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05-27-2009, 06:32 AM
WALK LIKE AN EQYPTIAN
Tuesday’s 90210 finale was an excellent cap-off to a solid season. I guess. In the interest of full disclosure, I never technically, you know, watched the show before now, but with the help of a Wikipedia season plot summary I swear you’ll never know the difference.
This episode is titled “One Party Can Ruin Your Whole Summer” and the CW trailers have been promising us that “they’ve been living on the edge, and now it’s time to pay the price.” Intrigue! If this party is as devastating as the title claims, I bet most of the characters will horrifically be grounded to their Beverly Hills mansions for their indiscretions. But only time will tell. After a brief recap of the season (Fighting! Pregnancy! Prom! Shannon Doherty!), we get our first look at what would prove to be the theme of the evening, and indeed the show: attractive people partying.
The episode begins with sisters Naomi and Jen. Naomi feels the need to describe to Jen how her boyfriend Liam’s dad ran out when Liam was younger and how his mom was a maid who married her rich boss. Apparently the billionaire didn’t treat his mom very well, which Naomi calls the root of Liam’s “trust issues.” Jen, like the rest of us, is confused as to why Naomi would share this with her and continues to apply make-up without really paying attention. OR IS SHE? Naomi is excited that she is making such progress with Liam.
The two are interrupted by friend Phoebe, who claims that she is having a total emergency. In true 90210 fashion, this “emergency” turns out to be the loss of their party spot. Kind of pales next to the daddy abandonment subplot, Phoebs. Jen is still in earshot and so Phoebe quickly 86’s the party-talk, but Naomi assures her that she isn’t a grown-up. She further says that she’d be happy to have the party at her house, but not-a-grown-up Jen interjects. She says the last thing she wants is high-schoolers “spilling beer on the furniture and vomiting wine coolers on the rugs.” Oddly specific, and giving me the uncomfortable realization that I may have been at a party with Jen at some point in my own high-school career.
Naomi reminds Jen that she pays the rent and so the furniture is really hers, and she wants to party, damnit. She even invites Jen (to the party in their own house), but Jen still looks pissed. She bitchily tells Naomi that she doesn’t want to do this, but is equally-as-bitchily ignored. I’m sure it’s all good, and Jen will just let this silly little fight go and not RUIN LIVES, right?
Naomi proceeds to invite the cool kids to her after-prom party. Phoebe reminds Naomi that Annie (whom she calls “Benedict Annie,” and frankly I’m giving any vapid Beverly Hills teenager big points for a founding fathers pun) is responsible for squealing on the first party and should not be invited, but Naomi defends her. The girls passive-aggressively compliment Annie until Naomi receives a text that Ade has gone into labor. She begs Annie to take over the party (bad choice, Naomi! BENEDICT ANNIE!), which Annie agrees to do.
Outside, the guys are trying to find their limo, noting that they all look the same. Limousine racists. After receiving the news about Ade’s labor and the party at Naomi’s, they conclude that their limo was “stolen” (???) and they all pile into Duncan’s “white stallion,” an odd mix of limo, pick-up truck, and sailboat. Along the way, Silver tries to get Dixon to get more excited about his prom king win, but he reminds mopey because he thinks she thinks it’s stupid. Way to go Dixon, nothing extends a relationship like anger at what you assume your girlfriend is thinking. They also let Annie ride with them, after Phoebe is sufficiently mean to her. Hey, I bet Annie was the one that stole their first limo! BENEDICT ANNIE!
Stuck in traffic, Naomi starts making out with Liam, a really safe driving practice. He proceeds to tell her how he “barely exchanged five words” with his therapist, but he feels great telling Naomi everything. She awkwardly jokes about him giving her $500 (it’s either psychologist humor or a sexual proposition) and they kiss some more, still in the middle of, you know, TRAFFIC. Just because we need a little bit of dramatic irony, he reminds her that his life story was private, and he doesn’t want her to share it with anyone. The music swells dramatically as Naomi agrees, fairly comfortable that Jen wasn’t paying attention earlier OR WAS SHE?
Over at the hospital, a stereotypically apathetic nurse chats on the phone with a friend, ignoring Navid’s attempts to get his girlfriend, the already-birthing Ade, some assistance. Wait, when did he find the time to send all these texts about the labor? I feel like alerting medical professionals comes BEFORE texting your friends when it comes to any childbirth. The nurse sees his black eye and, assuming (not incorrectly) that he’s just some dumb kid who got in a fight, she gets all up in his grill and yells that she’ll get to him when she gets to him! Oh snap! The Navid v. Random Nurse fight is sadly cut short when she takes note of the actual baby thing, and they take Ade in.
