"The O.C.": C/D

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The T.V. show, not the place. It debuted on Fox this week. It stars Peter Gallagher's eyebrows and a very attractive actress with very sharp teeth who the IMDB tells me is named Mischa Barton. It was created by McG and the pilot was directed by Doug Liman. It's about a kid from the wrong side of the tracks (and with a v. bad haircut) who ends up being taken in by a rich family from the O.C. Melodrama ensues.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I figure the reports will be far better than actually watching the show itself, so post away. Let me know if they ever try and talk about a local record store or restaurant in particular.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic, if only for the "Welcome to the O.C., bitch!"...

Ended up watching part of this on Tuesday and it ended up being far more enjoyable than I imagined. The lead seems way too old to be playing a teenager, but I guess that is the way of all great teen dramas (everyone on 90201 looked 37).

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

can't wait to see it
taped, but haven't watched it yet
(much kid-unfriendly)

mischa barton played
teen lesbian seductress
on 'once and again'

― Haikunym, Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

from the ads I've seen (don't watch anything else! when shows come on I flip around looking for ads. shows're too long!) it looks like crap.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

this was advertised during nearly every break for a month before it started and had, what?, coldplay and phantom planet songs playing over and nonsense/just crap dialogue in and stupid taglines [e.g. 'the O.C. is thousands of miles away...but closer than you think']. I hate it. even though I have never seen an episode and hope never to.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with Nicole. All I could think of was Ned in a drunken rage one night in a fight over which MBV album was the best. "Welcome to the O.C. bitch!" AS he uses his hair as an ancient ninja weapon.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris V*n*t*i : future Oscar winner for best director of a suburban tv drama and generally pant-shitting.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

B-i-n-g-o

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Whats up with Peter Gallaghers son? Besides his Paul Weller poster.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

A Paul Weller poster? *thinks*...well there's a subset of Anglophile around here that would have that, I'll grant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

peter gallagher's eyebrows look like two catterpillers doing a particularly tricky mating dance.

i sat through this whole thing (more people in the house = more votes to outweigh you in what gets put on the teevee) and felt psychically raped afterwards.

(okay, so it wasn't that bad, but the hosanna's this thing is receiving from "the critics" really makes me wonder how much worse tv has gotten since i stopped being able to watch it about a year ago.)

the lead looks disturbingly like russel crowe. mostly i just wanted to slap the "teenage" female lead for being such a pathetically toothy gamine stereotype.

"apparently in the 'o.c.' there are blonde ingenues standing on every corner waiting for trouble."

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

also the homoerotic tension between the runaway and the son will CRACK THIS SHOW IN TWO

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess I think the "teenage" female lead is actually, like, 17. And the word is "toothsome." Also: crack in TWAIN. in TWAIN.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Homoerotic tension is what keeps these shows going! See also: Smallville.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently in the 'o.c.' there are blonde ingenues standing on every corner waiting for trouble."

have you been to Newport Beach?

Also, I like how this show is like a non-reality novelty for FOX.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Non-reality?!?!

(coughs, dies)

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

thank god

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll get a shovel

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

and some lime

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

and afterwards we can go over to my mothers...she's making peppers and sausage

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah they had one of those once it was called "Undeclared" and it was brilliant. But it didn't involve guys eating 85 hot dogs, or some pathetic tit getting married to an ex-comedian so they axed it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess, tuck in your contempt.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

have you been to Newport Beach?

Don't be silly, Spencer. They don't WAIT for trouble, they go out and happily get into trouble!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(coughs, dies)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It was a dumb joke suggesting that I took the show for reality, which Jess took as an opportunity to make a rather ~~fun~~ gratuitously meanspirited joke at my expense. Hi Jess!

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, forgot the "heavens! ;-)".

