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** gets him drunk in an effort to make him do the above.
** says (jokingly, but it's still cringe-worthy) that she wants to tie him to a chair and inject him with sodium penthanol in order to make him admit his feelings.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Frank Atwood and many of Ryan's mother's boyfriends. Ryan gets hit in the face by one five minutes into the Pilot.
* [[All Girls Like Ponies]]:
** Summer and Princess Sparkle.
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* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: [http://vlog.xuite.net/play/Sjk0WmNGLTkzMDI2MS5mbHY=/Bz-15-Ore-to-Omae-no-Atarashii-Kisetsu "Ore to Omae no Atarashii Kisetsu"] by B'z is used as the Japanese ending theme.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: In one episode, Ryan and Taylor fall off a ladder and end up in one of these, where Ryan never came to the O.C. and Taylor was born a boy. Everyone has changed for the worse {{spoiler|(like Kirsten who turned into her father, Sandy who became a Republican, Seth who never stopped being a wallflower and Summer became an even more vapid bimbo -- though Marissa still died)}} except for Veronica, who is "still a bitch" as Taylor resignedly points out. Luckily, it was [[All Just a Dream]].
* [[Author Avatar]]: Seth Cohen is Josh Schwartz.
* [[Bait and Switch]]: In this example from 3.18:
{{quote|'''Jess''': Tell you what, why don't you stay awhile?
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'''Seth:''' I won't get in the way, you know how stealth I can be.}}
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Hardly an episode goes by without the use of this trope.
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: Seth Cohen is stealth.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Bang!"; "Eww!"
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Seth makes a reference to the vomiting little girl from ''[[The Sixth Sense]]''... who was played by Mischa Barton, also known as Marissa.
* [[Character Development]]: Luke from a jerk jock to a good friend, Marissa from a normal schoolgirl to a tortured teen, Ryan from a hot-headed teenager to a calmer young man, Summer from a air-headed bimbo to... well, a ''nice'' air-headed bimbo and then to ''nice'' air-headed bimbo with a conscience. With good SAT scores. [[Ping-Pong Naivete|Who, despite having very high potential intelligence, is still at the age 18 entirely unaware what 'jihad' means]].
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Compare Summer's personality in the first couple of episodes with the rest of the series: she comes across as a lot less likeable, a slutty , obnoxious, party girl airhead who dumps her unconscious best friend in her driveway after a night out. Likewise original flavor Taylor is very different from the adorable [[Genki Girl]] she became, being a bitchy [[Smug Snake]] who is fooling around with a teacher (a [[Sadist Teacher]] at that). Neither character was originally intended to be a regular but the unexpected appeal of Rachel Bilson and Autumn Reeser meant they ended up staying on and developing into quite different characters.
* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Ryan Atwood. Lampshaded at separate times by different characters in Season 1, 2, 3, and 4. One episode in Season 3 had Kirsten helping Ryan to figure out he doesn't need to help every [[Damsel in Distress]] anymore. One episode in Season 4 had Sandy helping Ryan to figure out he needs to help every [[Damsel in Distress]] because it's "his thing" and he "shouldn't turn his back on that."
* [[Chronic Villainy]]: Julie Cooper switches between trying to be a good mom and being a gold-digging manipulative slut schizophrenically throughout the series.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Rachel in Season One. They were setting her up with Jimmy, and then she just... disappeared, never to be mentioned again, despite being Sandy's colleague.
** She "went on vacation."
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - Taylor and Che.
* [[
* [[Conflict Ball]]: Carried by various characters. Often manifests itself in willfully misunderstanding the other person (see [[Cannot Spit It Out]] above).
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Oh so very many. One notable one is the phrase 'salting your game' as an indication of cock-blocking. Used first by Ryan to Seth, half a season later from Seth to his dad, and then in Season 2 by Sandy to his wife.
* [[Coolest Club Ever]]: The Bait Shop.
* [[Cool Loser]]: Seth Cohen. Then, eventually every character in the main cast.
* [[Cool Ship]]: The Summer Breeze, an awesome Hobie mini-catamaran that Seth owned in Season 1, and pawned for bus-fare in Season 2.
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Taylor Townsend is fluent in French, Korean and Spanish and is able to use enough Latin to deliver her valedictorian speech in that language.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:
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* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler|Marissa, in Ryan's, in the Season 3 finale}}.
* [[Diegetic Switch]]: Though not as often as [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]].
* [[Doom Magnet]]: In-universe, Ryan is accused of being one early in the show by Julie.
** Marissa Cooper, {{spoiler|especially in Season 3}}. In fact, {{spoiler|when you factor in that her death at the end of the third season was followed by the ''much'' [[Lighter and Softer]] fourth season - Everything literally got better for the characters after Marissa's death}}. Possibly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in a [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]] in the [[Alternate Universe]]/[[All Just a Dream]] episode.<ref>There's briefly a shot of a poster advertising that "Pac West Surf Star" Johnny Harper would be making an appearance to advertise his new line of boards. Johnny died the previous season, and the implication is that if Ryan had never arrived in Newport & saved Marissa from an overdose in Season One, Johnny would have never died.</ref>
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Chris Brown gets upset when Kaitlin offers him weed.