Main credits. Hey, it’s the high school from Buffy the Vampire Slayer! I totally visited there and got thrown out by a suspicious janitorial staff, true story.
90210 shows us the hilariously lame “Post Prom-A-Palooza,” a lame event which they want us to know is lame. This is apparent by the glee club performance, presence of losers that did not warrant an invite to Naomi’s, chaperones, and a “Make Your Own Fundae” bar. Hey now, 90210. Mock the glee club all you want, but I’d take unlimited ice cream over hobnobbing with spoiled Beverly Hills kids any day. As a side-note, did anyone’s proms actually have a “post prom” event? At mine they did everything they could to get us to leave early, or ideally not even show up. In any case, they also show the unpopular kids playing Wii Tennis, which leads me to believe that Nintendo and the CW had a bit of a falling out.
Parent/chaperone Harry chats with Kelly until his wife Debbie (Aunt Rebecca! Ok, like I said, I had never seen the show before, and I was just really excited that she was still working, because I thought she just disappeared after the Full House era. Also, I’m disappointed that Jessica Walter wasn’t around in this episode because I’m a huge Arrested Development fan, but that’s neither here nor there) pops over and drags him away. Kelly tells them that she has just received a text about Ade’s labor, and the three of them rush out. Can chaperones just leave like that? Sort of ironic that they’re going to visit a teen parent.
Giant party montage at Naomi’s. These 90210 kids are proving what party animals they are by…gasp! Spilling pretzels on the floor! Annie is cleaning them up because of her promise to Naomi when Jen stomps on her fingers for no good reason and tells her to clean faster. Interesting management style.
Elsewhere at the party, Dixon is crying to Ethan about how much work his girlfriend Silver is. Again, relationships are tricky in that whole “requiring attention” department. He laments that he doesn’t have a “regular girlfriend” who will love dances, watch him play lacrosse, and not feel bad about consumerism. Ideally she would knit sweaters and decline to vote also, just to make his idealization of gender roles complete. Ethan praises Silver’s spirit, attitude, and life force, which are incidentally three really bad qualities to list in a personal ad. He urges Dixon to stay with her and work harder. Dixon wins over the female audience by acknowledging that he misses her even across the room, and leaves to be with her. Ethan pulls a picture out of his pocket. It’s of Silver! He gazes at it longingly! Don’t worry Ethan, with Dixon’s completely solid grasp on how relationships work I’m sure this will all turn out fine.
At the hospital, the adults show up to be with Ade. Harry reveals he stole some of the brownies from Prom and shares them with Debbie. It is here that the astute television watcher acknowledges that 1.) the brownies are drugged, or 2.) Betty Crocker cut a REALLY good deal with the producers. Meanwhile, Ade is freaking out as she goes into labor. She protests that it’s too soon and she is three weeks early, but Navid assures her that she’ll be fine. But suddenly the doctors announce that the both the baby’s heart rate and the show’s drama are dropping! She will need…a C-section! I can’t tell you how badly I want that bitchy nurse to perform it. “Just some kid with a low heart-rate, huh? I’LL GET TO YOU WHEN I GET TO YOU!”
Annie wanders around the backyard, horrified at the mess the hardcore drinkers are making. Welcome to the show, Annie.
In the quickest dramatic turnaround ever, Ade is done! A baby girl! But she refuses to see it, despite Navid’s own cuddling of the child. Both look disturbed as Navid leaves with the baby and Annie stares into space.
Our suspicions are confirmed when Harry and Debbie become stoned out of their minds, a side-effect of the drugged brownies. Who has the extra weed laying around that they can bake into brownies and then just leave sitting on the prom table? You don’t waste valuable mj like that. I, uh, heard it from a friend. In the extremely nice waiting room, Harry and Debbie struggle with where their kids Annie and Dixon might be, and also determine that they are, in fact, baked.
