After a long month of baseball playoffs that no one really cared about, The O.C. finally returned to Fox’s Thursday night lineup. Where we last left off, Marisa was in public school with new friends, Ryan was being homeschooled, Summer had discovered Taylor Townsend and Dean Hess kissing, Seth was….Seth, and some other boring plot involving the parents and some new attractive older lady was going on.

For those of you who missed it, or for those of you who need a recap, I give you the following summary of last night’s episode hour-long T-mobile commercial (with my commentary in parenthesis):

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Summer: Oooh, I hate that Taylor. Look at her, chatting on that SideKick. (Taylor, though the antagonist, is very hot)
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Seth: I invented this crazy scheme to uncover them and it involves a SideKick.
Summer: Oooh a SideKick with Rhinestones.
Seth: SideKick SideKick SideKick
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Ryan: I’m dropping out of school.
Sandy: And doing what?
Ryan: Going fishing.
Sandy: OK
Seth: What?
(They really should have used the following line here:
Seth: But dad, he’s my SideKick!)
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Taylor shows up at hotel.
Seth and Summer: Hey Taylor Trash (great line by the way) Surprise! Look what we have - a SideKick!
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(I will make a small commentary about the adult plot line going on. Julie Cooper-Nickel-Cooper goes to buy a condo and shows up with a giant bag of cash. Where the hell did she get that from?! Wasn’t she poor like 10 minutes ago?

Also, Kirsten was more fun as an alcoholic.

And I kind of miss Marissa’s dad and his mafia friend. At least that plot involved some violence to keep it interesting. I had more fun with my Sudoku puzzle than watching this new plot with the ladies unfold. There’s only one good way that they can make this story interesting, and it involves bringing “Alex The Lesbian” back.)
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Sandy: Dean Hess, I think we need to talk.
Hess: Sureptitiously. (I have no clue if thats the actual word/spelling)
Sandy: Sureptitiously?
Hess: Sureptitiously.
Sandy and Dean: Sureptitiously.
Hess: What do you want to talk about?
Sandy: Well, I got this new SideKick.
(Insert monologue of Sandy reading from the side of the box)
HesS: I don’t believe you.
Sandy: I swear. Its a SideKick!…..And you can even use it to look for an apartment on Craiglist!
Dean: Wow!
Sandy: Oh, and let Ryan back into school.
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Seth: Ryan! You didn’t go fishing!
Ryan: No…(to Marissa) I couldn’t leave you…(another missed opportunity to use the line “You’re my SideKick!”)