The Strip (The O.C. episode)
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"The Strip" is the 26th episode of the FOX
television series, The O.C.
. The episode was written by Allan Heinberg
and was directed by James Marshall
. It originally aired on Wednesday April 28, 2004.
The next morning, Julie and Caleb are at the Cohen's for breakfast. Julie is asking Caleb about venues for their upcoming wedding, but Caleb seems very preoccupied. Kirsten asks Caleb that he spend a little more time with her on business, as he has been spending all his time on the wedding. Julie then reveals that Caleb hasn't spent any time on the wedding, and that he has claimed to be working. Caleb then reveals he needs to go away on business, to Las Vegas. Julie, Sandy, and Kirsten find it odd that Caleb is going to Vegas the weekend before his wedding, and Julie assumes it is for a bachelor party. At that point, all the boys want to go, so Sandy, Ryan, and Seth make plans to go to "The Vegas".
Over at Jimmy's, Jimmy shows Sandy the realtor page for his new house on the beach. He wants a nice place for Marissa and him to live in. Sandy invites Jimmy to Vegas as well. Just then, Gail, Jimmy's realtor is at the door. Sandy answers the door, and Gail blabs that Robert Smith is purchasing, and developing the land that the Balboa Lighthouse sits on. Sandy insists she must be mistaken, because Caleb Nichol is the one that bought the land, not Robert Smith. At school, Ryan tells Marissa about the Vegas plans, and she vows to be a friend to Theresa while he is out of town. Over at the Newport Group offices, Julie tells Kirsten that she wants a bachelorette party with full on, full frontal, male strippers because Caleb is having one. Kirsten voices her preference for a lovely catered cocktail party, sans the strippers. Julie accepts, with strippers.
Back at school once again, Seth tells Summer that he's going to the Vegas, and she informs him that they are breaking up. And later, in the poolhouse, Theresa tells him that she's going to Atlanta. Ryan offers her money for travel expenses, but she doesn't accept. When Marissa and Seth hear about Theresa's need for money, Seth offers his savings for Ryan to gamble in Vegas. Ryan reluctantly agrees.
The boys arrive in Vegas. All are pleased but Caleb, who finds Seth's choice of hotel less than satisfying. Seth and Ryan love it though, as they've booked the Penthouse suite, with its own bowling alley and refreshments. When Ryan and Seth realize they'll never be able to go into the hotel casino without being thrown out because they have no legitimate IDs, so they go looking for a less-than-legal gambling arena. Down on the casino floor, Caleb reveals to Sandy that Marissa will be moving in with him and Julie and not into Jimmy's new beach house.
The girls are in Newport, on the couch, watching a marathon of 'The Valley' on T.V. Summer cries, about Seth, but blames it on the show. Marissa and Hailey agree that parents almost have to disapprove of the people their kids are dating. Just then, Kirsten arrives with a favor to ask of Hailey. She wants Hailey to find her a stripper for the bachelorette party. Hailey disapproves of Kirsten's recent slavery to Julie because of her dislike of Julie, but accepts the favor. Hailey says she knows of the perfect guy.
Back in the Vegas, Seth is feeling liberated and confident, and decides to "converse" with some new women. He doesn't get the chance though, as a girl approaches him and kisses him. Jenn, a local student, says that she needs to look like she is with a guest in order to stay at the hotel beach. Summer then calls Seth to talk, but is interrupted by another, quite vocal kiss from Jenn. As Summer hears the voice of Jenn, she hangs up on Seth and flips out that she's sitting at home suffering while he is off kissing random women. Marissa then says that they will have a girls night out with Theresa. In Vegas, Jenn offers Ryan and Seth a night on the town. She tells them that she knows some guys having an intense poker game downtown. They go. Up on the patio, Sandy vows to Jimmy, to find out Caleb's real reason for being in Vegas. He also tells Jimmy that Marissa is moving in with Caleb and Julie. Jimmy sits there, disappointed in the news.
That night, back in Newport at Jimmy's, Marissa and Theresa discuss Theresa's pregnancy after Marissa finds a pregnancy test box in the garbage. Theresa is concerned because she can't even afford an abortion, let alone to raise a child. Marissa suggests that she tell Eddie, but Theresa isn't so sure the baby is even Eddie's, which shocks Marissa because she knows there's a chance it might be Ryan's child. In Vegas, after winning enough chips at poker, Ryan decides to call it quits, but Seth isn't ready to end the night's fun and invites Jenn to the penthouse suite for some bowling. Surprisingly, Jenn shows up with some uninvited people. Back at the Cohen's, Julie waits for her stripper, who arrives in the form of not one, but four firemen. All the ladies go wild in excitement. Once again at the hotel in Vegas, Jimmy meets up with Ryan, and Ryan slips out the details of Caleb and Marissa's deal for Marissa to live with Caleb and Julie.
