Beverly Hills Flirt (S1, E5 “One on One”)

bring up yourselves. Are token new young friend. But because I just like when we see each other, like while we're recording this, we can see each other on zoom. I just look at Sissney and then I think like, maybe I'm that young, and then I look at you, Jen, and I'm realized I'm not that young. Age is just a number. As Jenny said on her Instagram, Oh it's really not true. You read her instagram, she did her first TikTok what wait wait wait, well what you're you're dead? Hey,

I can't believe you don't look at my Instagram. Thanks a lot, and be why everybody's doing it. I always look at your Instagram so I can give you notes on how to improve your Instagram. But I missed a couple of days and then I saw today. I was like, oh, there's some stuff like I yeah, and I didn't read. But no, I didn't read. Well, we're talking about something way more important than I need no, no, no answer. First, I need to know what you did on TikTok. This

goes against everything that you stand for and believe in. Wait, why is it so intense? Oh my god, you have no idea. It's no, I have no like problem with the talkers. Oh so I can't wear a baby doll dress, but you can go on TikTok. I never said you can't wear a baby doll dress. Ah, you inferreted. I'm pretty sure that my clothing I need to let the kids wear the clothing, and that I can't revisit the nineties fashion. No, I might have said something like you

probably shouldn't borrow your teenage daughter's clothes. Yeah. When I think of baby doll shirts, I think of you guys, especially you Dori. I feel like that's like Donna wore the heck out of those baby doll shirts, and like that we would twin all the time, like totally twin, and that that was in with your friends when you were young, Like you would twin like not the exact same thing, but like the same style and the same shoes and the same scrunchy socks. Can you just tell

me about your TikTok video please? Now? I made a TikTok with my daughter with Fiona she Um showed me how to do it, and I did one of those ones where you have an outfit on and then you jump and you have a different outfit, and it was I know you did that. I did. I know. My god, It's like an hour, but it was fun. He Speaking of social media, we have a d M from a fan um am for Miller eight one six said, this

is kind of going back to last week's episode. The teacher and his wife are such an odd couple and she's so snobby. Anyone else think this? Yeah? I mean I think I said something about it last week that she did on the show, Like her character was like what why wasn't that supposed to be like the vibe so that like, if you were like somewhat of a hopeless romantic, you'd be like, oh, maybe in another alternate universe,

Brenda would wind up with hot for teacher. Yeah, but if I was hot for teacher guy, I would have no patience for the way she's spoke to him, like and I would never speak to my husband like that, like toxic. Yeah, that's it's a bad way to deal with it. So what song played when you did this TikTok video? Oh God? What we need to do is talk about this week's episode. Yeah, because it was a good one. This is uh this is Episode five was called one on one and the episode aired on November one.

One on one as in basketball and what was the synopsis? Okay, recruits from outside the school district may sink Brandon's shot at making the basketball team. Meanwhile, Brenda takes her third or fourth shot at a driver's training. Brenda wasn't a very good driver. Does she get better? I forget Yeah. I think by the end of the episode she could becomes a really good driver. But I really driver, like it wasn't her jam No, she she says in the episode, it's not my thing driving. I'm not good at it.

I'm good at Actually, she says, I'm good at everything else but driving. So you really want her to learn how to be a good driver, so she can be good at everything, because that's what race car driving, isn't it. Funny, like the Walsh has had like these dream sequences in the first few episodes, Brandon like Baywatch on the beach and Brenda like race car driving. I selt like, Yeah. I really loved watching it now as just a viewer

and watching how creative Brenda was in her imagination. She had such a vivid, active imagination and she was so determined and she um. I love the way she talks to herself to like just talk to I thought she's such a great character. I really never had like a major appreciation because I was team Kelly obviously all those years. But now watching it, I might be going to the Brenda's side, Like, Okay, remember remember last summer when they came out with that quiz and it was like, are

you you know you could take it online? And are you a Kelly or you a Brenda? You're a donna? You are and Andrea? Everyone would you get I want to take this quiz? You at yourself? You're you were a Kelly. I gotta Kelly. Yeah, I was a Brenda. And what was your husband? My husband was a donna? Oh my god. So we were in Vancouver and filming

