1.23: "Home Again" aka "Surprise! Brenda's Preggers!"

Okay. It’s the end of the school year, and ol’ Jimbo finds out he’s getting a promotion - if they move back to Minnesota. Naturally, everyone goes apeshit. And there’s a MEGA-cliffhanger at the end. Like, the first of its kind. I won’t ruin it here, though. And Steve gets in more trouble and some whatever like that. Oh yeah. And the gang throws them a huge going away party at the Peach Pit with all these randoms from West Bev, and it convinces the old man to let them stay in the 90210.

From the back of the box:

“HOME AGAIN” - Original Airdate: May 09, 1991
Moving back to Minnesota makes sense for Brenda and Brandon’s dad, but for them it’s a wrench thrown into their new lives. As the family gets ready to move back, friends and family make their feelings known and affect the decision to go back.

• Directed by Charles Braverman! Woohoo, another one!
  
• Okay, Steve is getting into a pretty crazy fight.
  
• Predictably, Brandon steps in to save him. Steve has a weird cut on his lip.
  
• How valiant, you beat him up because he talked shit about your mom.
  
• Ahh, excellent use of foreshadowing, Darren Starr. And perhaps irony, too.
  
• I hate storylines with Jim and Cindy. This scene is so Melrose Place wannabe. 
  
• Brandon says “sill-ANT-ro,” not “cil-ahn-tro.”
  
• Of course Brandon eavesdrops on his parents’ conversation wherein Jim breaks the news to Cindy that he may be getting fired.
  
• Brenda and Brandon make this big huge-ass deal about their dad potentially getting fired. But now, come to think of it, whenever I was a little kid and heard whispers of people getting fired, I thought, “Such shame,” and assumed they were humiliated and, like Brenda says, have their houses repossessed. Now, it’s like, I lose/leave jobs all the time, and most people I know have, too. Ain’t no thang. Just goes to show how stupid kids are…or something.
  
• Of course they get introspective and think about how good they’ve had it lately.
  
• Such bawdy locker room talk, there, Mr. President. ”Walsh…let’s cut to the chase.”
  
• Oooh, joke about Kelly’s nose job.
  
• Cindy has a garden? WTF? They have no land. They couldn’t possibly have a garden.
  
• Here it comes. The bomb is dropping, people.
  
• Brandon’s plan is for him to get two part time jobs to chip in. 
  
• He’s been promoted. Brandon gives him a big hug and says “Way to get the job done, big guy!” and it’s super-awkward.
  
• The Walsh peeps are not having any of this Minneapolis bs.
  
• My dad always said we’d get to vote on whether or not we moved again, but we never did.
  
• Daaaaamn, Cindy, you came through in the clutch! No Minneapolis for them.
  
• Aha, he is offered twice his salary. He’s in. Those bitches are moving.
  
• Uh, Cindy says “That SOB!” Awkward.
  
• Obviously, Brandon is sad about leaving Nat, and Brenda is sad about leaving Dylan.
  
• Everything is NOT gonna be just fine, Cindy!
  
• They were LEASING that house?!?! They couldn’t afford to buy one and have a mortgage like normal people? Sketch-y.
  
• Brandon, making a pros/cons list only works if you’re MAKING A DECISION. Your father MADE THE DECISION FOR YOU.
  
• God I love Brenda. So melodramatic with those dark sunglasses.
  
• Aw, the gang offers Brenda and Brandon their places to stay through the summer. Brandon turns Steve down because he “needs to be with his family” now. Uh, you’re a loser.
  
• OH SHIT! How did I forget this?!?!?! Andrea THROWS HERSELF AT BRANDON and offers to have sex with him before he leaves. WHY ARE THEY FRIENDS WITH ANDREA?! Moment #1.
  
• HAHAHA Brenda flips when Brandon tells her.
  
• Why shouldn’t the family split up? WTF are they talking about? My parents would have been thrilled to have me stay with friends for an entire summer.
  
• STOP CALLING YOUR FATHER “BIG GUY,” BRANDON.
  
• This is so the high school where She’s All That was filmed.
  
• Steve is really cheesed off at Brandon for not staying with him and leaving.
  
