Although I said that the different parts of the plot worked together, that is not to say that what was coming out of their mouths wasn't completely laughable, and we started the episode just like that. It's just a scene with Seth and Ryan, where Seth is wondering if he's getting a pimple, which is impossible because I am beginning to wonder if he has even been through puberty, but Seth thinks one is coming because something has to ruin the seemingly perfect situation everybody has. Seth and Summer, Ryan and Marissa, Sandy and Kirsten; everybody is so very happy. Am I nitpicking? Sure, but only because I was wondering why it mattered that any of that was verbalized. Then again, Seth and Ryan were having breakfast in the Cohen kitchen, where all proper beginning of the episode banter takes place. Plus, it all got better from there.

You see, if the OC is rockin, doom comes a knockin, and in this case doom comes with the ring of the doorbell. No it's not the mailman with rejection letters from Brown and Berkeley (although I am sure that is going to come); it's Kaitlin Cooper, and my how our little girl has grown up. Ryan answers the door and there is Kaitlin, complaining that there is some Persian dude (for those of you who might live outside of California, you might know them as Iranian) who can't be her housekeeper because he is wearing Prada shoes, and can't be her new stepdad because he is married (Julie did porn, but she would never join a harem), so she decided to head over to the place where the mail was being forwarded. That would be the Cohen's of course, and although Kaitlin recognizes him right away, Ryan has no clue who she is, unlike Seth who recognizes right away that she has grown, especially in the breastly regions of the female anatomy.

So, I know the NSA is watching and everything, but with the plaid skirt plus the blue blazer, and that white oxford tied up in the middle...well, Kaitlin is very cute. If only I had been born in the 90s. It's great to see Kaitlin, but it has been a running joke among fans of the OC why she has never showed up. As Sandy said, it has been two years, so why now? Seth says because now her family is a prime candidate for "Pimp My Double Wide". But I think the Cooper trailer is a single wide, though Seth could be talking about Marissa's head.

About this time, Marissa, Summer, and Julie come in, and Julie doesn't want to seem like a bad mother, so she explains that she kept Kaitlin at boarding school to protect her from, well, shootings, funerals, and public school That's great Julie, but were you trying to protect her from holidays as well? Listen, I believe Julie when she says that Kaitlin was away for mid-winter break in Paris for fashion week, but not one Thanksgiving, Christmas, pring break, or summer vacation over the last two years? You have to do better than that. I guess if this school is in Switzerland or whatever it might make a little sense though.

What doesn't make sense for Kaitlin, is how she can go from a palace to skid row. Her mom tries to tell her about all of the great things about her new home. You know, it's next to the beach, it's Tiffany blue, and she doesn't plan on being there that long, anyway. But Kaitlin can't help but notice some of the realities of her situation. For instance, she has to sleep on the pull-out, and that's not a sofa we are talking about, her bed pulls out of the kitchen cabinets. It doesn't make sense until you realize that a five piece dinette set folds out of the sofa. Still, her mom wants her to look on the bright side; it's exactly the kind of place Britney Spears is from.

So, we know how Julie is explaining Kaitlin's absence, but what about Marissa? Sure she says that it is strange and that she his missed a good portion of Kaitlin's life, like at least 35 episodes worth, and she does try to explain that she was never close with her sister and it was always her and Jimmy vs. Kaitlin and Julie. Hey, we all lose touch with our family members, but if you are living in the same house, I think you would bump into each other at least once a year. And wouldn't there have been a phone call or an e-mail during that time? Maybe then you would have been more aware that your sister has gone from My LIttle Pony, to My Little 5 to 10 for lewd acts with a minor.

Posted by J-Unit on January 20, 2006 12:24 PM