Random thoughts about this week's episode

Zack. Zack is the new Luke. I'm sure that he has been created as a blockhead version of Seth Cohen. There was some hatred, and now there is mad love. There will be mad alienation between the comic dorks once Summer and Seth start seeing each other on the side. (Oh, like you don't see that one coming for miles.)

"Kavalier and Gay" had to be one of the cleverest lines ever (or, at least for this week).

Blatant product/website placement isn't cool, Lindsay. Just say "google." It's become the "kleenex" of web searches. I do, however, commend you for not falling for Caleb's desperate lie.

I can't buy the girl from the 'N Sync film On the Line as a lesbian. Sorry.

Since when is Marisa all punk rock? It reminds me of all those girls in high school who miraculously became "alternative" in 1992. They are so setting her up to leave the show. I have this conspiracy theory that Mr. Schwartz is putting her in the girl-girl action to initially titillate viewers and then ultimately to piss off all those Focus on the Family groups. To placate those groups (and keep the O.C. on the air), he'll banish Marisa and get rid of the horrible Mischa Barton. The O.C. is saved, and we don't have to have her on the screen. Oh, and her "she's my girlfriend" line with really terrible acting made it believable. As in, it sounded like a blatant lie.

I want to see Sandy surfing. (Oh face it, I just want Sandy...)

Also, Sandy's ex is Bobby Simone's drunken widow? Kimmy Delany, you're looking rough. Sandy needs to stay with the shiksa goddess that is Kirsten.

Finally, I have a new appreciation for Ryan. He is not cute at all, but the facial expressions that Benjamin Mackenzie makes are dead-on teen boy. I especially loved him playing video games with an open box of Cheerios by his side. Dude is hilarious.

The BlowC?

First matt pond PA and now Aqueduct. Although someone told me tonight that this show ought to be renamed The BlowC because it's so craptacular, I continue to cut Josh and co. a ton of slack for the music choices alone. If you're not listening to Aqueduct, you should be. They're one of my favorite Seattle bands.

Marissa and Alex look like they'll be getting! it! on! just in time for February sweeps, just as heathalouise predicted.

I'm just resting my eyes.

First, allow me to echo Miss Heathalouise's mpPA love. Second, word to Kieran's WTF re: Kiki's "let's be friends" to Fauxhan. Are you kidding me? Not believable at all.

Also? Where was I when this whimpster business came out? Reading that could have saved me from a few painful dating experiences over the last year. Or eight. I'm resistant to this theory -- mainly because I so want to love Seth long time -- but that is clearly the magic of the whimpster!

An outstanding moment for me, besides the shirtless Ryan on top of meImeanFauxhan in the pool house, was the Cohen family joke about Kirsten's always falling asleep when they're watching a movie. "I'm just resting my eyes!" This is so a TV Detective family joke about Mrs. TV Detective.

Summer doesn't know who Kofi Annan is? Really? She must have been resting her eyes for the, oh, last eight years.

Kirsten Cohen: what gives?

Who gives the "Let's just be friends" line to her sister?

I kind of like the Fauxhan, but those two have got to be failing physics by now.

It's official...

I'm over Seth, and only all about Sandy Cohen. Seth is turning into the dreaded whimpster. Alas, Sandy is hot and old. And he sings stupid, sappy, old-guy songs at the Bait Shop. LOVE HIM.

Meanwhile, the girls start going wild next week. Is it bad that I kind of want them to kill Fauxhan? Of course, that sets up Ryan and Marissabot to get back together. (Which no one ever wants.)

And, nice Matt Pond PA song throughout the entire show (and I'm not being sarcastic. this made me happy.). The OC works its indie rock magic again.

Again, I love this show. I want to marry it.

no hot girl-girl action...

...But the best line of the night had to be Jimmy (to Marissabot): "Are you drunk?", Julie (to DJ): "On tequila, I assume..." Ah, zingy racist jokes, what's not to like?

I am willing to wager that the hot girl-girl action happens in mid-February (sweeps).

Also, did anyone else notice that there did not seem to be that many people in the Bait Shop for the Modest Mouse show? Did drunk Seth Cohen scare them all away? Loved him in the wife beater...so misguided.

I want to marry this show.

well that's a disappointment.

no lesbian activity whatsoever. not a lick.

Marissa Cooper, lesbian-at-large

So. We haven't seen the episode yet, but what do we think? Is there a chance in hell they portray this realistically? Is it just an excuse for Mischa Barton to make out with a hot girl? Well, yes, but is it anything besides that? This isn't going to be an all-out sapphic affair; it's going to be a girl experimenting with her sexuality a bit. Does Marissa have it in her?