More partying. Dixon is DJing, and Silver decides to ask Ethan what he thinks of them as a couple. Ethan proves to be a genuinely nice guy by putting his own feelings aside and acknowledging that they make a good couple, and the fundamental differences that Silver feels are not as important as she thinks. There’s some talk about Dixon as royalty which
Tuesday’s 90210 finale was an excellent cap-off to a solid season. I guess. In the interest of full disclosure, I never technically, you know, watched the show before now, but with the help of a Wikipedia season plot summary I swear you’ll never know the difference.
This episode is titled “One Party Can Ruin Your Whole Summer” and the CW trailers have been promising us that “they’ve been living on the edge, and now it’s time to pay the price.” Intrigue! If this party is as devastating as the title claims, I bet most of the characters will horrifically be grounded to their Beverly Hills mansions for their indiscretions. But only time will tell. After a brief recap of the season (Fighting! Pregnancy! Prom! Shannon Doherty!), we get our first look at what would prove to be the theme of the evening, and indeed the show: attractive people partying.
The episode begins with sisters Naomi and Jen. Naomi feels the need to describe to Jen how her boyfriend Liam’s dad ran out when Liam was younger and how his mom was a maid who married her rich boss. Apparently the billionaire didn’t treat his mom very well, which Naomi calls the root of Liam’s “trust issues.” Jen, like the rest of us, is confused as to why Naomi would share this with her and continues to apply make-up without really paying attention. OR IS SHE? Naomi is excited that she is making such progress with Liam.
The two are interrupted by friend Phoebe, who claims that she is having a total emergency. In true 90210 fashion, this “emergency” turns out to be the loss of their party spot. Kind of pales next to the daddy abandonment subplot, Phoebs. Jen is still in earshot and so Phoebe quickly 86’s the party-talk, but Naomi assures her that she isn’t a grown-up. She further says that she’d be happy to have the party at her house, but not-a-grown-up Jen interjects. She says the last thing she wants is high-schoolers “spilling beer on the furniture and vomiting wine coolers on the rugs.” Oddly specific, and giving me the uncomfortable realization that I may have been at a party with Jen at some point in my own high-school career.
Naomi reminds Jen that she pays the rent and so the furniture is really hers, and she wants to party, damnit. She even invites Jen (to the party in their own house), but Jen still looks pissed. She bitchily tells Naomi that she doesn’t want to do this, but is equally-as-bitchily ignored. I’m sure it’s all good, and Jen will just let this silly little fight go and not RUIN LIVES, right?
Naomi proceeds to invite the cool kids to her after-prom party. Phoebe reminds Naomi that Annie (whom she calls “Benedict Annie,” and frankly I’m giving any vapid Beverly Hills teenager big points for a founding fathers pun) is responsible for squealing on the first party and should not be invited, but Naomi defends her. The girls passive-aggressively compliment Annie until Naomi receives a text that Ade has gone into labor. She begs Annie to take over the party (bad choice, Naomi! BENEDICT ANNIE!), which Annie agrees to do.
Outside, the guys are trying to find their limo, noting that they all look the same. Limousine racists. After receiving the news about Ade’s labor and the party at Naomi’s, they conclude that their limo was “stolen” (???) and they all pile into Duncan’s “white stallion,” an odd mix of limo, pick-up truck, and sailboat. Along the way, Silver tries to get Dixon to get more excited about his prom king win, but he reminds mopey because he thinks she thinks it’s stupid. Way to go Dixon, nothing extends a relationship like anger at what you assume your girlfriend is thinking. They also let Annie ride with them, after Phoebe is sufficiently mean to her. Hey, I bet Annie was the one that stole their first limo! BENEDICT ANNIE!
Stuck in traffic, Naomi starts making out with Liam, a really safe driving practice. He proceeds to tell her how he “barely exchanged five words” with his therapist, but he feels great telling Naomi everything. She awkwardly jokes about him giving her $500 (it’s either psychologist humor or a sexual proposition) and they kiss some more, still in the middle of, you know, TRAFFIC. Just because we need a little bit of dramatic irony, he reminds her that his life story was private, and he doesn’t want her to share it with anyone. The music swells dramatically as Naomi agrees, fairly comfortable that Jen wasn’t paying attention earlier OR WAS SHE?
Over at the hospital, a stereotypically apathetic nurse chats on the phone with a friend, ignoring Navid’s attempts to get his girlfriend, the already-birthing Ade, some assistance. Wait, when did he find the time to send all these texts about the labor? I feel like alerting medical professionals comes BEFORE texting your friends when it comes to any childbirth. The nurse sees his black eye and, assuming (not incorrectly) that he’s just some dumb kid who got in a fight, she gets all up in his grill and yells that she’ll get to him when she gets to him! Oh snap! The Navid v. Random Nurse fight is sadly cut short when she takes note of the actual baby thing, and they take Ade in.