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Holly Fischer. Not so much in the first season when she was [[Smug Snake|unpleasant]] but not noticeably dim but when Holly eventually returned after an absence of two whole seasons she'd enthusiastically embraced the vapidity within.
* [[Expy]]: Casey, Dennis and Chili at Newport union were pretty blatant expy's of Ryan, Summer and Seth, with the flip that the Summer-analogue was dating the Ryan analogue
* [[Fallen Princess]]: Marissa. Luke is the male version.
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** Marissa - [[The Chick]].
** Summer - Possess all above qualities.
* [[Five Stages of Grief]]: Summer goes through these after {{spoiler|Marissa's death}}. She goes through Anger twice. The therapist is amazed [[Lampshade Hanging|she got through it all in a week]]. She then drops some of her [[Granola Girl]] act, though she keeps part of the activism.
* [[Foreshadowing]] In "The [[Snow C]]", Alex kisses both a guy and a girl. This comes back in "The Ex-Factor" when it's revealed that she is bisexual.
* [[The Generic Guy]]: Zach Stephens.
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Or a-ringin'... Don't answer it, it's probably a flaming bag of crap.}}
* [[Gold Digger]]: Julie Cooper.
* [[Granola Girl]]: Summer in Season 4. Che, as well, who at one point plays the guitar naked and also 'jams on the didge'.
* [[Happily Ever After]]: Seth Cohen and Summer Roberts. They got married.
* [[Happily Married]]: Seth Cohen and Summer Roberts. Sandy and Kirsten Cohen.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Luke. In the early episodes, he was pretty much your typical [[Jerk Jock]], but by the end of the first season, he had turned into a sympathetic, likable character.
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* [[Long-Lost Uncle Aesop]]: The Nana. She even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this in complaining her family never writes, calls or visits.
* [[The Lost Lenore]]: {{spoiler|Marissa becomes this for Ryan in Season 4. She's killed on their graduation day in a car accident caused by Volchok, Marissa's ex, and dies in Ryan's arms. He spends the first half of Season 4 mourning her, and even tries to go after Volchok and kill him. It's telling that when he and Taylor are in an alternate universe where Marissa ''might'' still be alive but wouldn't know him, he's willing to stay there, with a Marissa who doesn't know him and could come to love him, than he is to go back to the real world, where everyone else who loves him ''but'' Marissa is alive}}.
* [[Love Triangle]]: A lot of them, but they're usually extremely polite. Anna and Summer hang out while fighting over Seth, Zack and Seth hang out (and start a comic book) while fighting over Summer, Marissa and Teresa help each other while fighting over Ryan, Ryan saves Johnny several times while fighting over Marissa...and those that aren't polite while part of the love triangle (for example, the first triangle of Ryan, Luke and Marissa) become friends when the love triangle is over.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Taylor Townsend saves Ryan Atwood from the soulless and brooding world of cage-fighting, el guapo taco, and insomnia.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Luke and Julie.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Anna '''Stern''' likes to sail.
* [[Monochrome Casting]]: A constant joke about this show is its exceedingly white cast.
** Sorta justified in that L.A.'s rich upper class elite would mostly be white. Why everyone in Chino is also white is a mystery though.
* [[Montage Out]]: The final scenes of the series show brief snippets of what the future holds for the characters, such as {{spoiler|Sandy becoming a lecturer, Seth & Summer's wedding, Julie getting a degree, and a [[Book End]] to Ryan's story}}.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Ryan, Luke, but a lot of girls seem to enjoy Seth. This isn't true for geeks in [[Real Life]].
* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: Julie Cooper.
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: In Season 4, Seth takes hallucinogenic berries in an attempt to "heal his animus". He then has a vision of walking through a tripped-out version of the Cohen house until he walks into his room. His room now has a pool in it, where Seth's spirit animal, an otter, flops out of the pool. Seth begins to talk to him. When the vision ends, Seth has been renewed spiritually by 'saving his spirit animal', and is thus ready to love again.
* [[Old Shame]]: Julie Cooper's sex-tape
* [[One-Scene Wonder|One Episode Wonder]]: Alex's ex-girlfriend Jodie is quite popular in fanfiction despite only being in one episode (with a cameo in the previous episode).
* [[Opposites Attract]]: Nearly every major relationship: Sandy/Kirsten (geeky Jewish liberal lawyer + WASP princess), Ryan/Marissa (wrong side of the tracks + ([[Fallen Princess|seemingly]]) perfect debutante), Seth/Summer (nerd + popular party girl), Ryan/Taylor ([[Book Dumb]] introvert + intellectual [[Genki Girl]]) etc. The few [[Birds of a Feather]] couplings like Seth/Anna or Ryan/Theresa are conspicuous by their lack of success.
* [[Product Placement]]: In the weeks leading up to the ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' theatrical release date. The full-length trailer aired after an episode with a short introduction by Adam Brody in character. Then, Summer walked by a life-size Obi-Wan cut-out. Then, [[George Lucas]] guest starred on the show. Then, the characters were all shown playing the [[Revenge of the Sith]] video game with Seth saying, "I didn't know you could throw your lightsaber", with Ryan replying, "New Game, who knew?"
