Okay here’s how my 90210 episode recaps are going to work, first off I’m planning to have some fun with this so every character is going to get a nickname. Here are all of the nicknames for the series regulars:
Annie Wilson: Suddenly Lovable Annie- I’m calling her this because when 90210 started I hated Annie and I thought that she was the most annoying character on the show. Starting with season 2 I started to really like Annie after hating her for pretty much all of season 1, but starting with season 3 I started to really love the character Annie.
Dixon Wilson: Bill Cosby Jr.- I’m calling him this because Dixon constantly reminds me of Bill Cosby for some reason, but I’m not sure why exactly.
Naomi Clark: Amanda Woodward Jr.- I’m calling her this because with all of the one liners and backhanded compliments she gives people she reminds me a lot of Amanda Woodward from Melrose Place.
Ryan Matthews: Doogie Howser- I’m calling him this because despite the fact that Ryan Eggold is playing an adult character on the show, he’s actually younger than most of the cast members who play teenagers on the show.
Silver: Alpha Chick- I’m calling her this because Silver has always been a very strong independent girl who has a tendency to be a bit bossy at times, but she also doesn’t put up with people’s crap.
Navid Shirazzi: Seth Cohen Gone Persian- I’m calling him this because he’s always reminded me a lot of the character Seth Cohen from The O.C.
Adrianna Tate-Duncan: Diva Girl: I’m calling her this because of how she begins to act very demanding and neglect all of her friends due her new found success as a singer this season.
Liam Court: Grumpy- I’m calling him this because Liam seems to constantly be in somewhat of a bad mood or angry with someone. However, I have to say that Matt Lanter really shows off his comedic side in the way that he plays Liam and frequently makes me laugh this season, even when Liam’s in a bad mood or embarrassed about something.
Ivy Sullivan: That’s 60s Girl- I’m calling her this because constantly dresses in a manner that reminds me of girls in the 60s during era of free-love
Teddy Montgomery: McDreamy- I could give him a nickname poking fun at the fact that Trevor Donovan is 32 years-old like a lot of other viewers do, but I won’t since Trevor isn’t the only actor in the cast who’s playing a teenager when they’re at least 30 years-old in real life (Michael Steger is 30), and I don’t have problem with his age. I’m calling him this because I think he’s really hot and I have major crush on him.
Debbie Wilson: Aunt Becky- I’m calling her this because it used to really annoy me that people that posts in 90210 forums referred to Debbie as Aunt Becky, but I recently saw a tweet from Trevor Donovan on Twitter where he refers to Debbie as Aunt Becky and it literally had me constantly spontaneously bursting into laughter for the rest of the day.
Recurring Guest star roles in the episode:
Mr. Cannon: Mr. Creepy- I’m calling him this because not only did he rape Naomi in the season 2 finale, he starts to act really creepy with Silver this season too.
Javier Luna: Ugly Navid- I’m calling him this because I think he looks a lot like Navid, only he’s an ugly version of Navid.
Ivan Aycock Sullivan: Ivan Aycock- I’m calling her this because prior to seeing her on 90210 I saw Kelly Lynch on The L Word where she played a drag king and that’s the first thing I think of every time I see her.
Anyway onto the recap:
The episode begins with a recap of everything that happened in the season 2 finale, which I don’t need to be reminded of since I’ve been watching 90210 episodes obsessively this summer. I think I may have a problem.
All of the kids are arriving at the high school for the first day of school. Bill Cosby Jr. is shouting “Senior Year, Baby!” like an idiot as Aunt Becky pulls up in the car with Suddenly Lovable Annie also in tow. As Aunt Becky is saying goodbye to Bill Cosby Jr. and Suddenly Lovable Annie she becomes distracted when she notices the world’s laziest school janitor painting over her deadbeat ex-husband’s name and painting on the new principal’s name, which leads me to ask why on earth did they wait to the first day of school to do that? Her kids get her attention where she quickly decides that she’s going to make Buliavase for their back to school dinner. Aunt Becky assures them she’s fine and trying to be the cool mom exclaims “Senior Year, Baby!” as she leaves.
