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The Bev-Niner Update Nora Lawrence Arts & Features Associate Donna was looking a little more normal-sized this week, so I have a new theory. Her breasts are made by Reebok, as part of their "Pump" line. Just like a basketball player, Donna is able to either enlarge or decrease the size of her breasts by pumping a little button, located just under her armpit. Surgical technology hits Beverly Hills (specifically Aaron Spellings office) about a year before any place else, so get ready for your opportunity to pump your own! Shirt too tight? Just let some air out! Want some cleavage? Pump pump pump! I dont want to hear your whinin, so Im telling you in advance to stay away from needles. This episode, Donna meets a guy (by awkwardly hitting on him) outside of her store, and hires him as the model for her "new mens line." He thinks shes cute, she thinks hes cute, she agrees to move in with Noah. Kelly and Matt are babysitting Erin (gee, Kelly, you havent seen your sister in over a year!) who has gotten much older than she should be. For some reason, "Mel and Jackie" have a "Nannie Cam," which they leave on when theyre out to check up on babysitters. How paranoid of them to leave it on when Erin is being babysat by her sister! So Erin goes to bed, and Kelly and Matt start doin it and doin it and doin it well on the coffee table, and if this show were in el país de France wed probably get to see them pulling each others clothes off and giving each other hand jobs, but instead, in prudish, prudish America, we focus in on the "Nannie Cam." Then, David babysits Erin, and Erin must be having the same crisis that Noah did last episode, like, "You guys are my siblings? I never knew!" because David and Kelly are just so absentee, and theyre playing cards and David cheats, I guess, because Erins like, "No! Were watching that on the Nanny Cam! You cheated!" And she also wants to watch Theres Something About Mary, which is sitting on the table that theyre playing cards on, taunting her, and David wont let her. So she steals Theres Something About Mary and puts the "Nanny Cam" video in its box. David doesnt notice that shes playing cards with a video under her shirt. Whatever. So thenand I cant believe theyve wasted three scenes setting up this plot, and just used and abused this child actress Erin, getting her hopes up when she will never again be on the showDylan and Geena are sitting down to watch Theres Something About Mary, which they for some reason took from "Mel and Jackies," and what do you know! Its just a video of Matt and Kelly having sex! And Geena is, you know, okay with it, since she doesnt lust after Matt, and shes laughing and wants to watch it, but Dylan gets really mad and turns it off. And if hes trying to make Geena think he doesnt love Kelly, hes doing a notably bad job. So then, Dylan brings a blindfolded Geena into the After Dark, where the latest no-pride artist playing on 90210 is Monica! Not only is she playing on the show, shes playing only for Geena and Dylan, a private concert, because her gig at the After Dark has been cancelled! Hows that for pathetic? And if thats not bad enough, as shes singing, Dylan and Geena have a fight and break up, and then Geena goes, "I know you had sex with Kelly in Mexico," and Dylan goes, "How did you know that?" and Geena goes, "Because you just told me." Whew! And then she walks out! And Monica keeps singing only to Dylan, who is sitting with his head face down against a table. So then theres a big to do, and Dylan comes to Geenas work (remember? Shes Matts secretary? This may have been a detail which I never disclosed) because hes providing the funds for Matt to sue Noahs dadwho I thought was deadbecause he owned a environmentally unsound company that is killing children. And yes, writers, I did see A Civil Action, and do realize how ripped off and trendy this plot line is. And what a tangled web Matt is weaving by suing the father of his roommate. But so Geena runs outside when she sees Dylan, which, of course, isnt really outside, because Matts "office" for some reason is in a shopping mall. Dylan follows her. And shes taking bigger bites than her little mouth ever has of a burger, and says, "Are you going to tell him or am I?" So they both go back into Matts office, and Dylan abruptly says, "I slept with Kelly in Mexico." Kelly and Matt end up okay, but it seems that Geena and Dylan are calling it quits. Geena goes over to his house, and Dylan is being really disgusting and for some reason watching the tape of Kelly and Matt having sex! I wonder if, by now, its like the copy of Basic Instinct that my friend rented which was worn out from rewinding over the sex scenes. And he puts the tape in his inside jacket pocket when he gets up to answer the door. Geena says, "I realized why that tape of Kelly and Matt upset you so much. Theyre in love, you can tell from watching it. And when you had your hands all over her in Mexico, she was probably thinking of him." This was a good episode for Geena. She goes home, and is crying looking in the mirror, and Kelly comes in and is like, "Id like to talk to you, and Im sure you have a few things to say to me." And Geena says, "Yeah, Ive got things to say to you." And she writes "SLUT" in lipstick on her mirror that shes looking at Kelly through, and underlines it about fifty times. And then we see Kellys face framed within the "SLUT" sign. Oh, so symbolic. And Kellys looking pretty awful with her plop-on-top-of-her-head ponytail and her Fire Engine Red lipstick and her long, sleeveless, incomprehensible halter top backless turtleneck? Can we say 1985? Whatever. Top | Back to Arts & Features | Next |