Primetimer August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 When Brandon gets 'discovered' to guest-star a sappy teen drama (sound familiar?), Brenda copes in a really unfortunate way. Read the story Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/
Primetimer August 7, 2015 Author Share August 7, 2015 We've collected all the important visual aids from Beverly Hills, 90210's 'Fame Is Where You Find It,' including the very last instance of rollerblading in America. Read the story Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1394819
StatMom August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 One other moment from the episode worth mentioning: when Brenda comes downstairs to vamp with Lydia until Brandon is ready, Jim introduces Brenda as "Brandon's better half." Um, isn't that usually a spousal reference? Yuck. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1394952
Montalban August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 Wherein Brenda turns The Peach Pit into a one woman Ed Debevic's. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1395217
gesundheit August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 I think this episode was the final straw for me with both twins, if I remember correctly. (I've seen the ten-year run multiple times, don't get me wrong!) Dear lord, if I'd ever gone into a diner for a quick coffee and burger and Lavoine train wreck was happening, I'd call the Better Business Bureau. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1395249
vendredi3 August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 OMG, I owned that Jack Wagner album on cassette. :/ Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1395382
Picture It. Sicily August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 This is one of the episodes that I always turn off if there are reruns. Yawn. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1395441
Dave in Chicago August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 I thought you were going to be way more brutal to Lavoine, but "too disgusted to engage with it" is a solid choice too. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1395476
sinkwriter August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 Sarah, I don't know how you can say the "Reeeeeck" Paris accent is better than Lavoine. I mean, Lavoine is tedious, but at least she's trying to be silly. The "Reeeeeeck" accent is JUST. SO. BAD. I want to yell at her, "Just STOP, Brenda!" 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1395887
sinkwriter August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 They kept saying "Surfer Dude" but I think they meant to call him a "Skater Dude." LOL. *eyeroll* Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1395906
Montalban August 7, 2015 Share August 7, 2015 (edited) For a few days now I've been trying to place exactly whom season 1 Ian Zearing resembles. While watching this episode it finally came to me: he's the spitting image of late 1980s Reba McEntire. Seriously wish I could add screen grabs and a side-by-side here because Reba in her "Fancy" video looks like Steve Sanders in drag. It's a pretty fantastic revelation. Edited August 8, 2015 by Montalban 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1396058
Pogojoco August 8, 2015 Share August 8, 2015 (edited) I think the Brenda Laveoine voice is a variation on Betty Boop- a terrible one, but yeah. And she does look insanely cute, but oof. Let`s pretend this never happened. Lydia reminded me of Jennifer Grey (probably the hair.) She`s also insufferable in this episode. I liked the dig at the chick who only has a career because her uncle is a producer- it`s a weird meta comment where 90210 is trying to be clever. Also, the comment on nepotism about a character played by Melissa Rivers. Shut up, Lydia. We never see her again. Also, the whole water throwing thing- I`m pretty sure they could`ve put a cut in there between Brandon being soaked and having to deliver the line. There are very few continouis takes. Shut up, show. Did you think of Jack McKay`s giant sweatpants when you described Brenda`s giant socks as 'sweatpants for ankles'? Edited August 8, 2015 by Pogojoco Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1397072
WhosThatGirl August 8, 2015 Share August 8, 2015 I never really understood how Brenda is terrible at being a waitress so then she decides to make it a joke and be this character but yet she is still a terrible waitress but it's fine because look she's singing and having fun, so.. wait, what? Every time I see this episode.. I just.. it's not like her being this character made her better at being a waitress, in fact it made her worse! NO ONE WAS EATING! They were watching Brenda dance around and lip-synch. The hell? I mean if I was Nat after Brenda's crappy first day, I would have just be like, "don't come back.."? I just.. have never understood it. It's stupid. I don't care much about Brandon's plot because it's just another thing that I'm slowly realizing they did a lot of with Brandon, he meets a girl for an episode and sort of has a thing but then we never see the female guest star ever again. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1398090
Sarah D. Bunting August 9, 2015 Share August 9, 2015 Yep. The ice-skating one is even worse than this one, IIRC. @vendredi, so did I. Both of them, in fact. Eigh-TIES! Eigh-TIES! Eigh-TIES! Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1400183
MuuMuuChainsmoker August 10, 2015 Share August 10, 2015 Are Brandon's "surfer dude" pants Zubaz? http://zubaz.com/ Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1401058
STOPSHOUTING August 10, 2015 Share August 10, 2015 The still of Sufer Dude -- on rollerblades, WTF show? -- Brandon doesn't make him look cool, it makes him look like he's dying of cancer and shooting a commercial for some sort of inspiring Make-a-Wish-type charity that allowed him to play roller hockey one last time. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1401719
Tara Ariano August 10, 2015 Share August 10, 2015 Are Brandon's "surfer dude" pants Zubaz? http://zubaz.com/ THAT was the word I couldn't think of. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1401963
swimmyfish August 18, 2015 Share August 18, 2015 I know I'm catching up on this episode kind of late, but that outfit they put Brandon in to play the skater/surfer dude is one of my favorite things ever. It's just so outstandingly terrible. I can accept that the top & bottom might have been fashionable individually, but together? It's such a wonderful travesty. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/30086-s01e16-fame-is-where-you-find-it/#findComment-1425990
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