"The O.C.": C/D

7.44 million people tuned in, which is pretty crap when you consider that it came on right after American Idol BUT it is an improvement for this season though cause the ratings have been around 5 million until the last episode.

Boy does this show suck. I hope they fire Ryan and Marissa next season. Just make the show Seth, Summer and Taylor, with more time for Sandy and the drunk.

i really liked last nights episode. i want them to find out sandy's boy partner has been shooting coke all this time.
im also intrigued by the line from that guy who keeps following marissa around. something like 'if you want to take a break from whats going on in your head, ive got something'. i really loved when he was outside he trailer and she came home and did that almost closed the door then pushed it wide open move like 'fuck it, lets fuck.' best acting from mischa yet.
seth and summer, sadie and ryan. eh.

yes, the open trailer door was the best part. and that it's a trailer.

the whole thing with Ryan and Jess, the blonde girl, was boring and predictable though. And holy crap, do teenage couples really ever in real life lose their sex drive??? I MEAN O COME ON. Find one better idea for plotline, srsly. (okay, some might, I understand that anything is possible, but still... IT"S TV>)

i hadnt seen any of these people have sex since the first season until last night. suddenly everyone was boffing.

haha, yes, it was the boffing episode! like the writers/producers suddenly realized "holy shit, this is a show about teenagers (mostly) and they haven't been having sex and they even live in California omg wtf what the HELL were we thinking?? how will we redeem ourselves??" Hence, this. I get the feeling that producer guy was maybe going through a dry spell, luv-wise. And now he's back on the horse. good for him.

it would have been great if marissa boffed sandy's lackey AND her stalker in one episode.

OHGOD that would've been the best! Why is this show trying to be PC this season (and, well, some of last season too, i suppose), that's what I want to know. btwn the pot-smoking ohnoes and the no sex and ryan not wanting to fite anymore and people going off to brown, it's become a show written by PARENTS. Not good, LA, not good.

i hadn't paid much attention to this show since the beginning of the season, this jess thing is fucking dumb, my god, they are really struggling for storylines aren't they? where is julie cooper?

a show around julie i could see. even caleb. but sandy and blondie. zzzzzzzzzz. maybe they'll start introducing younger characters. the next harbor high junior class or something.

and, yeah, I can just picture that intense production meeting where they're analyzing the recent ratings plunge and someone suddenly jumps up and says 'OH MY GOD! WE FORGOT SEX!!'

julie is on a cruise with summer's dad getting proposed to, hence next weeks sister spats between summer and marissa

if 'slut spiral' isnt the best thing ever said on primetime tv, i dont know what

So Ryan is the stupidest character in television history, right?

That was a good episode! I mean, the "dates" that Ryan and Sadie kept having were hilarious in their distance from reality, with her inexplicably running off after 5 minutes and Ryan, yes, being SO dumb, but I don't look to this show for reality. + Julie back in a mansion AND insulting the staff, Marissa back on the sauce AND doing "bumps"!! haha, keep it up, The O.C.

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oh hes stupid alright. actually, since ryan hasnt stopped boffing and/or trying to boff that oregon girl for the past two episodes, my respect for him is edging upward.

bumps?? like cocaine?? how did i miss that???

haha, yeah, on the beach TigerCubBoy was all "Wanna do some bumps?" and she did the shy/coy thing and said she wasn't into that kind of thing. Which of course meant that by the end of the show she'd be well into that kind of thing. OHNOES!

aww..i love marissa and her slut spiral

also: what was up with matt getting beat up? who did that?

I assume that was orchestrated by the hospital admin guy (doctor?) or whoever he is who Sandy questioned earlier and mentioned that Matt had "dirt" on. The O.C. is a dangerzone!

oh! is that why they asked sandy to fire him?

The writing on this show is so lazy. Yeah, yeah, soap opera, etc., but why didn't Sandy just add on two sentences ("It wasn't me." + "I'm trying to punish the guy who did it.") and solve everything? Why did Cohen do the dumbest thing possible? Cheap drama is boring.

i have no idea whats going on with sandy and matt right now. ive been watching but i think my mind is just blanking out those parts. all i can tell is that sandy is doing something semi-shady and kirstens pissed because he is turning into her father. i dont know why matt is beat up or why the girly matt was chasing just disappeared. is that her father Sandy is threatening to sic the DA onto?
the seth thing, i dont know. i guess they have to stretch the drama out til the end of the season. obviously, he'll confess to summer and his parents and summer will be all 'oh cohen, you lied for me again! youre such a sweet goofball!' and sandy will be all 'yay now you can go to berkeley!' and summer will be all 'im going whereever youre going cohen you sweet goofball!' and then marissa and ryan will be all 'hey! what a coincidence! we're going to berkeley too!' see you in september.

i think im going to miss taylor.

most classically lame quote of the episode: 'Oh, by the way, I lied. Your forehand sucks!' Burn!

The Sandy and Matt plotline is thus: Matt was dating Maya, the daughter of the business guy with the inadequate forehand. But Sandy pressured Maya to talk to her father about their hospital proposal. She did, and they got the hospital, and she broke up with Matt for "using" her. The father was so irate at Matt for hurting his precious baby girl that he told Sandy to fire Matt or the hospital deal was off. Sandy fired Matt, Matt threatened to blow the whistle on both Sandy and the other business guy, and Sandy unwisely went to the business guy and said "Hey, Matt says you're awash in criminal activities, that's not true, is it?" Guy says no, of course not, let me take care of silly misguided Matt. Cue Matt getting his face and big-screen TV smashed in by goons.

