Donna Decides to Become a Bad Girl

Donna decides to become a bad girl after receiving a disappointing SAT score.
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[@MisterDramatic]

Donna: Do you want me to spell it out for you? Brenda: Are you able to?

[@ilexevergreen5405]

Haha

[@veronicam.9396]

LMAO 😂

[@PureAloha78]

Omg I almost choked on my drink. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@angelaanaconda5837]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@celebrityrog]

hahahhhahahahaha

[@Sephiroth766]

I think this is the first time they gave Donna an actual storyline, she was just there for this whole season.

[@hekate1971]

Or you mean there because her father wa s Aaron Spelling?

[@LuvableAF]

Tori still believes she auditioned like everyone else for 90210 lol

[@flukeman022]

Said she used a fake name for the audition, I'm sure nobody recognised her.

[@lizpurr8402]

She also had the “only virgin at West Beverly HS” storyline

[@parthetis74]

She was just 'there' every season..Donna didn't add anything, lol

[@julieblair7472]

"have either of you seen Donna?" no she's getting pregnant and smoking because math is hard

[@sharonc.2207]

This legit made me lol

[@erincampbell1955]

Lol

[@Claudia18980]

May be she had a bad hair Day omg

[@ritagam4514]

​@Claudia18980 lol I know.. apparently that's all that mattered in the 80s 😂😂

[@rljturbo]

She later learned she has a learning diability. This was a big deal to her, as even her mother was making her life dificult about it (i.e. boarderline bullying)

[@jennebaram9881]

Someone needed to tell her- that guy she was smoking with in the parking lot wasn’t rich and also wasn’t going to take care of her.

[@jennebaram9881]

And that’s not even a question on the SATs!

[@robinorlowski2449]

Plus public schools in the 1980s and 1990s would have had to refer students suspected of having a disability for evaluation. It's unlikely Donna just got a learning disability during the SAT tests. They took tests in numerous classes prior to the SATs.

[@laurao8099]

​@@robinorlowski2449most public schools in the 1980s and 1990s did not have testing for dyslexia. Dyslexia was still fairly new and there were almost no resources on how to deal with it even in LA😢

[@robinorlowski2449]

@@laurao8099 no, it existed and the testing existed---I've been in several schools across the country in that time period. The law requires all students be identified and then testing suggested to the parents. An upscale public school like WBH and the West Beverly Hills School District would yes be doing this in the 1980s and 1990s.

[@robinorlowski2449]

Donna's dad is a doctor and doctors across various disciplines do socialize with each other and talk. So he probably had some idea of what a learning disability looked/could look like. What would have been hard is getting the support information and information re rights under law--bc this is pre-internet era They'd have to write away for brochures, fliers etc and hope the address they wrote to was current.

[@frozenwarning]

Brenda’s like, ‘shit, she’s right! What do i say?!’

[@servus-do5zj]

That shopping center looked hilariously tragic 😸

[@LanaDelRadioFM]

Outlandishness of the 1990ies 🎉

[@lnicole2504]

It's not a shopping center. That is the whole Fred Segal's store on Melrose. It still looks exactly like that today, except it closed down in 2018 after being at that location since 1965. Another piece of history gone!

[@james---b]

@@lnicole2504 not true. the los angeles store is still open. 8500 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

[@JakeLo1991]

Donna's lines and emotions are epic . "I better find a rich guy to marry me cause I'm too stupid to take care of myself." (Donna breathes raggedly) (upbeat music)

[@macaronblanc9522]

but unfortunately she is also too ugly to find that rich guy...😂

[@cindyt8278]

@@macaronblanc9522that’s so true

[@MomMom4Cubs]

She didn't do such a great job with that.

[@karCot]

She should of taken her own advice. 😂

[@TheAutisticCapricorn]

I'll bet that's what Donna's mom actually did before hookin' up with Dr. Martin for his riches, huh?

[@athens31415]

Turns out Donna has a Learning Disability and it interfered with test taking ability.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I have a learning disability 2 n i found out in college..

