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Beverly Hills, 90210
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Beverly Hills, 90210 was a Teen Drama that is credited with codifying the genre as we know it today and gained immense popularity during the early 1990s. It ran on Fox for ten years (from 1990 to 2000), and had all but changed its entire principal cast by the end of the show's run.The show focused primarily on the Walsh family, particularly fraternal twins Brandon (Jason Priestley) and Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty), who had just moved into Beverly Hills and were (at least initially) suffering a certain degree of culture shock. The action also included the twins' friends; the brooding bad boy Dylan McKay, the goofy 'big man on campus' Steve Sanders, the bookworm and school paper editor Andrea Zuckerman, the Alpha Bitch turned Lovable Alpha Bitch Kelly Taylor, the ditz Donna Martin, and the dorky freshman turned aspiring musician David Silver. The show began essentially as an American, more glamorized version of (the original eighties) Degrassi (of which it is rumored Aaron Spelling nearly adapted instead), adopting its format of tackling social issues an episode at a time during its first season (and to an extent the second season), but by Season 3 and especially after the cast graduated from high school, it became more of a Prime Time Soap.The show's casting includes some of the most dramatic examples of Dawson Casting in recent memory (and this show predates the trope namer), to the point where many sites often refer to the trope as "90210 Syndrome". Luke Perry was 24 when he began playing Dylan as a junior; even worse, Ian Ziering was 26 playing 16-year-old Steve Sanders and Gabrielle Carteris was 29 playing 16-year-old Andrea Zuckerman. Only Brian Austin Green (David), Douglas Emerson (Scott) and Tori Spelling (Donna) were real high school-aged teenagers playing their age.It is debated when the show declined in quality; most agree that it declined after season 3, which was when the cast graduated from high school, but some put the beginning the decline to the beginning of season 5, after Brenda left. Some even argue the show really hit its stride post-high school.Had a Spin-Off in Melrose Place (which itself had a less successful spin off in the short-lived Models Inc.) and Sequel Series simply titled 90210 which ran from 2008-2013 on The CW. The new series is mostly focused on a new cast of characters, though Donna and Brenda have made cameo appearances and Kelly is an important recurring character. One of the main characters of the reboot, Erin (Silver), appeared as a plot point in the original series as Kelly's baby half-sister. A second revival was announced in February 2019, that featured fictionalized versions of themselves trying to get a reboot of the series on the air. Sadly, Luke Perry —who was announced to be showing up in a limited role— suffered a massive stroke on the same day of the announcement, and ultimately died a week later. The remaining cast members continued the project in honor of him. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: David's friend Scott and Dylan's girlfriend Toni Marchette. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Dylan McKay could be a dead ringer for a little-known actor named...James Dean. | |
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Hot Teacher: Matthews. Arguably Harry too. | |
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Nerds Are Sexy | |
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Nerds Are Sexy: Naomi thinks this of Max. | |
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The Runaway | |
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The Runaway: Dixon, escaping behind his parents backs despite that Debbie grounded him, and going to Australia with Ivy. | |
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Give Geeks a Chance | |
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Give Geeks a Chance: Subverted. Nerdy Matt rejects Alpha Bitch Naomi because he considers her a shallow idiot. Also, Matt is shown to have a healthy romantic life before Naomi even enters the picture. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: Brenda to Jim Walsh, and even though they fought, they really did love each other. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Flying Saucer: David and Clare went searching for a UFO, though they didn't see anything...but the audience did! | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the episode where Clare and David film themselves in the sack (which accidentally makes it's way to the Martin residence), David makes a quip to Clare about how "we're on TV every day". | |
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Second Episode Introduction | |
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Second Episode Introduction: A jarring example; Dylan, the show's Breakout Character, doesn't appear in the pilot. | |
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I'm a Man; I Can't Help It | |
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I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: When caught cheating, Dr. Silver attempts to use this excuse on Jackie. She doesn't buy it and it ends their marriage (the first time). | |
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The Prom Plot | |
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The Prom Plot: Both of their proms were pretty memorable: Their junior prom had Andrea worried about her "bland" dress, only for her own to be better than Brenda and Kelly, who are dressed the same and Donna is wearing an uncomfortable, overly fancy dress that she can't even sit in. Their senior prom is more infamous, as Brenda and Kelly are now fighting over Dylan and Donna gets drunk and ends up being barred from graduation. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Naomi isn't all bad, and unlike a lot of Libbies she does have a genuinely nicer side, but she can still be an absolute bitch much of the time (and her sister is far worse.) | |
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Self-Harm | |
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Self-Harm: In one episode, Donna finds her assistant cutting herself, after suspecting it. She tries to help her, eventually persuading her to get therapy. | |
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Gay Bar Reveal | |
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Gay Bar Reveal: The aforementioned "Blind Spot" starts with Steve and Brandon arriving at a gay coffee shop, which promptly freaks Steve out when he realizes that the clientel is exclusively men. | |
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Practically Different Generations | |
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Practically Different Generations: Kelly and David are both on the verge of their senior year of high school when their half-sister Erin is born. Nat's stepdaughter (the daughter of his wife Joan) Lily is an adult when her half-brother Frankie is born...on the day of her mother's wedding to Nat, no less. Dylan later learns he has a younger half-brother Jack - who's a good two decades younger than him - through his father, whom he believed was killed years earlier but actually Faked The Dead, in the final season. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Various musical performers, including Babyface, Christina Aguilera, The Cardigans, Donna Lewis, Cathy Dennis...virtually anyone who was popular during the decade. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Jen seemed like a nice, caring older sister to Naomi in her first appearance. Right until we learn that she slept with Ethan while he and Naomi were together (she would later go on to sleep with Liam while he was dating Naomi and blame Annie for it). Annie and Dixon's cousin Emily seemed like a sweet, innocent girl who looked up to Annie at first. Then she turned all of Annie's friends against her, tried to steal Liam away from her, got Annie fired from her internship, and suspended from school... all while pulling the Wounded Gazelle Gambit. | |
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Date Rape Averted | |
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Date Rape Averted - Mark on Annie; Jasper ends up saving her. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Adrianna, Liam, and most recently, Ivy and Teddy. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: The show loves this trope- Ivy, Naomi (and thus also Jen), Liam, Adrianna, Silver, Sammy (Kelly's son) and most recently Navid, Annie and Dixon all have absent fathers. In fact none of the teenage cast have fathers much involved in their lives by late Season 3. In Season 4, Navid has a Missing Mom as well. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Zig-zagged. Several of the main characters' parents are absent for long periods, or were hardly mentioned. Examples include Kelly's dad Bill Taylor (sure he was shown, only to disappear for years at a time), David's mom Sheila Silver (had mental issues, a nervous breakdown, became homeless, later recovered, only to disappear again), and Dylan's parents Jack and Iris McKay (at first; they recurred in several episodes in the first four seasons, though never lived with Dylan) | |
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Spoiled Sweet | |
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Main girls trio: Donna is the naive Spoiled Sweet one (nice), Kelly goes from Alpha Bitch to Lovable Alpha Bitch (mean), and Brenda is the Girl Next Door with a snarky rebellious side (in-between). | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Silver is half-Jewish through her father's side, which traditionally would be the wrong side to make her Jewish but she did sit shiva for her mother (though this could be a case of the writers forgetting Jackie was never Jewish in the original series.) | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Ivy and Naomi, initially as rivals and later as an Odd Friendship. | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo: The show briefly attempts this when Brandon gets jealous of Andrea's new boyfriend and kisses her. Instead of reciprocating, she angrily rebuffs him—"Don't insult me like that. Not now. You had your choice and you made it.", referring to him rebuffing her interest nearly a year before, pointing out that he's only doing this out of jealousy rather than having genuine feelings for her. | |