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hugs" etc.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Spencer, Ned, you forgot about the part where they transmogrify into leather-skinned Republican Lizard Moms.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(otherwise, walking on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach on a summer weekend is like dipping yourself in suntan lotioned overly tan blonde babe fondue)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

also to TALK in CAPITAL letters when NECESSARY to denote attempted COMEDIC EFFECT. also to correct the way you died.

i love how cliche the rich people are. they talk like a mad magazine parody of high fashion hangers on.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Heavens! Welcome to the O.C., bitch ;-)"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Support Our Troops! Check These Out! *tongue*"

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i love how cliche the rich people are. they talk like a mad magazine parody of high fashion hangers on.

That's what makes it so great, though. If it were really good I don't think I would enjoy it as much.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Eep. I'll stick with my bad acting camp in 1 1/2 hour doses of standalone movies, too much and you OD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Welcome to the ODB bitch.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicely done.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

CV's got an Old Dutch boner

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

It looks like a windmill made of potato chips? Ew.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, and it's All Dressed on top of that. Ew To Thee MAXX.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually have a wooden cock.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Priapus no!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that a lost lyric from Janet Jackson's "The Knowledge"?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

To know her is to love her.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

b-b-b-b-ut splinters! Ouch.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Impotence... NO!/Priapus... NO!/Syphilis... NO!/Gangrenous... NO!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Undeclared was so good. I miss that show.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, the "ODB on parole" documentary is on VH1 tonight.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: ODB on parole vs ODB on parade

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I would think the TV show incorporates both.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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awww...flapjacks

― sunny successor, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

pancakes - immaculate conception?

― sunny successor, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

"The Valley? That show is still on?"

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 February 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

oh, the o.c. ;__;

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 24 February 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Lock thread.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 25 February 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

i miss the OC

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

I started watching the show a couple months ago and am now almost done with season 3. (I have been reading this thread piecemeal along the way.) I think the show reached a high point early in season 2: it was funny and self-aware and I appreciated how the two power couples (Ryan/Marissa and Seth/Summer) spent most of that season apart from each other, since it made for more interesting tension than the stupid conflicts they had when they got back together. The downfall probably began with Kirsten's alcoholism: when season 3 begins, with her away in rehab, things just feel sort of off. Can't wait for Marissa to die!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

i also miss the OC

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

i miss the OC, is there a club i can join?

― Dy, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

I miss Dawson's Creek.

― milo z, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

I never really watched the OC but it seems to me the show was considered good when it was a spoof of crappy teen dramas and went downhill when it actually became a lousy teen drama. Is that right?

― Cunga, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Look, they shouldn't have killed Marissa. Thats it.

Dawsons Creek is on at 8am every weekday morning

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen all those, I need new ones.

(OC on every afternoon on the Soap Channel, BTW)

― milo z, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it was ever a spoof per se, just very self-aware (cf. references to The Valley). One problem is the way the show began to make its sensational elements boringly tragic rather than breezily fun.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

oh they always had tragic stuff - marissa oding in tj etc

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

(OC on every afternoon on the Soap Channel, BTW)

yeah! i got excited when i saw the first ep on soap but when i went to make a series recording i thought 'duh - dvds.'

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think maybe "boringly" is the key word in my post there. Marissa ODing in TJ was kind of hilarious.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

After three months, I'm done with the show. Watched the finale last night.

I don't know what you people saw in Season 4. Kaitlin was awesome, but I couldn't bring myself to care about Taylor or her and Ryan's relationship at all. I guess I just missed Marissa drama. :(

Also, the finale was pretty silly with the exception of Ryan walking around the empty Cohen mansion, all Kirk Cameron in the Growing Pains finale, which totally made me tear up.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I had stopped watching it by the time Marissa died, but wasn't it really weird to kill her off?

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose. I never really understood if Mischa Barton wanted off the show, or what.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose. I never really understood if Mischa Barton wanted off the show, or what.