b H and I Tona. We were in the makeup trailer and he's you have to take a picture like at the ends what you are and he sends it to us and it was the cutest yet most defeated little look on his face. He was like, and I was always happy though, he's happy to be a donna. Donna he is, he has a donna sweet And So this episode, though, was about a pretty big you love how I always try to keep it on track. I'm always the I'm always the one, and I got my

head in the clouds so hard to do. I was going to say this episode was about some pretty big social issues at the time. I mean, this was thirty years ago, but the fact is this is still a conversation we're all still having and we will have until the end of time unfortunately. But I was like, wow, the show's really this is episode five and we're always already just delving into like you know, systemic racism and

and the fallout in the school system. Yeah, every episode, I mean from I felt like you guys tackled the really hard subjects um especially for that time. You know, like the previous episodes there was alcohol and drowning and all this stuff. I know, it's only episode five child adult relationships things like that. But I love that though, because the show wasn't just a teen show about a bunch of hot kids hooking up like it had substance, It had like some meat to it, and I am

so proud of that. I know Tory and I've talked about that. Super controversial, like no one was going for

it and the show went for it. It's kind of I feel like taking us out of it that it was never appreciated for how forward it was, like the forward thinking of like just doing stuff that hadn't been done before and dealt with before, and it never got that acclaim like I really did, right, Yeah, I always kind of felt that way too, Like the show never got really um called out for all the things we we addressed and dealt with, you know, on primetime television

with a very young cast, and I thought we did some really great things and I was always happy to be a part of those. Like p says that we would do at the end of the episodes where if the episode was about something really heavy, we would talk and say, if you have a problem with drug abuse or if you're addicted to diet pills, call this number. She did all of Yeah, you did a lot of them, mostly your character. But I feel like, I feel like the show, I mean, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna

say it. I feel like because it was my dad's show, and he was so perceived as doing like, you know, Charlie's Angels Jiggle TV, they would call it that nine o two and oh, I mean, and he did such amazing dramatic things, and every show he did, he kind of went for it and talked about what people weren't talking about and kind of was so ahead of his time. And yet if it had his name on it, I guarantee you, if it had someone else's name on it,

they would have been like groundbreaking. They weren't, which is kind of it kind of bumps me out. Sorry, I was just having a moment. No, it's fine where you're coming from. Yeah, but I was proud of this episode. I don't know, I don't know. How did you guys feel like it did with the message of the story. Do you feel like it was an honest, like you know, portrayal of the situation. It's hard to judge it now because it was just such a different time when it

came out, so I don't. I think for it's time, I would say it was portrayed perfectly, but looking back at it now, no, it rives the point a little hard, like literally, I mean Brandon's I think it was clear to me that Steve is a big racist in this episode. Yes, and Brandon became woke and just you know, he learned. But I think that Um, the guy that played James though the actor, his name was Tico Wells. He was

really good. There was a scene where they were having it out, Brandon and James were having it out, um in the library. They were first of all, okay, they were in the library. They were shouting. You're not supposed to shout in library, boys. Nobody stapped the library. You kind of heard like a guy in the background saying he required Albert, but nobody did anything about it. But anyway, well, before we get into the episode, we need to make

a special announcement. Next week, we have a very special guest. I know. Oh my god, I'm so excited. You guys, you guys, you guys, You're going to be really excited. It wouldn't we tell you who's coming on. It's an o G cast member, one of our own our sister. My favorite character, Gabrielle Carterrace was crazy, so excited. Andrea Zuckerman herself, She's gonna be here, you guys, it is you know what I gotta tell you. It is fitting that she is the first O G cast member to

be on our podcast. It is because she's our girl. She is she is our girl. I mean, yeah, we were scared ask the others. We knew Gap would say, yes, let's just be real. We're like, Okay, on a scale, who will do it first? You are, Yeah, that's our bestie, She'll do it. No. This was a good episode for Andrea. I feel like she had some really good one liners and she her character is just so consistent in through the whole ten years. She is what she is in the beginning, and she is what she is in the

end of the ten years. And in this episode, I feel like it's really clear that she Andrea was like the voice of the people. She was always fighting for equality and fighting for everybody to be heard. And now in real life, I r L gab is doing the same thing as the president of the screen actors. She's the president. Yeah. Crazy, It's so weird how life kind of stuck like the right. She ran the school news, she ran the school newspaper. She was chief and now

she is chief. She's chief of all of us, which is amazing because she fights for all of us daily, which is great as actors. Um. I gotta tell you though, I was crushing on some of her looks in this episode, specifically the specifically where she had her hair back and a pony him. She had a tie on, do you know what I'm talking about? Shirt tie, her glasses like whoa, she just looked put together. She was a hot babe.

