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90210: Is Every Character Stupider Now That They've Graduated?

Now that everyone's finished high school, the 90210 writers had to find ways to keep the gang back together... so Annie's cash to go to the East coast fell through, Dixon decided to forgo college to pursue his music career, Liam went off to pretend like he was part of The Deadliest Catch and Navid is running a decidedly non-pornographic version of his father's film studio. But while many of them are involved in higher education, they seem to have all taken a healthy dose of stupid juice since they left West Beverly, as almost everyone has accidentally found themselves in some ridiculous situations. When guest star Kellie Pickler is playing a version of herself and seems like the show's most intelligent character... you know you've got problems. Here's what's going on:

Annie Is an Accidental Hooker
Annie went out to dinner with a sorority sister and some of her rich older "friends" and didn't put together the whole escort thing. When she found out about it, she continued escorting for cash to pay for her education (don't hookers always say that?). But last week she proved she was an even bigger moron by having sex with a client... for NO MONEY at all. Figures that she's not even good at this job.

Dixon Is an Accidental Drug Addict
While trying to get his album done, Dixon was having trouble concentrating and staying awake. His new roomie Austin tossed him some ADHD medicine, which Dixon started taking like crazy and even buying on the black market. But he's too dumb to even realize that he's now a drug addict, and just thinks it's natural to crash on a beach chair for days at a time.

Liam Is an Accidental Model/Bar Owner
After returning from Alaska, Liam proposed to Annie (unwisely), then went on a drunken bender that led to him buying a beach bar from the dad from Boy Meets World... even though he's only 19 or something. The logistics worked out, and when he was having trouble making ends meet, he had Silver make a commercial (which was mostly about his taut ab muscles) and is now earning $10 grand at a time for modeling gigs. Some kids have all the luck -- and he's luckiest of all, because he's not saddled with Annie forever.

Silver Is Accidentally a Teen Parent
Navid's family returned to join his father in their home country, except for his insolent sister who only has a year left of high school. So Silver let the bratty teen move into the one-bedroom apartment that she shares with Navid, and suddenly had to deal with grounding and other annoying parenting issues.

Navid Is Accidentally Running a Chop Shop
Navid's aforementioned awful sister hooked up with a guy who was happy to extort money from Navid. Except that he didn't have any. So Navid borrowed some cash from his porn-making uncle, who asked to use space in the back of Shirazi studios. Except he wasn't making his underage porn films, he was running a chop shop. Because Navid is too ignorant to understand how the law works, the uncle got Navid tangled into the mess, paying him to keep quiet with large sums of cash in brown paper bags.

Adrianna Is an Accidental Waitress
From former pop star to waitress in unfortunate footwear at Liam's bar in one fell swoop. She went in to the bar to make amends with her friends and has ended up waiting tables at a dead end job. And thinking that random guys are stalking her... when they aren't.

Naomi Is Accidentally Sleeping With a Cowboy
She hasn't gotten significantly stupider, but did end up sleeping with the guy whom she bought her house from because of his Southern charm. And she acts like a total moron when he's around. At least she hasn't dressed up like an Avatar character this season. And she's somehow president of the sorority of misfit girls, which is the most enjoyable thing she's done in a while.

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6 Comments

October 25, 2011 11:00 AM
wordz
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"Stupider"? really? Pot meet kettle!

October 25, 2011 11:13 AM
bee_eye
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finally, a 90210 write up. heart this.

October 25, 2011 12:49 PM
Chrissy
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Thanks for this. All the info I needed to support my desicion to stop watcing this show.

October 25, 2011 3:31 PM
Vicki
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replied to comment from Chrissy

Me too, Chrissy. It used to be my guilty pleasure. Now it's not even pleasurable. Those kids are as dumb as rocks, and that's giving rocks a bad name.

October 26, 2011 5:51 AM
Jane
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Stupider is a real word. Stupid is one of the adjectives that can use either er/est or more/most when forming the comparative/superlative.

October 31, 2011 2:56 AM
Trevor
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The funny thing here is don’t most teenagers/kids get dumber the first year out of high school!? When you look back on your life some of the dumbest things you have ever done was the first year out of high school! So in essence the writers are bang on this year and have done an excellent job of balancing the whole fantasy spoiled rich kids getting older and taking on the world on their own… I personally have found this year to be the best one yet. I was surprised it got past its first season and was stunned when it came back for a third but was expecting it back for a fourth and am sooo glad it is. Guess 90210 is one of those many things that get better with age and they have done a great job of setting this up for even more seasons to come. We just may see 90210 go one year shorter or longer than the original but with nowhere near the notoriety than the first!

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