After Ryan informs Marissa he's going to visit his brother in Chino prison for Thanksgiving, she demands he let her tag along. Once there, bro says to stop the beatings inmates are giving him for welching on $6,000 in gambling losses, Ryan must deliver a stolen car to a chop shop. While picking up the hot car, Marissa takes in Ryan's former life: the graffiti, the working-class homes, the smokin' hot Latina ex-girlfriend. Speaking of smokin' hot, Rachel the law partner comes over to the Cohens' manse for Thanksgiving, but Ryan's guardians Sandy and Kirsten are really trying to hook her up with fellow invitee Jimmy, Marissa's fraudmeister father. But things get complicated when Kirsten's Don Bren-wannabe dad Caleb shows up with Jimmy's ex- Julie. Bouncing around the house like a pinball amid all this is Sandy and Kirsten's son Seth, who has Anna in his bedroom and Summer in the pool house, both waiting to dry hump him into a real man.
LINE OF THE WEEK: “I didn't know they had musicals in Chino. I didn't even know they had dancing. Or laughter.” Seth, after Marissa reveals Ryan played Snoopy in a hometown school musical.
IRONY OF THE WEEK: Fox cameras finally made it to the real Orange County this week. In heavy rotation during station breaks was a teaser for the Fox 11 news showing young things jiggling as the announcer intones: “Meet the party girls of the real OC making clubs sizzle.” Awww-yeeeah . . .
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.