EPISODES
| 301 The Aftermath | 314 The Cliffhanger |
| 302 The Shape of Things to Come | 315 The Heavy Lifting |
| 303 The End of Innocence | 316 The Road Warrior |
| 304 The Last Waltz | 317 The Journey |
| 305 The Perfect Storm | 318 The Undertow |
| 306 The Swells | 319 The Secrets and Lies |
| 307 The Anger Management | 320 The Day After Tomorrow |
| 308 The Game Plan | 321 The Dawn Patrol |
| 309 The Disconnect | 322 The College Try |
| 310 The Chrismukkah Bar Mitzvahkkah | 323 The Party Favor |
| 311 The Safe Harbor | 324 The Man of The Year |
| 312 The Sister Act | 325 The Graduates |
| 313 The Pot Stirrer | ~ About The Show |
"Before he moved to Newport our lives were
a lot more normal, stable."
"Uh-huh so it’s his fault that I went bankrupt
and nearly went to jail, and you married Caleb Nichol only to watch him
drown in a pool and Trey got shot?"
"Jimmy, not everything I say is meant literally,
I’m *venting*."
- Julie and Jimmy
"I still support the recent decision in the
wake of all the violence we've experienced to ban any games with ninjas
or guns... it’s just I don’t understand any of the rules to this...'baseball'
they call it."
- Seth, playing virtual baseball badly
"They're with the dark lord Sauron or whatever
the DA's name is. Did that guy blink once during your deposition? He didn’t
even have eyelids..."
- Seth
"I’m a grieving widow."
- Julie
"Thanks for almost getting my bathing suit
wet Cohen!"
- Summer, at the beach
"I know Teen Wolf is not a realistic movie...
I mean how does bein a werewolf make you a better basketball player?"
- Seth
"Hoodie, wife-beater, leather jacket...that’s
the Ryan Atwood escapist ensemble."
- Seth, as Ryan packs a bag
"You have a hell of a girlfriend, and if
you two get married you'll have a hell of a mother in-law."
- Sandy to Ryan
"Her presence kept us neat Ryan, it’s that
Protestant evil eye. It’s a powerful thing."
- Seth, explaining how Kirtsen kept the house tidy without doing any cleaning
"So I misunderstood, you didn’t try to frame
Ryan for the shooting?"
"Sandy, I only did what any parent would
do, I was trying to keep my family afloat."
"Yeah by using my kid as a raft!"
- Sandy and Julie
"Yeah it is sad, everything we do this year
is for the last time. It’s like a farewell tour."
- Summer, on senior year
"One Montague. One Capulet."
- Sandy, as he waits with Julie for the Dean
"Dr Kim, you know my daughter, right? Tall,
pretty, wears Chanel. Not exactly what you'd call gangsta."
- Julie
to Dr. Kim
"Psycho Barbie."
- Summer, describing Taylor
"Taylor Townsend's like the Karl Rove of
our school."
"You know who Karl Rove is?"
"Yeah my step-mom sometimes naps in front
of CNN. I hear things as I’m dragging her off to bed."
- Summer and Seth
"Without Ryan it'll be like freshmen year
for Cohen, slammed into lockers... ridiculed as death-breath-Seth."
- Summer
"Apparently the more elite the institution
the more accepting they are of criminals."
- Julie, trying to place Marissa in boarding school
"The soon to be Mrs. Cooper-Nichol-Cooper."
- Sandy, about Julie
"I thought we might be able to start with
something that didn’t involve me getting arrested?"
- Ryan, hoping Seth comes up with a better plan
"Seth no judgment but its not like you got
any cooler over the last two years. I mean everyone just acted that way
cause they were afraid of Ryan Atwood."
- Taylor
"I'll hook you up with a little webcam action,
you can start your own blog keep her updated daily on the innermost workings
of Ryan Atwood."
- Seth, as Ryan ponders a long-distance relationship
"Wait stop! I’m sorry but I can’t do this.
I have to go... You weren’t even gonna try and stop me?"
- Marissa, messing with Ryan's head
"Go ahead and expel me, at the rate you're
going the school's gonna be empty by Thanksgiving."
- Seth, to the Dean
"And that was the last they ever saw of her..."
- Seth, as Marissa gets lost in the crowd at Newport Union
"You're the first nice person I've actually
met."
