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{{quote|''We've been on the run, driving in the sun, looking out for number one -- California, here we come, right back where we started from...''|'''Phantom Planet''', "California", '''''The O.C.''''' theme song.}}
''The O.C.'' is the story of Ryan Atwood, a troubled teenager from Chino, and the family who takes him in, the Cohens. Ryan and his brother are arrested for grand theft auto, but Ryan's idealistic public defender, Sandy Cohen, recognizes Ryan's intelligence and offers him a way out. When Ryan's alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend kick him out, Ryan has no choice but to call Sandy.
Ryan is thrust into the glamorous world of Orange County, and into the lives of the Cohens and their neighbors. There's [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Kirsten
With Ryan around, things are changing fast. Ryan, Marissa, Seth, and Summer are about to endure breaking up, breaking down, [[Wild Teen Party|
This is a show about references. When you hang a guy upside down in the rain for a kiss from his [[Love Interests|main
One official All The Tropes Wiki No-Prize is up for grabs for each example of an other-media reference from this show.
Not to be confused with an abbreviation for [[Original
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: At the end of Season One, we learn that {{spoiler|the Newport Group is virtually bankrupt; Sandy and Jimmy inadvertently foil Caleb's scheme to rescue it. While the DA keeps investigating Caleb in Season Two, the issue of, you know, bankruptcy is forgotten about. In fact Kirsten takes over the Newport Group's accounting in Season Two and never mentions a thing. Except, surprise! In Season Three, it turns out Caleb was bankrupt after all}}.
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On
** breaks up with him, but then spends seven hours outside of his workplace with binoculars, spying on him (she follows him in disguise later on).
** applies to Berkeley, his college of choice, without telling him.
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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
* [[All Girls Like
** Summer and Princess Sparkle.
** Kaitlin's pony China who had alopecia.
** Seth and Captain Oats.
* [[Alternative Foreign Theme
* [[Alternate
* [[Author
* [[Bait and Switch]]: In this example from 3.18:
{{quote|'''Jess''': Tell you what, why don't you stay awhile?
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(''Ryan turns to leave'')
'''Jess''': Did you know Trey's dealing? (''Ryan turns around'') Blackjack, off the strip.}}
* [[Batman
* [[Bitch in Sheep's
* [[Bi the
* [[Book
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Kaitlin.
* [[Call Back]]: A few.
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'''Ryan:''' No.
'''Seth:''' I won't get in the way, you know how stealth I can be.}}
* [[Cannot Spit It
* [[Can't Hold His
* [[Catch
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Seth makes a reference to the vomiting little girl from ''[[The Sixth
* [[Character
* [[Characterization Marches
* [[Chronic Hero
* [[Chronic
* [[Chuck Cunningham
** She "went on vacation."
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose
* [[
* [[Color-Coded for Your
* [[Conflict Ball]]: Carried by various characters. Often manifests itself in willfully misunderstanding the other person (see [[Cannot Spit It
* [[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
* [[Cool
* [[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
* [[Deadpan
** Seth Cohen.
** Sandy.
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** Anna.
** Alex as well.
* [[Defrosting Ice
{{quote|'''Kirsten''': The ice queen was surrounded by an impenetrable force field and her silver cell phone was her only link to the outside world.}}
* [[Died in Your Arms
* [[Diegetic Switch]]: Though not as often as [[Sorry I Left the BGM
* [[Doom
** 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
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Chris Brown gets upset when Kaitlin offers him weed.
* [[Dumb
* [[
* [[Fallen
* [[Fan
** Summer in the Wonder Woman costume; Summer in the Little Miss Vixen costume; scenes of bikini clad women aplenty; one episode has Ryan continuously fantasizing about Taylor in what appears to be a bad 80s video involving her in skimpy clothing and at one point sliding her ass across a wet window. Another episode had a purposefully gratuitous close-up of the incredibly attractive cokewhore Jess' bikini-clad ass as she walked up the stairs. For the women, many scenes of men with their shirts off, including a rather porn-like shot of The Yard Guy watering the lawn.
** Marissa in the [[Catholic School Girls Rule|naughty schoolgirl outfit.]]
* [[Fish Out of
* [[Five-Man Band]]: They're all outcasts.
** Ryan - [[The
** Seth - [[The Smart
** Luke - [[The Big
** 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.
* [[
* [[The Generic
* [[Genki Girl]]: Taylor Townsend.
