Comments on: Enfants Terribles

By: Jaybird

Jaybird — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:34:38 +0000

@Elisa: Oh, man. I am so, so relieved to know someone else noticed Doherty's Picassoness, too. That bugged me as far back as "Heathers", I think.

By: Grainger

Grainger — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:59:49 +0000

So we just watched "Jem" to do a podcast on it, and the way you describe the fashions in this show makes them sound like a live-action version of the Misfits.

By: Jade

Jade — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:35:56 +0000

Maxwell Caulfied was in an episode of 90210? What he thought Grease 2 wasn't quite painful enough and he needed another crack at playing a high school student at the age of 32?

By: Elisa

Elisa — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:34:48 +0000

OMG. I too find myself watching this show whenever I happen to be flipping channels and it's on. I originally watched 90210 (or as it was called in German Ninety – Two Hundred – Ten) when I was 14 and living in Germany. Maybe they were less annoying dubbed? Or more tortured, in a "Sturm und Drang" sort of way? Dylan is so boring!! My MOM used to hate him!! And she'd always ask me "Why is Brenda's face crooked?" Steve is a douche. David is annoying. And they all seem to have squeaky voices that their German-voice counterparts didn't have.

Also, I have a request, Sars. You haven't written much about your cats lately and I never laughed harder than when you wrote about them finally having access to a patio-type area. More cats, please?

By: Druck

Druck — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:07:03 +0000

Most amusing to me was not one mention of Donna Martin? So great was SARS hatred of Donna that she actually Shuned her. Heh.

And is there no dumber plotline in the history of TV than "Donna Martin Graduates!"? That whole scene with the kids PROTESTING a rich kid who got drunk at Prom being unable to graduate because of a stick up their asses school board? Cringeworthy, with a KFC bucket full of Shut Up!

My freshman year roommate thought he was Dylan, down to wearing the same outfit every day (white t-shirt, 12 pairs of the same exact jeans). He woke up one Saturday morning in a drunken haze, stumbled over to the mirror and woke me out of a deep sleep when he screamed because his Frat buddies had shaved off his Dylan-esque locks. His quote:"Arrgh..it took me 6 months to look like Dylan, I ruined it in one night!!" Heh..good times.

By: Liz in Minneapolis

Liz in Minneapolis — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:16:18 +0000

Class of '87, representing. I am a winter (or maybe a summer, but that is totally boring,) and look good in the teal-turquoise spectrum of colors, and am happy to have them back – though I'm even happier about the slight resurgence of cobalt blue and orange, one of which looks good and one of which was simply conditioned into me because I have a late October birthday.

Circa 1992, I had TWO floral rompers which I wore TO WORK with purple or hot pink or moss green tights – don't worry, they each matched the prints. I also had moss green palazzo pants on which I tripped regularly, a rather tasteful acid-washed jean skirt, and some of those giant white cotton shirts with tuxedo fronts and fancy buttons, to be worn starched, with pencil skirts, tights, and flats.

Today, of course, I'm wearing my neon chartreuse cardigan and carrying an electric blue hobo bag, because Lane Bryant and Target are enablers. I refrained from completing the triad with hot pink jewelry – but I could have. (I also got the same cardigan in hot pink and electric blue, because they were like $12 each, and I have a hot pink ultrasuede fringed hobo bag from Goodwill, so the available combinations are totally awesome…sadly, my yellow Target hobo purse is more of a goldenrod.)

OK, ignore the old crazy color-susceptible retail addict lady (who at least used her powers for good and founded the Jem convention while she was at it.) I just think life is too short to wear beige.

By: ceetea

ceetea — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:57:10 +0000

I laugh every time I read something about David "Blue Balls" Silver and his wife Megan Fox.
I wonder if he lets her watch the 'Babyface wants David's mad music skillz' episode…

By: Tarn

Tarn — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:41:32 +0000

Hee! This is brilliant, Sars. I never really watched the show that much when it first aired, but it was enough of a pop culture phenomenon that it still feels like nostalgia when I go back and watch episodes today.

And the sartorial disasters, especially the ones mentioned by you in this piece and in your recap of the pilot? Even the ones where you and Wing were like, "I may have had X, but at LEAST I never had Y!"

Skirt over bike shorts? Check! Acid-washed denim? Check! FLORAL ROMPER FROM THE LIMITED OH MY GOD?!?!?!?! Check!

By: Jessi In GA

Jessi In GA — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:29:22 +0000

I've somehow managed to go my whole life without ever seeing an episode of this show. Ever. (…I know. I don't know how that's possible, either.) But this essay still had me laughing hysterically. My co-workers seriously think I'm crazy now.

Clearly, I need to add this to my Netflix queue.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:17:51 +0000

I really shouldn't have read this at work, but found myself grateful that I wasn't trying to drink anything.

For years, the only time I watched 90210 was when I was abroad and homesick. Watching made the country that produced the show seem so much less appealing. It was like magic.

Has anyone else noticed that teal is coming back? Have we learned nothing?