaiting you!

lol...I think OP just wants people to feel old

Kelly Becomes A Cokehead was a great arc.

Nothing like the Modern Family of its time.

My favorite relationship was Dylan's with his father.

is Donna still a virgin?

r1 90210 was almost 30 years ago. People who were born during its original run are hardly "kids." They're old enough to have kids of their own.

The show was big in Brazil.

Gen Xers watched that horrible show. Old farts at that time would not be watching such crap. Give them some credit.

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Was a great show early on.

r9 People in their 40s and 50s are old.

The cast all looked to be in their mid thirties. A few of the guys had receding hairlines.

r14 I was in high school at the time and that was the big joke amongst us. We thought that some of the cast members who were supposed to be playing high school students (like Luke Perry and Carteris) looked as old as our teachers.

I had a crush on Jim Walsh.

Tiffani Thiessen was the best actress of the bunch after Doherty left. So that tells you what you need to know about the acting skills of the cast.

Kelly's bitchy slumber party friend represents most of DL.

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It was a hit show. Very popular.

I liked in order: Melrose Place, BH 90210, Models, Inc, 90210(reboot), Melrose Place 2.0

R18 It was the diet pills that made me that way, bitch!

Melrose Place (season 2 onwards) was >>>>>>> that crap show.

Are you kidding, R23? Seasons 2 and 3 of the original Melrose was the fucking best.

It was fun! We were all young. My chatacter was about 2 years older than I was.

I liked in order: BH 90210

I thought were pure crap: Melrose Place, Models, Inc, 90210 (reboot), Melrose Place 2.0

r18, my second favorite episode of the series. Especially when Cindy walks into the party with a bowl of popcorn and the girls pull her in to dance with them. I think it was to Billy Idol's version of "Mony Mony" which was later cut out and replaced with some synthesized crap.

My favorite episode is when Cindy walks into the ladies room and catches Jackie doing coke, later to learn she's the woman Brenda has been idolizing.

I would put it as "Ground Zero" for all the crap we have now!

Slumber Party episode with that mean cunt. Dancing with Cindy (and bad music) starts at 7:18

Watching it was euphoric

Cindy catching Jackie starts around 9:38. I think the actress who plays Jackie is a reverend now too!

Poor Jason had to shave his chest.

My cousin thought she was the cat's ass cause she lived down the street from Dylan's house when they were filming there. I think it was in Pasadena.

Show was on too long. Proof: By 1994, Kelly had been though Steve, Dylan, and what's his face, Brandon.

It changed TV by airing new episodes in the summer.

The high school years were great

My mistake, it was Atladena. Jesus, could they have picked a place any further from Beverly Hills? Turns out the Walsh house is there too.

Shannen's eyes were asymmetrical. But she was a pretty girl anyhow.

Two words: Tori Spelling!

r38, she auditioned for the role under an assumed name, Mary Spelling

It started as an issue oriented teen dram and then by the college years, season 4, had morphed into a crazy nighttime soap opera, "Melrose Place light" if you will.

I remember Kelly was raped twice, joined a cult, was burned and disfigured in a sorority house fire, was addicted to diet pills, was addicted to cocaine, was kidnapped and nearly killed by carbon monoxide poisoning by her psycho look a like roommate Tara, was shot and in a coma, had amnesia, killed her second rapist and was arrested for his murder etc.

I wanted Gil Myers...

R40, same thing with Melrose Place.

It started out as a fairly dull night -time YA soap.

Then it became kind of cool with many love triangles and quadrilaterals.

Then it became utterly bizarre when Kimberly came back from the dead and all.

That Aaron Spellling - he starts out boring and then gets progressively more saucy until the show is ridiculous!

I am lolling at Dylan's receding hairline. Good looking guy, though.

Here is the deal on Shannen Doherty's eyes.

Here is the deal on Shannen Doherty's eyes.

Here is the deal on Shannen Doherty's eyes.

It really was a great show. I loved it because they were literally the same year as I was in high school. I think they graduated in 1997 and everything.

The sleepover episode from the first season was when everyone became hooked.

The Buffy connection:

Luke Perry and Michele Abrams (Amanda Peyser) were both in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as was future 90210 regular Hillary Swank. Also, Buffy co-star David Arquette would later appear in an episode of 90210 as Nikki Witt’s abusive ex-boyfriend.

Shannen Doherty looked like a Modigliani

Nikki Witt played by Dana Barron = the original Audrey in Vacation.

I saw her at Xmas mass in NY a couple times - at Loyola. She's about 4'11. She could play high school for so long. Casting agents love that.

Thus began my infatuation with Jason Priestly

Dana Barron was playing a teen for more than a decade. She’s like the female Ralph Macchio.