Main credits. Hey, it’s the high school from Buffy the Vampire Slayer! I totally visited there and got thrown out by a suspicious janitorial staff, true story.
90210 shows us the hilariously lame “Post Prom-A-Palooza,” a lame event which they want us to know is lame. This is apparent by the glee club performance, presence of losers that did not warrant an invite to Naomi’s, chaperones, and a “Make Your Own Fundae” bar. Hey now, 90210. Mock the glee club all you want, but I’d take unlimited ice cream over hobnobbing with spoiled Beverly Hills kids any day. As a side-note, did anyone’s proms actually have a “post prom” event? At mine they did everything they could to get us to leave early, or ideally not even show up. In any case, they also show the unpopular kids playing Wii Tennis, which leads me to believe that Nintendo and the CW had a bit of a falling out.
Parent/chaperone Harry chats with Kelly until his wife Debbie (Aunt Rebecca! Ok, like I said, I had never seen the show before, and I was just really excited that she was still working, because I thought she just disappeared after the Full House era. Also, I’m disappointed that Jessica Walter wasn’t around in this episode because I’m a huge Arrested Development fan, but that’s neither here nor there) pops over and drags him away. Kelly tells them that she has just received a text about Ade’s labor, and the three of them rush out. Can chaperones just leave like that? Sort of ironic that they’re going to visit a teen parent.
Giant party montage at Naomi’s. These 90210 kids are proving what party animals they are by…gasp! Spilling pretzels on the floor! Annie is cleaning them up because of her promise to Naomi when Jen stomps on her fingers for no good reason and tells her to clean faster. Interesting management style.
Elsewhere at the party, Dixon is crying to Ethan about how much work his girlfriend Silver is. Again, relationships are tricky in that whole “requiring attention” department. He laments that he doesn’t have a “regular girlfriend” who will love dances, watch him play lacrosse, and not feel bad about consumerism. Ideally she would knit sweaters and decline to vote also, just to make his idealization of gender roles complete. Ethan praises Silver’s spirit, attitude, and life force, which are incidentally three really bad qualities to list in a personal ad. He urges Dixon to stay with her and work harder. Dixon wins over the female audience by acknowledging that he misses her even across the room, and leaves to be with her. Ethan pulls a picture out of his pocket. It’s of Silver! He gazes at it longingly! Don’t worry Ethan, with Dixon’s completely solid grasp on how relationships work I’m sure this will all turn out fine.
At the hospital, the adults show up to be with Ade. Harry reveals he stole some of the brownies from Prom and shares them with Debbie. It is here that the astute television watcher acknowledges that 1.) the brownies are drugged, or 2.) Betty Crocker cut a REALLY good deal with the producers. Meanwhile, Ade is freaking out as she goes into labor. She protests that it’s too soon and she is three weeks early, but Navid assures her that she’ll be fine. But suddenly the doctors announce that the both the baby’s heart rate and the show’s drama are dropping! She will need…a C-section! I can’t tell you how badly I want that bitchy nurse to perform it. “Just some kid with a low heart-rate, huh? I’LL GET TO YOU WHEN I GET TO YOU!”
Annie wanders around the backyard, horrified at the mess the hardcore drinkers are making. Welcome to the show, Annie.
In the quickest dramatic turnaround ever, Ade is done! A baby girl! But she refuses to see it, despite Navid’s own cuddling of the child. Both look disturbed as Navid leaves with the baby and Annie stares into space.
Our suspicions are confirmed when Harry and Debbie become stoned out of their minds, a side-effect of the drugged brownies. Who has the extra weed laying around that they can bake into brownies and then just leave sitting on the prom table? You don’t waste valuable mj like that. I, uh, heard it from a friend. In the extremely nice waiting room, Harry and Debbie struggle with where their kids Annie and Dixon might be, and also determine that they are, in fact, baked.
More partying. Dixon is DJing, and Silver decides to ask Ethan what he thinks of them as a couple. Ethan proves to be a genuinely nice guy by putting his own feelings aside and acknowledging that they make a good couple, and the fundamental differences that Silver feels are not as important as she thinks. There’s some talk about Dixon as royalty which