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Double Trouble

In the first season of Beverly Hills, 90210, Minnesota transplants/twins Brenda and Brandon experience a culture shock. Or...maybe a lack-of-culture shock.

  • Brenda (Shannen Doherty) And Brandon (Jason Priestley) Move To Beverly Hills, Where She Finds A Dupe Who Buys That She's A Sorority Girl Without A Phone And He Slut-Shames A Girl Who Actually Likes Him For Some Reason
  • Meet Dylan (Luke Perry Who As You Can See From The Photo Above Was Not An Original Cast Member), The Secretly Super-Rich Lord Byron Enthusiast, Just Go With It
  • Brenda Gets Caught Up With A Poor Little Rich Girl Who Seeks Attention From Her Absentee Parents By Shoplifting Which PS Doesn't Even Work
  • Brandon's Minnesota Girlfriend Runs Away To Beverly Hills, Does Sex With Brandon While His Parents Are Right Down The Hall
  • You're Never Going To Believe This But Brandon Thinks He's Not Setting The Basketball Tryouts On Fire Because Of Recruiting Shenanigans As Opposed To The Fact That He's Wee
  • Meet The Real Jackie Taylor (Ann Gillespie), Not The Fake One From The Pilot, Whose Sobriety Is Not Going So Hot; Cut To Her MCing A Charity Fashion Show Coked To The Gills
  • Cindy (Carol Potter) Has An Emotional Affair!!! But It Blows Over
  • Not To Victim-Blame But Maybe This Girl Who Keeps Calling Brenda On The Rap Line Could Try A Bit Harder To Avoid Situations Where She Repeatedly Gets Raped?
  • BRANDON DRIVES DRUNK
  • Brenda Throws A Slumber Party That Gets Ruined By Kelly (Jennie Garth) Inviting Her Super-Bitchy Friend Amanda (Michele Abrams) Who Is Irritable Because Of The Diet Pills She's On But Then She Has A Box Of Cookies So That Means Her Eating Disorder Is Cured
  • Brandon Dates A Chicana, Is A Total Wad About It (And Also Kind Of Racist)
  • Brenda And Dylan Almost Do Sex In Palm Springs But Then Don't But It's Okay, And She Also Meets (David Gail) As A Bellboy, Pre-Stuart Carson
  • Brandon Gets Discovered To Be On A Teen Drama, Gets Full Of Himself, And Gets Cut Out Of The Episode
  • Oh, Jesus Christ, The One Where Brenda Decides She's So Sophisticated That She's Outgrown Her Friends And Thinks She Can Drop Out Of High School, Get Her GED, And Become A Coffeehouse Comic
  • BRENDA FINDS A LUMP IN HER BREAST
  • Matthew Perry Is A High School Tennis Phenom Who Writes A Bad Screenplay About Wanting To Menendez His Dad
  • The Bad News Bears One Where Dylan Wears A Baseball Outfit And Looks Like A Stick Insect
  • Brenda And Kelly Wear The Same Dress To The Spring Dance, But More Importantly, Brenda And Dylan Finally Do Sex
  • Jim (James Eckhouse) Threatens To Move The Family Back To Minneapolis Because Of His Job So Andrea (Gabrielle Carteris) Offers To Do Sex With Brandon As A Weird Going-Away Present But Then They Don't Which Is Fine Because The Walshes Don't End Up Moving And Also BRENDA IS LATE