She is a hot babe in amazing shape and is so beautiful and um so I'd like to jump in a near We weren't in this episode too much once again, not so much, not so much. We were like the Bobsy Twins, like the two Heathers that were like um, mean meaner, just like hey and like pop out. But I did notice that we coined something that's an in term right now that we said, and this is thirty years ago where we were like bye bye and they were like, oh, that's so Beverly Hills. That's what the

kids say now, like bye. It did that thirty years ago, Like whatever, we're just such trendsetter's Jennifer eve Garth, you need to post that clip on your instead show all the millennials. I don't know. I just every time the show starts, I can't quite get over for like a few minutes the sick theme song, like it's so amazing and so long. Like they don't make intros like that anymore. Yeah, okay, I gotta tell you every week when we're rewatching this.

I mean you probably do it too. I stayed the whole time it but you say no, I won't skip it, and it just I gotta tell you when I hear that theme song, chills. And now that we know that that's not your body, Jenny, I thought that was your body in the beginning this entire time for thirty years. Okay that's a like because you're young, so not for thirty years, but me for thirty years. And I was there with her. I thought for sure, I thought was you. We thought it was you. But now when I really

scrutinized it, after um, she said it wasn't her. Your body's better. Actually, wait, can we find that girl the post for that? That would be actually very was that girl probably for years people were like, Oh, that's Kelly Taylor. Boys everywhere we're thinking about that girl and that headless girl thinking it was Jenny Garth and it wasn't. And I wonder if she felt. Wait, I have a point here,

you guys. So you know how when there's like music videos and there's a singer, but they always have someone come in that's kind of responsible for the good singing. They have people for that. Do you know what I'm talking about? When they record, like major music people, there's always like there's a girl that comes in and hits the high notes, but she never gets any credit and she can never say like that was me hitting the high notes and they'd be like, oh my god, she

did really sing it. Babe. Rexa is one of those girls for one of Rihanna's songs. Okay, there you go. So there's this girl that's headless that had this body shot for years. The boys went crazy for thinking he was Jenny guard for thirty years and it was her and she couldn't say anything. She couldn't be like it was me. They'd be like, yeah, sure, okay, prove it, and she can't. And I'd like to find that girl. I think that girl is Marianne Moore from the from

the pilot episode or no, not Mary Moore. I'm getting she got offered that part two and she she was like, nah, I think that that's the girl um from the shoplifting episode, Tiffany oh oh oh, because she has a swing within a red bathing suit on a davy on a No, she has a scene diving board. Yeah, in a red bathing suit, and I think that's her. I'm picking up, but you're putting down. Okay, well, yeah, okay. I have a question for you guys. Why have intros shortened throughout

the years? Like why are they almost non existent now? When it comes to TV shows, people want instant gratification and no one cares they want content. Yeah, if ours came out today, you guys, it probably wouldn't have the same sting power. People just hear that and it takes them back to like childhood memories, who fun fact or a quiz question? Who was the composer of that theme song? Do not know? I know, but it's because you wrote it in your notes you sent me. I got the

cliff notes from Jenny Garth. Who is it? John E. Davis? I feel like he did all my dad's shows, for a lot of them. I always saw that name. You did a really good job with that one, so bye bye, Felicia. Did you think it was weird that um Kelly was just at the Walsh's dinner table for no reason? Now, but do you feel like there was maybe a scene, the prelude to that scene that got cut, like hey, do you want to come over for dinner my mom? Because they were sticklers back then, of like the story

really tracking like hammer over the head tracking. So it is shocking that that happened and there wasn't something to it. But the flirtation between Kelly and Brandon, you see the first glimpse of something peep in on him. But I gotta say, I the Andrea Brandon chemistry and it's really good, you guys, Like I watched it and I was just like I want her to get her golden boy, like I wanted it to happen, you know, like I really sad it never happened, like you that sorry, that was