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Lovable Alpha Bitch | |
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Lovable Alpha Bitch: Naomi evolves into this after her Character Development in season 3. | |
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Out of Focus | |
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Out of Focus: Navid was nominally a main character from the first episode on but he had very little to do early in Season 1 before eventually being linked with Adrianna (who oddly was not an official main character at first but had a lot of early focus). In Season 2 and 3 Matthews is frequently out of focus and gone by Season 4 considering everyone has graduated. | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender Flipped with Navid (Betty) and Teddy(Veronica), with Adrianna (Archie). | |
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Code Silver | |
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Code Silver: In season 7, Donna's stalker reveals himself at the school's news station, and holds everyone (including Brandon and his then-girlfriend Tracy) hostage with a gun. Luckily, no one is hurt, except maybe Donna. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Andrea and Jesse's marriage—which wouldn't even have happened had she not been pregnant—is a disaster—it's incredibly rocky for the first year, with mutual infidelities, and although they commit to making a new start when they leave town, when Andrea returns for a visit, she reveals that they're divorcing. Her affair gets this too. She falls in love with the guy and wants to leave Jesse for him. He. . .has no intention of leaving his wife and is just enjoying having some fun on the side. | |
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Former Child Star | |
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Former Child Star: Steve's former childhood enemy Chuckie Wilson, a co-star on Steve's mother Samantha's show The Hartley House, downplays this. He's a teenager, seemingly physically well-adjusted, and he's since left the industry (on account of his parents), only to be drawn back for a potential show reunion. However, Chuckie's a total Jerkass to Steve and has been since they were children. | |
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False Rape Accusation | |
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False Rape Accusation: Naomi falsely claimed that Mr. Cannon was sexually harassing her towards the end of season 2 (when in actuality, Cannon believed that Naomi was coming onto him when she said she "would do anything" to bump up a test grade). Eventually Naomi recanted her statements, but unfortunately this rape accusation became a real one. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Dylan's dad Jack McKay, despite the fact he was blown up in season 3, shows up alive in season 10 (explained In Universe by that his death was a cover-up by the FBI to put him in a witness protection program). | |
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Actor Allusion | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: Maeve Quinlan as the mother of a girl who dates another girl. In one episode Dixon is given a fake ID with a Spanish name on it. Tristan Wilds is Hispanic. Liam has a scene where he dresses as a vampire. This wouldn't be the last time Jim would return from being lost at sea. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_39a2d446 | type |
Preppy Name | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_39a2d446 | comment |
Preppy Name: Teddy Montgomery Also In-Universe: Jen wants to name their son Jacques but Ryan prefers the more traditional Jack. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_3ffce9c2 | type |
Family Relationship Switcheroo | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_3ffce9c2 | comment |
Family Relationship Switcheroo: Gina was introduced in the show's ninth season as Donna's cousin, and caused much havoc within the group. In season 10, the audience discovered that Donna's father had an affair with Gina's mother in the 1970s, resulting in her birth, making Gina her half-sister. Downplayed example as Gina is still Donna's cousin. Donna's father, Dr. Martin, discovered this, and was quick to accept Gina as his daughter, though he later died soon after. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_40c57041 | type |
Manipulative Bastard | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bitch: Jen. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_414ac0d | type |
College Is "High School, Part 2" | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_414ac0d | comment |
College Is "High School, Part 2": The main characters basically shared the exact same classes and still found the time to remain as close knit as ever. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4160410d | type |
Damsel in Distress | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4160410d | comment |
Kelly for all the reasons listed in the Damsel in Distress on this page. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_42c9f1ec | type |
Downplayed Trope | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_42c9f1ec | comment |
Downplayed Trope, with Andrea. Andrea became pregnant during her freshman year of college, in season 4 (making her roughly 18 or 19 at the time), and gave birth to a daughter at the end of the season. Just forget that Andrea's actress, Gabrielle Carteris, was around 32/33 at the time. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_43a045de | type |
Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_43a045de | comment |
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Scott Scanlon was part of the main cast in Season 1 but dies very abruptly when he accidentally shoots himself with a gun. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_43dc74d0 | type |
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_43dc74d0 | comment |
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Brandon (sensitive) and Steve (manly); Brandon (sensitive) and Dylan (manly). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_43ff290e | type |
Revolving Door Casting | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_43ff290e | comment |
Revolving Door Casting: Relatively limited in the earlier years, but by the end the show had gone through many, many cast changes. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4523420b | type |
Love Dodecahedron | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4523420b | comment |
Love Dodecahedron | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4548bae | type |
Teen Pregnancy | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4548bae | comment |
Teen Pregnancy: Adrianna. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_469e3e2f | type |
In-Universe | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_469e3e2f | comment |
Also In-Universe: Jen wants to name their son Jacques but Ryan prefers the more traditional Jack. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kelly, Steve, and Dylan. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4814d132 | type |
Big Fancy House | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4814d132 | comment |
Big Fancy House: Naomi's mansion that she bought in season 4. It would later become the home for all the show's main female characters. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4856ac40 | type |
Stock Footage | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: The show often reuses the same establishing shots of various places such as the Peach Pit, California University, and Beverly Hills in general. Some of the stock footage, which originates from the first season, was used well into the show's later seasons, including several shots from the season 1 opening sequence (such as the panning down shot of The Rodeo Collection on Rodeo Drive). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_48e8fe57 | type |
Happily Adopted | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_48e8fe57 | comment |
Happily Adopted: Dixon (mostly). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4b0ef86e | type |
Advertised Extra | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4b0ef86e | comment |
Advertised Extra: In the early episodes of Season 1, Donna was initially just a Satellite Character to Brenda and Kelly, with her characteristics being underdeveloped and different from the ones she was known for. By the end of the season, Donna's traits started to become clearer, and started branching out for her own storylines. In Season 1, David and Scott were nothing more than Plucky Comic Relief, and hardly interacted with the other, older teen characters. Eventually, by season 2, David formed into the group, while Scott was sidelined for most of the season until "The Next 50 Years," when he is killed off. Andrea's husband Jesse, and Brandon's boss Nat. Both were credited main characters, though they were usually used as means to serve the other, more prominent characters. Nevertheless, they did have some storylines, though were comparatively minor to the others. Even more surprising, considering that Jesse was the sole minority character in the main cast. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4b39c18 | type |
Taking the Heat | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4b39c18 | comment |
Taking the Heat: Austin took the blame for arson to protect Annie. Neither of them actually did it but the fire was started by Annie's friend Bree who was destroying evidence both she and Annie had been prostitutes; had Annie fingered Bree she would also have to reveal her own brush with prostitution and would have faced being kicked out of college at a minimum. Austin decided that Annie had more to live for so 'confessed' to get her off the hook. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4b8932a4 | type |
Stalking Is Love | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4b8932a4 | comment |