Bill Cosby Jr. and Suddenly Lovable Annie join Seth Cohen Gone Persian and
Suddenly Lovable Annie fills him in on the fact that her house arrest for the hit and run is over and she’s now simply on probation until she’s twenty-five. Only on TV could someone guilty of killing someone in a hit run get off with being on house arrest for the summer, having their driver’s license suspended and being on probation until they are twenty-five.
McDreamy and Alpha Chick join Suddenly Lovable Annie , Bill Cosby Jr. and Seth Cohen Gone Persian and Alpha Chick immediately fills everyone in on the fact that she spent all summer working on her senior project application because she’s determined to get into a “kick-ass” film school when she goes to college. McDreamy obviously thinking pretty highly of himself suggests that she do her documentary on his tennis career since he’s on the verge of going pro. The gang asks him if his chances of that happening are good, and he tells them that it all depends on how he plays this year since every tournament counts. Oh, McDreamy I’ve read the spoilers about your storyline for this season, and my heart is kind of breaking for you since I know that’s not going to happen.
Seth Cohen Gone Persian having a rather selfish moment tells McDreamy that that’s not real pressure and that having a Persian father who pressures his son about his college applications is a situation that’s much more dire than someone’s entire tennis career being at stake. Alpha Chick gets a tweet from Amanda Woodward Jr. saying that she’s at the airport being harassed by a customs guy. That’s a lie.
It turns out that Amanda Woodward Jr. isn’t at the airport, she’s spent her entire summer in a crappy motel that somehow she’s managed to bribe the own into hold off on making her pay her bill by giving the owner designer clothes to give his wife until her trust fund kicks in. The owner is getting frustrated and informs her that his wife didn’t like the Birkin bag he got from Amanda Woodward Jr. because his wife thinks its worthless without matching shoes.
Next were back at the school where Bill Cosby Jr. being a very clingy boyfriend who wants That’s 60s Girl back in Beverly Hills A.S.AP. is on the phone with That’s 60s Girl who’s pissed about the fact that he bailed on her in Australia over the summer. That’s 60s Girl acting like a selfish bitch doesn’t seem to get that he only left her to get back home to deal with the implosion that was the demise of his parents’ marriage. It turns out That’s 60s Girl is already back at the school and surprises Bill Cosby Jr. only to be interrupted by her Australian friend Oscar who spent the summer with That’s 60s Girl and her mom and will now be spending the year with them while he goes to Beverly Hills high school for a post-grad senior year that That’s 60s Girl failed to tell Bill Cosby Jr. about. What kind of an idiot chooses to take an extra year of high school? Oscar staying with That’s 60s Girl and her mom for the year? Yeah, that’s all going to go well. Not.
Seth Cohen Gone Persian is off making out with his cell phone in the hallway as he leaves a message for Adrianna since she was gone all summer going on tour with Javier. Adrianna is off riding in a limo with Javier who doesn’t give a rat’s ass that she’s dating Seth Cohen Gone Persian and is shamelessly flirting with each other. When Adrianna rejects him and tells him off, Javier threatens to drop her from the tour and suggests that she join glee club. Either he’s watched Glee and knows that it would be social suicide for Adrianna to do that and he’s saying that to punish her or he hasn’t seen Glee and honestly thinks that would be Adrianna’s next best option.
Back at school, Suddenly Lovable Annie runs into Grumpy in the hallway who’s pissed off that he didn’t hear from her all summer. In typical Grumpy fashion, Grumpy is feeling all moody about this and just scowls at her before walking off.
Suddenly Lovable Annie then runs into Amanda Woodward Jr. who she immediately begins to act all lovey dovey with since they are now officially B.F.F. thanks to some unknown figure who gave them a time machine so they could go back and undo all of the Ethan drama. Remember him? It also appears that Suddenly Lovable Annie and Amanda Woodward Jr. were struck with a case of amnesia and have forgotten all of the Grumpy drama from last year back when Amanda Woodward Jr. believed that Grumpy had slept with Suddenly Lovable Annie when he had really slept with Amanda Woodward Jr.’s wicked witch of a sister, Jen, at the end of season one. It’s so nice to see that Suddenly Lovable Annie is basically able to completely forget the fact that Amanda Woodward Jr. turned into a social pariah, which launched Suddenly Lovable Annie into a downward spiral that led to her present legal woes. Anyway, I digress.