not my fault. And yeah you came in and would Brandon off his feet if it wasn't for you, Kelly Taylor, I mean, Jenny Garth Brandon Andrea would have made it. They would have had a fighting chance. Did they ever actually date, though? I feel like there might have been some episodes or fantasy scenes or what happened. I don't know. We'll get to that. I guess she I put self tanner on and look what happened one fingering, one finger? Um, you guys, am I wrong? Obviously, will watch it together

and get to it. Didn't she ask him because she was going away to lose her virginity to him. Oh my gosh, yes, I remember. Still awkward. I forgot about that by then. It was kind of like, but now I watch it, I'm like, I just want them to kiss. I want them to be together, you know. One of my you know, one of my favorite parts of the

show was when Brenda was doing her driver's training. Um behind the wheel with the guy and she's driving and and I don't know, it's so random, but all of a sudden they see Henry Winkler on the side of the road and she crashes. It just made me so happy to just hear her say, oh my god, it Isn'try Winkler. I didn't remember that out. I was distracted when I watched that part Why were you distracted? Were

you distracted by her beetlejuice bangs? No? Hey, yeah, that was like she didn't have bangs and then she did have banks. She didn't bangs I think in the pilot, and then she did have bangs when we came back to series and they were kind of in that that she was in the trend, you know, of the why did this happen? I am the only one rock bangs. Her bangs were totally different. We had we had different bangs, all kinds of banks. Yes, actual Kelly's. Oh you know

who else was beautiful in this episode? Did you think? Well? Besides you, because you're always beautiful. Um, Carol Potter is hf D. She is an hf D for sure. She's Hottie for days. You get on me when you have the lingo, the team lingo. I'm just like, you just said something that I've never heard of. HFD. Maybe it's not even a thing, that's just what my husband calls it in the house. He I get all my my youngster lingo from him. Wait, hot King one hottie four

days for days. My mom listens to this, can you please? They're gonna bleep it they're gonna even take it out. She knows, she knows what the bleep means. Well, my mom does subscribe and comment and she gets us five stars. So thank you. Yeah, you guys, you can. We're like, we're like uber or Postmates. Tip your podcast host through here all day. Just give them five stars. Well, there's a few more things I want to get to in this episode, ladies, but we have to take a break.

We'll be right back. M h o MG, you guys, we are back. Um. There was a little bit of peer pressure in this episode from miss Kelly Taylor to Brenda Walsh. She's even she even dropped the year my best friend, won't you please come pick me up? Even though Brenda didn't have a driver's license. So my question for you too, did you ever steal the car before getting your driver's license? No? Oh my god, my place at security cameras everywhere, like, there's no steal in the car.

Out of the manner. We go out and steal the Bentley out of the the clan A, the Bentley, the stretch white limo. I'm like, hey, friends, I got this se and thirty like, nope, no I didn't either. You didn't I guess this is the downside of not growing up in bell Air and having security cameras, because yes, I did, for sure did girl stole my sister's car went to go pick up my friends? Did you run

out of gas and lose the car? I didn't know. No, okay, god, no, no, no no. And it was just one like Main Street that I kind of had a drive, so I didn't really have to get onto like a crazy boulevard or anything like that. But yeah, it's still illegal and against the law and whatnot. But I thought for sure you two would have had a story. Wow. Okay, So another takeaway is I feel like Jim is giving off helicopter

parents and stage dad vibes. I'm showing him showing up to this high school and in the middle of his tryouts of Brandon's tryouts is just cringe worthy, Like you wouldn't want any parent to ever do that to you. Why is that bad? Oh? That was my next question. What kind of what's your style in parenting? Are you the helicopter parent? Are you laid back? I feel like I'm pretty involved. If that makes me a helicopter mom, okay, but my kids will just call me out when I'm

being too two on them. They'll be like, Okay, helicopter mom, beat it, or they'll call Fiona. What does she call me? She calls me Karen A lot of times. You are not a Karen I ever say that are What about you, Tori? What kind of parent are you? So here's the thing. I think you could be classified as a helicopter mom, but you're also a super cool mom. She gets a lot of unbeknownst like because our kids like know who

we are and their friends. You were, Kelly Taylor, you were like the ultimate cool girl on TV, so you can get away with a little bit more than like the regimented, straight off helicopter mom. Don't you think a little bit if you were take yourself out of it and say it. I mean maybe, I don't know. When my girls were like little and just in kindergarten at first grade, I always thought like the cool young mom. But now I'm not that anymore. I'm just You're still cool.