[@TheAutisticCapricorn]

​​@@MsDisneylandlover At least you made it to college, now that _has_ to be an extravagant succession for ya 💯💯

[@flukeman022]

4:11 "i better find a rich guy to marry me." Little did everyone know David Silver answers the call

[@roxanneharrow6486]

True story: I had this macho playboy guy fall hard for me in 1992 when we were 17. He use to stay on the phone with me and watch 90210 and listen to my commentary. His friends had no idea that he became so feminine for me. I wound up hurting him out of insecurities. He is still hurt to this day and we're 50 now. He's miserably married for 7 years. I've never been married and miserably single...(well not that miserable). I came to watch these clips just to recapture some of the feeling I had when he and I were young and in love. (He was the one. He still is.)

[@annap1171]

Omg! If this is true, and you're sure he's miserable, go get him! But make sure it reciprocal and for real!!

[@bonniehowell9206]

Donna Martin Graduates! Donna Martin Graduates!

[@diana_prince_1]

Lmfao! She almost threw it all away, for a night of teen drinking. 😂

[@ladypink951]

I know how Donna feels

[@Jennifer-pi6ty]

Me too😕

[@evaa-w5399]

Me too. I do better on oral exams though

[@rljturbo]

As did Donna

[@Mitzi73]

I got similar scores to Donna. I still did ok in life.

[@ComaLies225]

There’s different levels of intelligence and some people excel in certain types. I felt the same but I’m doing pretty good myself now that I’m older. Donna just needed support

[@ladennayoung2939]

I know how you feel Donna. Academics can be rough.

[@atxpupil]

I remember watching this as a kid and thinking: “ it shouldn’t be too hard for Donna to find a rich guy to marry and live off of - she’s got a great body… And the rest will fall into place… She’ll be OK.”

[@thehapagirl92]

So you’re calling her a butterface😂

[@ashen8046]

All the upvotes for being such a pragmatic child!

[@HaloFlemz86]

Wow, the same thing happened to me. I got threw primary and middle and jr high ok. When I got to highschool i crashed. Barely got threw it and felt the same way she did. So relatable.

[@jaygee8039]

Damn Brenda's reaction sure made her feel a lot better lol

[@natalieryan2055]

Donna is the only child of a ridiculously weathly couple in beverly hills. im pretty sure shell be just fine

[@katarinagbajobi6620]

Got herself too much plastic surgery! Kelly is the best looking at an older age.

[@svin7987]

i don't remember the revelation of them being rich

[@katarinagbajobi6620]

@svin7987 Aaron Spelling is the ditector of Beverly Hills and the father of Donna - Tori Spelling

[@ladypink951]

Can you please upload the Halloween episode? I love how Steve told Donna to be herself and how Kelly was saved by her friends

[@heartsmyfaceforever8140]

I better find a rich guy to marry me Getting knocked up in the parking lot is not the way child.

[@rilokyle]

Brenda: OMG 💀💀💀

[@kerriethompson2073]

At least Brenda was a better friend than Kelly.

[@rachaelramos]

I remember that she got diagnosed with ADD. I can relate 100% to her because i have ADD as well.

[@DylanLovesBrenda]

She got diagnosed with dyslexia

[@robinorlowski2449]

@@DylanLovesBrenda She didn't get diagnosed with anything. The public schools would have had to talk to her parents. If they refused services the school could not enroll her in special education just bc in the 1990's.

[@cindyt8278]

Kelly has beautiful 🤩 hair

[@slowburnVv]

Brenda's eyes are so vertically offset I can't unsee it

[@littlesparrowloves]

God. Me too now.

[@lynncrf]

Now I can't unsee it either!

[@Izabela-ek5nh]

I always saw it but so many years after it doesn't bother me at all.

[@dylonrasco]

But seriously Donna needs an education to graduate

[@dennisdimovski3497]

Best show ever ♥️

[@JakeLo1991]

Donna got 18.75% right on the Math SAT. 20% on Verbal SAT. Perfect score is 1600. Brandon Bruce Lee I heard got a 1600 on the SAT.

[@infj4w511]

thanks

[@athens31415]

Sounds like JakeLo1991 can't math either.

[@xtianhdz6924]

i can't handle the 1980's text book in math class feel this gives me rn makes me want to💀

[@JakeLo1991]

She's right.

[@Sephiroth766]

I'm surprised her dad approved this storyline

[@ladennayoung2939]

He wasn't Bill Cosby.

[@danielstack4158]

She wasn't playing herself. He wanted the characters to Be complex.