Amanda Woodward Jr., keeping up her charade of having been away on vacation at the Riviera all summer, tells Suddenly Lovable Annie to remind her to share the details of her rendezvous with Robert Pattinson who according to Amanda Woodward Jr. apparently bites. Suddenly Lovable Annie then informs Amanda Woodward Jr. that she has Mr. Creepy for her homeroom teacher for the year. Amanda Woodward Jr. is distressed by this because she believed that he was only going to be teaching at the school the previous year before going back to London.
Once Suddenly Lovable Annie and Amanda Woodward Jr.’s gal pal session is over, Amanda Woodward Jr. runs into Mr. Creepy in the hallway moments before the school is hit by an earthquake, sending everyone into a panic. While McDreamy and Alpha Chick take shelter under a table, a bookshelf falls on McDreamy’s leg, which unbeknownst to McDreamy will lead to the end of the tennis career and put him on a one-way train ride to gay ville. Suddenly Lovable Annie and Grumpy find themselves taking cover under the same table. Mr. Creepy try to show some concern for Amanda Woodward Jr. grabs onto her to protect her from the shaking of the earthquake, but in the end only ends up causing Amanda Woodward Jr. to flash back to the night he raped her and start screaming like a screeching banshee. Once the earthquake ends, he tells Amanda Woodward Jr. it’s okay now and that the earthquake is over before he proceeds to taunt her about her accusing him of rape. Amanda Woodward Jr. only tells him to get lost and makes a call to the police on her cell phone saying that she wants to report a rape.
Now it’s time for the theme song. Personally I liked the theme song that they had for season one better. I really wish that they had kept that one and simply updated the footage of the cast members and added footage of Matt Lanter as Grumpy to the opening.
Next we see Suddenly Lovable Annie trying to take advantage of the fact that she and Grumpy are trapped in the classroom they took cover in to apologize to Grumpy for not talking to him over the summer since she was overwhelmed with dealing with lawyers, probation and house arrest. Grumpy is stilled pissed off and wants to know why she couldn’t take five minutes to get in touch with over the summer. Suddenly Lovable Annie reminds him that she left him a message saying that hoped that he was okay. Really, Suddenly Lovable Annie? Do you honestly expect anyone to believe that you were too busy to get in touch with Grumpy over the summer? After all, you were on house arrest all summer so I doubt that you had too many things to do all summer preventing you from being able to take the time to call Grumpy.
Grumpy informs Suddenly Lovable Annie that his stepdad kicked him out of the house after he told him about stealing the collector’s coins to give his dad so he could sell them at a pawn shop for money and that Jasper lit his boat on fire. Once again Suddenly Lovable Annie apologizes for not being there for him, and Mr. Creepy comes to check on them.
Back to McDreamy and Alpha Chick , McDreamy is on the phone with his doctor arranging an appointment so he can have his knee checked. After he gets off the phone, McDreamy assures Alpha Chick that he thinks everything is okay with his knee and that he’ll be able to play in his Tennis match. Oscar posing as a firefighter tells everyone that school is canceled for the rest of the day so the school can be inspect for damage which causes everyone to immediately flee the school in order to spend the rest of the day having fun despite Doogie Howser’s futile attempts to get everyone to stay. Bill Cosby Jr., That’s 60s Girl and Oscar promptly make plans to go surfing since the earthquake should help create ideal waves for surfing at the beach. Doogie Howser tracks down Suddenly Lovable Annie and they talk about him being her senior advisor and an internship that he had told her about over the summer. Suddenly Lovable Annie tells him that she thinks she has no chance of getting the internship once they find out about her legal problems. Doogie Howser tells her that she’s served her punishment so her records are sealed and can’t be used against her and offers to write her a recommendation letter, bragging about his secret talent for writing excellent recommendation letter and tells her that she deserves a chance. After hearing this Suddenly Lovable Annie takes him up on his offer to have him write a letter of recommendation for her, but it turns out that he already wrote and gives it to her. Once Suddenly Lovable Annie leaves Doogie Howser, he calls Jen and leaves the world’s worst answering machine message, saying that he deserves a chance to be a father to their child.