• Ah, now that they’ve had sex, Brenda feels free to make all of the sexual innuendos she wants.
  
• Kelly’s mom says Brenda can’t stay with them for the summer. What a bitch, Jackie. You and your stupid addiction recovery.
  
• Why doesn’t Donna offer her house?
  
• Brenda acknowledges that she’s pretty much a jealous bi-otch.
  
• Brandon is going “to give up a friend.” What does that mean? Since he’s going to do Andrea Zuckerman, he’s not allowed to be friends with her anymore?
  
• WHY ARE THEY FRIENDS WITH ANDREA?! Moment #2. She is wearing this weird poufy headband. It’s like blue splatter paint. And mom jeans and a peasant-y type blouse that looks like something your elementary school teacher would wear.
  
• She tells Brandon she’s wants to have sex for the first time with him. Awkward.
  
• Suddenly Brenda and Brandon take walks on the beach.
  
• No, guys, Andrea is not pretty.
  
• Oooh, Brenda reveals to Brandon she’s having sex with Dylan, and he’s pissed. But it’s only been going on for three weeks. So that’s how long it is between episodes.
  
• Jimbo’s new job is crazy busy. This office is a pathetic shade of pink. PINK?! That’s not ruthless and business-like.
  
• Question: why would the better job be in Minneapolis versus Los Angeles? That…doesn’t make much sense to me.
  
• He has this old old lady as his secretary. That’s so old school. I’m an assistant. Everyone I know is an assistant. And I’m barely 24.
  
• I love it when Dylan talks Shakespeare.
  
• Dylan is SO effing hot. He suggests running away with Brenda. That’s totally what I would do.
  
• Haha, Andrea chickens out and tells Brandon she didn’t mean it. But then he tells her he accepts her gift. And they kiss, and it’s awkward. Awkward is the best adjective for this episode.
  
• Andrea, you look like a turtle.
  
• Sex jokes, sex jokes everywhere.
  
• Poor Jason Priestley, he had to make out with a 40 year old.
  
• Suddenly Cindy is obsessed with farmer’s markets.
  
• Andrea doesn’t have time till Sunday to have sex with Brandon. And then they have nowhere to go. So Brandon suggests the Peach Pit after dark. Which, coincidentally, is the name of the night club they open behind to the Peach Pit.
  
• Steve is a baby.
  
• Dylan’s crooning, Brenda, we are so good together, and Brenda breaks up with him. And she’s mean about it. She’s my favorite kind of mental.
  
• Yeah, kids really are little shits when it comes to people moving.
  
• I love how Brenda bitches about moving back to Minneapolis. Reminds me of this girl we’re family friends with.
  
• Jim’s starting to maybe think twice about this new job of his.
  
• Aww, Cindy commiserates with Brenda about long distance relationships.
  
• Brandon has a creepy sex fantasy about Andrea.
  
• Cindy is wearing an awkward baseball cap.
  
• Uhhh, and she also says that Nat is “in a tizzy.”
  
• They trick Brenda and Brandon into going to the Peach Pit. Except Andrea didn’t plan the party, she just thought she and Brandon were gonna make sweet sweet love in there. Sucks for you.
  
• They do these weird goodbye camcorder interviews.
  
• That Nat, such a jokester.
  
• Hahahaha, Steve is clearly the best character.
  
• Cheese central.
  
• Blah blah blah, all the friends’ messages convince Jimbo to let them stay in the 90210.
  
• Whoa I just chugged a Diet Cherry Coke really fast. My stomach hurts.
  
• Dylan is dead sexy. He looks into the camera and says, “I don’t do cameras,” and walks away. Just like River Phoenix.
  
• Weird, Dylan still has that insane earring.
  
• Hah - some PA misspelled “Walshes” on the sign on the back wall.
  
• “Home is where the heart is. Not where the highest paycheck is.” Wise words, Jim, wise words.
  
• Lots of fist-pumping action.
  
• Friendship does rear its ugly head, Andrea.
  
• AHHH, BRENDA’S LATE!! IS SHE PREGNANT?? IS SHE NOT?! We’ll have to wait till next season to find out…