[@Dee-no3sn]

​@@ladennayoung2939stop lying on Bill.

[@weeniehutjr9977]

@@Dee-no3snBill Cosby is an abuser. wake up. he was convicted in a court of law

[@someoneyoudontknow7705]

@@danielstack4158All but Donna. Except for this episode.

[@tammyboykin5285]

Sats are hard and dont truly represent someone's intelligence. Plus I always heard that the SATs are geared more towards males anyway I'm not even sure they use them anymore

[@supermilkguy]

The SAT is 100% biased to those on the gender binary. Those of us who fall outside that are marginalized and forced into sex work, like Donna was.

[@robinorlowski2449]

I got a 200 in math and a 430 verbal and I was fine. i knew I would do horrible on the math, so I didn't care re the test.

[@JosephByrne]

0:01 remember books?

[@dylonrasco]

Donna will probably get busted lol 😂 😂

[@theoriginalkrabbypatty]

When you had to look things up in these things called “books”.

[@LauRa-re9un]

I wonder how much reality her father knew about her and made her say, same as Bjorn did to Agnetha, making her sing exactly how she felt about his cheating and new wife. I mean, probably her father knew she was a little slow and wouldn´t succeed by her own in life, exactly as it happened.

[@DylanLovesBrenda]

I liked this storyline for Donna but very sad her dyslexia went undiagnosed until junior year. I guess this show was ahead of it’s time lol IEP’s we’re around back then but probably not as common as they are today.

[@robinorlowski2449]

they were around back then---which is why this story line makes zero sense. Any public school would have had to contact Donna's parents if they suspected her of having a learning disability. It's a bad storyline since Donna was attending public schools in the 1970s and 1980s when there was also special education (it started in 1975). Really unlikely that she has dyslexia only in high school.

[@robinorlowski2449]

I had an IEP when the show was in high school years. Information was harder to find bc stuff was not easily on line yet--but it was there.

[@robinorlowski2449]

also since Donna is a minor (she turns 18 last high school year) she can't sign for her own IEP. Mrs Teasley would have had to call her parents Donna could (again bc she was in high school) attend the meeting with her parents and the school but she cannot just be diagnosed etc without them knowing.

[@mayahigginbotham9873]

Her dad for seeing the future

[@master-kq3nw]

Donna always been like saint

[@alinavolina3625]

I like a lot styly Donna 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@jlouis4407]

Brenda said OMG

[@laurao8099]

Yeah I don't really understand how Brenda and Kelly just expect on him to spit out her SAT scores and act like it's the same it is for everybody else when she's dyslexic and struggles in ways that they have no clue and they don't seem to be interested in having a clue she goes through or how they could help or be supportive

[@stacydetwiler1475]

What is the background music in the Fred Segal store?

[@bonniehowell9206]

I want to know as well

[@DoeintheThicket]

Confused and Abused by Far from Famous

[@moquilla1]

This show had some okay music for its time, even the older episodes.

[@TheGraysPointer]

I got 36% in a math test in school 40 years ago. I still hate the number 36

[@shannonsmith2642]

Patrol officer Brenda, I don’t believe this, look at Donna…..

[@RodneyDodson]

I wish i saw this episode when i was a kid.

[@DylanLovesBrenda]

It was pretty awesome lol they were so cool 😂😂😂

[@ifcinvestor569]

Meanwhile there's people with college degrees in the unemployment line!

[@Claudia18980]

You can have a bad hair Day And not go to school or work

[@parthetis74]

It was a joke

[@tenkufrik576]

Anybody knows name of that song 2:40? Thanks 😃

[@BlackStarJohan]

far from famous - confused and abused

[@krystamarberry8369]

What episode is this?

[@antcosentino27]

dude that song in the clothing store totally fucks!

[@LadyovVein]

I’m trying to find out what it’s called!!

[@nicoletrudell2065]

Wait ... THIS is what constitutes a "bad girl" on 90210? 😂

[@nicoleackerman205]

Yeah the 90's were weird.

[@someoneyoudontknow7705]

Skipping school, hanging out with trashy people and smoking. For a teenager in the 90s, yes. What is it in your opinion? Sleeping with every guy you meet?

[@magikarpmagikarp9497]

I can't remember, was Donna dyslexic or something?