"And I’m not even that nice..."
- Marissa and Casey
"We will get back on our feet, and we'll
be wearing very expensive shoes when we do."
- Julie, reassuring Marissa
"Thanks for letting me stay with you on such
late notice."
"Oh, you know, I always wanted a sister.
Cohen got Ryan as a brother so it makes sense that I get you."
- Marissa and Summer
"You have to go! Harsh, I know but you;re
at a new school and there is a dance. It's like social survival 101."
- Summer, persuading Marissa to go to the Union dance
"So everyone have fun because this really
is the 'end of summer'."
- Taylor, addressing the crowd with heavy emphasis on 'end' and 'summer'
"This woman is the princess of Orange County!
I am not gonna let Kirsten Cohen get away."
- Charlotte
"My life just doesn’t work without you."
"And it always goes so smooth when we're
together..."
- Marissa and Ryan
"I'm sorry, you must be so sick of me being
in your way all the time."
"Are you kidding, I date Cohen. My patience
is infinite."
- Marissa and Summer
"Dude, where were you? We were about to sound
an amber alert."
- Seth, after Ryan finally shows up
"I got a room at the Mermaid motel."
"You mean the place where Ryan may or may
not have conceived Theresa’s baby and where Marissa’s mom and Luke got
it on?"
"Newport’s very own den of sin."
- Summer and Seth
"This could be the last time I see him for
a while."
"...where he doesn’t smell like pickled
herring."
- Marissa and Summer, preparing for Ryan's going away party
"We're your family now."
"I may not be an Atwood anymore but I’m
not a Cohen either... I don’t know what I am."
- Sandy and Ryan
"Your doing what my dad did! You see he left
and ran away on a boat, and now you are too so I guess that’s make you
just as much of a coward as he is. And you know what running away never
really helped him at all."
- Marissa, venting at Ryan
"It's the return of the not-so-ancient mariner."
- Seth greets Ryan
"Ryan and Marissa haven’t broken up in weeks,
its gotta be a new record."
"I know, but I feel a break up coming, I
have a sixth sense about those two."
Well they break up they get back together,
whatever, it’s their natural cycle it has to do with the tide."
"Nooo it’s different now, if they break
up Marissa could disappear. She could get swallowed up at Newport Union,
it’s like the Bermuda Triangle."
- Seth and Summer, setting the scene
"I did pretty much get you back into school."
- Taylor, to Ryan, putting a whole new spin on her actions
"Ryan try not to punch Summer."
"I’m just the messenger!"
- Seth and Summer, breaking some bad news to Ryan
"Abort mission, I repeat abort mission!"
- Summer, trying in vain to warn Seth
"I’m not a criminal"
"You haven’t had to be yet. Have you given
any thought to how you're gonna support your family? I mean you don’t have
a man to bail you out this time."
- Julie and Charlotte
"I’m trapped in the gym with everybody but
my only two friends in the school..."
- Seth, not enjoying the lock-in
"After twelve years I’m immune to mockery."
- Seth to Taylor
"Hey man where'd you learn how to fight like
that?"
"Chino's a pretty good training ground...
actually I never won a fight till I got to Newport."
- Johnny and Ryan
"Taylor Townsend? In the fourth grade she
campaigned against making the school handicap accessible. She said it was
reverse Darwinism. Besides who who wants Dean Hess' seconds?"
- Seth, explaining his lack of interest in Taylor
"So Summer told me what happened yesterday
with Volchak."
"Ah yes Seth kept a secret for a whole twelve
hours — must be a record."
- Marissa and Ryan
"I’m with Summer though so..."
"I heard you were breaking up"
"What! Who said that?"
"I made it up. But what did you feel...when
you heard it, relief?"
- Seth and Taylor
"You think Summer's your friend?"
"Yes I know I’m crazy."
- Seth and Taylor
"I think its time you left don’t you? This
town's only really big enough for one manipulative bitch."
- Julie, sorting out Charlotte
"According to this brochure its supposed'ta
be the high point of an otherwise miserable existence."
- Seth, looking forward to college
"Dad I’m not applying to Berkeley... Where'd
you get a gun? Why d'you have this gun?"
- Seth, imagining one possible scenario
"Lately Julie seems not herself."