I thought the date rape episode with Doogie Howser's girlfriend was well done. Also loved the episode where they throw a party when the rents are out of town.

[quote]Doogie Howser's girlfriend

I had a feeling about NPH even then.

[Quote] Also, Buffy co-star David Arquette would later appear in an episode of 90210 as Nikki Witt’s abusive ex-boyfriend.

One of my fav episodes. Who could resist a [italic]keytarist[/italic] called Diesel Stone😂

[Quote] I wanted Gil Myers...

I would have paid alot more attention in class if he'd been my teacher😍

A comatose Marcia Cross could out-act the combined cast of BH90210.

There was a hilarious thread about "Gabriel" Cateris which is worth searching for. And a "Let's Pretend we're BH90210" one.

I still remember someone mentioning the Beverly Hills Yacht Club -- y'know, because all yacht clubs are a couple of miles inland.

Who could forget this gem??

Oh GOD I hated David's Vanilla Ice storyline.

R57 was the father of shit like Shawn Mendes.

Darren Starr's Grosse Point Blank was a hilarious takeoff on BH 90210 when it was on the CW. Almost every episode was a gem!

How can you use the words "make love" and "bimbo" in the same sentence?

[quote]Darren Star's Grosse Pointe Blank

Grosse Pointe Blank had nothing to do with Darren Star

Grosse Pointe, the weekly teen soap, that was by Darren Star.

I was traveling to Bogota on business during the height of the show's popularity. One night at dinner I asked one the locals what his favorite TV show was. He replied "Ninety Two Ten", which was the way the show's title was translated into Spanish in Colombia.

To second what R64 said: I lived in former Yugoslavia back in 1990-1991 when it started airing over there. I was already at university but high school kids were obsessed with it. My friend's sister would read the high school newspaper if she missed an episode since they would provide digests (!)

I had a stick-up-his-ass friend who called it Nine-Zero-Two-One-Zero unironically.

[quote]I would have paid alot more attention in class if he'd been my teacher😍

Mmm-hmmm!!

Never got the love for Gil Myers.

I had a crush on Donna's abusive musician boyfriend, Ray Pruit

They were all high school students, but they looked old enough to be finished with grad school.

Gil was hotter than all the boys except for Jason, whom he tied with. I always pictured Gil and Brandon getting it on.

That "Grosse Pointe" show had an ongoing gag where the actor that played the father always hung around the set when the teenage guys were shirtless, even if he wasn't on the call-sheet that day. Was this a knock on James Eckhouse? See r70 for his pic.

Donna Martin graduates! Donna Martin graduates!

She didn't deserve to.

It was hilarious, especially when they had David complete his junior and senior years concurrently, as well as hosting his radio station and socializing with all the others.

bump for Brian Austin Green's big dick

How big is it, R77?

Melrose Place was much better.

I couldn't stand Melrose Place. I gave up on that.

Ahh good memories. This show started my freshman year of high school and ended my last year of college (I took two years off between high school and college). It was like I grew up with them .

What was with Kelly Taylor supposedly being the most beautiful girl in school? Maybe if she went to school in Bumfuck , Ohio but in Beverly Hills?? I wasn’t buying it.

Valerie was kind of awesome. She was a tragic figure and she was the only one who ever gave Kelly any shit.

Kelly and Dylan were horrible together . He was better with Brenda cause she didn’t take his shit but his real soulmate was Toni.

The episode where Scott died was very sad. I thought David was a asshole to him . Never cared for David much

Jason Priestley was so pretty but Brandon was pretty boring .

I stopped watching when Valerie came to town. Faux Brenda was worse than no Brenda.

r48 The high school in Buffy, Sunnydale High, was also filmed at the same school as the one used in Beverly Hills 90210. Also the actress who played Tara, the girl who stalks Kelly in season 6 I think, was on Buffy in season 4, playing a werewolf.

[quote]Tiffani Thiessen was the best actress of the bunch after Doherty left.

For me I'd say it's a tie between Tiffani Thiessen and Vanessa Marcil as Gina Kincaid.

OT: Vanessa was married to Corey Feldman, has a son with Brian Austin Green and it's rumored that Prince wrote "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" about her after/during their relationship. The song lyrics may not be true but either way, that's an interesting collection of exes.

Shannen had the best hair

[quote]I had a crush on Donna's abusive musician boyfriend, Ray Pruit

So did I. I didn't like him enough to watch his show "The Heights" though.

r81 I agree with everything. Brandon was not only boring but also incredibly self-righteous. But yes, very pretty indeed.

Jason Priestley had that coke can sized cock.

Ewww at red head Gil Meyers. But there was a drama teacher during one of the early summer seasons who looked like Elvis and he was hot.

