Which was the most unbelievable and/or improbable and/or unrealistic situation to occur on this week's O.C.? Let's go to the videotape...
1. A simple birthday party for Trey in which Marissa and Summer invite a handful of people to Casa Nichol turns into a "Newport Rager" with rampant drug and alcohol abuse, threesomes in bedrooms, and possibly a dead girl.
Ryan: How many people did you invite?
Marissa: Four.
Summer: Me too.
Seth: I don't even know four other people.
2. Seth and Zack's new publisher being a hot 23 year old female who is way into comic books and even more into Zack.
Zack: What are you doing telling her that I'm gay?
Seth: Now I said "gay vibe". I distinctly remember saying "gay vibe" and the two are very different.
Zack: Ok, what about me getting you cappucino "bone dry"? What does that even mean?
Seth: God - what is she a court reporter?
3. Trey's parole officer showing up in a beat-up jalopy late at night to drive Trey to give $5 to a homeless guy. And me using the word "jalopy" in a sentence - what decade is this anyway?
3a. Ryan and Seth being stealthy enough to follow Trey to the meeting with the homeless guy, which they misinterpret as a drug deal even though it's completely out in the open under a bright light. I guess they figured all the cops were waiting to bust the next "Newport Rager" they could find.
4. Julie - wait a second, let me get these straight...
(a) owning a gun
(b) going to the fleabag motel where her "ex-boyfriend" was staying and threatening to kill him
(c) the ex-boyfriend - who tried to swindle her out of half a million dollars with frightening glee and then exposed her porno tape for all to see - suddenly feeling guilty after Julie pretended to shoot him and offering to make things right by returning all the tapes, despite an offer of $8500 for them
(d) somebody actually offering $8500 for a porn tape from 1989
(e) Julie bonding with the ex-boyfriend/pornographer/sleazy stalker over drinks, hatred of Caleb, and yes, Whitesnake
(f) sleazy but suddenly "good-hearted" ex-boyfriend offering to kill Caleb for her and her daughter(s)
Wow.
4a. The fact that Julie mentioned she had multiple daughters even though we haven't seen or heard from anyone other than Marissa for 36 straight episodes.
4b. Whitesnake. And Poison. I can't believe I had to listen to a portion of "Every Rose Has its Thorn". I think I'm going to be sick.
Don't go yet. One more drink, for Whitesnake.
Ok. For Whitesnake.
Yes, I'm definitely going to be sick.
5. Kirsten becoming jealous that Sandy is setting up her future adulterer Carter on a date with a female friend, drinking heavily, looking disheveled and lusting over her co-worker openly, even in front of her husband. Oh, and what was wrong with Kirsten's hair tonight - it's like she crawled out of bed during a lightning storm and -- ok, I really should stop here. It's bad enough that I'm reviewing the O.C. Let's just move on.
6. Trey bedding a high school slut whore at the party in all of three minutes after he met her, even after he admits that he's an ex-convict.
Well convict, time to open your present.
No, actually that one was pretty believable. At least until the same girl overdoses and ends up floating in the pool (how come the overdosee always ends up in the pool?) and the ambulance comes and the cops come and arrest Marissa because it's her house, but Trey does the chivalrous thing and tells the cops that it was his ecstasy that the girl took, so they arrest him and it looks like he's headed back to jail. Except that in the previews for next week, he's walking around free so I guess the laws against recently paroled felons dealing illegal narcotics are not as strict as they used to be, or at least not in Newport Beach.
And last, but certainly not least, the most unbelievable event on this week's O.C.
7. Marissa is seen in her bed, reading a book. Exactly.
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