"Is that a bad thing?"
- Kirsten and Sandy
"My entire life I have wanted to get as far
away from Newport as possible and the only reason I didn’t is because Ryan
came and you started talking to me."
- Seth, explaining his desire to 'go east' to Summer
"Could you imagine me on the east coast?
I'd be like one'a those animals that they rip from their natural habitat
and put in the zoo."
- Summer
"You would think that we could deal with
next year... next year but no — its gotta screw up this year too."
- Seth
"What if he goes to college and meets a bunch
of really smart, and interesting girls and realises that that’s who he’s
spose'ta be with?"
"And that your just his High School girlfriend?
Cute, fun to be with but doesn’t want his kids to have your DNA?"
- Summer and Taylor
"Alright so what'do you call a black guy
who fly’s a plane? A pilot you freakin racist."
- Paul
"You and Seth are gonna have'ta do the long
distance thing, you better not cheat on each other."
- Summer, after Ryan and Seth pick different colleges
"If you make being poor too comfortable what’s
the incentive ta get rich? Believe me if anyone should know..."
- Julie, debating the free market economy
"If you cancelled on me I'd have a problem
with it and you know if I cancelled on you and you didn’t have a problem
with it then I might have a problem with that."
- Seth, discussing Ryan's problems
"Is that a pirate costume?"
"Summer and I are in a war."
- Kirsten and Seth
"Why d'you have'ta be better than me at everything?"
"See that’s just it Summer, I’m not better
than you at everything. There was one thing that I was better at..."
- Summer and Seth
"I have an idea for a new business."
"Oh my god, high class call girl operation,
I love it!"
"No, a high end dating service."
"Ooooh, that could work too."
- Kirsten and Julie, coming up with a plan
"Where are you?"
"Uh Summers room... no one's here."
"You should'a told me you were coming over."
"Well, then it wouldnt'a been a suprise."
"Yeah but then I wouldn’t be sitting here
in the pool house..."
- Marissa and Ryan, failing to surprise each other
# THE CHRISMUKKAH BAR MITZ-VAHKKAH
"I'm living in a home
that, if I wanted to, I could put in reverse, I’m beyond awful."
- Julie
"It's an honorary Bar
Mitzvah."
"It's a Chrismukkah...
Bar-Mitz vahkkah!"
- Ryan and Seth, coming up with a plan
"You got twenty four
hours to learn Hebrew, to read the Old Testament—"
"—and humiliate myself
in front'a the whole town."
"It's better than
humiliating yourself in front'a no one, trust me."
- Seth and Ryan
"I thought we were
gonna have dinner last night?"
"Eh, alot of Old Testament
to cover."
"Well, I haven’t heard
you use that one before."
- Marissa and Ryan
"I have a bad habit
of showing up at the wrong time."
- Ryan, figuring out the writer's favourite plot device
"I think I kinda hit
a wall on the mocktails..."
- Marissa has had her fill of non-alco cocktails
"With all your free
time you can help out with 'Free Marissa'."
"What exactly are
we freeing her from?"
"Exile to public school,
year of solitude, ill fitting gym shorts, mediocre lunches..."
- Summer and Seth
"Is that the good kind
of speechless or the bad kind?"
- Ryan, letting Marissa know about the campaign
Seth: "This was a valiant
campaign."
Summer: "I bet Napoleon
never talked like this!"
Ryan: "Well maybe
he should have, right before he was defeated and exiled."
Seth: "Summer, my
little empress, this is our Waterloo. We need'ta retreat."
- The gang face defeat in the face
"So I show up at my
house to suprise my mom...and this Persian dude answers the door. I figured
he was the new butler...but then I saw his shoes — Prada — and I thought,
maybe he was my new stepdad. And I was about'a like hug him and then his
wife shows up, no matter how rich the guy is my mother would never join
a harem—"
- Kaitlin Cooper, making an entrance
"Weird neighour kid."
- Kaitlin's description of Seth
"Lanky limbed jailbait."
- Seth's description of Kaitlin
"Mini Cooper."
- Summer's name for Kaitlin
"A self righteous princess."
- Kaitlin's description of Marissa
"That girl's not my
sister."
- Marissa, realising a deeper truth about Kaitlin
"We live in a trailer?"
