The commercials for FOX's new show, "The OC" have been bugging me. It shows California as a place where everything is fun, perfect, and our problems are minimal and only skin-deep.

Believe me, it's not as perfect as it seems on TV.

I would seriously hope people wouldn't honestly believe that "California" is perfectly represented on television and in the movies.


Not everyone is beautiful here.

Palm trees are NOT on every street.

It is not sunny every day.

30-something actors do NOT attend West Beverly High.

There are poor people in California.

Not every woman is tall, blonde, and stacked.

Not every man is a tanned, muscular surfer.

I have never heard anyone call a California Highway Patrolman a "Chip."

The water isn't that blue. Neither is the sky.

Well obviously California isnt all the same as it is shown on TV. Neither is Florida, New York, Alaska, and every other state. In another subject, I do want to watch the show.

Its TV. They make everything look better than it is.

Is this one of these shows where the actors are like 30 and in high school?

Originally posted by Krystal Lake
30-something actors do NOT attend West Beverly High.


:lol:


I don't think that the commercials are portraying California, or even the majority of Orange County correctly. However, I do believe that they are portraying Newport Beach correctly (or atleast the part that I know of). I can't wait to watch the show tomorrow. I just really hope that Newport/Huntington don't become tourist traps. That would suck. :eek:

Unfortunately there are many people who do believe that what they see on film is how it really is. :eek: :lol:

Wrong!

Originally posted by Krystal Lake
Palm trees are NOT on every street.
However, this is close to being the truth here in Santa Monica! :lol:

*laughs* well I dont believe that CA is this PERFECT place to live BUT it is BETTER then Oregon (trust me I KNOW) and I STILL wanna move there someday

I'm not saying that California isn't a good place to live at, I personally can't imagine myself living elsewhere.
Actually, if you live within 2 miles away from the coast, there is palm tree on every street! LOL.

I just made this thread because the show makes Cali seem like a 24/7 party central, and Versace runway. It's not even close.

All I have to say is, with the way FOX has been advertising the crap out of that show, it had better be the best thing since sliced bread.

Originally posted by Rockapella722
All I have to say is, with the way FOX has been advertising the crap out of that show, it had better be the best thing since sliced bread.

Yea, well I wouldn't set my standards too high. Whenever FOX seems to have a hit show on their hands, one way or another, they manage to cancel it before it's time.

Originally posted by SBTB Geek
I'm not saying that California isn't a good place to live at, I personally can't imagine myself living elsewhere.
Actually, if you live within 2 miles away from the coast, there is palm tree on every street! LOL.

I just made this thread because the show makes Cali seem like a 24/7 party central, and Versace runway. It's not even close. Yeah I know I've been there :) My Aunt lives on the beach thats why I want to move there so badly I just get sooooo tired of People (Mainly family) telling me its this HORRIBLE dangerous place to live PEOPLE THINK OREGONS Perfect and ITS NOT its FAR FROM Perfect I guess its all a matter of taste

Originally posted by SBTB Geek
I'm not saying that California isn't a good place to live at, I personally can't imagine myself living elsewhere.
Actually, if you live within 2 miles away from the coast, there is palm tree on every street! LOL.

I just made this thread because the show makes Cali seem like a 24/7 party central, and Versace runway. It's not even close.

I know, when I moved back here to Ohio after living in CA, people honestly thought it was all fun in the sun, and beaches on every corner :cool:

It's a good place to live, but I am glad I moved back here, I guess I am a small town girl at heart :) besides all my family lives here :)

Originally posted by Krystal Lake
I have never heard anyone call a California Highway Patrolman a "Chip."


Actually, they hardly ever used the word "CHiPs" on the show. They just referred to the organization as the CHP...and maybe people do call California Highway Patrolmen CHiPs now because of the show...I mean >C<alifornia >Hi<ghway >P<atrols...

"The OC" seems like it is going to be another one of those dumb 90210 like shows. Primetime soaps should NOT be about teenagers! Teen soaps are so....dumb....and bad acting......and gawd they just suck. Want to see a California primetime soap!? Get SoapNet or style. Watch "Knots Landing" and "Melrose Place." Much of the action on "Knots" in the early years took place in a garage (the type that is run by a mechanic)!

All TV Shows overly dramatize how something or some place really is. California is a popular choice of this, but it's not the only place. You couldn't imagine just how many times I've been asked if I have a horse or wear a cowboy hat just because I'm from Texas.

You know the 1996 movie, "Fargo"? That movie takes place in Fargo, Minnesota.

Guess what - they're WRONG. Fargo is NOT in Minnesota. It is in North Dakota. In "Fargo", they show Fargo as being a rural town - that could not be further from the truth. Fargo is really a metro city of nearly 100,000 people, and it's a border city, meaning it's right on the border but it's in North Dakota, and its bordering city in Minnesota is Moorhead, they're only two minutes from each other by car. I should know a lot about Fargo, I've been there millions of times and I have family living there. ;)

I heard the funniest story about two years ago this had to do with this movie. In this movie, there is a note of some kind (I haven't seen the whole thing) where they claim there's buried treasure or something. I'm not exactly sure how that goes, but yadda yadda. About two years ago, some woman from another country came to the US, to North Dakota, with a copy of that note from "Fargo" and she proceeded to go look for the money! She died sometime during her search - I am not kidding. :lol:

Not everybody here are farmers - we have a few metro cities and we have our share of small towns. We just stand out a lot more because we have a ton of small cities with less than 100 people. :p I do NOT live on a farm. :rolleyes:

I am so tired of this stupid movies showing California as this ideal prefect paradise; yes California is a very beautiful state, but there are a lot of horrible places, ever been to Hollywood, scary....

I saw the show, and they made school look sooo fun, in reality it isn't even close. But the parties actually do get crazy as in the show.

After watching it, I still feel that they portrayed Newport Beach correctly. I really could have lived without the kid saying "That's how it is in Orange County" after he beat up the other kid. Um, hello that's not how it is in Orange County. Possibly Newport Beach, but not Orange County. They really need to stop name dropping shopping centers around there as well.

Originally posted by Nirvana
Is this one of these shows where the actors are like 30 and in high school?

Benjamin McKenzie (The Lead) is 24 or 25 or something like that.Mischa Barton who plays his love interest actually is 17.

This reminds me of a movie I saw yesterday called "The Stand-In".Kelly Ripa is in it and she plays a girl graduating from College with her boyfriend and both of them are like 30-something,This is 4 year old movie so it's not much of a difference.It was pathetic.

:lol: this is ot and everything, but i just had to say this....four words: arnold schwartzennegar (i didn't know know to spell i) for governor...lol...only in our country....