Stalking Is Love: Emily refuses to let go when Brandon breaks up with her after she spikes his drink with Ectasy. She is portrayed as genuinely troubled and eventually sent away to get help. When she resurfaces a few years later, Brandon talks about her like she's the love of his life, despite their very brief fling. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4c5f0662 | type |
Girl Next Door | |
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Girl Next Door: Annie. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4c961994 | type |
Acquired Situational Narcissism | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4c961994 | comment |
Acquired Situational Narcissism: Adrianna big time. Fame rapidly turns her into an airheaded Rich Bitch. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4e3dee88 | type |
Their First Time | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4e3dee88 | comment |
Their First Time: Dylan and Brenda, on prom night. Others had their first time during the course of the series too (most notably, the long-awaited time David and Donna finally had sex), but theirs was particularly highlighted. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: It started as an episodic high school drama mainly focusing on the Walsh twins. Each episode had its own story and aesop, and played out basically like a glitzier version of Degrassi High. From season two onwards, the plotlines started to arch over several episodes and the friends of the Walsh kids were given some limelight as well. Also, during the first season, the opening was very different. It was a series of scattered scenes with the main characters hanging out in Beverly Hills rather than the Opening Credits Cast Party used from season 2 onwards. The theme was also arranged in a typically-late-80s dance-pop style, unlike the harder-edged, guitar-driven rock theme that would come into use later. Dylan doesn't appear in the pilot, despite being the show's Breakout Character, and appeared in less episodes than the other main characters during the first season. Donna Martin was originally "Donna Morgan" and had a different personality altogether during season 1. Donna and Kelly's mothers in their first appearances are completely different from their later incarnations (not to mention played by different actresses than the regular ones); the more laid-back and fashionable Nancy Martin is a far-cry from the strict and conservative Felice Martin, for example. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4ff6f484 | type |
Trash the Set | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4ff6f484 | comment |
Trash the Set: The rave at the Walsh's house in the season 6 premiere, which then has to be undone when the house falls out of escrow (see Time to Move) | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_51509ce7 | type |
Convenient Miscarriage | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_51509ce7 | comment |
Convenient Miscarriage: In season 7, Kelly discovers she's pregnant with her and Brandon's child. After considering an abortion, Kelly decides to keep the child, only to have a miscarriage. She's then told she has endometriosis and probably can't have any children, but the sequel series introduces her son. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_53136954 | type |
Book Dumb | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_53136954 | comment |
Book Dumb: Naomi is of more or less average intelligence but it's frequently mentioned that's she's a poor student. She's also the only one unable to figure out that Annie wrote Undressed after reading it. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5369c081 | type |
Invisible Parents | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5369c081 | comment |
Invisible Parents: Andrea's parents Kenny and Gail Zuckerman, who only show up at her wedding. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_53c3fa83 | type |
Granola Girl | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_53c3fa83 | comment |
Granola Girl: Silver and Ivy both have aspects. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_551c5085 | type |
It's a Wonderful Plot | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_551c5085 | comment |
It's a Wonderful Plot: The fifth season episode "We're Not In Kansas Anymore" has Annie dreaming of her life if her family had never moved to Beverly Hills. She's doing summer stock theater, her parents stil divorced but Dixon living in L.A as a rap star estranged from the family. Naomi never won back her trust fund and is a real estate agent dating a still closeted Teddy. Adrianna is a star better known for her party ways and Silver a celebrity blogger while Liam is delivering drugs for Dixon. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5558641 | type |
Gratuitous Japanese | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5558641 | comment |
Gratuitous Japanese: Donna. The Japanese people within the show appear to understand her; native Japanese speakers watching, not so much. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_567e7c4d | type |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_567e7c4d | comment |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Done with Annie's cousin Emily. Emily tells Annie's friends that she said a bunch of mean things about them (which wasn't true). When Annie calls her on this, Emily pretends to cry in front Annie's friends (who of course, side with Emily). Emily also trashes her own dressing room at the internship Annie works at and makes it look like Annie did it. The result? Emily is believed to be the victim and Annie is fired. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_56d95b5b | type |
High School | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_56d95b5b | comment |
High School: The show is best known for its high school years (seasons 1-3). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_590eb583 | type |
Domestic Abuse | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_590eb583 | comment |
Domestic Abuse: Ray Pruitt repeatedly abuses Donna. Most infamously, he pushes her down a flight of stairs, semi-accidentally. Also used in several very special episodes. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_590eb583 | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5941d75 | type |
Beta Couple | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5941d75 | comment |
Beta Couple: David and Donna in the earlier seasons. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5989e3b6 | type |
Enemy Mine | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: It's hinted Annie and Vanessa are going to have to work together to save Liam from a Loony Fan. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5a365ed2 | type |
Incompatible Orientation | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5a365ed2 | comment |
Incompatible Orientation: Kelly dates a boy named Kyle in the season 2 episode "Summer Storm" who turns out to be gay. After surviving a fire together in season 5, Allison falls for Kelly, who gently turns her down. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5a365ed2 | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5e965a73 | type |
Nice, Mean, and In-Between | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5e965a73 | comment |
Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Main boys trio: quintessential good boy Brandon (nice), bad boy Anti-Hero Dylan (mean), and brash but easygoing Steve (in-between). Main girls trio: Donna is the naive Spoiled Sweet one (nice), Kelly goes from Alpha Bitch to Lovable Alpha Bitch (mean), and Brenda is the Girl Next Door with a snarky rebellious side (in-between). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5edb3466 | type |
No Going Steady | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5edb3466 | comment |
No Going Steady: With Annie probably being the worst offender. Although Naomi looks like she might be a close second. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5ee2f7cc | type |
My Secret Pregnancy | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5ee2f7cc | comment |
My Secret Pregnancy: Jen kept the fact hat she was pregnant from Ryan. And when he did find out, she still didn't want him in the baby's life. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5f4f15ba | type |
Two-Timing with the Bestie | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_5f4f15ba | comment |
Two-Timing with the Bestie: While Brenda was spending a summer in France, her boyfriend Dylan and her best friend Kelly started falling for each other. Later, when Kelly and Dylan were a couple, Kelly started falling for his best friend, Brandon. | |
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Parental Incest | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: Valerie is revealed to have been sexually abused by her father over a long time. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_644eca71 | type |
Rich Bitch | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_644eca71 | comment |
Rich Bitch: Naomi, until her Character Development, her sister, Jen is even worse. Adrianna develops into one during Season 3 after her new found fame goes to her head. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_65bc92fc | type |
Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Adrianna (sanguine), Naomi (choleric), Silver (melancholic), and Annie (phlegmatic). Liam (choleric), Dixon (melancholic), and Navid (phlegmatic). | |
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Missing Mom | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_66dfe36a | comment |
In Season 4, Navid has a Missing Mom as well. | |
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Grievous Bottley Harm | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_67792344 | comment |
Grievous Bottley Harm: When Kelly almost gets raped, she smashes a bottle of wine on her attacker's head to fend him off. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_685d06d | type |
Plot Parallel | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_685d06d | comment |
The season four episode "The Time Has Come Today". Brenda finds a notebook in the floorboards of her bedroom, and discovers that it was written by a girl who lived in her home during the Vietnam War. By sheer coincidence, the girl had a twin brother and the same amount of friends as Brenda (sans Andrea), attended California University, and had a "Bad Boy" boyfriend that her father disapproved of, and all of her problems seem to mirror the problems Brenda is having with her friends at the time. | |
