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- Mom, this is the '90s: what kind of insecure wuss chooses a college based on where some guy is going
- —Brenda about Dylan
Commencement: Part 1 is the 29th episode and first part of the Season 3 finale on FOX teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210.
Synopsis
With 24 hours until graduation, everyone is overjoyed at their impending graduation. Dylan gets a windfall when he inherits his trust fund worth $10 million and hopes to be accepted to Berkeley College. Brenda is accepted to Minnesota University, Andrea frets over her valedictorian speech, while secretly harbouring doubts about going to Yale and Steve is anxious over whether Mrs. Teasley will let him graduate. Meanwhile, David is stressed about finals while he and Kelly are packing up their house.
Starring
- Jason Priestley as Brandon Walsh
- Shannen Doherty as Brenda Walsh
- Jennie Garth as Kelly Taylor
- Ian Ziering as Steve Sanders
- Gabrielle Carteris as Andrea Zuckerman
- Luke Perry as Dylan McKay
- Brian Austin Green as David Silver
- Tori Spelling as Donna Martin
- Carol Potter as Cindy Walsh
- James Eckhouse as Jim Walsh
Special Guest Star
- Stephanie Beacham as Iris McKay
Recurring cast
Guest starring
- Josh Taylor as Jack McKay
- Denise Dowse as Mrs. Teasley
- Michael Rawlins as Jordan Bonner
- Michael Cudlitz as Tony Miller
- Scott Jaeck as Mr. Chapman
- Vasili Bogazianos as Eric Ruben
- and Mark Kiely as Gil Meyers
Quotes
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- Steve – Bro! Bro! Mrs. Teasley's actually writing me a letter of recommendation to any college I want to go to! You know what this means? This means that I get to go to any college I want to! I can go to California University with you, man! You the man!
- Brandon – Steve, Steve! You kiss me I'm gonna slap ya
- ―Graduation bromancing
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- Mom, this is the '90s: what kind of insecure wuss chooses a college based on where some guy is going
- —Brenda about Dylan
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- Iris – Did you really think I'd miss your graduation?
- Dylan – You missed practically everything else in my life
- ―Hi Mom
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- Besides, half the fun is catching you with a girl in the bedroom!
- —Iris to Dylan
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- You're still with Kelly?
- —Iris to Dylan
Trivia
- Steve is allowed to graduate!
- The gang make Nat an honorary member of the Class of '93 and he leaves them senior wills:
- Jim – the karaoke machine
- Donna – Color Me Badd
- Brenda – Laverne!
- Jordan thinks Andrea is considering going to CU because of Brandon
- SENIOR WILLS
- Steve leaves Andrea 'an egg'
- Brenda leaves Kelly Wayne and Adam
- Donna leaves Brenda cervelle de veau
- West Beverly has a musical group called The Wildcat Singers
- Steve gets a giant fake legacy key
- The music to "Brandon" is the theme from Dobie Gillis.
- Brandon tells Dylan that of all the girls he dated in Beverly Hills, the one he cared for the most was Tricia Kinney
- Brenda's hurting over Dylan
- Dylan's credit card number is 64280061377444
- David regrets graduating high school early
BEHIND THE SCENES
- The senior breakfast is based on co-writer of the episode Charles Rosin's own experience actually hosting a senior breakfast
- Gabrielle Anwar (Tricia Kinney) was reluctant to let the producers use the clip of her
- Originally, the Network and Aaron Spelling did not want the writers to do a retrospective portion with clips from previous episodes, but Charles Rosin did anyway, and it worked out[1]
Music
- school's out | ALICE COOPER
- louie louie | THE KINGSMEN
- psycho (theme) | BERNARD HERRMANN
- this is it (bugs bunny theme) | MACK DAVID & JERRY LIVINGSTON
- Brandon (parody) | LIONEL NEWMAN
- performed by Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling and others
