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After 10 years of misery, backstabbing, clothes, implants, more misery and good ol' fashioned teen sex (or Donna's lack thereof), those wacky kids from West Beverly are finally calling it quits tonight.

Aaron Spelling's now-legendary teen soap, Beverly Hills, 90210, says goodbye at 8 p.m. ET/PT with a Very Special two-hour episode, in which longtime sweethearts Donna and David finally get hitched. Former cast members Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Gabrielle Carteris make return appearances. Jason Priestley makes a videotaped cameo to congratulate the happy newlyweds.

And Shannon Doherty...hmmm, no one seems to remember her. But who was that blurred face popping up on last week's retrospective?

As with most good-byes, 90210 has spawned a host of tributes (sniff) and even some tears. A decade ago, Spelling, the man who had delivered such schlocky prime-time spectacles as The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Dynasty, gave us a pair of pale-faced twin Minnesotans, Brandon and Brenda, transplanted to sunny Southern California with their All-American parents.

The kids took up company with the prettiest (and, it turns out, most dysfunctional) clique on campus, and a cast that included Luke Perry (as rebel boy Dylan McKay), Spelling's daughter, Tori (the once virginal Donna Martin), Jennie Garth (disaster magnet Kelly Taylor),Ian Ziering (party boy Steve Sanders) and Brian Austin Green (the geeky David Silver).

It was a critical dud, but guilty pleasure for millions who put the show, the ZIP code and then-fledgling network Fox on the map.

So what if half the cast looked like they were 30 (they were)? The kids made it through high school and college in real time (save for David's mysterious grade-skipping). And Spelling--despite being called the grandpa of lust-ridden '90s teen dramas--insists his shows were more tasteful than the busty babes currently getting it on at high school proms across the tube.

Of course, 90210 ain't what it used to be, either. In its second season, the show drew 20 percent of the nation's teen viewers, but that had dropped to a measly 4 percent by the end of the ninth season. This season, the show ranked 100th in the Nielsens, drawing an average of just 7.9 million viewers every week.

Even its stars admit the show was tired. With more cast departures, hefty production costs--and no disaster left to befall the Beverly Hills crew--Fox finally announced the show's end earlier this year.

"We always had such emotional, reality-based dialogue, and that has really been absent, I think, in the last couple of years," Tori Spelling tells the Los Angeles Times. "I'd say in the last two or three years I've really been bored. And it bums me out because I take real big pride in what I do and our show...and it's just these talky, talky scenes with nothing going on."

But at least the merchandising lives on.

Spelling's Web venture, AsSeenIn.com, is now hawking a treasure chest of 90210 memories (collectibles, set props, wardrobes, furniture...and hey, anyone want this tangerine barstool set from the Peach Pit?) to the highest bidder. Everything from the Walsh family mailbox to Steve's letter jacket will be auctioned off, with proceeds going to Save the Children.

Dylan's 1963 Triumph motorcycle is already going for $6,300. And Donna's princess bed frame from the beach house? A reasonable $1,250. 90210 cast checkbooks? Just $1,525 after 62 bids. Brandon's College Board results? A mere $465.

A chance to watch this dysfunctional crew muddle through 10 years of campy fun? Priceless.