Owner of Bookie’s Bookstore in - Chicago Tribune

I'm referring of course to Season 3 Episode 28 : "Something In The Air."
A quick recap:
Previously, 'The Gang' had decided to go to the Senior Prom, even Brandon!!! which was outrageously surprising because as we all know BRANDON WALSH DOES NOT DANCE.
The students have been warned that if ANYONE of them is caught drinking booze or sneaking booze into the prom or has the smell of alcohol on their breath there will be SEVERE CONSEQUENCES.
In an early form of pregaming before that was an actual real word and something that people actually did The Gang gets together at David's dad's place and they are having a jolly old time and Mr. Silver busts out a bottle of champagne and hey who's gonna turn that down??!! YOLO!!!!
I can't recall exactly who does and doesn't partake, though I seem to recall Dylan abstaining but one person who definitely had more than their fair share of champagne was everyone's favorite virgin DONNA MARTIN!!!!
But it'll be fine, trust me.
So they all go off to the prom which for some reason featured an actual red carpet and velvet ropes and I want to say a bunch of flashbulbs going off??, which, c'mon.
Anyway, everyone is having an even jollier time doing the sons and daughters and stepchildren and adopted children of millionaires white mans overbite type dancing, except for David who is doing some of that hippity hop-rap dancing, I think it's called thrashing, smashing, destroying, something like that.
Unfortunately it all gets to Donna because unlike every other member (okay except for Andrea and David) of The Gang who have been having sex, getting in too deep with a bookie, getting drunk, doing ALL THE DRUGZZZZZ!!! at some not so distant time in their oh so young lives she has been THE GOOD GIRL.
I PROMISE you she and David haven't even frenched yet.
Anyone, Donna ends up stumbling around and The Gang tries and fails to get her the hell out of there but not before running into Mrs. Teasley and Donna is SO busted.
But you're thinking to yourself and possibly even shouting at the the tv, "This is The Gang!!! The COOL KIDS!!! The POPULAR CROWD!!! That whole not drinking thing SURELY can't apply to them, right?"
You would be VERY and EXTREMELY wrong about that.
Because in 'Something In The Air' we come to find out that Donna is F-U-C-K-E-D.
She is in fact NOT going to be allowed to graduate because she has been suspended.
But Mrs. Teasley despite having literally caught The Gang redhanded trying to sneak Drunken Donna out of the prom venue is also kind of a softy, which is odd seeing as Steve Sanders (one of The Gang) has spent the last three years spending more time being yelled at by her in her office for various doofus schemes which have ALWAYS blown up horribly in his face than he has in the classroom.
ANYWAY she calls The Gang, minus the suspended Donna down to the office and tells them about Donna not being able to graduate but she does get a hearing and if they TRULY are her friends they will write letters of support for her because what NEVER fails to win over administrators is letters of support from a bunch of people who did the EXACT same thing that the person in trouble did, except they:
A) Were already alcoholics (Hi Dylan!!!) and didn't drink

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B) Only had one glass of champagne and due to being SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited about prom they managed to excite all the booze out of the system and act like a normal non-drunk person.
SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE A STRAIGHT ARROW DONNA?!?
If you'd given in to David's begging and pleading and let him doink you NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
Due to an EXTREMELY convenient and utterly stupid and unconvincing plot twist the same Mrs. Teasley who caught Donna gettin' her drunk on at the prom is off at some national association of high school administrators conference (ORGY) which means that the previously NEVER seen but obviously powerful and important AND EVIL member of the school board decides to flay Donna to the bone.
Meanwhile the two snotty junior dopplegangers for Andrea and Brandon on the staff of the school paper do some MIGHTY FINE Brandonesque braying at Andrea and Brandon over how dare they be outraged about Donna when they don't give a fuck about the horrible new dress code that will require all the girls to wear black burkas and the guys to wear level 5 hazmat suits, to which I say, why the FUCK should Brandon and Andrea give a shit about that? Their asses are literally already out the door on the way to college and frat parties and God knows what else.
Screw your mewling about a dress code.
Some quality braying though.