Gil Meyers? Chris Suitor? Get yourselves some Andrea Zuckerman glasses.

Mark Kiely is the opposite of ewwww

I liked the Very Special Episode where Andrea went through menopause. She was so worried about having hot flashes during graduation.

R89 Elvis was hotter.

It was funny watching them write into the show that Brenda was a bitch. The Emily Valentine episodes.

Dad Walsh: “OK, who ordered another rare one?” (Do people order hot dogs rare?!)

Emily: “I did!”

Donna: “I cant believe she came.”

Kelly: Why not all of her boyfriends are here!”

[Quote] I had a crush on Donna's abusive musician boyfriend, Ray Pruit

Ugh i hated Ray, but not as much as i hated Felice Martin. Would it have killed Donna to tell Felice to mind her own business every once in a while?!

[Quote] Kelly and Dylan were horrible together . He was better with Brenda cause she didn’t take his shit but his real soulmate was Toni.

Kelly and Brenda should have told Dylan to go fuck himself instead of trying to make him choose between them. I'm glad Brenda and Dylan didn't end up together.

[Quote] Also the actress who played Tara, the girl who stalks Kelly in season 6 I think, was on Buffy in season 4, playing a werewolf.

Yeah, she played Veruca.

I loved when Emily wanted to join the girls at lunch and asked if there was room. Brenda replies "It's a big lawn"

Oh god, David' singing was fucking ka-ringe! Everything he did..I recently watched some old eps and the one where he gets hooked on meth that he buys from a ponytailed guy who works at the radio station, but before the guy sold it he gave it to him free and then gets him hooked, "Hey, meth is expensive!" Um, what? Actually it's about 4 dollars a pound which is why every white trash person does it. God, I loved that show and the misinformation it put out.

R93 yes!!

Remember Andrea's extra marital affair storyline from season 5 that took up the WHOLE season

Girl was getting the Dick by that doctor, who was also married Dumb bitch thought she could divorce Jesse and her and the Doctor and little Hannah would live happily ever after.

Nope...

I had a friend of a friend that was Gabrielle Carteris' cousin and she would try and name drop her, it was hilarious. I grew up in San Diego and this chick was a friend of my friend and was from LA. She would mention cousin Gabby when there was conversational lull. None of us bit.

I loved it all but especially liked the "freshman" year of college...of course Andrea decides to go to California University instead of Yale.

The girls all start that stupid "sorority" that meets at the Peach Pit

Brenda IS Maggie the Cat (but did she sleep with Roy Randolph--Woy Wandolph as she would say)

Brandon becoming the chancellor's "lackey" and banging the wife of one of his professors

The introduction of Clare Arnold (genius daughter of the chancellor who also chooses to attend the apparently world class California University)

Brenda becomes SJW for a couple episodes (Take back the Night and Animal Rights)

Brenda almost marries some rich douche in Vegas (?)

There was a somewhat intelligent (in an ABC Afterschool Special way) storyline in the first season about David Silver dumping his nerdy best friends now that he was able to hang out with the cool kids.

After that it was all soap opera.

Worst thing was it completely skewed America's perception of what a teenager looked like, as per all the comments above about 28 year olds portraying 17 year olds.

You can still see the effects in the reaction on DL to CMBYN

The Heights wasn't a popular show, but its theme song hit No. 1 in 1992.

I actually PREFER the soap opera years of 90210, season 5 in particular is so bat shit crazy, it's obvious the 90210 creators were influenced by the immense popularity of their other creation and 90210's spinoff Melrose Place that they were doing identical storylines by the 94-95 season and 90210 had NOTHING in common with its issue oriented first (90-91) season by then.

Brandon cheats on Kelly with crazy Emily, while Kelly is trapped with a lesbian who's secretly in love with her in a sorority house fire that disfigures her that was set by rich fraternity bro Griffin Stone, what a name, to get back at Donna for dumping him for Ray Pruitt. Griffin frames Steve for the fire, who is arrested

Andrea has her extra marital affair with Dr. Peter, the man who saved her daughter Hannah's life. While Jesse her husband has been having his own affair. Andrea goes to a lawyer to get q divorce after Jesse learns about her affair but they decide to go to a marriage counselor and to move from 90210

Dylan looses his money after Suzanne and Kevin, the con artists steal his $8 million inheritance and kidnap his newly revealed half sister Erica in the season 4 finale, this causes Dylan to become a drunk again and a drug addict, sleeping with Valerie who is also sleeping with Steve after Valerie calls is off with Dylan his drug use gets worse and his car goes over a cliff sending him in a coma. When Dylan wakes up from his coma he goes to rehab and then travels back in time to the Wild Wild West where he discovers that Kelly is the love of his life.