"But not live live,
we're more like refugees... think of it as a life experience — this is
exactly the kind of place Britney Spears is from."
- Kaitlin and Julie
"I know Veronica Townsend,
Sandy — I know every former A cup in this town."
- Neil Roberts, plastic surgeon
"She has abused puppy
syndrome. If you show her the tiniest bit of affection she’s gonna follow
you around for the rest'a your life."
- Seth, describing Taylor
"Now we have a quorum."
- Seth, as he, Summer, Sandy and Kirsten try to separate Neil and Veronica
"You know I use'ta
always lie awake so jealous that you, mom and dad are at one'a these things
— a Newport party... but what I had in mind was way cooler than this."
- Kaitlin, growing up way too fast
Ryan’s got this bizarre
superhero complex that they’ve injected into his character rather than
furthering his development... whenever someone is down, Ryan zooms in to
redeem them, act mature, and then go back to brooding.
- Drew Timmons, reviewing
the episode for "The OC Blog Spot"
"Here’s a picture with
Kaitlin, but what’s wrong with this horse?"
"That’s China, she
has alopecia."
"Eww, she looks like
a giant Chihuahua."
- Summer and Marissa, with a running joke...
"Can you imagine growing
up with Marissa Cooper as your older sister? My birthday was the one day
I could count on people actually noticing me."
- Kaitlin
"Tomorrows Kaitlin’s
birthday, I'd like to give her a small party — I guess it'd have'ta be
small, I live in a trailer."
- Julie
"You go through your
life and your probably only gonna be able to look back and pin point like
two or three times where you were genuinely actually happy and then of
course in those moments you wouldn’t have even appreciated it anyways because
who does right? ...And if somebody tries to take that from you what you
should do is you should make sure that they pry it from your cold dead
fingers."
- Seth, philosophising
"Oh my little girl
is growing up."
"Yeah and she wants
everyone to see it too."
- Julie and Marissa, watching Kaitlin
"She’s still pretty
much a kid—"
"Yeah, but with my
moms DNA, she’s capable of more than you think."
- Ryan and Marissa, talking about Kaitlin
"How about we find
a strategy that doesn’t involve liquor...or sexual favours?"
- Sandy, imparting some ethics to Matt
"I think Marissa and
I are on thin ice."
- Ryan
"From now on if someone
needs to be manipulated, we put me in charge... I tried taking your advice
Kiki and quite frankly it sucked. From now on we do things the Julie Cooper
way."
- Julie to Kirsten
"Take a shot — that
way even if she rejects you at least you know you tried... the point is
you owe it to yourself to at least know whether or not she likes you."
- Dennis, with some good advice for Johnny
"I’m sorry I ever made
you wonder."
- Marissa, making up with Ryan
"Which Cooper are you
here to see?"
- Kaitlin, after Johnny shows up at the Cooper trailer
"Don’t beat yourself
up. Ryan Atwood versus himself's a very ugly cage match."
- Seth, trying to cheer up Ryan
"Julie, last time you
went on a stealth mission you toppled a desert tray."
"Yeah but it got his
attention."
- Kirsten and Julie
"I should get home,
you know, shower — I've been in these clothes since you don’t wanna know
when."
- Marissa, after a long day
"You didn’t make him
climb that rock, and you didn’t make him fall."
"That’s right. That
was you."
- Ryan and Kaitlin
"She’s a smart girl
and now she’s an angry one too."
- Matt, talking about Mya with Sandy
"What is it that you
say about Valentines Day? That it’s vacuous, a commercially driven hollow
shell of a holiday?"
"Well sometimes we
all need a little vacuous commercially driven diversion, and this would
be one of those times."
- Kirsten and Sandy
"It’s the first Valentines
Day that you guys aren’t fighting or kissing another girl. I mean it could
be special."
"...All I'm saying
is that Valentines Day might be cancelled this year."
- Summer and Marissa, discussing Marissa and Ryan
"I don’t think she’s
lying to me... I think she might be lying to herself."
- Ryan, discussing Marissa's feeling for Johnny with Kirsten
"If you want I could
make the conversation a little more awkward."
- Ryan, breaking the ice with Sadie
"Some might say as
a teenage girl growing up in Orange County everything is ours for the taking
but sooner or later we have'ta choose..."