With her license suspended, Suddenly Lovable Annie is forced to get a ride from someone, but she can’t find Bill Cosby Jr. and Seth Cohen Gone Persian has already sped off, forcing her to beg Grumpy to give her a ride to the interview for the internship. Grumpy begrudgingly agrees to give her a ride and they leave school together. I have to say, I love the Suddenly Lovable Annie and Grumpy pairing a 100X more than I ever liked Amanda Woodward Jr. and Grumpy together. I’ve always loved their scenes together, and I think they have a lot more chemistry then Amanda Woodward Jr. and Grumpy had when they were together.
Off at the beach, Bill Cosby Jr., That’s 60s Girl and Oscar are lamenting the fact that the waves are too flat for them to be able to surf. Oscar spots some jet skis that they decide to “borrow” and go jet skiing in the ocean instead.
Adrianna and Javier are still stuck and traffic and Javier is still making futile attempts to hit on her. Javier informs Adrianna that there is another singer that there’s a lot more hype surrounding. Adrianna is convinced that she can write her own songs, but Javier tells her she’s only been able to write one hit song. Javier shows her a song book with ten songs that he’s written that are sure to be huge hits right before their limo crashes into something as the show goes to commercial break.
We’re back to Bill Cosby Jr., That’s 60s Girl and Oscar who are riding the jet skis. Once they are done riding the jets skis, Bill Cosby Jr. tries to get That’s 60s Girl to ditch Oscar, but she apparently lost a bet to him about their jet skiing abilities and now she owes Oscar a burger so she leaves with Oscar to get him his burger. Are you kidding me? What kind of idiots make a bet where a burger is at stake? Lame!
McDreamy is off at his tennis match because apparently his doctor cleared him to play, which Alpha Chick is extremely relieved about. Throughout the entire scene Alpha Chick cheers McDreamy on, using tennis terminology incorrectly, which Seth Cohen Gone Persian points out to her. I have to give her credit though. At least she’s making an effort and knows various terms for playing tennis. My knowledge of tennis and experience with playing tennis only consists of playing it on my Nintendo Wii. McDreamy continues to play until his knee gives out and he falls to the ground in pain. I had so many problems with this scene the first time I watched this episode. Are we honestly supposed to believe that any doctor in their right mind would clear McDreamy to play right after a bookshelf fell on his leg?
Amanda Woodward Jr. is at the police station where she’s talking to a police officer about her rape and how she didn’t forward sooner because she cried wolf last season and asks her if she still has a case. The police officer tells her that she still has a chance of winning the case, but she will have to prepare herself for a very messy trial and offers to refer to a counseling service. Amanda Woodward Jr. doesn’t want the whole situation to go to trial, all she wants is for her life to go back to normal and asks her if she can turn her back into the person she was before Mr. Creepy raped her.
We’re back to Adrianna who is still in shock that Javier has been killed in the car accident. A police officer gives her a bag of her things with Javier’s songbook included the bag and asks if she has someone she can call for a ride. Adrianna tells him that she has a boyfriend, and as he walks away she finds the songbook and starts to tell him that it’s not hers’, but quickly changes her mind. Yeah, that’s all going to end well for Adrianna, not.
Next, Amanda Woodward Jr. is shopping at Kim and Khloe Kardashian’s clothing store for a dress that says “I’m back.”. They suggest that she get a backless dress. After hearing the price of the dress, she asks if she can get it on layaway, but they tell her that they don’t let people do that. Amanda Woodward Jr. proceeds to insult them as they storm off.
We join Suddenly Lovable Annie as her interview for the internship is in progress. Catherine asks Suddenly Lovable Annie what her biggest weakness and strength is, to which Suddenly Lovable Annie responds by saying she can be a bit of a perfectionist and that she believes that she’s generally a very positive person. Suddenly Lovable Annie having a major knack for giving a good interview, starts ramble on and on like an idiot about her summer, but omits the details about her legal issues. The room is hit with an aftershock from the earthquake which prompts Suddenly Lovable Annie to come clean about all of her legal problems, because nothing helps a person nail a job interview better than telling your potential boss that you accidently killed a man in a hit run. Great job, Suddenly Lovable Annie! I’m kidding. Anyway, Suddenly Lovable Annie continues to ramble and begs for the job before leaving the interview.
Back at That’s 60s Girl’s house That’s 60s Girl and Oscar are discussing That’s 60s Girl’s music collection and that Oscar will always remember that he shared his first earthquake with her. They end up making out on the bed, but the whole scene ends up being a dream of That’s 60s Girl’s. After seeing Oscar when she wakes up That’s 60s Girl rushes off to the party she’s planning to go to.