Overhearing this adviser to the paper and squatter in Malibu beachfront property Gil Meyers takes Brandon aside and tells him Donna's being railroaded by a kangaroo court, which is a REALLY bad mixing of metaphors, ESPECIALLY for such a DREAMY English teacher.
Which would have been enough for most people to stand up, throw something, tv/chaicoffee table/footstool/brick/Great Dane through the nearest window, go over to said broken window and scream, "DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!"
But I'm getting ahead of myself and Brandon Walsh though he may be an excellent brayer is not so great at actually, y'know, DOING anything about it.
So, of course he has to have a sit down with dad.
Jim Walsh. Who upon hearing Brandons braying of Donna's tale of woe IMMEDIATELY starts talking in a JUST A BIT TOO CREEPILY HAPPY MANNER about how he went and protested at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago back in 1968.
Dan Rather getting gut punched by Mayor Daleys thugs on the convention floor!!
Mayor Daley spewing profanities and obscenities about those "Fucking filthy hippies" on live tv!
William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal getting into a continuous slapfight on LIVE TV over the course of the convention!
PIGASUS!
Chicago cops beating the everloving shit out of hippies, dippies, longhairs, freaks, reporters, yippies and just about anyone else they could get their paws on and club with their nightsticks!!
"The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!"
Ahhhh, memories.
To which, COME THE FUCK ON, writers. You're really gonna equate a full scale multi-day protest/riot in a major American city to some addle brained high school chick not being allowed to graduate and being suspended because she violated a clear rule?
Wonderful sense of proportion you have there.
But Jim's braying changes Brandon's mind. You can see it in his eyes. DONNA MUST BE AVENGED!!!!
Okay, maybe that's going a LITTLE too far.
But he does get together with The Gang and they divy up a phone tree whereby all the seniors will walk out at 10:00 the next morning and go over to the district admin building to show their support for Donna.
And of course The Gang are all front and center in the middle of things, EVEN DYLAN, who quite astutely had pointed out that all this meant was that Donna wouldn't get to walk at graduation with everyone else, she'd still get to graduate in August.
The rest of The Gang did NOT take kindly to this and told him to SHOVE IT.
Okay, so they didn't actually come out and say, "SHOVE IT DYLAN!!," during the actual episode but you TOTALLY know it happened off camera.
Anyway, this where we the iconic "DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!! DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!!! DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!!!" chant makes it's appearance and it is heard all the way in the big hall where the TRIAL OF THE CENTURY is being held.
Naturally the EVIL school board administrator is NOT HAVING IT and dispatches one of his lackeys to tell those bratty kids to KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF OR THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES.
To wit, Brandon gets to announce to the crowd that if they all shut the hell up and slink away quietly they won't be expelled.
Does the crowd in fact shut the hell up and slink away quietly?
THEY DO NOT.
They resume chanting, "DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!! DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!!" and thanks to the oh so timely reappearance of Mrs. Teasley, looking pretty sharp for having been interrupted mid-orgy, the EVIL school board administrators EVIL PLANS are thwarted all due to those MEDDLING KIDS.
Especially that Brandon Walsh with his ducktail haircut that hasn't been stylish since James Dean died.
Now, when this episode originally aired I was a few years out of high school, but even then I was all ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!
The Gang and all the other students had been told QUITE CLEARLY what would happen if they and alcohol had any meetups on prom night.
But do any of them tell David's asshole father about the warning or press him on it?
FUCK AND NO.
Because they're The Gang!
The Cool Group!!
The Cute/Hot Group!
The Popular Group!!
I mean they won ALL the awards at Senior breakfast didn't they? Brandon even had a sung written and sung about and to him by all the cutest girls.
Surely this stupid rule couldn't POSSIBLY apply to them, right?
Even being just a couple years out of high school and therefore still not really knowing ANYTHING, to me this came across as spoiled whiny brats throwing a temper tantrum because they refused to face the consequences of their actions.
And I STILL feel that way.
There are hundreds of scenes and probably a couple dozen episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 which have NOT aged well/have aged badly, but for me, this is the worst of them all
Thoughts?