BEVERLY HILLS 911

BEVERLY HILLS 90210
1990-2000 FOX

BEVERLY HILLS 911
MAD #309, March 1992
w: Dennis Snee
a: Mort Drucker

Introduction to Brendon and Brenda Walsh (Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty), Dylan McKay (Luke Perry), Jim Walsh (James Eckhouse), Cindy Walsh (Carol Potter), Donna (Tori Spelling), Kelly (Jennie Garth) and Steve (Ian Ziering). Not named are Andrea (Gabrielle Carteris) and David (Brian Austin Green). All of them (minus the Walsh parents) are students at West Beverly High Schvool.

The premise of the show initially was that the Walsh family had just moved to Beverly Hills and every week dealt with different issues faced by teenagers. The father was a rich accountant but managed to always be home. The setting gave the show the ability to cover social issues within the context of the shallowness of Beverly Hills Students.

Brenda dated Dylan off-and-on. They all dated in some combination in their ten-year run, and David, even though a background character, was the only one to last through the show's ten-year run.

At an assembly it is announced Brandon and Brenda will be leaving Beverly Hills.

(Robin Leach was a TV host in the 1980s with a show called Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous that showcase celebrities' mansions.)

The Walshes are moving to Palm Beach. Brenda sees that social justice would be even more difficult down there.

BARFERLY HILLS-911
Cracked #270, March 1992
w: Lou Silverstone
a: John Severin

This version also parodies the show's problem of the week format.

(Also on the beach are Lloyd Bridges of Sea Hunt and Peter Falk of Columbo).

Brandon is asked to run for Class President and they need an issue to run on.

The third problem is that Kelly's mother was dating David's mother but then realized he and the mother had more in common, making the two students now mother and father.

Brandon won the election but now there's bad news at home.

The Ben Stiller Show did a take back then. That cast is still around. Boy, did they look young.
UPDATE: This was the back cover for Cracked #276, November 1992. This is only three weeks from now. Luke Perry is no longer with us. Gabrielle Carteris is now President of the Screen Actors' Guild. In the background on the right is artist Jeff Wong. On the left is a mutual acquaintance I played a practical joke on 30 years ago, making it look like he wrote a threatening letter to the president. It's been exaggerated over time by word of mouth and it's entirely on me, but what it comes down to is we were both visited by the Secret Service whose sole motive was to scare us, which they did. I'm told what I did isn't so bad, just that I did it to someone capable of making a comic about it. He printed my address and phone number so I feel that makes us even, it's all water under the bridge to me, but I'm sure he sees it differently. From what I've heard, he still holds a grudge against me thirty years later.