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Teacher/Student Romance | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_6d892421 | comment |
Teacher/Student Romance: Brandon has one with the married anthropology professor Lucinda Nicholson in season 4. | |
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Parental Marriage Veto | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_6da1d9ae | comment |
Parental Marriage Veto: Janet's parents initially didn't want their daughter to marry Steve, and they wanted her to marry a nice Japanese boy instead. They later changed their minds. | |
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Coming-Out Story | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_6f19054d | comment |
Coming-Out Story: Teddy gets one, spaced over several episodes. Also, Adrianna with her girlfriend Gia. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_71cc4b5a | type |
Descent into Addiction | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_71cc4b5a | comment |
Descent into Addiction: A recurring theme on the show. Done with Brandon (gambling), Dylan (alcohol/drugs), Kelly (cocaine), Donna (sleeping pills), and Noah (alcohol). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_71e8a5c5 | type |
Trauma Conga Line | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_71e8a5c5 | comment |
Trauma Conga Line: Kelly for all the reasons listed in the Damsel in Distress on this page. Dylan also goes through multiple drug addictions and alcoholism, his parents leaving him, his father blowing up in a car bombing in front of him (which was faked, but he didn't know that for seven years), the loss of his fortune and half-sister to con artists, him developing depression, him nearly dying in a car wreck, and his wife getting killed in a shooting that was originally meant for him. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_72a1f533 | type |
Artistic License – University Admissions | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_72a1f533 | comment |
Artistic License – University Admissions: Steve gets into California University (which, in-universe, is the actual name), despite his terrible grades, his book dumb personality, and he seemed to have only one reference from his principal. Additionally, he broke into his school's computer system to change his grades (admittedly with the help of a Black and Nerdy freshman and was actually expelled from West Beverly High for the incident (albeit temporarily). And by the frequent remarks by other characters, it seems as if California University was a very hard school to get into. Ditto for non-studious students like Kelly and Donna. Consider the fact that they are wealthy (hence connections, including Steve's father being an alumni of California University), though in reality, it may take more than just connections to get into the school they want. Also, Brenda entered the same school after leaving the University of Minnesota earlier in Season 4. She may have been accepted to CU earlier, though since classes had started at that school, it doesn't really make sense since Brenda should've at least applied for late admission, though no such mechanics are ever mentioned. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_734a416a | type |
Dinner Order Flub | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_734a416a | comment |
Dinner Order Flub: While in Paris, Brenda and Donna order "veal". Unfortunately, the English word "veal" sounds like the French word "cerveau". After being served their meal, the girls are horrified to learn they're eating. . .calf brains (a well known delicacy in France, but obviously not in the US). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_735dd172 | type |
Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_735dd172 | comment |
Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Dylan and Brenda almost fit this to a T. While Brenda was far from gentle (she may have been a bit naive at first), Dylan became the brooding "bad boy" that made him into a Breakout Character. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: Ethan. Which was totally random, though he was being replaced by Liam and no one really missed him. Harry as of Season 3. Ryan and Debbie in Season 4 Ivy as of season 5 | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_759b4c29 | type |
Flush the Evidence | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_759b4c29 | comment |
Flush the Evidence: David is holding a knapsack full of drugs for a friend of his when Dylan arrives at his apartment to warn him the cops are on the way. They promptly flush everything down the toilet just in time. (In Real Life, it's highly likely the toilet would have clogged, given the amount they were flushing, as well as the plastic bags). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_76a5eaf8 | type |
Spotlight-Stealing Squad | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_76a5eaf8 | comment |
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Focus of the show shifted from the Wilson family to Naomi somewhere between seasons 2 and 3. Season 4 seems to split time between Annie and Naomi equally. Liam was a minor version. The main guy was supposed to be Ethan but Liam proved more popular and Ethan was dropped. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_77b03c0a | type |
Remember the New Guy? | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: Valerie Malone, who arrived on the show following Brenda's exit, was introduced as a lifelong friend of the Walshes. Her existence had never been acknowledged prior. Plus, Gina Kincaid being introduced as Donna's cousin, despite a total lack of mention beforehand. Also principal Harry Wilson was introduced as Kelly Taylor's never-before-seen-or-mentioned neighbor and life-long friend. See, photoshopped picture, so it must be true. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_78540917 | type |
Like Brother and Sister | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_78540917 | comment |
Like Brother and Sister: Almost the exact phrase Adrianna uses to describe her devolping friendship with Liam in Season 4. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7b7182fe | type |
Closet Key | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7b7182fe | comment |
Closet Key: Gia for Adrianna, who didn't realize she was bisexual until she fell for Gia. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: Chuckie is referenced in a season 2 episode "Chuckie's Back". Christine Elise, who portrayed Brandon's girlfriend Emily Valentine for several episodes during the season (including the episode that aired before this one), starred in the second film of that franchise, which came out a year before. One late season episode has a subplot where Brandon and Steve watch Aaron Spelling produced shows, which doubles as a Shout-Out...to the creator's own previous works. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: A Very Special Episode uses this to kill off one of the regulars, in front of David. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7f2427a6 | type |
Dawson Casting | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7f2427a6 | comment |
Dawson Casting: Teddy Montgomery is 17 or 18. His actor, Trevor Donovan, is 31. There's an In-Universe example with an undercover cop pretending to be a student who dates Ryan. Suspension of Disbelief becomes incredibly hard in the later seasons, when characters who are supposed to be in their late teens/early twenties are sporting thinning hair, receding hairlines, and visible crow's feet around their eyes. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7fc7eb02 | type |
Late Coming Out | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7fc7eb02 | comment |
Late Coming Out: Steve's mother, Samantha, comes out as a lesbian in season 9. Steve is surprised by this, as is Samantha's ex-husband Rush. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_7fc7eb02 | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8071d6ed | type |
Alcoholic Parent | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8071d6ed | comment |
Alcoholic Parent: Kelly and Silver's mom again. She got worse, she died. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8071d6ed | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8084141a | type |
Out-of-Context Eavesdropping | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8084141a | comment |
Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: David overhears his girlfriend Clare telling her friends "David gave me a fake one" and gets really insecure about his sexual skills, thinking she is referring to faking orgasms. When he finally talks to her about this, it turns out the conversation was about fur coats and she was refering to a fake fur coat David had given her. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_80d0d980 | type |
The Generic Guy | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_80d0d980 | comment |
The Generic Guy: Ethan had shades of this. There's a reason that no one misses him. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_80d0d980 | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8387bb18 | type |
Good Girls Avoid Abortion | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8387bb18 | comment |
Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Double subverted; Adrianna tried to get one, only to learn that the baby was too far long to have the abortion, so she decided to give the child up for adoption at birth. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8387bb18 | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_83b44e80 | type |
Straight Gay | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_83b44e80 | comment |
Straight Gay: Teddy, also Marco. Alec who is in love with Max. Gia herself. It was true that there was little development up to the point where we find out but apparently all of the characters seemed to know. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_84b1a036 | type |
Gay Aesop | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_84b1a036 | comment |
