Speaking of AnnaLynne McCord's Tittays...

Interesting note on 90210 (not THE 90210, the current "remake" one):

About 1.5 million people watch 90210 every week. That's a pretty low number, though not quite as low as you might think. It's less than 10 percent of the audience for The Big Bang Theory, one of America's most popular shows, but it's only a few hundred thousand less than The Daily Show, and only 400,000 less than the most recent season of Breaking Bad. It's actually twice as high as the series debut of Portlandia, but that doesn't matter, because people talk about those shows and nobody talks about 90210. Like Todd says, 90210 is not relevant — and that has as much to do with its media profile as its viewership.

During its 10-year run of nearly 300 episodes, Beverly Hills 90210 never once cracked the Top 40 of the Nielsen ratings. And yet at the peak of its popularity it had as much relevance as any show on television. A Rolling Stone cover story from 1992 spoke of the show's "massive, Jihad-like following" and the "devoted cult following that grew into a national youth movement." Around the same time, Jason Priestley hosted Saturday Night Live, Ian Ziering was invited to shoot guns with national hero Norman Schwarzkopf, and Shannen Doherty inspired 'zines devoted solely to expressing how hateful she was. There was a fraction as much media committed to covering TV as there is now, but Beverly Hills 90210 still lapped 90210 in terms of buzz many times over.

I'm shocked the original was never in the top 40.  I don't know anyone anywhere near my age that isn't insanely familiar with the show - even if we watched it just to make fun of it, without meaning to it became a part of some weird pop culture fabric we all shared. You can just say any of the main characters' first names to a stranger and they'll instantly know what you're talking about, rolling their eyes at what a bitch Kelly was or laughing at Steve etc.  And that's over a decade after it went off the air.  I doubt the million people watching the remake will be able to say the same a decade from now.

XMASTIME LINKS BECAUSE I'M AWESOME
Live-blogging Kelly being an anorexic bitch HERE.
Valerie Malone as Jimmy Chitwood musing HERE
Ridiculous plotlines musing HERE
Emails with Drunken Dater HERE
Dylan's stupid hair musing HERE
David Silver...I mean, camon HERE
Anger over it NOT being the greatest high school show ever HERE
Was it inexplicably even BETTER after they graduated high school musing HERE 
Me finally giving up my 20 year defense of being in love with Donna Martin HERE 
The Dylan McKay School of Screenwriting musing HERE 

And, finally, here's to the single greatest moment in television history: Val announces her presence.  Her awful, awful, ridiculously hot and slutty presence.  Sigh.