No 90210?!! NOO!!!!

Something tragic has happened. My stupid DVR (I swear, I am going to get a new box soon. Damn you Charter Communications!!) went crazy and now, NBC has magically replaced the CW on channel 13. The info tells me that it is the CW, but the shows playing are from NBC. How could this happen on on 90210 night?!! At least I didn't miss Gossip Girl though. I am comforted by that. I do plan on trying to watch the episode online, but just in case that doesn't work out, I thought we could have just a little tribute to one of the greatest episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 ever, "Things to Do on a Rainy Day" AKA, The Color Me Badd episode.

This episode just happened to be playing on Soapnet today (thank god NBC hasn't replaced Soapnet! I don't even want to think about that) which I now take as a sign from above that we needed to remember it. Now this is a classic episode, filled with not only cheese, but also heart and after-school specialness, topped off with a cherry of Color Me Badd. Could I ask for more? Why yes, I could. We get almost no Brenda/Dylan action, and that is a bummer. But other than that, it is a great one.

Here are some awesome things that happen on that fateful rainy Saturday:

-Brenda, Kelly, Donna and David (who is pretty much classed as one of the girls in this episode, which always made me laugh) run around a hotel to try and get a glimpse of Color Me Badd. Many hijinks ensue.

-After Kelly steals a key to sneak up and finally acheive the goal of seeing Donna's favorite band, Donna learns that only bad things happen to wimps. She jumps out of the elevator in order to avoid getting in trouble and sees her mother getting all sexy with some dude who is not her dad! Her self-righteous crazy bout virginity mother! Donna was upset, and she did mention that her mother was a hypocrite, but she just didn't relish it enough for me. Brenda would have relished it a little. Anyway, the point is, never ditch your friend in the middle of hijinks!

-Kelly, of course, gets to meet Color Me Badd, because she has guts. David and Brenda already bailed because people were getting bitchy or something. It doesn't really matter. Kelly also gets backstage passes to the bands RADICAL AWESOME concert. I bet it was great.

-Donna gets to bask in the glow of awesome momness that is Cindy Walsh, who gives her the whole, "it's not your fault, your parents still love you runaround".

-Meanwhile, over in boys-town, (sorry David!), Dylan, Brandon and Steve decide to get a stripper. Of course they become friends with her (the goody- goodyness of Brandon is contagious) so she doesn't actually strip. Jim Walsh finds out about his teenager son's creepy patriarchal misogyny and just pats him on the back, and tells him about the first time he saw a stripper. It is so gross, and it just makes you remember what an ass Jim is to Brenda whenever she does anything even remotely wrong or disappointing! It is much like the time he finds out Brandon has sex and pretty much congratulates him, and when he finds out that Brenda and Dylan are doing it, he is ready to send her to a convent. I think it was supposed to be cute and protective, but it just made me really hate Jim Walsh.

-So we end the episode in the Peach Pit, and Donna is all bummed about her Mom's cheating ways, and who does Kelly show up with? That's right COLOR ME BADD! At this moment, Kelly is actually the BEST.FRIEND.EVER. (How quickly things will change...) They awkwardly serenade Donna in a way that would be totally excruciating in real life, but is totally exhilarating on 90210.

It's funny because Donna was such a lame character, but two of the most iconic episodes of 90210 are about her. (This and "Donna Martin Graduates") of course Donna doesn't really do anything great in either of the episodes, so not all logic is lost.

Keep your fingers crossed that my cable box will be all fixed soon!