My Two Dads – 90210 Style

Some of you may know this already, but I am (was?) a huge 90210 old school fan. Loved it loved it loved it. The more it jumped the shark the better I enjoyed it.

From Kelly’s cult days to her coke days, Dylan finding his past lives, and the final wedding between Donna and David. It was all like caramel coated popcorn for me. No matter how bad it stuck to my teeth, I could eat if for days.

The new 90210 just isn’t DVR worthy. (Odd, right? Seems like a 35 year old wife and working mother is just the demographic they’re going for.)

But, I’ve come up with an even better spin-off. According to PerezHilton.com, talks are happening that the father of Kelly Taylor’s 4 year old son—on the new 90210—may just be Dylan McKay. And that he may just come back to play daddy.

How about this spin-off:

Title: My Two 90210 Dads

Premise: In the pilot episode, Kelly Taylor, now a single mom, is given the chance of a lifetime to work as the Secretary of the Dept. of Education. Unable to accept the job because she doesn’t want to throw her son’s life into constant turmoil traveling back and forth from LA to Washington, she sinks into depression. Until her sometimes friend/sometimes enemy Brenda Walsh suggests: Why not let his dad help out?

And so the drama ensues. Brenda, knowing that Kelly isn’t sure who the father is—Dylan or Brandon—says her idea in front of the four year old who now won’t stop talking about it. Kelly avoids the conversation until she finds herself at dinner with Brenda who has planned on blindsiding everybody.  She’s invited the whole group–Kelly, Brandon and Dylan–without letting anyone in on the full invite list.

Much to everyone’s suprise, Brenda’s evil plan to put everyone on the spot and Kelly in her place turns out to go in the very opposite direction. Dylan and Brandon are thrilled to see each other and the catch-up with the girls. They start remembering old times:

Dylan: “Brenda, remember when you were only 16 and ran away from home and lived in my $850K house in Beverly Hills for a month and only wore that man’s button down shirt which obviously didn’t belong to me because I never wore button downs?”

Brenda: “Of course! And then there was that time that me and Donna went to Europe and I fell in the love with the guy who would end up being TV’s superman. Remember? I acted like I was French and had this awful accent the whole time we started dating. Hey, wasn’t that when you and Dylan first hooked up, Kelly?”

Kelly: “Ummm…yeah, that was–” (she’s abruptly cut-off by Brandon)

Brandon: “Remember all the times I did the right thing…even when I was student body president and dating Clare and served her family’s friend, Ferdinand Quintero–the president of Selanesia–a subpeona because he had tortured and murdered thousands of his own people? Crazy right?”

See how much fun this is already? Of course, everyone would agree that Brandon and Dylan, now in their mid to late 30s (Dylan actually more like 40-something), would buy a house together near Kelly’s and keep the boy on the weeks Kelly’s out of town.

My Two Dads, 90210 style. Same idea only the mom’s not dead (we got to keep Kelly around to fight on and off the set with Brenda); and Paul Riser is nowhere in the picture, nor is the bearded/mustached-country-music-singer-looking-actor who we never saw again after being one of the original My Two Dads.

We’ll bring everybody back. Brenda will be the bitcy aunt who causes all the drama. Donna Martin will be the best friend who has a pack of kids all her own. She and Kelly will spend playdates together and Donna’s real husband, Dean, will show up too. David Spade can be the funny, but misguided uncle who acts in good faith, but does all the wrong stuff.

I’d soooooo watch that!