"—Oh my god you’re
listening to your own voice!"
"You see all the TV
shows I watch, all these women have voiceovers... they don’t make much
sense. They do make your life seem more dramatic and meaningful."
"So you think our
lives need to be more dramatic?"
"No not yours."
- Summer and Marrisa, listening to Summer's taped voiceover
"I was thinking of
having a party, something small maybe you, me, Seth, Ryan..."
"That’s not a party,
that’s a double date."
"A double date — Coop
that’s a great idea."
- Summer and Marissa
"We agreed we'd talk
we just didn’t pick a time or a place."
"Coop, usually a time
an place are crucial aspects to any plan."
- Marissa and Summer, discussing Ryan and Marissa
"If you wanna sleep
in a bed, don’t bluff with a pair."
- Sadie to Ryan, after she beats him at poker
"Get outta here. I
got authority to protect this property with lethal force. You know what
that means?"
"Means we'll be out
in the car."
- A Goon and Ryan
"Hard to believe that
after everything we've been through we've got nothing left to say."
- Ryan to Marissa, at the end
"Coop you spend all
of your time on that lifeguard stand staring out at the water like you're
a Naval widow."
- Summer, trying to snap Marissa out of it
"Well they need'a make
a decision, either to get back together or to move on, 'cause right now
they are frozen in that post-break-up holy-crap-what-did-I-do moment."
- Seth, trying to snap Ryan and Marissa out of it
"What did Ryan say
when you gave him Marissa’s invitation?"
"Nothin, just got
this sort of confused wounded look."
- Summer and Seth
"I got nothing against
you — in theory."
- Summer to Julie
"I wanted to commemorate
the time we've spent together. I engraved the handle myself."
"For Ryan: Happy 18th.
I’m so grateful for your friendship think of me every time you pound something."
- Sadie bizarre present of a hammer to Ryan
"Turning eighteen's
all about assuming your adult identity right so I thought I would show
you all the different avenues available to you."
"Because I might wanna
be cowboy?"
"Or my personal favourite
— but no less gay — fireman Ryan."
- Seth and Ryan, at Ryan's party
"Who are all these
people anyway?"
"At a certain point
I just needed to fill the room with bodies."
- Ryan, wondering why Seth invited stranger to his party
"You do know this is
a Foreigner song right?"
- Sadie, after Seth deliberately doesn't book a 'Journey' tribute band
What writer sat down
and decided to hint at a Matt and Marissa relationship? On what planet
does it even remotely make sense? I know that many of us were basically
statutory mind-rapists when Willa Holland appeared on screen, but no one
actually acted on that.
- Drew Timmons, from his review of "The Journey"
"I've got a new approach
ta interviews its called don’t think about it."
"Well I guess that’s
better than your last approach."
- Seth and Summer
"It’s good that you've
found the opposite of Marissa."
"You really think
Sadie is Marissa’s opposite?"
- Summer and Ryan
"I'll have you know
Taylor that I am like five levels hotter than him."
"Summer, the libido
does not listen to logic."
- Summer and Taylor, discussing Seth's attraction for Summer
"As we speak your new,
sometimes...kinda girlfriend is probably sitting by, cradling a hunk of
plaster waiting for you to make a move..."
- Seth, urging Ryan to go to Sadie
"So you’re trying to
save this girl?"
"Is that something
I do?"
- Kirtsen and Ryan, discussing Jess
"You gotta cut the
guy some slack because he just got out of a two year drama fest with Marissa
an the one time that he tried to date someone normal, she turned out to
be my dead grandfathers illegitimate daughter."
- Seth, updating Sadie on Ryan's lovelife
"Lets just say Dean
Hess hid a treasure trove of secrets underneath his pink shirts. Ok, position
one."
"Ok I really don’t
wanna picture you doing that with the Nazi Dean."
- Taylor, imparting her experience to Seth
"He practically skipped
outta the kitchen."
"Atwood skipping?
Now there’s a disturbing and odd visual."
"Picture this one,
Ryan... dancing!"
- Seth and Summer, observing Ryan's Sadie-inspired good mood
"We have a major problem.
Marissa just bailed on our parents engagement party to skank out with the
surf Nazi."
"Your dad an Julie
got engaged, you kinda buried the lead there Summer."