Gay Aesop: Used in several very special episodes on the show (e.g. "Blind Spot" which was viewed at three gay and lesbian youth centers in L.A. during the '90s), as homosexuality had started to become more accepted in mainstream media of the time. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_85ca9dab | type |
Second Love | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_85ca9dab | comment |
Second Love: Kelly to Dylan after Brenda. Toni is the Third Love. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_863fac26 | type |
Jerk Jock | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_863fac26 | comment |
Jerk Jock: Mark Driscoll. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8748f851 | type |
Brainy Brunette | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8748f851 | comment |
Brainy Brunette: Andrea and Brandon fit this to a T. Also Brenda and Dylan. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8a335181 | type |
Insidious Rumor Mill | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8a335181 | comment |
Insidious Rumor Mill: Emily attempts this against her cousin Annie by telling all of Annie's friends that Annie is trashing them behind their backs. However, Annie calls Emily out on her lies and Annie's friends side with her against Emily. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8b4f2a4f | type |
'80s Hair | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8b4f2a4f | comment |
'80s Hair: All of the characters in season one and two (albeit a bit more muted in season two) but it disappeared throughout season three. Ironically, the character of Kelly, most obsessed with superficial things, kept her Madonna-inspired 80s hair and makeup into season four, but finally ditched it by season 5 for a post-grunge inspired look. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8b68d9a7 | type |
Stalker with a Crush | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8b68d9a7 | comment |
Stalker with a Crush: Jasper. Surprising? | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8cb1a369 | type |
Took a Level in Jerkass | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8cb1a369 | comment |
Took a Level in Jerkass: Adrianna in season 3. She even went as far as swapping out Silver's medication for Bipolar Disorder with placebos. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8d6d9535 | type |
Artistic License – Medicine | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8d6d9535 | comment |
Artistic License – Medicine: In one episode, Kelly and another girl are burned in a fire. In the following, people visiting the both of them in the hospital are not wearing sterile gowns over their clothes, an absolute must in any burn unit to prevent infection. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8da65890 | type |
Commuting on a Bus | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8da65890 | comment |
Commuting on a Bus: Nat popped in and out for the show's final season, even though he had very little to do as a main character. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8dc8a02d | type |
Derailing Love Interests | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8dc8a02d | comment |
Derailing Love Interests: Dan starts out as a sweet boyfriend to Andrea, then abruptly turns into a controlling jerk. To top it off, he turns into a racist too, making snide comments about her next boyfriend, who's Hispanic. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: 'Confessions'. 'The Heart Will Go On' as well 'Here Comes Honey Bye Bye' with Riley's sudden death, Max and Naomi's breakup and the reveal that Teddy wants to use a surrogate. | |
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California University | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_8ed6b4cb | comment |
California University: In this universe, it is the actual name. | |
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Theme Twin Naming | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_90e2b7b4 | comment |
Theme Twin Naming: Brandon and Brenda | |
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Minnesota Nice | |
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Minnesota Nice: The Walsh family in Season 1, shown to be much more polite and down-to-earth than the Beverly Hills natives. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_927b2f11 | type |
The Bus Came Back | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_927b2f11 | comment |
The Bus Came Back: Season 5 seems to be doing this for everyone. So far Debbie, Tracy, Ty, Jasper, Emily, and an even Annie's ex boyfriend Jason have made reappearances and that's not counting anyone who comes Back for the Finale (which turned out to be no one) | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_94e4c8ab | comment |
Betty and Veronica: The show has certain examples of this - Annie (Betty) and Naomi (Veronica), with Ethan (Archie). Ivy (Betty) and Naomi (Veronica), with Liam (Archie). Rhonda (Veronica) and Annie (Betty), with Ethan (Archie again). Gender Flipped with Navid (Betty) and Teddy(Veronica), with Adrianna (Archie). Then Teddy (Veronica) and Dixon (Betty), with Silver (Archie). Max (Betty) and Austin (Veronica) for Naomi | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_950bbfa7 | type |
Take a Third Option | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_950bbfa7 | comment |
Take a Third Option: Kelly is in love with, and pursed by, two guys: Brandon and Dylan. Simultaneously, Brandon proposes marriage to her and Dylan asks her to go travel around the world, and she must choose between those two paths. After deliberating an entire episode about which man to chose, she gives both the wedding ring and the plane tickets back to both men, declares she doesn't want a relationship with either of them, and says "I choose me". | |
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Heel Realization | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9591377d | comment |
Heel Realization: Navid has one after he leaks a sextape of Liam and his professor onto the internet. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_95f92a7b | type |
Interclass Friendship | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_95f92a7b | comment |
Interclass Friendship: Annie, coming from middle-class background, is best friends with the extremely wealthy Naomi. | |
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Chick Magnet | |
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Chick Magnet: Liam and Ethan. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_997ce6ad | type |
Boyfriend-Blocking Dad | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_997ce6ad | comment |
Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Papa Walsh was this for Brenda, while Brandon got a lot more slack to the point of Double Standard and Hypocrisy—he's completely blithe and matter-of-fact about Brandon losing his virginity while in the house, merely feet away from his sleeping parents, but completely flips out upon finding out that Brenda is sleeping with Dylan and flips out even more when Brenda makes it clear that Dylan did not force or seduce her. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9a172e4c | type |
Dump Them All | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9a172e4c | comment |
Dump Them All: This is how Kelly resolves the Dylan/Brandon love triangle. "I choose me!" | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9d30b1be | type |
Time to Move | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9d30b1be | comment |
Time to Move: The first season finale of the original Beverly Hills, 90210 featured Jim Walsh getting a promotion back to Minnesota, and was met with resistance from Brenda, Brandon, and surprisingly, Cindy, all of whom grew accustomed to life in Beverly Hills. It went as far as a going-away party thrown by Brenda and Brandon's friends before Jim changed his mind, thus allowing the family to stay in Cali. Subverted in season 5, when Jim and Cindy Walsh did leave for Hong Kong, thus becoming The Moving Experience...on a different continent. They intended to sell the house, which led to their son Brandon (daughter Brenda having left for London a year earlier) deciding to have a destructive rave at the home, as the new potential owners were intending to destroy the house after the sale was made. However, the real estate agent came during the rave, and informed Brandon that the house fell out of escrow, thus the Walshes were still the owners of the house. This led to Brandon and his friends having to clean up the mess after the rave ended. Brandon and numerous of his friends (Steve, Valerie, David, etc.) lived in the house through the remainder of the show, even after Brandon himself left for Washington D.C. in early season 9, which meant that none of the owners or related family members lived in the house in the final two seasons. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: The fact that the creators remembered Silver from the original series gives it some merit. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9e0c3153 | type |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
When Brenda and Kelly are getting back massages at a spa, one of masseuses recounts a story of her two friends fighting over the same guy, which fractured their relationship. What...are...the...odds? | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9f9b5a20 | type |
Arbitrarily Large Bank Account | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_9f9b5a20 | comment |
Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Naomi's trust fund seems to never run short despite her excessive spending. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a09f3a65 | type |
Sibling Triangle | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a09f3a65 | comment |
Sibling Triangle: Annie was torn between Liam and his half brother Charlie in Season 3. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a0a364d5 | type |
Intimate Lotion Application | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a0a364d5 | comment |