* [[Genre
{{quote|'''Seth:''' Ryan, don't ya see? Things are going way too well around here. Marissa got back into Harbor, you guys seemed to resolve your surf-tastic love triangle, my girlfriend got a near perfect score on her [[
'''Ryan:''' It's senior year, it's meant to be the best one.
'''Seth:''' No, you should know better. Every time things are going well around here, that's when doom comes a-knockin'.
''(doorbell rings)''
Or a-ringin'... Don't answer it, it's probably a flaming bag of crap.}}
* [[Gold
* [[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
* [[Happily Married]]: Seth Cohen and Summer Roberts. Sandy and Kirsten Cohen.
* [[Heel Face
** Also applies to Summer. In the first few episodes, she came across as [[Alpha Bitch|a shallow, spoiled bitch.]] But then became more of a somewhat ditzy, but likable girlfriend for Seth.
* [[Hidden
* [[Horrible Judge of
** Not just Marissa, ''everyone'' except for Ryan and Luke failed to see the type of person that {{spoiler|Oliver}} was.
* [[Ho
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|The Idiosyncratic Episode
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Kaitlin and The Bullit.
* [[Ivy League for
* [[Jewish
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Caleb Nichol and Marissa Cooper}}.
* [[Lampshade
** Seth comments on Zach's return: "You came back!... People never leave and come back!"
** "The L.A." is an entire episode of lampshade hanging. Most episodes have a lampshade hanging. Part of the show's charm was it never took itself too seriously.
** The unrealistically melodramatic nature of the show gets this when Sandy says "Life's gritty enough, comic books should be fun." Seth responds "Life's gritty? We live in Newport Beach."
** In the 16th episode of Season 2, Seth complains that their year hasn't been as good as the first one, while Ryan defends the season saying that they can't simply rehash the first season. The conversation gets dangerously close to breaking the fourth wall.
*** A similar instance in the penultimate episode of the series, after learning that {{spoiler|Seth gave his blood to save his life}}, Ryan jokes that he has the sudden urge to listen to emo music & read comic books; which Seth responds to with a comment that if they'd switched things up & became a [[Freaky Friday Flip|body swap
** In the show's final episode, Summer comments that ''[[Show Within a Show|The
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Seth Cohen, before Ryan's arrival.
* [[Long-Lost Uncle Aesop]]: The Nana. She even [[Lampshade Hanging|
* [[The Lost
* [[Love
* [[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
* [[Meaningful
* [[Monochrome
** 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
* [[Mr.
* [[Mrs.
* [[Mushroom
* [[Old
* [[One-Scene Wonder|One Episode
* [[Opposites
* [[Product
* [[Put on a
** 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
* [[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
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Julie Cooper.
* [[Roaring Rampage of
* [[Running
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have
* [[Second
* [[Shirtless
* [[Shoo Out the New
** Jimmy Cooper: {{spoiler|The character had run his course at the beginning of Season Two, so he was [[Put on a
*** {{spoiler|The unlikely excuse just about worked the first time around, but then they had to bring him back for Caleb's funeral, only to remember why they got rid of him in the first place. In the end, he leaves for almost the same reason as before, and Marissa flat-out tells him that he can't come back this time, just so the writers wouldn't encounter the same problem again}}.
** Lindsay Gardner: {{spoiler|Caleb's illegitimate daughter who occupied the first half of Season Two amid much [[
* [[Shout-
* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''The Valley'', a parody of ''The O.C.'' itself, featuring parodies of the real-life versions of the actors in the roles.
** [[Department of Redundancy Department|Not to mention "Sherman Oaks: The Real Valley".]]
** 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"
* [[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
* [[Six-Student
* [[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
* [[Sorry I Left the BGM
* [[Spiritual
** It was also the spiritual successor to ''[[Laguna Beach]]'', ''[[The
* [[Stalking Is
** 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
* [[The
* [[Stoners Are
* [[Suicide as
* [[Survivor
* [[Take
* [[Tangled Family
* [[Teen
* [[Their First
* [[Theme
* [[There Are No
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "Welcome to the O.C., bitch!" - #83 on a TV Land's Best TV Quotes list. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Luke moves. "Welcome to Portland, bitch!"
* [[Time Skip]]: Of around six months between show's penultimate and final episodes.
* [[Took a Level in
* [[Trash the
* [[Unexplained
* [[Uptown Girl]]: Ryan and Marissa. This is the primary storyline for the first half of the show.
* [[Viewers Are
* [[Wild Teen
* [[World of Snark]]: Virtually every major character (and many minor characters) is a [[Deadpan
* [[Yiddish as a Second
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: Chrismukkah.
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