Expert: Carmen Curtis - 4/1/2009

Question
hey...i was looking up a list of episodes so i could watch the episodes in order. everything said the 1st season episode "the first time" is before "one on one" and that "the first time" was aired in October, "one on one" in November. is this true? because i watched them in this order and i noticed, in "the first time" Brandon says to Brenda, "you know what's wrong here? it's November and there is no snow" or something like that. but, in "one on one" their dad says "a barbecue in October." wouldn't that make "one on one" before "the first time?"

Answer
Hi Kayla,
Very perceptive of you! The episode "The First Time" aired on Oct. 25, 1990 and "One of One" aired on Nov. 1, 1990. However, the lines do make it confusing. My best guess is that the writers didn't catch the glitch. Even though the basketball episode aired on Nov. 1, in 90210 time it probably was supposed to have occured at the end of October (making the dad's statement correct). When Brandon talked about there not being snow in November, he was probably just rounding up since it was so close to being November. I hope this helps! I think both episodes were supposed to have happened around the same time (near the end of October) so I guess we can't take the lines too literally.

Hope this helps,
Carmen