Summer unexpectedly arrives in Vegas to confront Seth about his kiss with Jenn, and to sort things out regarding their relationship. When she barges in to the hotel room, she finds Seth and Jenn kissing, once again, on the balcony. Before Summer has a chance to get her claws out, three more luscious lovelies (Jenn's friends) enter the scene and Summer is horrified. Three large men enter the room too, and demand payment for their four girls. It turns out Jenn and her friends are prostitutes or as Summer would like to call them "skanks". Jenn "forgot" to tell Seth about that important detail.
As Ryan and Seth try and figure out what to do regarding payment for the four girls, Summer and Seth hash things out. Summer admits that she might have overreacted a little bit when it came to the unsuccessful lunch with her father, and Seth reveals that he only tried so hard to impress her father because he knew the meeting was important to her. Seth also reassures Summer that nothing more than four kisses happened with Jenn. Without enough money to pay for the hookers, Jenn suggests Ryan play another round of poker with the weird trucker hat boys downtown.
The bachelorette party has wound down, and Julie is satisfied with her strippers. Turns out Hailey wanted to see how satisfied Julie could get with said strippers, as it is revealed that they were working for Hailey, to test out Julie's affection for Caleb. Julie catches on to the plans and confronts Hailey, leading the two of them into a cat-fight, which, in true drunken cat-fight fashion, ends with both ladies in the pool.
At a swanky Vegas restaurant, Sandy discovers Caleb, schmoozing Robert Smith to purchase the Balboa Lighthouse. Sandy is furious and manages to sabotage the deal and vows to sue Caleb. Before Caleb and Sandy can square off, Jimmy arrives and finishes Sandy and Caleb's conversation by giving Caleb a full-on punch in the eye. Jimmy floors Caleb for taking Marissa away from him. Back downtown, Ryan is playing poker once again, and stressfully wins enough money to pay off Jenn's pimps. Seth, Ryan, and Summer leave the Vegas with less money, and far less enthusiastic than how they came, but happy nonetheless. Also Summer and Seth are finally back together.
The next morning, Ryan arrives at Jimmy and Marissa's to find Marissa furious that her father knows about her agreement with Caleb. She is also
upset about her talk with Theresa. She tells Ryan that she knows about the one night stand that he and Theresa had after they her and Ryan broke up. Marissa also tells a frozen Ryan that Theresa is pregnant, and that the baby might be his…
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
television series, The O.C.
The O.C.
The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons...
. The episode was written by Allan Heinberg
Allan Heinberg
Allan Heinberg is an American film screenwriter, who wrote Young Avengers for Marvel Comics, and has been a writer and producer on The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and Grey's Anatomy.Heinberg's Young Avengers was a sales success for Marvel, though faced...
and was directed by James Marshall
James Marshall (director)
James Marshall is an American television producer and director best known for his work on the series Smallville, Charmed and The Famous Jett Jackson.-Smallville:...
. It originally aired on Wednesday April 28, 2004.
Guest starring
| Actor / actress | Character |
|---|---|
| Amanda Righetti Amanda Righetti Amanda Righetti is an American actress and film producer. She is best known for her roles in The Mentalist, Friday the 13th and The O.C. In 2008, Righetti was the winner of the Best Actress award at the New York International Independent Film Video Festival for the Short Film category.-Early... |
Hailey Nichol Hailey Nichol Hailey Nichol is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., portrayed by Amanda Righetti. Seen as something of a black sheep of the family, Hailey is the younger daughter of Caleb and Rose Nichol, younger sister to Kirsten Cohen, and older half-sister to Lindsay Gardner... |
| Alan Dale Alan Dale Alan Hugh Dale is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale developed a love of theatre and also became a rugby player. After retiring from the sport he took on a number of professions to support his family, before deciding to become a professional actor at the age of 27. With work limited in New... |
Caleb Nichol Caleb Nichol Caleb Nichol is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., portrayed by Alan Dale during the show's first and second seasons... |
| Navi Rawat Navi Rawat Navi Rawat is an American television actress, known for her roles as Theresa Diaz on the drama series The O.C. and math prodigy Amita Ramanujan on the drama series Numb3rs. She is the niece of Prem Rawat.... |