I hate myself for knowing all this.

I wonder if the kids are even going to get as far as Berkeley before the producers yank them back and send them to a local college. Otherwise how are they going to keep Julie/Sandy/Kirsten involved?

yeah, ive been wondering about that but as summers daddy said berkeley is only a short motorbike ride away.

the matt/maya thing: there was a scene before kirsten and julies first big hook up ball where kirsten took maya to lunch to try to get her to go. she admitted matt was after her for the hospital and maya said she didnt care, that she had had a crush on him forever and was going to take him anyway she could get him. flipflopper!

I don't think Kirsten ever openly said that Matt was just after the hospital. Maya was mad about something else - and then it all came to a head when Sandy pushed the hospital on a double date with Matt/Maya. (Oh, the shame of knowing this.)

YOU LOVE IT

I just watched this week's: I'm curious as to how they're going to keep the team alive as well when they all go off to college. I'm guessing they're ALL going to go to Berkeley. And what, much of the show will exist only during vacations home? They should change the name to The O.C.B. I do find myself wanting too see more of Sandy's move to the dark side of O.C. real-estate/mob life. Kirsten looked like she was going out for a DRINK.

The sweatshirt party was indeed LAME. But also very HIGHSCHOOL.

Will Julie Cooper move to Berkeley and sleep her way through the faculty?

of course not! they arent rich enough.

My prediction for the old folks: last ep (or close) of this season Sandy blows up about real-estate shenanigans, quits his job gets and hired as professor of teh law (or maybe Dean of Law) at UC-Berkeley.

gasp! i just checked the spoilers.

Was I right?

its not too clear on that but promises an 'explosion' in the cohen family. and also where seth ends up getting accepted. we were all wrong about that. and the return of someones kid and i have no need to miss taylor despite her frenchie U sweatshirt last week.

Where did you read them?

must. not. read. must. not.
okay, i'm fine now.

I've been watching Rome and am totally amused by the similarities btwn Atia and Julie Cooper-Nichol. It's pretty awesome.

O. M. G.

you know you want it

I like how these t-shirts are so made for teenagers.

http://www.theocinsidershop.com/kernel/imageload?table=cat_images;ttl2=15;key1=25125_l_EN_;key2=25125_l_EN;key3=25125_l;key4=-100_l_EN;key5=-100_l___oc;key6=-100_l

It's a surfboard, not an I!
I like the non-irony of it all.
okay, i want them both.

haha, xpost!

And the boffing don't stop.

roffleboff.

Tonight's ep was pretty boring. I don't know, maybe I was distracted. Okay, but it made me be distracted. Except for the stupid Seth-breaking-Summer's-Heart part. THAT MAKES NO SENSE. And was sad(ish). Marissa was good at saving the drugged girl and then going home and thus ending That Phase. And not enough Julie. Though she did say "cardiobar" at one point.

I think the best thing was the preview at the end for that new movie about GYMNASTICS - "Stick It" - YES.

"its not called gymNICEtics"

ryan is turning into such a boy slut. its great. im finally gaining a little respect for his character.

i dont know why seth's biggest worry is summer. has he forgotten his parents still think he got into brown??

and what about that list he wrote on the cocktail napkin a few weeks back? the list of everything bad he has done that his parents dont know about. wasn't the deal that summer could give it to his parents if he ever lied again?

kirsten sure caves to the alcohol easily. ooo! im alone for two nights in a row. better get drunk! i like how ryans mom called her kerr-sten.

also, i liked marissa's gray shortsleeve over black longsleeve party get up. so much hotter than those paris hilton dresses she usually wears.

Why are the ratings down? This show is still a big draw at my house. Tivo only caught the last seven minutes last night due to power outage:(

Two best characters these days: Summer (natch) and Taylor (still comin' on strong). Next week's ep looks to be much improved yay.

i realized last night that not only do all the cohens have the same cellphone as me but they also have the exact same house phone! its so hot to be hollywood in arkansas.

alright. so i guess we know how everyone is staying in newport now:

seth will get into his art school but not til next year

marissa will take a year off because shes not ready

summer will find out about seth not getting in to brown and trying to get in to brown and getting in to art achool instead. she will put off brown for a year so she can do the whole 4 year with him in RI.

i thought ryan was going to stay to be theresa's baby's daddy but he isnt theresa's baby's daddy. maybe they'll hook up again and he'll stay with them for a year. how does anyone go from destitute to affording a fulltime live in nanny that quickly?

im still not sure why kirsten is so mad at sandy. is it mostly because he's not around much? i think if he says 'hospital' one more time it might be acceptable motivation for spousal homicide.

it's because omg he's turning into her dad by becoming all tied up in work and kind of ignoring her, as well as possibly getting into not-so-honest dealings with work.

i was surprised about teresa's nanny too....maybe she won the lottery?

this show isn't as entertaining as it used to be, but i keep on watching it anyway...

well she claimed 3 promotions which i guess isnt impossible over 2 years but she did have a kid somewhere in there

im so happy kirstens drinking again. she looked so bored sober.