This makes me feel like I was lucky to have been a teenager when I was. The standards now are crazy!

Aw look! It's poor Scott who done shot himself in the face.

RIP, stoopid head.

Buying right into the hype intended by the creation of this story. Courtesy of Mollygood!

Oh my god! David Silver is even dorkier looking than I remember. I can't believe I actually raced home or even put off plans to watch that show and Melrose Place. It was my first truly guilty pleasure. Now it's gossip blogs!

STM, wasn't that like the most hyped episode of all time? I remember being practically sleepless wondering who it was, and thinking it was gonna be David Silver, then being relieved when it was the kid no one cared about. Back in those days, I didn't understand TV.

Also if anyone from my 9th grade algebra class is reading this, I TOLD YOU it was cool to wear your pants that high!! You didn't believe me!!! Even that ho Kelly can't get her jeans down to her hips, OHHKAY!

those girls look way skinnier now than they do in the promo shot.

Why aren't Donna Martin and Dylan in that old cast shot?

I think I remember Donna beginning as one of those peripheral characters and then growing into her recurring role as the girl who represents the lowest portion of the coolness bell curve.

Dylan, I'm not sure. But I can safely say he is the reason I still find forehead wrinkles irresistible.

Well, I'd have to go home and check my BH 90210 Season 1 DVDs (shut up) I don't think Dylan showed up as the bad boy until about halfway through the season.

David Silver was a freshman when they were all juniors (or sophomores, maybe). And after Scotty shot himself in the face, they were all "aw! poor loser's best friend shot himself in the face!" and then i guess they took that whole urban legend about getting straight As if your roommate dies to the high school level and just let him graduate with the rest of the crew.

Remember Matthew Perry as the rich tennis player who wanted to kill his dad and wrote a play about it?

Remember how Emily Valentine burned down the float, dosed Brandon with ecstasy (this was before ecstasy was even cool) and then 6 years later showed up as marine biologist?

Oh god, I miss thee 90210. The new one sucks ass.

Sar - I'd have to say Donna probably whined to daddy long enough to get her role expanded

I watched a bunch of old episodes online last year, and I remember thinking how normal those girls looked. Of course, on the heels of that thought was, "No one would ever get away with those round cheeks or extra ounce of belly fat now…"

Why does this seem to be getting worse instead of better? Wasn't it a couple years ago that people were so worried about sickly thin Nicole Richie and Mary Kate Olsen? And….what, exactly? Keep it up, kids? Ribs are SO hot this year!

So, did Captain Obvious write the title of this post?

In all seriousness, mom jeans are NOT your friend, Shannen.

I knew I wasn't going crazy! I totally thought these new BH females in the cast were uber thin compared to the old BH females. And when I was a teenager watching BH, I used to dream about being as thin as those actresses. I really can't imagine what pressure girls nowadays endure to be 90-100 pounds and slowly dying.

alice no. 1 - i would agree but i was unfortunately nicknamed "chicken legs" in high school. if only people were hip to the scarily skinny THEN. bastards. damn mom paunch. ahh the memories of then transposed on the values of today…….

fact: people prefer humans to barbizon class of 2008 + Lucille Bluth. Lucille Bluth is utter perfection but the idiot brigade? no thanks.

stm, I just saw the Matthew Perry ep a couple weeks ago. (yes, I admit it…I watch the reruns on SoapNet when I can catch them…)

And now I will embarrass myself further with this…

re: Donna & Dylan - neither one was supposed to be a permanent character. Dylan actually didn't show up until the second or third episode and was only supposed to be on a few of them.

Silver was a freshman when the show started, the rest of the case was supposed to be juniors, but when the show took off, they conveniently "repeated" the junior year so that David was magically only ONE year behind them. (they had to stretch the HS years a little bit before they sent them off to college) He graduated early because he took summer school, I think.

And STM, it was EUPHORIA, not X. I think they didn't want to use the name of a real drug lest the parents think they were um…promoting it or something.

now I will go hide myself under a rock for a while.

I consider the bf a shield against all this pressure. He likes my tubby self, and I figure that means a little tubness is cute. If we ever break up though, I'm going to start going back to whatever thinspiration sites I used to go to. What's the one…skinny something.com.

soap net 5pm and 6pm. I live for it.

…and the theme is my ringtone!

to swedish, you can catch it on the weekends in the AM, too.

And it's at a diff point in the series so it's kinda cool…

now back to my rock.

say what?, i think i just fell in lurve with you a little bit.

soapnet: two hours of niner followed by two hours of the oc.

and we wonder why the unemployment rate is so high in this country. why work when there's 4 excellent slash crappy hours of television on every weekday!

sigh

stm, there's always room for you under my rock…

I won't shun her for being the fat girl, but I will chastize her for those awful mom jeans.