What was Gabriel(le) Carteris’/ Andrea Zuckerman's greatest challenge?

The heartbreak of psoriasis?

The hit and run was a low point, but the out of character pregnancy storyline was worse.

Her pregnancy storyline and quicky marriage to Jesse was season 4

Her extra marital affair storyline with a married doctor was season 5

And boy did they drag that storyline out...

Her wardrobe was her greatest challenge. The other girls were dressed sexy/cute and she was always in mom jeans and oversized blazers.

Reflexively reaching for her AARP card when Brenda, Kelly, and Donna would drag her out to party in a bar and they'd all get "carded."

Living in an efficiency with her grandma Lainey Kazan

I voted for being in stage 3 efficacy for a Bartbate Anal horn

Being the only member of the 90210 cast (Mrs.Walsh excepted) experiencing perimenopause.

Being in High School in your late 30s had to be mortifying

I remember like five years ago, while she was still president of SAG, she sent out an email about ageism in Hollywood and how she had been discriminated against over her age and why it mattered to remove birthdates from IMDb.

Her frustration when people did not say her name properly--AHN-drea-A!

She’s older than Heather Locklear.

Would Heather Locklear have been a good Kelly Taylor?

Avoiding falls and hip fractures when they mopped the floor at the Peach Pit

Ageism.

Mrs. Teasley and Nat's passing were real blows to Andrea.

Being fugly

Fitting an ear trumpet into her backpack

Shopping for Porcelana Fade Cream instead of Clearasil

Dealing with bullying from West Beverly High's biggest mean girls, played by Lillie Langtry and Mrs. Sarah Siddons

Hot 🥵 flashes at cheerleading practice

Not being able to cure SIDS in a semester.

leaking instead of spotting

The difficult lengths she went through to find Rudy Vallee & Al Jolson posters to hang on her bedroom wall in 1991.

Worry that the baby would suffer lead poisoning from the campus’s oil derrick?

Hoping and praying no one would find out about her long-running affair with Carol Potter.

When she fell and couldn't get up. Fortunately, she had Life Alert™.

Pluto TV has the '90210' channel, and I watched the spring dance ep the other day. (The one where Brenda and Kelly unknowingly buy the same B&W dress.) Andrea skips the dance because Brandon went with Kelly, but then she decides to show up at the last minute after having a hallucination about killing Spring Queen Kelly Taylor. She definitely looked more like a chaperone at the dance once she arrived.

Seducing Jason Priestley in her trailer after fries & milkshakes at the Peach Pit.

[quote]Would Heather Locklear have been a good Kelly Taylor?

Heather Locklear would have been a good Kelly Taylor’s mom.

The constant catfights with "that bitch" Shannon Doherty off set.

They completely ruined Andrea’s character by having her get pregnant and then marrying as a sophomore in college. How trashy! It went completely against what her character was about the first few seasons. That nerdy virgin school paper editor Andrea would NEVER have been an out-of-wedlock mother at 19!

I hated that pregnancy storyline.

^^^.

So Gina Rodriguez is having a geriatric pregnancy?

R34 Yup, a pregnancy over the age 35 falls into that category. Gina Rodriguez having a baby at 38 isn't as bad as Hilary Swank being pregnant in her late 40s.

I think Rodriguez and Swank froze their eggs years ago and probably did IVF.

Wait, Gina is 38? Wasn’t she just a teenager on Jane the Virgin not that long ago?

They totally should have owned up to her age in the show. It should have come out that she had been doing undercover research for an MTV style show featuring real teens and what they talk about and what they like. They could have really done something with this… and the betrayal the others felt when they found out they’d been lied to. And the consequences that she faced for getting too involved in her research.

It should have come out that she was an undercover cop involved in the 21 Jump Street initiative and a NARC. This could’ve been a crossover with 21 Jump Street.

Steve Sanders invited the gang over to his house for dinner, but Andrea made an excuse and didn’t come.

Steve realizes that Andrea has never come to his house or his parties and is now offended.

He confronts her and she tearfully tells him the truth-Andrea and Steve’s father Rush were in college together, she was his chemistry tutor. She became pregnant in the back of Rush’s convertible Pontiac GTO after he drove her home one night, even though he was engaged to Steve’s stepmother.

Rush’s father sent Andrea away to give birth at a convent. She gave birth to a son, who was adopted by Steve’s father and stepmother.

Andrea Zuckerman is Steve Sanders’ mother.

She entered West Beverly under an assumed name to keep an eye on her son.

Steve rejected his mother at first, but eventually he had a tearful reunion with Andrea. But not before throwing up when he realizes he once french kissed his mother.

It was tragic that she was born with Benjamin Button syndrome.

They stopped making Geritol Complete! How will I function?

R37,that wouldn't have olayed well on TV. Was better as the schlock fest that was 'Never Been Kissed'

Did Brandon ever throw her a pity fuck?

She had a pocketbook filled with Kleenex and butterscotch candies.

I'm convinced that Aaron Spelling only hired Gabby & kept her around because he didn't want his little princess Tori to be the homeliest one in the cast.

But did he succeed?

Let's get back to Lainie Kazan being Andrea's grandmother. What were the casting people smoking? There is 21 years age difference between them.

I always assumed their high school was one of very few in California (or the entire country) with special programs for kids suffering from progeria.

Trying not to use words and phrases like "masher," "the bee's knees," "oh, you kid," and "twenty-three skidoo"

To try and blend into a HS when she resembled the moms. She was hideous and the character arc ridiculously stupid. She’s poor but smart so she gets to hang in 90210 , is class President and can get into an IVY league school on her brilliance yet this bitch doesn’t know to pop a pill or tell her rican boyfriend to wrap it up ? She lets herself get knocked up instead of going to Harvard? She doesn’t get an abortion when she professes to be a barcode feminist? And her hair screams BOISE not BEVERLY HILLS!

I remember I was 10 when I first watched an episode of 90210. It was the episode where Brenda and Andrea were volunteering at a crisis call center and Brenda had that anonymous caller who kept calling about being date raped. I thought Andrea was one of the teachers.

She was the only one who could remember when this used to be all orange groves, as far as the eye could see

Gabrielle should start doing those Medicare ads. I think Jimmy Walker and Joe Namath are about to age out.

Joan Collins won the series' only Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress. It was a well-deserved win. She was brilliant in that emotional two-parter as Andrea's long-lost daughter.

Bh was not an area for orange groves. The closest groves were in the Valley.

R53 beginning in season 4, basically all the storylines were multi episode, it had become*serialized", some storylines were DRAGGED out for a whole season, which back then for 90210 and Melrose Place was over 30 episodes, the season 6 Kelly and Colin story comes to mind as continuing on for over 30 episodes