Finally, a fair representation of Orange County's hefty Latino population! Okay, at least there are Latino faces and references as we get Seth spouting off about telenovelas and Ryan's caliente ex-Chino girlfriend Theresa, and Theresa dropping in and–in our first glimpse of her tonight–having her impressive breastices nearly dropping out of her low-cut blouse. Even Rosie, the Cohen's Latina maid, gets a rare split-second of airtime as she escorts Theresa to her white employer's dinner table. Ryan, Theresa, Marissa and Theresa's fianc Eddie are locked in a four-sided love triangle, Seth struggles to get Summer to acknowledge their boyfriend-girlfriend relationship publicly and Julie struggles to keep her boinking of Luke secret. By the way, Julie claims her booty-call room at the (fictional) Mermaid Inn on the beach in Newport costs $79 a night. Yeah, right. Maybe she could get a room that cheap at the Ali Baba up Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa, but not on the beach in Newport; it'd be over $100 even in the off season. Much more believable is there's a real guy like “Uncle” Shaun doing all the behind-the-scenes dirty work for the Irvine Co.–errrrr–Newport Group. The Uncster threatens to sing like a boid to the DA and destroy Caleb and Kirsten if Sandy doesn't get trespassing charges against Shaun dropped. Silly, The O.C.: in the real Orange County, a powerful developer like Caleb would already have the DA bought and paid for.
LINE OF THE WEEK: “Yes, Brad, she's dating this emo geek. YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. I'M A BIG DORK, AND I LISTEN TO EMO, AND I'M DATING HER.” Seth, publicly pronouncing his relationship with Summer to a crowd of stunned Harbor Academy students.
LOCAL REFERENCES OF THE WEEK (The most ever): The St. Regis, Linda Isle, Balboa Bars, doggie day care, Fashion Island's valet parking and, for the second straight week, what appears to be a quick-pan exterior shot of the real Newport Beach, this time some harbor-front homes and the yachts tethered to them. Hope someone's paying their city of Newport Beach Film Commission fees.
FUN FACT OF THE WEEK: Eric Balfour, the actor playing Theresa's beau, was the boy who got a severed foot in his school locker after blabbing about banging Claire in her tricked-out Hearse during the first season of HBO's Six Feet Under.
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.
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