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90210 Recap: Zero Tolerance (For Real This Time)

It's our favorite time of year, PROM TIME, and the kids of 90210 are getting their plans together -- of course, not without a precautionary video from Principal Wilson telling the students about the school's new "Zero Tolerance" rule for after-parties. What a total downer. Annie doesn't have a date yet for the big dance and turns her nose up at some theater geek who waves to her in the hallway. Annie is kind of turning out to be as bitchy as Naomi now that they've gotten their friendship back on track.

The Clark sisters are getting furniture delivered to their new apartment and Naomi asks Jen for advice on how to get Liam to admit to his feelings for her. Meanwhile, Liam has been sent to the principle's office and is getting a "good cop/bad cop" lecture from Harry and Kelly. Liam's stepfather called -- he's worried about Liam's stability and is considering sending him to a military school. Almost nothing gets people pumped up to do better in life than being threatened with military school. Liam's idea of school community service is apparently asking Naomi to prom. She, of course, flips out in the only way an excited school girl can.

Silver is getting ready for prom by getting her tan sprayed on. How could this possibly go wrong? The lady doing the spraying tells her to get her hair blown out, acrylic nails (um, ok) and shave everywhere the day of the dance. Silver girl, two words for you: Bad Itch.

Liam might be an ass, but he is totally right about Annie not actually being nice -- just covering up her bitchiness with a smile. That being said, when the theater geek asks her to the sophomore prom, Annie says yes, even though she makes it clear she isn't so "thrilled."

Ethan and Dixon are trying to pick out the best outfit for Dixon to wear to the prom and Ethan tells Dixon he's been chosen for the All-American LaCrosse camp. He doesn't seem too pumped about it though. Ethan decides to go to prom at the last minute, as a third wheel with Dilver. Harry is trying to coerce Annie into telling on her friends if they go to Navid's and there ends up being sex, drugs and alcohol. Nice try, Harry.

The girls go shopping for dresses together and Adrianna can even find a maternity dress to wear. But oh no! There are problems with Naomi's credit card! It's been declined! Oh noes! When she goes home to confront Jen about the card, she finds out Jen is going to the prom with Ryan...oh, and that Jen has been using her card for everything since coming back to L.A. Jen's in a bit of financial crisis and has had to rely on Naomi's money. At least she came clean.

Prom night comes and everyone is doing it in style. The kids look beautiful, Silver and Adrianna especially. Navid sees Ty and is not too pleased with him. Annie isn't up for prom queen but Dixon's up for prom king! He seems a bit too focused on SIlver being able to make huge steps too soon and isn't spending enough time acknowledging what a huge leap she's made just coming to prom.

The 90210 prom is obviously much better and more glamorous than the Gossip Girl prom. There's even paparazzi, and they've got The Veronicas performing for them. Annie's date might be a dweeb but he's totally out of touch with reality. He starts throwing a hissy fit over Annie not wanting to date him romantically. Get over yourself dude. Of course, Liam sees the entire transaction and is pleased with the fallout -- though it proves absolutely nothing.

Harry is the biggest party pooper ever and stops The Veronicas mid-song while telling everyone he's going to bust someone's after-party because the idiot was dumb enough to speak about it loudly within his earshot. Of course, this makes nerd-boy think Annie was the one to blab about the party, so he gets the rumor started.

Jen finds Kelly (in a hot dress, by the way) in the powder room and lays into her with the whole, "Who knew we were into the same type of man" line. Ryan must seriously be the only man worth dating in Beverly Hills -- everyone fights over him. Apparently Kelly didn't write Jen a great recommendation for Yale, describing her as a "narcissist with no moral compass". Ouch! Coming from Kelly Taylor, that's harsh.

Dixon is elected sophomore prom king and everyone is psyched! We'd probably vote for Dixon too, he's a sweetheart. The prom queen ends up being a write-in...Silver! Woo hoo, that's awesome -- and I would've keeled over and thrown up in my trash can if it was going to be Annie. Silver gives a "take this crown and shove it" speech, which doesn't make Dixon feel too great, but elicits some excitement from Ethan and at least one other person in the audience. Naomi takes Silver's crown with no hesitation and no other crowning.

Ethan decides to visit his dad in Montana and go backpacking to find himself instead of being an All-Star lacrosse player. The rumor has spread everywhere about Annie telling her dad about the party and Silver tells her to forget about it. Silver wants to come back to West Beverly and wanted to give Dixon the happy news but has managed to hurt his feelings by calling people like him "a prom-loving zombie loser". Oopsie! Of course Ethan comes over to congratulate her on the speech she gave. Do you see the sparks flying?

Kelly tries to warn Ryan about Jen being bad news, but he takes her concern for jealousy. Kelly surprises us all by telling him she's totally over him and just trying to be a friend. Doesn't she know he's THE ONLY MAN WORTH ANYTHING out there? Maybe she's just going retro Kelly Taylor and choosing herself. You go girl. Her advice to Ryan couldn't be more on the money. Apparently Jen is still married to some guy named Olivier.

Liam and Naomi take a stroll through the Paramount lot and find Kelly out on the steps getting some air. She spills the beans about Liam's stepfather being happy he came to the prom -- which is why he asked Naomi in the first place. Naomi finally confesses how much she likes Liam. She also confesses for Liam that he likes her back. Why doesn't he seem too happy about it? He is very nice to look at, though. Liam starts to open up to Naomi about his family and it's actually pretty sweet.

Navid tries to attack Ty while Adrianna's not around but gets punched instead. Meanwhile, Adrianna's water breaks -- baby time! Next week is a continuation of this week, and it looks juicy!

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If Annie were to become bitchy, I would LOVE her. And I can spot at least 3 love triangles developing:
Jen-Ryan-Kelly;
Annie-Liam-Naomi
Ethan-Dixon-Silver

Now, I'm not sure if these will be followed up, but these are my predictions...

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