Beverly Hills, 90210/Trivia

• Actor Allusion:
  • Maeve Quinlan as the mother of a girl who dates another girl.
  • In one episode, Dixon is given a fake ID with a Spanish name on it. Tristan Wilds is Hispanic.
• The Danza: Ryan Matthews is played by Ryan Eggold.
  • Riley is played by Riley Smith.
• Dawson Casting: In the extreme, to the point where this trope is often called "90210 Syndrome" outside of this wiki, since the extremeness makes Dawson's Creek look like they cast age-appropriately.
  • Though there were some aversions (Brian Austin Green, Tori Spelling and a few others), the straight examples were very extreme (most infamous was Gabrielle Carteris who was twenty-nine when she started on the show).
  • Teddy Montgomery is 17 or 18. His actor, Trevor Donovan, is 31.
• Dye Hard: Silver is a natural blonde as shown in the parent shown, but is a brunette for the entirety of the series save for when she briefly dyed it red.
• Executive Meddling: Season Two drops Ethan and focuses a lot more on the new characters rather than the old cast. That's cleverly done for Kelly's mother's funeral as it's not shown and Silver comments that a lot of people that knew her but she didn't know attended.
• Fake American: Shenae Grimes is Canadian.
• Fake Nationality: Michael Steger is a mix of several nationalities but Iranian (or anything Arabic) is not one of them.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: It seems Michael from The Wire did get a lucky break after all.
  • Annie was Darcy on Degrassi.
  • Debbie was Aunt Becky in Full House.
  • Ashley Davies as Gia's ex.
    • Paula Carlin as Adriann's mom.
    • Plus Aiden plays Jeremy.
  • Amy Bradshaw as Naomi's evil sister.
  • Ethan Whitehorse as Ivy's British friend.
  • Tyler Lockwood made Naomi kiss Annie.
  • Billy Ray Cyrus as Austin's dad.
  • Julie Taylor as Rhonda.
• The Other Darrin: Rather than bringing back Mercedes Castner to play Silver, she was played by Jessica Stroup.
• Unintentional Period Piece: This was the first of the many, many iconic teen dramas of The Nineties, and the first of many to fall into this trope. It also does a great job at keeping up with the times. Season One looks straight out of the 80s while Season Five and later look straight up 90s.