Intimate Lotion Application: In "Shooting Star/American in Paris", while at the beach cabana, Dylan helps Kelly rub sun lotion on her back while she rubs her front, which is a sign of their newfound intimacy, and they discuss their romantic plans for the night while doing this. David arrives and catches them in the act and feels very awkward about intruding. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a2484b0e | type |
The Beautiful Elite | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a2484b0e | comment |
The Beautiful Elite: It seems like everyone in Beverly Hills is hot as the sun! | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a2484b0e | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a30c287 | type |
Good Parents | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a30c287 | comment |
Good Parents: Jim and Cindy Walsh were the only ones consistently there for their children during their dramatic crises. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a30c287 | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a56d9d60 | type |
Opening Credits Cast Party | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a56d9d60 | comment |
Opening Credits Cast Party: The opening credits were iconic because of its cast parties and that theme song! | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a7016efe | type |
Lonely Rich Kid | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a7016efe | comment |
Lonely Rich Kid: Dylan could be the poster boy for this trope, having no parents living with him, not believing his friends were understanding him completely. It did kind of make him into a Woobie after awhile. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Arguably Annie, whose punishment for a fatal hit and run (which she covered up for a whole year) is a couple of months of (offscreen) house arrest. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a94eaaa4 | type |
Odd Friendship | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_a94eaaa4 | comment |
Odd Friendship: Naomi and Silver. Later Naomi and Ivy. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Silver. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ae4845db | type |
Near-Rape Experience | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ae4845db | comment |
Near-Rape Experience: Kelly, twice. First during a High School Halloween party by a fellow student (she was wearing a revealing dress and the guy, and, disturbingly, her friends, tried to justify his rape attempt her on her skimpy dress); later in college when she had gotten addicted to drugs, she is kidnapped, tied up, and almost raped by a controlling, manipulative guy selling her cocaine (but she got out of it by smashing a bottle of wine on his head). In addition, she also got actually raped in a later season. Donna has a stalker that manages to get into her bedroom and beat the heck out of her, but David shows up just then at her apartment to save the day. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b070362d | type |
Wicked Stepmother | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b070362d | comment |
Wicked Stepmother: Averted, when David believes that he will be kicked out of the house by Jackie when she separates from David's dad Mel. However, Jackie allowed David to stay with her, and never treated him wrong, often close to him as her own son. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b30c44b7 | type |
The All-American Boy | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b30c44b7 | comment |
Brandon Walsh was the quintessential all-American boy. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b4b2a42a | type |
Widowed at the Wedding | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b4b2a42a | comment |
Widowed at the Wedding: Technically subverted because it didn't happen at the actual wedding, though Toni died the same day as her wedding to Dylan. | |
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The Lad-ette | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b5060b63 | comment |
The Lad-ette: Ivy. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b58c51d8 | type |
My Beloved Smother | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b58c51d8 | comment |
My Beloved Smother: Donna's mother, Felice, was often shown to be extremely arrogant, elitist even, and often disapproved of her daughter's love interests, even setting her up with some who later turned out to be more than meets the eye. Dylan's mother, Iris, was a strange combination of this and Missing Mom. She had abandoned Dylan and was absent almost all of the time, but when she suddenly showed up at Dylan's (which she only did occasionally and for short bouts of time), she was dominant towards him and meddling in his life. Most notably, the time she showed up at his house unannounced just after he had broken up with Brenda and gotten in a relationship with Kelly - Iris tried to get him to break up with Kelly and get back with Brenda. | |
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Pregnancy Scare | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b688bbfc | comment |
Pregnancy Scare: The season 3 finale ends with Naomi coming to Max's house to reveal her pregnancy. However, in the following season, it was revealed that Naomi was never pregnant at all. | |
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Operation: Jealousy | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b6caa5b4 | comment |
Operation: Jealousy: Ivy and Dixon form a fake relationship to show others (mostly Naomi) that they're over Liam and Silver respectively (in reality Ivy is still pining for Liam and oblivious to Dixon's growing feelings for her). | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b7d2dbed | type |
Tonight, Someone Dies | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b7d2dbed | comment |
Tonight, Someone Dies: Scott Scanlon | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b7e0c5ff | type |
Love Triangle | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: Annie/Ethan/Naomi (first season), Naomi/Liam/Ivy (second season). Also Annie/Ethan/Rhonda (so-so), Ethan/Silver/Dixon, Teddy/Adrianna/Navid, Teddy/Silver/Dixon, Adrianna/Navid/Lyla, Debbie/Harry/Kelly, etc. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b892dd2d | type |
Girl of the Week | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b892dd2d | comment |
Girl of the Week: Brandon almost had a different girlfriend every week during season 1 and some of season 2. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Jim and Cindy Walsh's role on the show diminished as their children went off to college, and they were basically there to react to whatever they did. Eventually, both were Put on a Bus (or plane) to Hong Kong at the end of season 5. Scott Scanlon was prominent as David's best friend in season 1, though when David got involved with the group, he left him in the dust. In season 2, he only appears in four episodes before being killed off . | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b95cd640 | type |
Huge Schoolgirl | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b95cd640 | comment |
Huge Schoolgirl: Silver - Jessica Stroup is 5'8, which isn't so noticeable next to the only slightly shorter (and usually high heel clad) AnnaLynne McCord. But when standing next to the petite and waifish Shenae Grimes can look unintentionally hilarious. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b9c673a6 | type |
Market-Based Title | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_b9c673a6 | comment |
Market-Based Title: In Brazil, the series is named Barrados no Baile ("Barred at the Party"). Since the very first episode shows Brenda entering a club using a fake ID and Kelly being barred despite also using one (seen here), a Shout-Out to a famous 1983 Brazilian song was made to reference the fact that all the protagonists are underage and thus legally unable to get into clubs. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_bbbd4583 | type |
School Grade Hacking | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_bbbd4583 | comment |
School Grade Hacking: In "Destiny Rides Again", Steve gets bad news regarding his low SAT score. He decides to take the risk and get Herbert to help him hack into the school computer to change his grades. Eventually he gets caught and would have gotten expelled if his mother didn't pull a Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!. | |
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Plucky Comic Relief | |
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In Season 1, David and Scott were nothing more than Plucky Comic Relief, and hardly interacted with the other, older teen characters. Eventually, by season 2, David formed into the group, while Scott was sidelined for most of the season until "The Next 50 Years," when he is killed off. | |
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Replaced the Theme Tune | |
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Replaced the Theme Tune: "The Green Room," the first episode aired after the pilot, features a different theme tune. Check it out here. (By the way, the "Kelli Brook" listed in the end credits isn't that one.) | |
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Did They or Didn't They? | |
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Did They or Didn't They?: After botching her audition for the lead in the school play, Brenda shows up at the director's house in a sexy dress, insisting that she's perfect for the role. He says, "Okay, show me what you've got." as it fades to black. By the next episode, Brenda has the part. But when rumors spread that the director has a habit of seducing his students, it doesn't take long for people to assume that Brenda employed the Casting Couch to get the part. Brenda's defensive refusal to directly answer the question doesn't help her case either. It turns out that they didn't, she merely went to his house to re-audition and that the sexy dress was her costume. | |
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Incest Subtext | |
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Incest Subtext: According to IMDb: On the special, Beverly Hills, 90210: 10-Year High School Reunion (2003) Shannen Doherty revealed that the hardest thing about doing the show was pretending that Jason Priestley, whom she referred to as "being so hot", was her brother. She then revealed that, years later, people often approach her and ask her about the "weird incestuous vibe" between Brandon and Brenda, their characters. She said her response is always "Uh-huh, you better believe it!". | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Main boys trio: quintessential good boy Brandon (nice), bad boy Anti-Hero Dylan (mean), and brash but easygoing Steve (in-between). | |