- Summer and Seth
"When did this door
get a lock on it?"
- Seth, arriving at an occupied pool house
"You make a really
good hood ornament."
- Summer to a horizontal Marissa
"Now Coop we’re sisters."
"Right which means
you're not my mom."
- Summer and Marissa
"I know about Volchok.
I saw you mauling him at the Bait shop and now you're shacking up with
him at the trailer park."
"Wow, well aren’t
you a regular Veronica Mars? Way to solve this weeks mystery."
- Summer and Marissa
"Just so you know I’m
not lookin after her anymore...it’s on you now. Treat her right, she deserves
it."
- Ryan to Volchak
"I honestly didn’t
think that much about the future. I was just hoping to take you to dinner."
"You haven’t thought
about it because you’re not ready to think about it."
- Ryan and Sadie
"So that’s it then.
No more smiling; no more skipping; no more dancing."
- Seth, fearing a Ryan-Sadie breakup
"I tried to activate
his saviour complex, but it seems he’s been cured."
- Seth, about Ryan
"Who’s Luke?"
"Summer and Luke were
engaged — in the second grade. She doesn’t like to talk about it."
- Volchak and Marissa, catching up on history
"You deserve to be
treated right."
"If I wanted to be
treated right, I wouldn’t be with you."
- Volchak and Marissa, going off the rails
"Have you spoken to
Marissa lately?"
"Well if you count
pass the milk and don’t be so skanky..."
- Taylor and Summer
"A Cohen in the Ivy
Leagues... you did the work but I think our genes deserve some'a the credit."
- Sandy congratulates Seth
"So you wanna mention
the elephant in the room or should I?"
"I’ve been thinking.
I don’t have'ta go up till August. We could have the summer?"
"Yeah, not so inta
relationships with an egg timer on them."
- Sadie and Ryan
"The only class that
I’ve ever gotten less than an A in was gym. My essay on the loneliness
of being Superman made Mrs. Rushfield cry! Oooh god how did I not get in?"
- Seth
"A lotta people go
to college to find themselves an maybe your one'a those people, you know
I wouldn’t wanna get in the way'a that."
"I feel more myself
with you...than anyone."
"Those are some pretty
big words mister."
- Sadie and Ryan
"Getting a man is like
capturing a wily silver back gorilla in the Ugandan highlands. You see
nature is telling that gorilla to stay in the wild but both you and I know
that that gorilla would be much happier back in the zoo, on a normal feeding
schedule. But sometimes he’s just gotta roar an beat his chest before he'll
let you shoot him with a tranq dart."
- Taylor, explaining her theory about men to Summer
"I had to help Taylor
set up for the bonfire — that girl can handle a chainsaw."
- Summer
"Remember when the
boys made us watch that movie about the gay guys on the mountain?"
"Lord Of The Rings."
"Yeah."
- Summer and Marissa, mixing their movies
"Don’t you see this
is what it'll be like next year? You'll have this other world and I'll
constantly be pulling you away from it, you wont get to experience college
the way you should, I’m not gonna do that to you."
- Sadie to Ryan
"I'm literally going
to be deserted on an island."
Well technically Rhode
Island is only bordered on three sides by water so—"
- Summer and Taylor
"Cohen broke up with
me. Only he has the power to unbreak us up."
- Summer
"The breakup is off.
That’s right I broke up with you an technically it’s in my power to technically
un-break us up."
"You can do that?"
"Technically I just
did. So unless you can explain to my satisfaction what your deal is an
why you suddenly don’t wanna be together next year we're back on yeah —
technically, officially, completely."
- Summer and Seth
"Just be a man, someone
around here oughta."
"You still lying to
everyone about everything?"
"I’m trying ta speak
as little as possible, the less I say the fewer lies I have'ta track but
Summer wants answers, if I tell her the truth she'll throw away her future
over me."
- Seth and Ryan
"I only broke up with
you so that I could find out why you were breaking up with me in the first
place."
- Summer to Seth
"Gonna be a long night,
Ryan. A lot of whining, a lot of pining, ah, maybe some brainstorming,
you don't mind?"
"It's good to be home.
Alright, how are we going to get your Summer back?"
"I fake my own death.
You never wanna underestimate the power of the sympathy vote."
"Is there a plan B?"