[@julieblair7472]

she had a non specified learning disability

[@ladennayoung2939]

Now that you mentioned it, I do think I remember her character being diagnosed with something.

[@dralbertpakin8895]

Yes Donna ends up with Dyslexia. I have dyslexia as well but I have my PHD. It's hard but you can do it.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

Brenda was patronizing and overbearing. She just wants Donna back as her little lackey.

[@leayahia8880]

Yes. In the exact same way she behaved with Dylan 🙄😦Unbearable Brenda just like her father Jim. Both were too much in control😰. Iam sure Dylan released a lot of pressure 😇when they called it quits.

[@ladennayoung2939]

They were wrong for responding like that.

[@someoneyoudontknow7705]

Honestly?

[@KIKI4444]

It’s crazy to think that this wasn’t that long ago. And that ppl w/ learning disabilities were still heavily stigmatized

[@2choosewisely2]

famous amos little cookies!

[@gw244]

I'm a millennial watching this. It feels like looking at a bunch of senior college students as opposed to high school teens.

[@JackFate76]

Nobody cares about millennials.

[@theoriginalkrabbypatty]

They were all 30, that’s why.

[@rizalukman7982]

Exam is coming

[@mikhailliakh64]

I thought this was about Donna from Twin Peaks

[@JakeLo1991]

"Is a 620 SAT bad? It situates you in the bottom 0th percentile on the national scale, underperforming the majority of the 1.7 million SAT test takers. This score signifies your performance in answering questions in the Math and Evidence-Based Reading & Writing sections of the exam." Souce google

[@lilmama121]

Her mother actually said something like that to her own daughter, unbelievable. No wonder Donna had issues with her mom. She was a huge hypocrite, too. But she got better towards the end of the show. She stopped judgmental and high and mighty.

[@nicoleackerman205]

Donna's mom was horrible like throughout the whole show.

[@DylanLovesBrenda]

Felice was the worst

[@robinorlowski2449]

They never explained why Donna's mom originally was a brunette called Nancy during season one. And then becomes Felice for the rest of the show. Nancy probably was nicer.

[@reyramirez6362]

Her mother made her so insecure and fearful, just awful!

[@someoneyoudontknow7705]

Um…how does that apply to this scene?

[@calexismccarrington2175]

@@someoneyoudontknow7705 Um... It's right there in the scene. She said her mother told her she was dumb so she better find a rich man to marry because she couldn't take care of herself.

[@saramarshall2957]

I don't think she would have gotten so far into school without anyone noticing she has a disability

[@someoneyoudontknow7705]

It seems 75% of kids these days have a learning disability. It was anywhere near as common back in the 90s.

[@successtipswithsteph]

20 out of 800 in Math? ....I think a corpse might do better

[@PureAloha78]

Don’t you get 200 for writing your name right? Lol

[@RoxanneEdgemotherhoodandmakeup]

I think she said “320” but whined through it. 😮

[@joemullaley6531]

(tense music)......(tense music continues) 🤪

[@Sattnin77]

Didn't Donna have dyslexia?

[@bonniehowell9206]

I don't remember, but she was diagnosed with a learning disability

[@Sattnin77]

@@bonniehowell9206 that much I knew. I thought the disability was dyslexia but somebody else said it was a comprehension deficit.

[@devinmceachern]

Happy belated 50th birthday, Tori Spelling. I absolutely love Tori Spelling. Tori Spelling is love. Tori Spelling is life. Tori Spelling is Donna Martin forever. #DonnaMartinGraduates

[@danielleminerva4525]

Ok there Tiger lol

[@georgielockhart6686]

Donna Martin Graduates!!!!

[@John-cc4rk]

How Tori Spelling didn't get an emmy is beyond me

[@masonhancock5350]

“Girls, I’ve got your scores, and you scored very poorly on our DEI casting requirements list.”

[@TheRmm1976]

Tori was so hot back then! She was my favorite of the girls on the show. Always loved the intro with her crop top shirt where you could see her tummy. Risque for the time!

[@frozenwarning]

Lol. I remember my mother used to see her and go “oh my God she’s a DOG!”

[@leayahia8880]

Risque nothing . To each his own but the girl really is not good-looking tbh . It's a fact. Kelly and Brenda didn't look like a HORSE.

