Saturday, April 19, 2014

Party Fish

Hi Laurel here...This episode teaches us yet another lesson...Money can't buy happiness.  In fact, sometimes it makes you miserable.  OK.  We get it.  Can we get to the good stuff already and quit with the lessons all the time?

Brandon is moving right along with his new job at the beach club and everything seems to be going great.  He's flirting with a (older) girl who works there, Sandy, and all of the members seem to like him.  One member in particular, Mr. RATinger (telling, no?), especially notices Brandon.  He offers to teach Brandon a few things about business, and Brandon ends up taking a job with him.  Much to Jim's dismay, because Jim knows him from work an thinks he is, well, a rat.

It turns out on his first day working for him, Brandon discovers that Ratinger is cheating on his wife with...Sandy!  Of course Brandon is horrified and quits immediately.  And gives back the Mercedes convertible Ratinger loaned him to drive around for the summer.

Blah Blah Blah.  Lesson learned.  Rich people are terrible.

Mark here...I couldn't agree more with Laurel!  This "summer season" of the show is apparently when the show blew up into a "thing"!  From these episodes, you couldn't tell why!  Yes, young Brandon and Dylan are cute, but come on!! Another lesson?!?  Things can only get better, right? The episode was called "The Party Fish" and much like last episode this was misleading...there was no party! And the fish in question were the grunion run at the end of the episode...who cares!!

So Brandon is back as a cabana boy and Brenda is still taking acting lessons with Donna and Andrea, for some reason.  Andrea is in school because she has no friends.  Brenda, presumably wants to be an actress, but what the hell is Donna doing?  Well, we get a hint with the cute acting teacher, summed up in the scene of Andrea and Donna sitting next to him!  Notice Donna's lack of cleavage this early in the show....

Anyway, cocktail moment is anytime RATinger shows up!  I don't think there was a quote of note.

Our style award definitely goes to Cindy Walsh's printed skort suit ensemble for a night out at the beach club!


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