Grumpy is in his garage working on his car when Suddenly Lovable Annie runs into the room excitedly. Grumpy thinks that means the interview went well, but Suddenly Lovable Annie tells him it went horribly. She’s happy because she was honest with Catherine and that there will be no more secrets or hiding things about her life. Suddenly Lovable Annie and Grumpy begin to kiss as the show goes to commercial break.
When the show returns from the commercial break, Suddenly Lovable Annie and Grumpy are still kissing, but Suddenly Lovable Annie stops kissing him because she doesn’t want to cause problems with her friendship with Amanda Woodward Jr. by dating Grumpy like she did with Ethan in season one. Grumpy insists that Amanda Woodward Jr. is over him, but Suddenly Lovable Annie still thinks that friends shouldn’t date each other’s exes. Grumpy jokes that the good news is that he’s not attracted to Jasper, and suggest they just keep their relationship a secret. Suddenly Lovable Annie reminds him that there would be no lying and no hiding between. Grumpy wants to know where that leaves things with them, and Suddenly Lovable Annie thinks they should just be friends, but Grumpy doesn’t want to do that. He wants to date her, but Suddenly Lovable Annie says that means they’re not friends and leaves Grumpy’s garage. This really makes me sad because the Suddenly Lovable Annie and Grumpy pairing is one of my favorite pairings on the show, but of course I know they’re going to get back together eventually because teen dramas are very predictable that way.
Seth Cohen Gone Persian is in Adrianna’s bedroom comforting her when Adrianna gets a call from Ivan Aycock saying that she just heard about Javier’s death. Adrianna asks Seth Cohen Gone Persian to get her some soup so she can be alone to talk to Ivan Aycock about her album. Ivan Aycock tells Adrianna that the hype about her music has fizzled out, but Adrianna tells her that she’s written a lot of new songs, referring to Javier’s song book and convinces Ivan Aycock to take a look at it. Yeah, this is not going to end well for Adrianna.
All of the teens are at a party. Alpha Chick tells Amanda Woodward Jr. that she feels bad for McDreamy because he can’t play tennis for the rest of year and that he may never get his full range of motion back. At this moment, McDreamy is approaching Alpha Chick and Amanda Woodward Jr. as walks on crutches. Alpha Chick is surprised that McDreamy has come to the party, but McDreamy says there was no reason not since he doesn’t have to train in the morning. He goes on to say that his whole life he always had to worry about staying in shape and watching what he ate. McDreamy says it’s time to have some fun and then starts drinking from a flask and he and Amanda Woodward Jr. make a toast to moving on. Amanda Woodward Jr. spots a freshman and runs off to confront him. Alpha Chick asks McDreamy if he drove to the party drunk. He insists that he’s not drunk, just a little buzzed. Alpha Chick says that she thinks he should slow down, but McDreamy says he doesn’t want to do that. McDreamy laments that he pretty much ruined his life. Alpha Chick says that the doctor cleared him to play, but McDreamy confesses that the doctor actually told him not to play for six weeks, but he didn’t listen and now he’s injured. McDreamy is upset that he may never play again, and Alpha Chick trying to comfort him says he’ll find something else that he loves to do. McDreamy being a jerk says it’s not that easy and that she doesn’t understand because she’s never been great at anything. This pisses Alpha Chick off and storms off. The fact that McDreamy was actually lying when he said that the doctor cleared him to play makes me feel a lot better, because at least the audience isn’t forced to believe that any doctor in the world would be stupid enough clear him to play right after a bookshelf fall on their leg.
That’s 60s Girl is off calling Bill Cosby Jr. when he shows up. Bill Cosby Jr. apologizes for acting like a jealous jerk, but That’s 60s Girl thinks she needs to be the one apologizing. Bill Cosby Jr and That’s 60s Girl make plans to go to a taco stand. Bill Cosby Jr. tells That’s 60s Girl that he loves her. I’m sorry, but this whole scene seems beyond to stupid to me because I thought the whole fight was pretty lame. Plus, what’s even remotely romantic about eating at a taco stand?