She was being a pain in the ass to work with. Showing up to filming late, partying, commenting "uh, I don't know if I want to keep doing the show", etc. No great surprise that when they got around to dealing with her, they didn't just send her character away but killed her off. (my reacting to when the car exploded: man, they really want to kill her)

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, definite shades of McLean Stevenson. Also, TV's not shy about killing off characters in general these days.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

No great surprise that when they got around to dealing with her, they didn't just send her character away but killed her off.

Yeah, they could easily have sent her off with Jimmy so she wouldn't have to appear in Season 4, anyway. I kind of liked how the first few episodes of Season 4 were all about Ryan and Summer and Julie dealing with the aftermath, and taking their time doing so. It was only when Taylor became one of the core characters, someone we were supposed to care about instead of a goofy guest star, did the season start sucking.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Am I the only person that keeps reading this as "The OCD"?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Che stuck around a few episodes too long, too. He was fine as the impetus for Summer's activist streak at Brown, but his arc should've ended when he got Summer kicked out of school. There was no absolutely no need for him to come to Newport and go on stupid adventures with Seth. And his appearances in Ryan/Taylor's coma dream and as Summer's champagne-fueled hallucination could've been fun if they didn't scream "9-episode contract."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

kaitlin really was the best character during the last season, with julie and, yes, ryan coming in a close second and third

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

"I mean, I make fun of everyone. Usually 'cause I'm high."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Evil Kaitlin was awesome. Kaitlin With A Heart, less so. (Kinda like Evil-then-Needy Taylor, awesome; Main Character Taylor not so much) I still haven't watched the last five or six episodes.

― milo z, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Kinda miss this show.

― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Friday, 24 September 2010 03:22 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

Can't believe this shit isn't available on Hulu, Netflix or Amazon Prime.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:58 (twelve years ago)

iirc s4 and 5 of this just went straight camp (not an oxymoron) to get away from the awful melodrama of 3, but 1 and 2 were genuinely sweet and funny teenpulp. i was in high school and i wasn't ashamed.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:53 (twelve years ago)

peter gallagher was really terrific.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:53 (twelve years ago)

and julie cooper.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:54 (twelve years ago)

melinda clarke. is her name. she was great.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:57 (twelve years ago)

lololol i thought this thread was 64 posts i'll get out of underdog-championing tone

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:58 (twelve years ago)

point is i own s1 and 2 on dvd

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 05:03 (twelve years ago)

eleven months pass...

Thursday, August 7, 2003 10:55 AM (11 years ago) Bookmark

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:57 (eleven years ago)

i miss this show, i think i have seasons 1-3 on DVD tho

― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:33 (eleven years ago)

Shailene Woodley was the original Kaitlin!?!?

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:36 (eleven years ago)

Somewhere in storage I've got tapes of at least the first mini season complete with all commercials left in. What a fascinating time machine watching them would be.

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:39 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, but she really didn't get much screen time at all until her "return" as the bad girl. (xpost)

― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:42 (eleven years ago)

First ep is free w/ commercials on Amazon, it's holding up pretty well

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:43 (eleven years ago)

Forgot how good "Into Dust" is used in the pilot

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:47 (eleven years ago)

well

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:48 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Now up on Hulu along with Dawson's Creek.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 8 May 2016 15:56 (nine years ago)

Just realised that they are different things.

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 May 2016 16:01 (nine years ago)

It's been ages since I watched or rewatched a network melodrama. There are so many episodes, holy shit. Ryan and Marissa have already broken up for the first time and it's barely halfway through the first season. Seth and Anna have a relationship for three episodes!

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 21 May 2016 03:50 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

Apparently the Cohen house burned down during the Woolsey Fire last year. Seems about right for plot line.
http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2019/04/19/the-cohen-mansion-from-the-o-c/

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 April 2019 21:00 (six years ago)

Adam Brody shows up in Shazam btw as the adult superhero alter ego of one of the kids. I hadn't seen him in so long it took a while (and the credits) for me to feel confident it was him.

― akm, Friday, 19 April 2019 21:07 (six years ago)

four years pass...

Ryan Atwood’s book on crypto grifting is out today.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:37 (two years ago)

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