Dylan hooks back up with Valerie and Erica finally gets in touch with Dylan and Dylan, Valerie and some weird friend of Dylan's named Jonesy go undercover to Mexico to get his $8 million back and to get his sister Erica back from the evil con artists, Kevin and Suzanne who kidnapped her in the season 4 finale. Kevin and Suzanne hold them hostage and shots ring out before the police arrest them.

Brandon joins political forces with his season 4 nemesis Josh Richland, who then is quickly killed off in a freak car accident outside the Peach Pit after Brandon becomes student body president, who tries to take down a dictator of a third world country!!! Who just happens to be speaking at CU University.

Kelly joins a cult after the fire fucks up her head, the cult is called the New Evolution and it's ran by the evil wheelchair bound Professor Finlay, Brandon and Dylan join forces and put their differences aside to save her from the cult.

Claire and David become a couple after bonding over looking for UFO's! They also make a kinky sex tape that gets in her father's, the chancellor of CU, hands.

Valerie gets a cut of the $8 million that Dylan gets back and uses it to buy out Rush Sanders, Steve's Dad, share of the Peach Pit after dark, where she begins blackmailing Ray, who is dating Donna, into having sex with her to keep his job singing at the After Dark, after Ray calls it off, Valerie fired Ray and threatens to tell Donna everything, this sends Ray to another gig out of town and away from Donna, which sets Donna up to get raped by the CU rapist...

Meanwhile a serial rapist terrorizes the college and eventually sets his sights on Donna, after he breaks into her house, he ties her up and almost rapes and kills her but David saves the day. Bitch Claire is pissed not that her "friend" Donna was nearly raped and killed but that her boyfriend David still has feelings for Donna and she breaks it off with him.

Ray becomes abusive and pushes Donna down a flight of stairs! Dylan finds out more info about the man who " killed" his father in season 3 in that car bomb explosion , bur he comes back from the dead in season 10

Brandon proposes to Kelly and Dylan offers her millions and a trip around the world with him but Kelly chooses herself...

Brenda didn't have to be such an asshole to Emily. Like if she'd just told her that she was Dylan's ex, all that shit could have been avoided. I also love that Valerie was pretty much the only one who didn't develop a drug problem. And yet Kelly seemed to have a problem with her smoking pot.

What was the story with the "I hate Brenda" newsletter?

[quote]There was a somewhat intelligent (in an ABC Afterschool Special way) storyline in the first season about David Silver dumping his nerdy best friends now that he was able to hang out with the cool kids.

Yeah, you left out the key part about how the friend commits suicide because of it. The whole foreshadowed Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman on American Idol by a few years in that the friend was a main character in the first season (he had a title credit and everything) and then he was just .... phased right the fuck out.

He accidently shot himself in the episode

Dylan's season 6 exit storyline where he dates the daughter, Toni Marchette, of the man who killed his father Jack McKay in season 3 in his plan to avenge his father's death, was one of the best.

Dylan pusues Toni knowing she's Antonio Marchette's daughter, Toni finds out why he was into her and she breaks it off, Dylan tells her he's in love for her for real, Toni and Dylan confront her father wanting answers over Jack McKay's death, Dylan and Toni decide to get married, Antonio warns his daughter that he'll never forgive her if she married Dylan, Dylan and Toni get married, Antonio finds out and orders a mob hit on Dylan, Toni is accidentally killed in the rain while driving Dylan's car, Dylan sees her as she's being gunned down and runs over to her dead body screaming out, 'Why ' Why did they do this to you"!

Storyline was all told in 13 episodes

A heartbreaking scene.

R109 Barbara, please. Please, Barbara.

Orange Groves. It used to be all Orange Groves

Show them how it's done, Donna!

I hated the substitute Dylan, Noah Hunter character

All I remember was he was introduced in Hawaii, when the cast was on vacation there and came back to 90210 with them, he said he was poor but was revealed to be the very rich son of the Texas Hunter oil family. He fucked Valerie, broke up with her after he told Valerie that he reminded her of his dead fiance, whom he blames for killing her while driving drunk in a car accident, then amnesia Kelly thinks she was in love with Noah and not Brandon, Noah also saves Kelly's life after her shooting as the two share the same rare blood type and he donates his blood to save her.

Noah then hooks up with Donna but David wants Donna back and Valerie wants Noah back and David and Valerie join forces to break up Noah and Donna. Including faking a romance to make them jealous and Then Noah's brother, Josh, drugs Valerie 's drink and rapes her and Valerie thinks Noah did it as his brother sets Noah up and Noah is arrested while Donna becomes addicted to pills being supplied by his no good brother etc.

It made the transition from HS to college pretty well R101. It stayed more or less good all the way through season 7. Then it jumped the shark massively in season 8 and limped on for 3 years.