Amanda Woodward Jr. is off somewhere else when a drunk guy comes up and tells her that he think she’s hot. Amanda Woodward Jr. starts to walk off when the guy says he thought that she liked being told she looks hot. The drunk guy says she seems different from the way she used to be. Upset, Amanda Woodward Jr. kisses drunk guy and insists that she’s still the same person she’s always been. She tells him that they should go upstairs and he should bring his friends with him.
Suddenly Lovable Annie and Bill Cosby Jr. are home in the dark with Aunt Becky as they make dinner. Yeah, Aunt Becky, chopping food with a sharp knife in the dark isn’t dangerous at all. It’s not like to you have to worry about cutting off your fingers or anything gruesome like that. Aunt Becky wants Bill Cosby Jr. to set the table, but Bill Cosby Jr. thinks they should just go out to eat. Aunt Becky wants to make dinner like she does every year, but Suddenly Lovable Annie thinks they shouldn’t because things are different this year with Aunt Becky and Deadbeat splitting up and Deadbeat Dad lives about an hour away. Aunt Becky says she knows things are different, but she doesn’t want to be the kind of woman who sits around crying all the time while she watches movies on the Lifetime channel about things like a woman who get impregnated by their dentist while she’s under anesthesia for dental surgery and then are forced to go on the run after they kill the guy. Okay, I’m paraphrasing here, but you get the idea.
Suddenly Lovable Annie says it okay to cry and then they have a Full House moment with Bill Cosby Jr. saying that she needs to let them take care of her too. They decide to eat all of the perishable food for dinner instead, and Suddenly Lovable Annie not knowing want the word perishable means says that she should eat the potato chips. I kid. Suddenly Lovable Annie gets a call from Catherine saying that she’s been hired for the internship. Suddenly Lovable Annie is surprised that she got it, but Catherine says that she had a great résumé and she admired her passion and her honesty about the hit and run. Suddenly Lovable Annie gets off the phone and she celebrates the good news with Aunt Becky and Bill Cosby Jr.
Adrianna singing Javier’s song is heard in the background as we then see Catherine making another phone call that’s very mysterious. Catherine says she think she’s found the right person, for what we won’t know for several episodes, and tells the person on the other end of the line that Suddenly Lovable Annie is beautiful and most of all she may just be desperate enough to do it. Desperate enough to do what, we won’t know what “it” is until several more episodes either.
McDreamy walks in on Amanda Woodward Jr. dancing on a table in her underwear as some guys watch her and tells the guys to get out. McDreamy wants to know what’s wrong.
That’s 60s Girl finds Oscar in her room who says their chemistry is palpable. That’s 60s Girl asks about his girlfriend and says that’s a generous term and that they have an open relationship. As Oscar leaves, he tells her he will be right down the hall.
Oscar meets up with Ivan Aycock and they start kissing. Ivan Aycock says they have to stop hooking up since That’s 60s Girl’s back home from her trip.
Next we’re back to McDreamy and Amanda Woodward Jr.. McDreamy wants to know what Amanda Woodward Jr. was thinking when she started dancing on the table. As Amanda Woodward Jr. starts drinking champagne from the bottle she tells McDreamy that she’s always been a very sexual person and that sex is just a random act. Amanda Woodward Jr. wants to know why McDreamy is so uncomfortable and asks if he wants to sleep with her before she starts kissing him just as Alpha Chick walks in on them. After seeing them kissing, Alpha Chick leaves as McDreamy tries to stop her.
Next we see Seth Cohen Gone Persian watching Adrianna as she finishes singing Javier’s song. Seth Cohen Gone Persian admits that he was always lukewarm on her original material, but he loves that song.
We see Alpha Chick on the phone with Mr. Creepy saying she’s excited to work with him on her senior project. He tells her he’s looking forward to working with her too. The episode ends with Amanda Woodward Jr. being shown alone in her hotel room.
My quick thoughts: All in all, I thought that this was a great episode. It wasn’t perfect, but it did a great job of setting up everyone’s storylines. As for how I would rate this episode, I give it a B+. Also, doing a scene by scene recap was a lot more work and a lot more time consuming than I thought it would be, so I might just do a weekly blog post about my thoughts on the episode with only a brief recap of each storyline. I haven’t decided for sure what method I’ll use to recap the show each week yet.
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