Theresa Diaz Theresa Diaz Theresa Diaz is a fictional character on Fox series The O.C., played by Navi Rawat. She is the child of Eva Diaz and the sister of Arturo Diaz, who is the best friend of Trey Atwood.-Season 1:... |
| Kristen Renton Kristen Renton Kristen Louise Renton is an American actress recurring as Ima on Sons of Anarchy and formerly known for portraying Morgan Hollingsworth on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives.-Career:... |
Jenn |
| Kevin Rankin Kevin Rankin (actor) Kevin Rankin is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Tyler Briggs on the NBC show Trauma.-Filmography:* "Big Love" .... Verlan Walker* "The Mentalist" .... Danny Ruskin* "Justified" .... Devil* "Trauma" .... Tyler Briggs... |
Lucas |
| Gwendoline Yeo Gwendoline Yeo -Early life:Born in Singapore, Yeo is the niece of George Yeo, Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs. She moved to California as a teenager, graduating from St. Ignatius College Preparatory in 1994... |
Amy, Hard Rock employee |
Plot
Seth and Ryan are both troubled guys. Seth because Summer is about to dump him, and Ryan because of Theresa's ongoing presence in Newport. Ryan has been sleeping on Seth's floor while Theresa stays in the poolhouse, and Seth wakes him up to question if Ryan is curious to know what Theresa's plans are now that she's in Newport. Ryan shrugs off any curiosity, but then decides he is curious, and would like some answers. He and Seth go down to the poolhouse to talk to Theresa. When they arrive, they find that Theresa has a bag of toiletries, and that she is in the washroom. When she comes out she looks preoccupied, and does not see the boys in the room. Ryan asks her what her plans are, and she says she'll be calling some relatives and that she doesn't want to impose on the Cohens any longer. Ryan seems relieved by this, and Seth and he return to the main house. Alone, Theresa takes a pregnancy test out of the shopping bag on the bed.The next morning, Julie and Caleb are at the Cohen's for breakfast. Julie is asking Caleb about venues for their upcoming wedding, but Caleb seems very preoccupied. Kirsten asks Caleb that he spend a little more time with her on business, as he has been spending all his time on the wedding. Julie then reveals that Caleb hasn't spent any time on the wedding, and that he has claimed to be working. Caleb then reveals he needs to go away on business, to Las Vegas. Julie, Sandy, and Kirsten find it odd that Caleb is going to Vegas the weekend before his wedding, and Julie assumes it is for a bachelor party. At that point, all the boys want to go, so Sandy, Ryan, and Seth make plans to go to "The Vegas".
Over at Jimmy's, Jimmy shows Sandy the realtor page for his new house on the beach. He wants a nice place for Marissa and him to live in. Sandy invites Jimmy to Vegas as well. Just then, Gail, Jimmy's realtor is at the door. Sandy answers the door, and Gail blabs that Robert Smith is purchasing, and developing the land that the Balboa Lighthouse sits on. Sandy insists she must be mistaken, because Caleb Nichol is the one that bought the land, not Robert Smith. At school, Ryan tells Marissa about the Vegas plans, and she vows to be a friend to Theresa while he is out of town. Over at the Newport Group offices, Julie tells Kirsten that she wants a bachelorette party with full on, full frontal, male strippers because Caleb is having one. Kirsten voices her preference for a lovely catered cocktail party, sans the strippers. Julie accepts, with strippers.
Back at school once again, Seth tells Summer that he's going to the Vegas, and she informs him that they are breaking up. And later, in the poolhouse, Theresa tells him that she's going to Atlanta. Ryan offers her money for travel expenses, but she doesn't accept. When Marissa and Seth hear about Theresa's need for money, Seth offers his savings for Ryan to gamble in Vegas. Ryan reluctantly agrees.
The boys arrive in Vegas. All are pleased but Caleb, who finds Seth's choice of hotel less than satisfying. Seth and Ryan love it though, as they've booked the Penthouse suite, with its own bowling alley and refreshments. When Ryan and Seth realize they'll never be able to go into the hotel casino without being thrown out because they have no legitimate IDs, so they go looking for a less-than-legal gambling arena. Down on the casino floor, Caleb reveals to Sandy that Marissa will be moving in with him and Julie and not into Jimmy's new beach house.
The girls are in Newport, on the couch, watching a marathon of 'The Valley' on T.V. Summer cries, about Seth, but blames it on the show. Marissa and Hailey agree that parents almost have to disapprove of the people their kids are dating. Just then, Kirsten arrives with a favor to ask of Hailey. She wants Hailey to find her a stripper for the bachelorette party. Hailey disapproves of Kirsten's recent slavery to Julie because of her dislike of Julie, but accepts the favor. Hailey says she knows of the perfect guy.