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Happily Married | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: While both were briefly tempted for affairs in season 1, Jim and Cindy Walsh are the epitome of this trope. | |
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The '80s | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_c10da874 | comment |
The '80s: The first two seasons, but some shades of it are seen in season three and four. After season two, grunge fashion began to replace the bright colours and teased hair of seasons one and two. Justified, because 80s pop culture still persisted into 1993 and wasn't entirely phased out until about 1994-95. | |
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Fake Pregnancy | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_c12ad193 | comment |
Fake Pregnancy: Valerie claims to be pregnant in order to extort money from her married lover, but it's not for child support, it's for her supposed abortion and to not blab to his wife. | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_c33ba0a8 | type |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Many characters, most notably Kelly Taylor and her son, Oscar Ivy in Season 5. She didn't get a sendoff like Austin or reference to leaving like everyone else. She's just gone and no one seems to remember her. She didn't even get mentioned until late in the season. | |
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Known by the Postal Address | |
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Known by the Postal Address: The series was titled after the postal code of town it was set. The series was the Trope Codifier for teen and twentysomething TV dramas of The '90s. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Dixon. | |
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Dating Do-Si-Do | |
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Dating Do-Si-Do | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Most of the show's "damaged" characters had one: Dylan (with a con artist dad, New Age hippie mom) Kelly (deadbeat dad, alcoholic mom) Steve (oft-neglectful adoptive actor parents, angsty about his adoption) David (Missing Mom, philanderer dad) Noah (super business-oriented dad, too-important-to-bother mom) Valerie (abusive father who raped her constantly, a mom who always blamed Val for everything ) Gina (poor, Gold Digger mom; absent dad who turned out to be Donna's dad, with whom her mom had an affair) Ray (abusive dad who later left the family, alcoholic mom). | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_c972d624 | comment |
Slut-Shaming: All of the girls do this to each other at varying intervals: Brenda taunts Kelly about her previous reputation as the school bimbo after running into Kelly on a date with her ex-boyfriend Dylan. Throughout the series, it was well established that this was a sore point for Kelly. Brenda herself gets this when she's wrongly accused of using the Casting Couch to secure the lead in the school play. They, along with Andrea and Donna, apply this to newcomer Emily Valentine, upon noticing her flirting with all of the guys in the group. Especially bad as that's ALL she's doing—despite her unconventional looks and "Bad Girl" attitude, Emily is just as virginal as the latter two. Emily herself accuses Brandon of treating her like a tramp after he breaks up with her even though he's actually done nothing of the sort—although he's (rightfully) complained about her crazy behavior, he's said nothing to indicate that she's promiscuous. Valerie gets this after coming to town—from Kelly. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Crippling the Competition: Incensed when Brenda gets the lead in the school play, her rival first starts rumors that she used the Casting Couch to get the part, then suggests to her boyfriend that he physically harm her so that she'll have to give it up. | |
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Troubled Abuser | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ca39ac3e | comment |
Troubled Abuser: Ray, who had an abusive Disappeared Dad and alcoholic single mom, abuses his girlfriend Donna in season 5 and 6. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: Silver's age. She was born at the start of the original show's third season (1992) yet graduated with the class of 2011. With summer birthdays, students usually graduate before their 18th birthdays, though Silver would've had hers before the beginning of season 3 (her senior year), instead of season 4 (college freshman year). | |
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Settled for Gay | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_cdc996a | comment |
Settled for Gay: In an episode when Annie had a dream if she hadn't moved to Beverly Hills, Naomi went broke due to her sister took all of her inheritance, so a still-closeted Teddy made a deal to her by marrying him as his beard, while he would also pay for all of her expenses. | |
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Monochrome Casting | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ce0b2b21 | comment |
Monochrome Casting: Only Mark Damon Espinosa (Jesse) was a main character of color, though was given little to do as a character, aside from being Andrea's boyfriend-turned-husband. Aaron Spelling later said he regretted it. In fact he said it was his greatest regret regarding the show. | |
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Casting Couch | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ce165390 | comment |
Brenda herself gets this when she's wrongly accused of using the Casting Couch to secure the lead in the school play. | |
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Four-Girl Ensemble | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d0347bf0 | comment |
Four-Girl Ensemble: Annie is the sweet naive girl, Silver is the Deadpan Snarker, Adrianna is the one obsessed with glamor and fame, and Naomi serves as the cool big sister figure for the group. | |
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Competence Zone | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d13c403a | comment |
Competence Zone: As of season four Navid and Silver play surrogate parents to Navid's sister Leila - who is all of a year younger than them but who acts and is treated like a 14 year old. | |
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Troubled, but Cute | |
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Troubled, but Cute: Liam. | |
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All Women Love Shoes | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d275c4f4 | comment |
All Women Love Shoes: Naomi claims to have more shoes than Imelda Marcos and Kimora combined. | |
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Teen Genius | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d280a296 | comment |
Teen Genius: Clare Arnold entered California University as a college sophomore, despite having graduated from high school only a couple of months earlier. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Almost every major character has been at the receiving end of this. For example, the season 4 episode "Blind Spot", after he discovered that his fraternity's leader was gay and he accidentally outed him to the other fraternity members, has Steve being chewed out by the man for his homophobia and his decision to out him. Kelly and Dylan face this by Brenda when they reveal that they cheated with each other while Brenda was in Paris during the summer. Andrea calls David out for his apolitical stance when an accused anti-Semitic speaker is allowed to speak at the California University campus. This eventually leads to David coming to terms with his Jewish identity and going along with Andrea. Brandon is called out by Robinson Ashe III in a season 2 episode because the latter thinks that Brandon's only befriending him to get a story out of him (in the aftermath of his sister's boyfriend getting arrested for walking at night in Beverly Hills) and implicitly accused him of racism because of it. Brandon gets fed up with the accusation, leading to Brenda to tell her brother that he wouldn't be so upset if he felt that Robinson didn't have a point. | |
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Over-the-Shoulder Carry | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d46230c3 | comment |
Over-the-Shoulder Carry: In episode "Spring Dance", Dylan throws Brenda over his shoulder and twirls her when having alone time in a hotel room right before doing Their First Time. | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d4bb4e51 | comment |
Walking Shirtless Scene: Liam the most, but Dixon is also shirtless quite often. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Valerie gets this after coming to town—from Kelly. | |
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Estranged Soap Family | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d5687477 | comment |
Estranged Soap Family: Big time, even excluding those relatives who departed on bad terms. Notable examples include Naomi's mother Tracy who has not appeared since 2009 despite her daughter being raped, scammed out of her money by a cult, expelled from high school and nearly getting married. Harry didn't show when Dixon almost died. And both parents were absent during his struggles with drugs. | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d5a060a8 | comment |
Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Lindsay Price is half-Korean, but was cast as the Japanese Janet. note And previously played Chinese characters on All My Children and The Bold and the Beautiful. | |
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Fake Guest Star | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d72edeb0 | comment |