[@ladennayoung2939]

She doesn't look bad to me. I honestly think people hate her out of jealousy. I don't think they would be half as hateful to her if they didn't know who her father was. But she honestly wasn't bad of a character.

[@leayahia8880]

@@ladennayoung2939 Jealous of her ? No seriously good for her if she's wealthy and healthy but tbh she's not pretty . I am no bargain either but glad i don't have her face.

[@livingcolours773]

It was not risqué at all, it was just the fashion. It was not the 1940’s

[@Yannonthemoon]

Such a bad girl lol she smokes a cigarette 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@someoneyoudontknow7705]

Yeah, people weren’t as trashy in general back in the 90s as they are today.

[@DreamItCraftIt]

​@@someoneyoudontknow7705Well, I wouldnt say smoking alone was trashy. Smoking was everywhere in indoor places then, restaurants you name it. Its just because its underage smoking and its true, it shouldnt happen. Its a cultural thing though because at the same time, teens in europe smoked and it was commonplace

[@PrecociousFriand]

Tori was actually quite attractive when she was young. I'm not sure what she did to herself, mostly implants and fillers...she looks very strange now.

[@BM-wh5qk]

How was the SAT the first test she ever took?

[@Bryankirshon]

the 90s

[@ValleyRogue.]

Hell yeah Donna

[@saykoza8481]

The life of the young WASP 😂 so many life problems

[@rtunyebgvfdcyrmjhgnd]

oh how the definition of a bad girl have changed

[@SterlingFogg]

Pencils!!!!

[@rbuddy4765]

Donna Martin graduate !!

[@erincampbell1955]

Hey nothing wrong with that Donna , marrying a rich man lmbo

[@piamoltzau4382]

So sad not the original voices and a lot of other things too. But it is funny to see this old 💩. Now I am abla to understand things

[@cb4017]

Wow… Donna’s mom is a pickme monster

[@Bob_Jones123]

This was clearly before OnlyFans! Donna would have banked!

[@macaronblanc9522]

with THAT face??😂

[@lisaperea5151]

I think Brenda and Kelly never should have been friends.

[@parthetis74]

Dyslexia was the toughest story they could give Donna. In terms of acting ability out of the bunch, she was prob a 4 out of 10..

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Her mom was wrong

[@jonc2154]

Gina Cozzi

[@JD_300]

I own leopard underwear and I style my moms hair and I bought her a new bikini today

[@nellitaleva9709]

💯🙌💕🚬🙏👑🎵🇵🇪

[@dariopalmieri7572]

She has always been a useless character,without personality and attached to Kelly's skirt...terrible girl

[@kerriethompson2073]

Terrible actress too.

[@kathconserv]

Agreed.

[@caseymroot]

It wasn't until the latter seasons that she became a central character. But you're right about the initial seasons. Based on these clips, she basically just tagged-along with Brenda and Kelly.

[@desireeboone3631]

​@@kerriethompson2073 well we know who her father was...

[@ladennayoung2939]

No. I liked the majority of the original cast. I think most people only say those things. Because they know who her father was. I could have did without some of the others ones thar came later on.

[@mlongpre100]

it was better when the donna from twin peaks did it

[@davesparrow1372]

hahahahahahahaa

[@irenelakhan5331]

Why don’t you too just talk to Donna? I thought you were friends

[@someoneyoudontknow7705]

She wasn’t in school…they didn’t see her. When Brenda saw her, she talked to her.

[@moniqueruiz90]

This is why I stopped watching TV a longtime ago Bad writing bad acting just bad So sad people accept such low production standards

[@natalieryan2055]

ahahahahahahahahahah

[@JB-gt5no]

Must be nice to get casted in a show because of your dad

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Nepotism and i deal with it at my job.

[@HippiePirates]

Wow! I forgot how stupid this show was and how much I hated it. Thanks for posting this trash and reminding me

[@harrisonhanson2998]

Oooooh what a bad girl, smoking! The things that passed for being a rebel in the 90s is quite a joke in comparison to the now.

[@livingcolours773]

You mean that passed for being a rebel in wealthy Beverly Hills.

[@kathconserv]

I hated Donna. What a useless character.

[@YvWzuJ]

What a useless comment.

[@kathconserv]

@@YvWzuJ many disagree with you.