It is hard to imagine that a discussion of TV tropes has taken so long to come around to description of a show that has cashed in on Post Modernism to such an extent as The O.C.

This is a show about references. When you hang a guy upside down in the rain for a kiss from his Main Babe?, and you are not shooting the movie Spider-Man, you are up to your ass in Post Modernism.

One official TV Wiki No Prize? is up for grabs for each example of an other-media reference from this show.

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This series provides examples of:

• Deadpan Snarker - Seth Cohen
• Ho Yay
• Lamp Shade Hanging - in season 2, Seth comments that this year isn't as exciting as the last one.
• Real Life Relative - (Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson are engaged in real life)
• Redemption In The Rain (Although mostly a parody of Spider-Man)
• Rich Bitch (Julie Cooper)
• Show Within A Show (The Valley, a parody of Laguna Beach?)
• Sister Becky (Kaitlin Cooper)
• Theme Tune ("California" by Phantom Planet)

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