Back in the Vegas, Seth is feeling liberated and confident, and decides to "converse" with some new women. He doesn't get the chance though, as a girl approaches him and kisses him. Jenn, a local student, says that she needs to look like she is with a guest in order to stay at the hotel beach. Summer then calls Seth to talk, but is interrupted by another, quite vocal kiss from Jenn. As Summer hears the voice of Jenn, she hangs up on Seth and flips out that she's sitting at home suffering while he is off kissing random women. Marissa then says that they will have a girls night out with Theresa. In Vegas, Jenn offers Ryan and Seth a night on the town. She tells them that she knows some guys having an intense poker game downtown. They go. Up on the patio, Sandy vows to Jimmy, to find out Caleb's real reason for being in Vegas. He also tells Jimmy that Marissa is moving in with Caleb and Julie. Jimmy sits there, disappointed in the news.
That night, back in Newport at Jimmy's, Marissa and Theresa discuss Theresa's pregnancy after Marissa finds a pregnancy test box in the garbage. Theresa is concerned because she can't even afford an abortion, let alone to raise a child. Marissa suggests that she tell Eddie, but Theresa isn't so sure the baby is even Eddie's, which shocks Marissa because she knows there's a chance it might be Ryan's child. In Vegas, after winning enough chips at poker, Ryan decides to call it quits, but Seth isn't ready to end the night's fun and invites Jenn to the penthouse suite for some bowling. Surprisingly, Jenn shows up with some uninvited people. Back at the Cohen's, Julie waits for her stripper, who arrives in the form of not one, but four firemen. All the ladies go wild in excitement. Once again at the hotel in Vegas, Jimmy meets up with Ryan, and Ryan slips out the details of Caleb and Marissa's deal for Marissa to live with Caleb and Julie.
Summer unexpectedly arrives in Vegas to confront Seth about his kiss with Jenn, and to sort things out regarding their relationship. When she barges in to the hotel room, she finds Seth and Jenn kissing, once again, on the balcony. Before Summer has a chance to get her claws out, three more luscious lovelies (Jenn's friends) enter the scene and Summer is horrified. Three large men enter the room too, and demand payment for their four girls. It turns out Jenn and her friends are prostitutes or as Summer would like to call them "skanks". Jenn "forgot" to tell Seth about that important detail.
As Ryan and Seth try and figure out what to do regarding payment for the four girls, Summer and Seth hash things out. Summer admits that she might have overreacted a little bit when it came to the unsuccessful lunch with her father, and Seth reveals that he only tried so hard to impress her father because he knew the meeting was important to her. Seth also reassures Summer that nothing more than four kisses happened with Jenn. Without enough money to pay for the hookers, Jenn suggests Ryan play another round of poker with the weird trucker hat boys downtown.
The bachelorette party has wound down, and Julie is satisfied with her strippers. Turns out Hailey wanted to see how satisfied Julie could get with said strippers, as it is revealed that they were working for Hailey, to test out Julie's affection for Caleb. Julie catches on to the plans and confronts Hailey, leading the two of them into a cat-fight, which, in true drunken cat-fight fashion, ends with both ladies in the pool.
At a swanky Vegas restaurant, Sandy discovers Caleb, schmoozing Robert Smith to purchase the Balboa Lighthouse. Sandy is furious and manages to sabotage the deal and vows to sue Caleb. Before Caleb and Sandy can square off, Jimmy arrives and finishes Sandy and Caleb's conversation by giving Caleb a full-on punch in the eye. Jimmy floors Caleb for taking Marissa away from him. Back downtown, Ryan is playing poker once again, and stressfully wins enough money to pay off Jenn's pimps. Seth, Ryan, and Summer leave the Vegas with less money, and far less enthusiastic than how they came, but happy nonetheless. Also Summer and Seth are finally back together.
The next morning, Ryan arrives at Jimmy and Marissa's to find Marissa furious that her father knows about her agreement with Caleb. She is also
upset about her talk with Theresa. She tells Ryan that she knows about the one night stand that he and Theresa had after they her and Ryan broke up. Marissa also tells a frozen Ryan that Theresa is pregnant, and that the baby might be his…
Music
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" by Beastie BoysBeastie BoysBeastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar.... - "So Sweet" by Johnathan RiceJohnathan RiceJohnathan Rice is a Scottish-American singer-songwriter. His first album, Trouble is Real, was released on Reprise Records on April 26, 2005. His follow up, Further North, was released by Reprise on September 11, 2007...
- "Jacqueline" by Franz FerdinandFranz Ferdinand (band)Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish post-punk revival band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band is composed of Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Nick McCarthy , and Paul Thomson .The band first experienced chart success when their second single, "Take Me Out", reached #3 in...
- "How High" by TrickyTrickyTricky is an English musician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style. Culturally, Tricky encourages an intertwining of societies, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop...
- "The Vanishing" by Stars
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- "Meet Your Demise" by The WillowzThe WillowzThe Willowz are a garage rock band based in Anaheim, California, formed 2002. The band's sound incorporates influences from punk, soul, and blues from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The band has released several albums on the label Sympathy for the Record Industry and has done a split single with the...
External links
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