You see it starts off contradicting itself - Taylor was the one who needed "time" (>cough<), and yet here we find our favorite neurotic stalking Ryan outside of El Pavo Guapo, stealing the INS agents best spots for stakeouts. Weird, right? Annoying, too.

At the Cohen Manse, Ryan, Seth and Sandy are going to spit, scratch themselves and go to a violent South Korean movie, sans Kirsten who is averse to South Korean cinema and male bonding. But perhaps, just perhaps, something else is afoot? My suspicions are confirmed when Kirsten makes an ominous phone call to her doctor demanding an urgent visit. Perhaps he can prescribe her to mandatory meal-time with a few doses of complex carbohydrates. Seriously, Kristen. Eat something.

The next morning when Sethala wakes up he has Che staring him down. Well you know what they say, when you wake up with a hippie in your face, you'll have five years good luck. Or maybe that's if you chop off a hippie's foot and carry it around? Hmm. But Che isn't there to give good luck to Seth; he's there to invite him on an animal rescue mission. Well, at least that's what Che SAYS... we all know that Che is there to work through his concerns that perhaps he is in love with Seth. Remember, you're inner animal never lies.

Finally realizing that being escorted from the Mall, by security may be a low point, Taylor decides to see a therapist about her issues. At least she is well aware of them, with her mother, who is like Osama Bin Laden's less pleasant sister and her absent father. She agrees to let the therapist have her way with her, which sounds like the beginning of a particularly steamy Skinemax movie. The therapist warns Taylor that her methods are rather intense, but Taylor doesn't budge. Then a young strapping stud comes in to fix the copy machine...

Kaitlin is back on as resident schemer, and I love it. At the urging of her minions, Kaitlin upgrades the playful e-mails she's been sending to Bullit pretending to be Julie, from sweet to saucy with talk of butt grabbing. HOT! Later on, Kaitlin broaches the subject of Bullit's return from Dubai (lovely this time of year, I hear) with Julie, who begins to tiptoe around the fact that there might be another pistol in her holster these days, as she keeps getting mysterious phone call after mysterious phone call. There are even some anonymous flowers delivered to the house, which Kaitlin has to dispose of before her mother can check them out.

Che has dragged Seth to town hall to help him in his mission: Free O.C. groundhog Newport Chuck! That's right, this episode of The O.C. is centered around Groundhog's Day. Maybe, it's not the worse thing in the world that FOX pulled a plug on this show. I mean, were you particularly excited about the Very Special Arbor Day episode? Perhaps an epic Flag Day adventure? Anyway, Seth doubts the importance of saving Newport Chuck, as Summer did earlier, so Che is somewhat relieved as it seems that perhaps Seth isn't his soul mate after all. Gay off! Alas, Seth decides that he owes Che, so he's in on the Great Groundhog Caper. Gay on!

Posted in The O.C. by Umnata at 3:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (10)
Last Comment: porcelain on Feb 16, 2007 09:04 AM.

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Autumn_Reeser_is_hot :

Mmh... I found your recap partly amusing but couldn't agree for most of it... But what you said about it probably being the episode after they were told the show is cancelled makes a lot of sense and also made me a little sad... Whatever... Hate that the show's gonna be over soon :-(

1 of 10 | Posted by Autumn_Reeser_is_hot | Posted on February 14, 2007 3:45 PM

JohnEDowney :

Finally! Whee! Recaps AND the return of the "All Pages" button! It's absence made me download FireFox, but it's return makes me feel all gooey inside.

But yeah, that episode was kind of a dud. Needed more explicit "homosexual hippie" humor, in my book.

2 of 10 | Posted by JohnEDowney | Posted on February 14, 2007 3:45 PM

queenlala182 :

What the hairy heck? was from Mister T, right?

3 of 10 | Posted by queenlala182 | Posted on February 15, 2007 7:22 AM

nate :

When you get bailed out of prison, you can't opt to stay there.

I don't speak from experience, but the same situation happened on last night's FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and I have a feeling that show is a little more realistic than THE OC. Just sayin'....

4 of 10 | Posted by nate | Posted on February 15, 2007 12:41 PM

umnata :

nate, i couldn't agree more. if only i had watched friday night lights FIRST. Matt Saracen (my favorite person, fictional or otherwise, in the universe) wanted to stay behind in the clink with his beloved Julie Taylor, but the cop wouldn't let him, bc much as we have suspected prison is not a Marriott which you can check-in and out of as you please. So i doubt that courtesy would be extended to a bunch of hippies.

5 of 10 | Posted by umnata | Posted on February 15, 2007 1:03 PM

aclikeslater :

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the bit of revisionist history that took place in this episode.

Supposedly we learned earlier in the series that Kirsten was 22 when she and Sandy met. This was also the year she lived in the mail truck. If she turned 40 in this episode, that means she would have had Seth, who is 18, the same year. So we are to believe she went from a 22 year old young Republican, to living to a mail truck, to married and delivering a baby in the same year?

Just wondering.

6 of 10 | Posted by aclikeslater | Posted on February 15, 2007 1:18 PM

nate :

Umnata,

Matt Saracen is MY favorite person in the universe as well!

If only gay marriage were legal...and Matt Saracen existed in real life...and was gay...and didn't live in Texas.

7 of 10 | Posted by nate | Posted on February 15, 2007 4:37 PM

JohnEDowney :

I kind of wish I was gay. That way, I could easily explain my crushing on Seth Cohen.

8 of 10 | Posted by JohnEDowney | Posted on February 16, 2007 4:49 AM

Tiffany :

Oh my gosh...last night ep was awesome!!! BEST.SEASON.EVA!!!!!

9 of 10 | Posted by Tiffany | Posted on February 16, 2007 8:31 AM

porcelain :

I think this is one of the worst seasons, with the exception of maybe the episode where Kaitlin had that party in Summer's house, and the episode where Summer thought she might be pregnant. 3rd season is still the worst though... I'm still sad the show is over, in a week. I'm going to miss it :( so I guess there will be no more recaps for these final episodes? I noticed last night they played Radiohead!

10 of 10 | Posted by porcelain | Posted on February 16, 2007 9:04 AM

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