I am cool. I mean you are you are cool? Yeah, You're cool. So I'm the opposite Jenny and I are. Parenting styles are complete opposites. We're complete opposites pretty much across the board. I know that's becoming a parent weekend and week out. So I don't know if this's going to work, this whole relationship. Should we just call it life? Yeah? Yeah, we had a good run. We had thirty years. We

were best friends. It was you know, no, but there's some there's there's some reason why we we are like yin and yang with each other and it works well. You are I am like a recluse um midwestern girl. You are like you love the spotlight and you're from severly hills, Like we're complete. No, you guys, I'm going to freak out on you right now. Listen, she says that all the time. Why I do not love the spotlight.

I'm not worried about conforming who I I spent the first half of my life being everything and anything everyone else wanted except myself. Like, now, let me live my life, babe. You live that life because you do it so well. But I couldn't do what you do, is my point. Like you are so good at what you do. What is so good that I do that you couldn't do? You're just you like you, you are you, and you're completely different than me, neither of which is good. Or

bad or wrong or right, it's just different. I don't love the spotlight. Every actor loves the spotlight or that's not true, okay, in a different way than you're thinking, like you love. I can give an example, definitely say I do not love the spotlight. Like that's not it's never been what I love. Well, you should change professions, like you should be something else. Then it's not too late. It's not never too late for a fresh start. You know what, Hey, you went for it? You thought wrong?

Too bad? Yeah? I did always want to be the grocery store checkout girls, so I can go to that. There's still time. M that's my dream job, just scanning the prices on the food. So oddly enough, I mean, we can't say much, but we have a Christmas movie in the works, and that's your job. Yeah right, you guys, don't feel bad for her right now. She's getting her dream job. She's getting her dream job. She's gonna make it.

What were we even talking about? It was supposed to be your parenting style, but apparently you two really I know because I love the spotlights? Why did I really get under your skin? Tor? Okay listen because okay, so there's some like keywords that she says about me, and frankly, I'm getting riled up because it strikes a chord because it's true. Listen, I'm not saying that again, but there's something deep down obviously like but don't you think like

when you say, like I don't trust Flashy but you do. Like, but it isn't that okay? If I like the finer things? Yes, whatever you want is okay. Like I'm not your person, that's judging of you know, I'm your best friend. Like, I'm never going to portray you or or say anything negative about you. But we're just different, right, And I like I said before, it's not right or wrong, it's just different. It's we're different people. And that's what makes us so such great friends is that we both bring

something completely different to each other's table. And that is it makes us, you know, evens us out in an interesting way. It's true. But yet, you guys, there's something so like connected and the same about us. Like if you were here with us in person and we were having this conversation and we were laughing, we would like finish each other's sentences and like we have the same humor. We do have the same humor. Maybe it's this quarantine.

You guys haven't been able to see each other face to face, so it's like, I feel like you're missing each other. I do. I miss you so much. We haven't been able to hang out in person, and there's so many things I need to know that what's happening in your life and where you are and who you're with and what you're doing. Does this turned into quite the therapy session. I'm happy for you too. I think

I feel like you needed it. Thanks, Thanks, Tisney. Thanks, I'm really glad we have this platform to do it on in private. Great, like you don't do enough things, Like you're not already a gill of all trades, Sisney, you can add therapist to your resume. You're welcome. Thank you. Should we talk about fashion? You guys from this episode always happy to mm hmm. Okay, I'll just kick it right off with how much I loved Steve Sanders in

the Lakers tank top. Yeah, playing basketball, Okay, So all I could think is Iron was so excited, probably when he got that outfit and they were like, you're going to be playing basketball Because I'm not kidding you guys, there were some moments they were Brandon, there were shades of shark Nado just screaming at me on screen. Am I wrong? He always had it in them? Always did? We knew it? H He was like such the jock.