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Numerous characters. Lampshaded by Seth.
** Applies especially to Luke, who became one of the main characters in the latter half of Season One. But after the Season Two premiere was never seen or heard from again.
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: Luke in "The Proposal".
* [[Redemption in the Rain]]: Although mostly a parody of Spider-Man.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Taylor Townsend first appeared at the start of the third season, but apparently had been going to the same school as the main characters for the entire time. Indeed a later flashback revealed she had been friends (or at least on name terms) with Summer since they had been in elementary school. The weird thing is, watching the first two seasons again on DVD, it really does appear that her actress ''may'' have been an extra in earlier school scenes. Or maybe it's just someone who looks similar.<br /><br />[[Lampshaded]] at one point when Taylor is talking to Summer about Seth's declaration of love in the first season: "Oh, you didn't see me, but I was here"
* [[Retool]]: The first half of Season 2 had the writers slow down all the storylines (Josh called it [[My So-Called Life|My So-Called OC]]), not have Ryan punch anyone, not have any [[Wild Teen Party|wild teen parties]], and split up all the couples. Viewers weren't very receptive, and this era ended at Episode 14. Season 4, however, can be considered a genuine [[Retool]] as it became more of a lighthearted comedy without many soap opera plotlines. Aside from one Prostitution Ring, most storylines revolved around quirky plotlines like [[It Makes Sense in Context|slutty aliens]], offbeat french authors, sleep therapists, and freeing bunnies.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Julie Cooper.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Ryan goes on one against {{spoiler|Volchok after Marissa's death}}.
* [[Running Gag]]: Nothing good ''ever'' happens at a Cohen party.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Julie. Caleb too, although arguably to a lesser extent.
* [[Second Love]]: Ryan actually had three true loves. Theresa The First, Marissa The Second, and Taylor The Third.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Half of Ryan's wardrobe consists of tank tops, especially in the earlier seasons. Later on, they finally give the poor guy some sleeves. ''Tight'' sleeves.
* [[Shoo Out the New Guy]]: Several characters:
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** In Season 2 Episode 3, Summer is watching ''The Valley'' in her bedroom, and you can hear dialogue from the first season of ''The O.C.'' being repeated verbatim except the names, about a character dating his ex's mother (i.e. Luke and Julie).
*** In the commentary track, the creator explicitly mentions that all dialogue heard on The Valley are snippets from earlier ''O.C.'' episodes.
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Notably Seth and Summer's first. Ryan and Lindsay too.
* [[Similar Squad]]: Johnny and the public high school gang Marissa starts hanging out with once she's forced to change schools are supposed to be counterparts to Ryan, Seth, and Summer. Lampshaded when Ryan refers to one of them as Bizarro Seth, which is also a ''[[Seinfeld]]'' shout-out.
** Except that Ryan's counterpart is dating Summer's. It could be a coincidence but Summer does actually hit on Ryan in the pilot.
* [[A Simple Plan]]: These never ever go right.
* [[Six-Student Clique]]
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Ryan and Marissa share a smoke in the Pilot. An agreement between Fox and the writers said they could have this scene, so long as the characters never smoke again.
* [[Smug Snake]]: The Dean of Discipline. Also Taylor Townsend in her first few episodes ([[Characterization Marches On|who got better]]) and Holly Fischer (who didn't).
* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Played with in that you can usually hear the switch in volume when it goes from soundtrack music to scene music, and characters may or may not draw attention to it by lowering the radio/changing the channel/telling X to turn it off.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: The ''O.C.'''s spiritual successor is ''[[Chuck]]'' in terms of dialogue, characters, and humor. ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' is the spiritual successor plot and setting-wise.
** It was also the spiritual successor to ''[[Laguna Beach]]'', ''[[The Hills]]'', and probably ''[[Jersey Shore]]''. [[Unfortunate Implications]] there.
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** A lot of Taylor's behavior towards Ryan early in their relationship qualifies as stalking, but it's portrayed as being cute and funny rather than scary.
* [[Stealth Parody]]: The show wasn't self-aware enough to qualify as a [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Teen Drama]], but someone in the writer's room was at least content to flirt with the possibility.
* [[The Stoner]]: Seth Cohen in Season 3. Kaitlin Cooper. Early Luke Ward and Early Summer Roberts.
* [[Stoners Are Funny]]: Seeing Seth Cohen under the influence of drugs was a highlight.
* [[Suicide as Comedy]]: Oliver fakes a suicide attempt, and after making the phone call, dances around flinging pills everywhere.
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* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: Sweet Jesus.
* [[Teen Drama]]
* [[Their First Time]]: Seth Cohen and Summer Roberts. They lost their virginity together.
* [[Theme Tune]]: "California" by Phantom Planet.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Subverted a bit. {{spoiler|Marissa does attend a therapist and seems to be getting better... until life crashes on pretty much everyone after Oliver appears. Then psychotherapy is pretty much dismissed, although Lord knows it would have done her (and most of the other characters) some good}}.
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