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Top 5 guest stars on 90210

Posted by sdettorre

In the past I’ve written that Beverly Hills 90210 is the best teen/college/young adult drama in the history of TV. Not just any show can have its cast be anywhere from 17-45 years old in real life and make you believe they are high school students. But names such as Priestly, Carteris, Garth and of course Ziering were so believable as students at West Beverly that they made you think it was normal for a high school junior to have hair plugs and wrinkles.

90210 made the careers of its cast. Whether or not the cast did anything since is a different story but without 90210 on their resumes, a majority of the cast would probably be known for other not so prestigious shows such as Our House, Sister Kate and Aaron Spelling’s daughter. But 90210 was also the beginning, or ending, for several other actors. For this edition of TV Dinner I’m going to list the top 5 guest stars on the show. Some are obscure references and others are notable TV personalities who got one of their breaks on the show with the most famous zip code in America. Without further ado:

5. Brooke Theiss as Leslie Sumner

While she isn’t the most memorable character, Leslie Sumner was the co-ed who began rushing Kelly and Donna for her sorority. Had Kelly and Donna not pledged that sorority, who knows how different their college experience would have been. The mixers with the KEG house probably wouldn’t have happened nor would all the community service they did. And I doubt Donna would have had the resume to be chosen the Rose Bowl Parade centerpiece. You may also know Brooke Theiss as Wendy Lubbock from Just the 10 of Us. She is the blonde older sister who teamed up with Jamie Lunar (Melrose Place) to make Coach and Mrs. Lubbock’s life a constant worry. Brooke Theiss made the list because I don’t think she’s done anything else since this episode of 90210 and I feel a little sympathy for her.

4. Brook Langton as Suds Lipton

We all remember the episode of 90210 where Brenda is interviewed by some trashy TV magazine called Back Story to let the world in on the secret lives of rich kids from Beverly Hills. Of course the piece is aired and the gang gets miffed at Brenda for selling them out. Not only did she sell them out, but she did it on the eve of the SATs. I think this is the only test they took in their 7 years at West Beverly High. Anyway, Brenda’s interview was taken out of context and in the end the gang kissed and made up. But Suds Lipton found the moral high ground and quit her job as lead reporter for Back Story. Suds makes the list because she’s in Swingers, one of the best movies ever made. In Swingers she played Nickie, the girl Mikey gets digits from and then proceeds to call and call and call on the night he got the number. It’s one of the more painful scenes to watch in cinema history. So let’s get some more olives for our new friend here.

3. Kari Wuhrer as Ariel Hunter

There are two reasons why Kari Wuhrer makes the list. The first is that she was on Remote Control with Ken Ober and Colin Quinn. Remote Control was also where a pre-SNL Adam Sandler got a chance to show off his talents. So don’t shrug it off as some dumb MTV show before considering all the facts. The second reason Kari Wuhrer is here is that her character of Ariel was the girl who promised to take struggling musician David Silver to the top while she spent time down under with him as well. It’s well documented that David Silver and Donna Martin were a celibate couple for a long time. David was a budding rock star and future burnout and he needed a release since Donna wasn’t providing it for him. So he turned to a hot junior record executive for a little tearing of the V card. As angry as Donna was when she burst into that limo and caught her beau and his mistress in the throws of passion she recovered pretty quickly. Just a few short years later she was Mrs. David Silver.

2. Matthew Perry as Roger Azarian

90210 wasn’t the first show this future Friend and gazillionaire appeared on. On Growing Pains he played Sandy, Carol’s boyfriend who gets killed in an automobile accident. On 90210, Roger was a classmate that Brandon befriended. But Chandler, I mean Roger, hated his father and his tyrannical parenting. So much so that he wanted to kill himself or his father, maybe both. This character is reminiscent of the guy in Dead Poet’s Society who kills himself because of his oppressive father (played a pre-That 70s Show Red Foreman). I guess before Matthew Perry got type-casted as a quirky neurotic he was type-casted as a troubled youth who either dies or wants to die in teen television shows.

1. Leslie Bega as Marianne Moore

The only reason Leslie Bega is the number one guest star is because she was there in the beginning. In the first episode of 90210 she was the girl who had the party where the gang got to hang out for the first time. You remember this party. It’s the one where Steve got drunk and David and Scott had to drive him home and in doing so damaged Steve’s Corvette. Well, Marianne Moore liked Brandon and they had a real heart to heart in a hot tub (haven’t we all). Nothing happened but Brandon went and told the whole school he and Marianne got to know each other in a more than words kind of way. Marianne found out and never talked to Brandon again. Interesting enough, she also never appeared on 90210 again. But she has appeared on a few things you might have seen. She was Maria on Head of the Class (side question; who was a better Mr. Moore: Howard Hesseman or Billy Connolly? I say HH). She was also Valentina La Paz on The Sopranos. This is the woman who commissioned the painting of Tony and Pie-o-My, dated Ralphie and then became Tony’s mistress until she caught on fire making him eggs.

This list of guest stars isn’t a laundry list of who’s who in Hollywood. But it is a group of people that for one show added to the cast of the greatest teen drama in all of television.