He was a babe, babe, delicious, babe alert. My god, you were in love with Irons hearing you wanted to have like a thousand of his babies. You said that about everyone that I compliment. The other thing was there were a lot of scrunchy socks. Everybody seemed to have the scrunchy socks. It was like super Michael Jackson vibes. But um we Kelly had them, Brenda had them. Uh, Andrea had them. I've gonna had them. Yeah, Brandon had them. Brandon was wearing scrunchy socks. Boys did, boys did. But

here's the thing, you guys. So I just bought a pair of scrunchy socks the other day because they took me back to a really happy time. And I looked at Stella, my daughter, and I was like, do you want scrunchy socks? She's like, no, not into those. I'm like, everyone's into scrunchy socks. We've been wearing them for thirty years since she was like, I don't want them, and I was like, fine, oh, by scrunchy socks. And I was like, Hattie, do you want scrunchy socks? She's like

to cut them up with my scissor collection. But other than that, remember we double them up, like put different colors on top of differents Wow, that's like taking it to a whole another level. Oh my goodness. We que okay, since it was like a there were you know, there's always like an A storyline and a B storyline, So

but there was what did you think about? Okay, Jason Priestley just became like this big star, except the show probably hadn't completely taken off by episode five, right, but it was, you know, doing well and it was a big thing for him. And then he is on trying out for the basketball team and his sister and then his friend called him short. I know. That was one of my favorite lines that Steve Sanders says to Brandon, aren't you a little short? Which was all back callback

to Brenda saying it to him. How do you think, Like, here's Jason, He's a young guy. He's about to hit major hunky stardom. I'm sorry major hunky start him like Jason Priestley should pay us for what we say about him weekly on this show. In fact, I'm going to reach out, um but serious, Like I wonder if that's a thing, you know, I feel like with boys, that's

kind of a thing. And I wonder if he was like, oh, I don't know about the storyline, but like, you're not a huge story at so you can't really be like, hey, I'm not comfortable with you. Like it's kind of it's body shaming, and it is like what do you think he was thinking when he was filming this, Like, shoot, I don't want to call attention to that. Like how tall is he? Do we know? Do you guys know

we'll get in trouble. We can't say anything, no really, no, no, no no. We signed five we signed an n d A. We can't say anything. No, you did. It's right here. It's one of the top surches. Jason Priestly height. Here we go, ladies, Drummars five eight. Okay, you guys, I'm gonna call both that's not that short. I work with Ryan Seacrest and he's five eight and he doesn't seem that short to me. I'm gonna call both you guys can extract that from it, because this is listen you guys.

Women take off ten pounds from their actual body weight. Men add two inches to their height, Like it's just the way it goes, Like, hello, men and women, this is how we do things. Am I wrong? I would say, I take away pounds. Fine, Well, there's a line that we need to ask Gabrielle about when she's on with us next week. I know the line you're talking about, you know. Okay, So I had to rewind it like five times in the episode because is she's saying. Is

Andrea saying Steve Sanders is a spoiled she said slut? Right, Steve Sanders is a spoiled slut who doesn't even come close to a credible news source. And so I was like, wow, so what's your question? Like wait, Like women are referred to as sluts, men aren't. No. I loved if it

was great. I just didn't know if they said slut on Fox, like I thought it was she said, or it was you know, so I really were around it and I thought it was slut And then my husband made me second guess it, and so I'm like, He's like, it's slug. They wouldn't say slut, and I was like, well, I don't know, it could be slug. It could be slug. Let's ask. Yeah, we definitely will when Andrea Zuckerman herself Gabrielle Carterris joins us next week on nine, O two

and O MG. But until then, ladies, our homework assignment is episode six, Episode six. I wonder what it will be about. I have no idea. I bet Jason Priestley I'll be in it with his dreamy blue eyes. Yeah. That's something that we didn't get to this episode. Maybe we can touch on it next episode because we are running out of time. Is the whole what was it? Role? A? Role B? Story story? There is storylines, so I guess that's the whole thing when it comes to Okay, we'll

touch on that next week. And what you guys preferred, I'm assuming you per how you prefer to have storyline A never know storyline B can be really fun too. I really don't know what you guys mean by it, but I guess we can dive into it next week. You never want storyline C, which was me for like almost care first season, alright, grateful, We'll make sure you go watch the episode and we'll be back next week. Five stars, you guys, Five stars my mamma. I Love you.