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The girl who didn't have money in Beverly Hills...?!

posted 12 years ago by Jello_Sky
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Am I really supposed to believe that girl living in Beverly Hills couldn't come up with $7.50 for patches or whatever? I mean, I know her acting dad wasn't acting, but still--give me a break! I could walk around the city for a while and find 8 dollars in change in very little time. This is ridiculous!

By the way, I'm a dude and I loved this movie as a younger kid, but now I see that it is kind of silly. I do like the nostalgic Disney Channel feel I got from watching it again though.

And Cheech Marin's "Annie Herman? boy-yoy-yoing!" made me sneeze cola all over the TV hahaha. Awesome.

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[–] noirgirl 12 years ago

No, she didn't have the forty dollars for the dues, or the ensuing money for events. And I don't think her dad would want her walking about, anywhere, begging.

[–] Nellaberry 12 years ago

it was seven fifty for the patches and ten for dues. the 40 was a bribe to another girl

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[–] AveryRyan4 12 years ago

I know I found that hard to believe myself. If they were that destitute her dad would have not been still rolling around in the convertible. Also it was a little hard to believe especially considering how ridiculously frivolous all her friends lived that no one could have lent her or her dad the money sooner. And the fact that her dad had to drop her off a block early to pick up unemployment? That never made sense to me.

[–] JCrewgirl 12 years ago

Maybe they were living paycheck to paycheck and every little bit helped or off of some savings they had from the dad's last job or something and they still wanted to give the impression that they still had money. Maybe no one knew about it until then except the girls, and considering their ages I'm sure their parents didn't just give them hundreds of dollars in cash so they couldn't have helped her.

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[–] Nellaberry 12 years ago

Maybe not but I'm sure they had some snit they could have sold.

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[–] star168 11 years ago

If they were that destitute her dad would have not been still rolling around in the convertible.

Well, the car was old, probably from his younger days when he was a big star, and their was smoke coming out of the back, so he clearly couldn't afford to maintain it.

But if she couldn't afford the dues, how did she afford the uniform?

[–] Liza-19 12 years ago

You've obviously never had to live paycheck to paycheck. I worked in a bank for 6 years where I saw people who couldn't afford $1.25 for a coke even though they were extremely thirsty. And that was just in Pennsylvania. It must have been much harder in LA in the 1980s.

[–] cupcakery 11 years ago

Did they have nothing to sell though?

I mean, he was an out of work Hollywood actor, not an out of work vacuum salesman.

[–] jlyn1980 11 years ago

Maybe they did have the money for dues but she didn't want to ask her dad, she thought it'd be a burden.

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[–] papatoony-33-670609 10 years ago

Going one step further, who paid for their stay at The Beverly Hills Hotel & the patch ceremony aboard the yacht?? I have to assume it was Mrs. Nefler, which begs the question--if she could afford to foot the bill for those things, why even bother asking the girls for a measly $7.50?

PS. When Phyllis tells Emily the story about her credit card getting cut in half, she mentions she'd been buying 200 threadcount sheets. 200 threadcount is crap.