Back of the box:
“THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY DAY” - Original Airdate: April 23, 1992
The gang heads to the Bel Age Hotel to meet Color Me Badd - and Donna makes an unexpected discovery.
- Ah, Dylan’s Wayfarers. I will never get over how sexy he is.
- There are so, so, so many things wrong with this opening number. It’s one of Color Me Badd’s music videos. It just goes to show how much things have changed in the past 15 years. There is no way, no how, in any universe, would these…boys? guys? people? become famous today. They are so sublimely unattractive and talentless.
- No, Donna, this is not the “greatest video in the history of videos.”
- Donna has been listening to them since before anyone had ever heard of them. That is not something to be proud of, Ms. Martin.
- David claims that because he’s a “DJ” he can get free tickets to the concert at the Whiskey A-Go-Go. I guess that proves how cool they are, they can only fill up a small venue like the Whiskey.
- The girls frantically try to get tickets on the radio. Felice Martin is a super bitch, as usual, and totally harshes their buzz by telling them it’s seedy to hang out on the Sunset Strip.
- Kelly is growing on me. Particularly because she hates Color Me Badd.
- Jim and Cindy are going to a Shaker furniture lecture or some shit like that. Who does that?
- Steve wants to take a road trip. Seriously? In the rain? In SoCal? Is he mental?
- Steve is so gung-ho about getting a stripper.
- “Steve, what is the big deal, it’s a naked lady, have you never seen one?” Dylan. I love you.
- Steve actually calls the stripper. Don’t you have to be 18 to engage in the sex trade?
- The chicas are doing their nails. I have never enjoyed doing my nails. I can’t do anything with my left hand, so I always end up stopping after I paint my left hand and my right hand stays empty.
- Donna actually thinks David has an in. Lucky for her, he does.
- Ahhh, pre-paparazzi days. I know they sucked, but Color Me Badd WAS pretty big back in the day. I like how there were zero photogs and tons of fans at the hotel, though. Poor celebrities.
- The Sherman Oaks Galleria? Ghett-o.
- Ah, Good Ol’ Boy Brandon feels guilty about inviting a stripper over. I wonder if my 16 year old brother has ever done this while my parents were out of town. I guess that’s why they don’t leave him alone ever.
- Of COURSE Andrea shows up before the stripper and invites herself to hang out. What a bitch. WHY ARE THEY FRIENDS WITH ANDREA?! Moment #2.
- Mad props to David for actually getting them into the hotel.
- Uh-oh. They meet Felice Martin in the hotel. Don’t know if it’s more awkward for Felice, who was supposed to be at a charity thing, or for the gang, who is not supposed to be in a hotel.
- That Felice, she’s up to no good.
- The guys have to do a quick cover-up and pretend the stripper, Brandi, is Cindy’s niece.
- I just googled the Bel Age Hotel. It’s being turned into some chi-chi place called The London. Sad.
- David knows Color Me Badd’s manager because his dad is his dentist.
- Donna feels bad about lying to her mother.
- They do this whole stake out thing in the lobby. It’s all very smooth. Obviously.
- Right. David knows how to talk to famous musicians.
- HA! David gets himself and Brenda stuck in a stairwell. And then locked outside in the rain.
- Oh shit. Donna catches her mom hooking up with some cheesey dude. Also, I would just like to say that Donna is wearing a red leather jacket and a stretch black and red diamond miniskirt.
- Andrea is bonding with the stripper, who is getting a Masters in Social Work and has a five year old child. WHY ARE THEY FRIENDS WITH ANDREA?! Moment #2.
- Kelly finds her way to the band’s floor when Donna chickens out. Kelly also meets Brian Abrams of Color Me Badd. He’s wearing enormous earrings. And he’s oh so down to earth. And, naturally, digs Kelly. Also, he has a sleazy Chester the Molester mustache.
- I really don’t know how to express how ugly these guys are. It’s really bad.
- They can’t go to a mall anymore without getting mobbed. I bet they miss those days.
- Donna tells David and Brenda that her mother is having an affair, and they don’t really seem to care.
- Uhhh, the stripper was in the Peace Corps? That is…so realistic.
- Also, she’s married.
- Andrea wants to hang out with the stripper again. WHY ARE THEY FRIENDS WITH ANDREA?! Moment #3.
- Err, the stripper’s song is “I Wanna Sex You Up” by Color Me Badd. I love the shitty boy band motif.
- Ha! The stripper came with her own boom box.
- Jim and Cindy catch the dudes with the stripper. Luckily Brandon had already told her to keep her knickers on.
- David suggests that Donna’s parents have an open marriage. How progressive.
- They decide not to go to the concert where Kelly got them FRONT ROW TICKETS because Donna caught her mom having an affair? Wouldn’t that be even MORE of a reason you’d want to go to the concert???
- Cindy: “All’s fair in love and puzzles.” No words.
- For having a mother as strict as Felice, Donna is allowed to dress pretty sluttily.
- Tori Spelling really gets to stretch her acting wings in this scene with her mother. Way to channel your inner rage, Tori.
- Wise words from Cindy Walsh. She has a real heart to heart with Donna and tells her about her almost affair. Maybe I should do that episode next. I bet it’s a good one.
- Jim: “We really are square, aren’t we?” Hello, Captain Obvious.
- When you’re having an affair, do you really go to high traffic hotels for your trysts? Especially when you know your daughter’s friends (Dylan) hang out there? Well, I suppose Felice may not be privy to the information that Donna associates with Dylan McKay.
- Donna: “I never knew what it was like to have problems.” Really? Your learning disability wasn’t a problem? The fact that they told you you would never get into college wasn’t a problem? Really?
- Brandon, oh so cool, tells Color Me Badd that they have to sing for their meal. They serenade Donna while singing a cappella. Color me awkward.
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