"Yeah yeah. Uh, I
could hack in through the Brown firewall into the Admission's office mainframe
and reverse my acceptance."
"That's actually a
good idea. You know how to do that?"
"I had an uncle that
went to DeVry."
- Seth and Ryan
"You’re taking all
that? You only own, like, a wifebeater and two hoodies."
- Seth, watching Ryan pack
"How did he explain
himself?"
"He didn't. Ok, well
he tried to, but you know how I get Coop! Rage makes it hard to talk, let
alone listen."
- Marissa and Summer, discussing Seth
"Ah, there she is.
Look at a true friend, Ryan. 2000 miles she flies."
"In a middle seat."
"All to make sure
Summer and I go to the prom together. Tell me, would you do so much?"
"Let's not test it."
- Seth, Anna and Ryan
"You probably think
I'm an idiot, huh? Screw things up with Marissa. Steal money when everyone's
gonna know I took it."
"I don't think about
you. But yes, you're an idiot."
- Volchok and Ryan
"I know the last few
years have been a roller coaster. There's been tragedy and comedy. And
first loves, broken hearts. Family members we've lost and found. It hasn't
all been perfect, but we're all a family here. So cheers."
- Sandy
"How about a hug?"
"Sure."
"I love you, kid."
"I can't say I love
you to another man... but I have much affection for you as well."
- Sandy and Seth
"I just want you to
know, everything I ever did — good, bad or otherwise — I did it for you.
So that you could have a better life than I had. And I know I wasn't perfect.
I mean, the thing with Luke, and, trying to frame Ryan for attempted homicide,
I—"
"Mom, I love you.
Just know that."
- Julie and Marissa
Summer: "I can't believe
that for a minute I was actually interested in Atwood. laughs Okay, no
offense."
Ryan: "None taken,
beeyotch."
Marissa: "It was only
until you found out he was from Chino."
Summer: "Exactly."
Ryan: "You actually
invited me to Holly's beach house."
Summer: "Oh my god!"
Seth: "You said she
invited me. I'm not faring well, this trip down memory lane."
- The gang remember the early days
"I'm sorry for all
the craziness."
"I wouldn't have done
it any differently. Except maybe Oliver."
- Marissa and Ryan
"Tragedy was in her
DNA."
- Josh Schwartz, creator of the show, on the character of Marissa
The O.C: Few series
have flashed brilliance then squandered it so fast, yet lived to tell another
ridiculous tale.
- Tim Goodman, "The San Francisco Chronicle"
The teen soap has been
a staple of TV for a while now, as shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Dawson's
Creek proved that there was a big audience out there dying to see attractive
actors in their 20's play out a version of high school life that has little
relation to reality. The OC is the current incarnation of this type of
show, and it's easily one of the most fun examples of the subgenre. There
is just as much scheming, secret affairs, shocking revelations and flip
flopping romantic entanglements as you'd expect. But creator Josh Schwartz
has also infused the show with a well played self-aware aspect that slyly
winks at the audience and reminds them everyone is on the joke. Not afraid
to poke fun at itself or it's innately ridiculous world, The OC is a guilty
pleasure that often lets you off the hook on the guilt, thanks to its sense
of humor. And kudos to Schwartz and co for the portrayal of the adults
on the show, especially parents Sandy and Kirsten Cohen, who are much more
involving and interesting then Dawson or Brandon and Brenda's parents could
ever hope to be.
- IGN puts "The OC" on its Must Watch List for 2006
"I was set up. By the
Brits. A group of British builders operating outside the O.C.—"
"Don’t call it that."
"—contacted me for
a partnership to build homes overseas. I did not know they meant Iraq."
- George Snr and Michael, in "Arrested Development"
If you work the TV
remote control quickly enough, you can actually splice a number of shows
together. The other night on the 'OC', one of the girl's eating disorders
went missing so I flicked to 'Home and Away' where Alf was organising yet
another search party. So I flicked him into the 'Rovers Return' where he
had three pints at lunchtime, and then onto the 'OC' where he found the
eating disorder hiding behind one of the boy's angst. Finally I put him
back to 'Home and Away' where he greeted himself with "Where the flaming
'eck were you?"
- Pat Fitzpatrick, with a surreal quantum leap across three continents,
"The Irish Independent"
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