Fake Guest Star: Kathleen Robertson (Clare) in season 5, plus Jason Wiles (Colin), Emma Caulfield (Susan), and Cameron Bancroft (Joe) in season 6. Most appear in over 25 episodes of their respective seasons, though still placed under "guest star" billing (though Kathleen Robertson was Promoted to Opening Titles come season 6). Especially egregious in the case of Wiles, who appears in every episode in season 6. Luke Perry is credited as "special guest star" for the final two seasons though is, for all intents and purposes, a main character. Joe E. Tata appears in a majority of the episodes of the first five seasons. He's Promoted to Opening Titles come season 6. | |
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The Other Darrin | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_d7f6f486 | comment |
Donna and Kelly's mothers in their first appearances are completely different from their later incarnations (not to mention played by different actresses than the regular ones); the more laid-back and fashionable Nancy Martin is a far-cry from the strict and conservative Felice Martin, for example. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Dylan doesn't appear in the pilot, despite being the show's Breakout Character, and appeared in less episodes than the other main characters during the first season. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Naomi certainly does want Liam. Annie seems to either genuinely not like him, or denying/hiding the fact. Regardless, she'll fall soon with the way things are going. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: The season three episode "Midlife...Now What?" has several: When Brenda and Kelly are getting back massages at a spa, one of masseuses recounts a story of her two friends fighting over the same guy, which fractured their relationship. What...are...the...odds? In the same episode, Brenda learns that David's dad Mel Silver, then-married to Jackie Taylor, Kelly's mom, is having an affair when she overhears a conversation between two unrelated masseuses. Both Cindy and Jim, from friends and associates, gain the same book, the titular "Midlife...Now What?" which seems to be the go-to book on how to deal with a midlife crisis. The season four episode "The Time Has Come Today". Brenda finds a notebook in the floorboards of her bedroom, and discovers that it was written by a girl who lived in her home during the Vietnam War. By sheer coincidence, the girl had a twin brother and the same amount of friends as Brenda (sans Andrea), attended California University, and had a "Bad Boy" boyfriend that her father disapproved of, and all of her problems seem to mirror the problems Brenda is having with her friends at the time. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: Principal Yvonne Teasley. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Season 4 has teased Adrianna with both Dixon and Liam. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: After Oscar completes his revenge on Laurel, he stays around to help Naomi against Mr. Cannon. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Debbie can embrace this from time to time, especially when it came to Dixon and Sasha. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: Erin Silver prefers to go by 'Silver'. | |
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Prime Time Soap | |
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Primetime Soap: What the show later became. | |
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The Charmer | |
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The Charmer: Dylan, who was very lucky with women. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: When Navid's father blames him for revealing information that led to the police investigating him for child pornography, Navid told his father that it happened because he (the father) broke the law. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: At least initially the Wilsons where clearly intended to invoke the Walshes from the original series (Annie especially was very obviously the new Brenda) though it's lessened with time. Dixon shares a few similarities with Clay Carlin from South of Nowhere. He may be an example of what Clay would be like if he hadn't met Sean. Campbell is pretty much Sebastian Smythe, except straight. They're even played by the same actor. | |
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Satellite Character | |
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Andrea's husband Jesse, and Brandon's boss Nat. Both were credited main characters, though they were usually used as means to serve the other, more prominent characters. Nevertheless, they did have some storylines, though were comparatively minor to the others. Even more surprising, considering that Jesse was the sole minority character in the main cast. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: "I like your butt... (beat)...I mean your bike." | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: Before David and Andrea joined the group the three boys and girls fitted this. Id: Steve and Donna Ego: Brenda and Brandon Superego: Dylan and Kelly. | |
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Bound and Gagged | |
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Bound and Gagged: Naomi and Silver in Liars, though only Naomi is gagged. Liam at the end of The Things We Do For Love and most of the next episode Misery Loves Company, much to the squee of fangirls. | |
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Second Year Protagonist | |
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Second Year Protagonist: Most of the students spent two years in their junior year before moving onto senior year in the show's third season. This was done to sustain the show's longevity as the series became popular. However, the trope is averted with David Silver, who begins as a freshman, and unlike the rest of the gang, ages normally but graduates a year earlier than expected in season 3, with the Hand Wave being that he took more classes to catch up. | |
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The Moving Experience | |
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Subverted in season 5, when Jim and Cindy Walsh did leave for Hong Kong, thus becoming The Moving Experience...on a different continent. They intended to sell the house, which led to their son Brandon (daughter Brenda having left for London a year earlier) deciding to have a destructive rave at the home, as the new potential owners were intending to destroy the house after the sale was made. However, the real estate agent came during the rave, and informed Brandon that the house fell out of escrow, thus the Walshes were still the owners of the house. This led to Brandon and his friends having to clean up the mess after the rave ended. Brandon and numerous of his friends (Steve, Valerie, David, etc.) lived in the house through the remainder of the show, even after Brandon himself left for Washington D.C. in early season 9, which meant that none of the owners or related family members lived in the house in the final two seasons. | |
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Two-Teacher School | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_edce12ef | comment |
Two-Teacher School: Sure there are a decent number of teachers but apparently Ryan Matthews teaches Sophomore, Junior, and Senior English. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Kelly gets unintentionally pregnant while in college, even though she uses birth control. This results in a miscarriage and she then finds out she has a medical condition called endometriosis, and is told by the doctor that that will make it very hard for her to ever get pregnant again, which she feels devastated about (although she hadn't planned getting pregnant while still in college, she apparently wanted to have children later in life). note — In the sequel/reboot series, she has a son, so apparently she did have a child at the end though — Brenda goes through a pregnancy scare after sleeping with Dylan for the first time, even though they too used birth control. Andrea unintentionally gets pregnant in college (and thus eventually has her daughter, Hannah, and marries Jesse). Then there's Kelly's mother Jackie, who was surprised when she learned that she was pregnant again while she was dating David's father (whom she married at the end of season 2). | |
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Product Placement | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: Most noticeable was the Peach Pit After Dark, a club named after and using the iconic flying toaster logo from the Berkeley Systems screensaver series. | |
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Surfer Dude | |
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Surfer Dudette: Ivy. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_f5a3e496 | comment |
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Gina for Valerie, down to their bitchy qualities and their rivalry with Kelly (basically Gina was Valerie on ice skates). Arguably, Noah for Dylan, because of their collective issues with their wealthy fathers, alcohol issues, and their "bad boy" attitudes; however, unlike most examples of the trope, both were on the show at the same time (the last two seasons). | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gina (poor, Gold Digger mom; absent dad who turned out to be Donna's dad, with whom her mom had an affair) | |
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Love Makes You Evil | |
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Love Makes You Evil: Jasper has been a good example of this. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: Kelly is almost raped at a high school Halloween party by a fellow student. A few years later, when she's addicted to cocaine in college, Kelly is almost raped by her drug dealer but fights him off with a bottle of wine. Donna is almost raped by a Stalker with a Crush at her own home but luckily this is prevented by David coming in just in time to save her. | |
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Asian and Nerdy | |
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Asian and Nerdy: Janet Sosna, whose parents are Japanese Americans (the actress Lindsay Price herself was half-Korean). | |
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