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Wondering which member of THE OC will be guest starring on Josh Schwartz’s newest show CHUCK this season? Click below to find out.

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In a press conference Monday promoting the FX legal thriller DAMAGES, actor Tate Donovan [Jimmy Cooper] blamed the quick decline of THE OC on the ego’s of his young co-stars. “The kids became incredibly difficult to work with,” said Donovan, adding that, “the actors were unhappy, and they all wanted movie careers and did not want to be on television, all four of them. They were, like, ‘This show is killing my career.”

There’s nothing this TV Addict detests more than ungrateful actors. Killing their career? How about MAKING them? Who on earth were Benjamin Mackenzie, Misha Barton, Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson prior to THE OC? Since you asked, they were anonymous actors who happened to catch one really big break. A break they apparently took completely for granted. Thank-God THE OC ended so these kids can kick start their movie careers! By the way, can somone please be sure to let this TV Addict know when these kids get a movie ‘career.’

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… For some incredibly important TV news. Okay so ‘important’ is a bit of a stretch. But it’s TV news nonetheless.

Live in Canada, miss THE OC? As I type this, MUCH MUSIC is in the midst of airing an OC marathon and Marissa’s alive! Re-live your favorite Newport memories from the beginning and ‘Welcome to THE OC B*tch…’

What time is it? Time for Disney to start celebrating. According to preliminary fast national ratings, last night’s premiere of HIGH SCHOOL MUSCIAL 2 ranks as the most-watched basic cable telecast EVER! Drawing an estimated 17.2 million viewers! Which, we should mention, also means it’s time for Disney to pony-up and give Zac Efron and Co. a big fat raise for HSM3.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I found the last few minutes of THE OC series finale surprisingly moving. Ryan and Seth’s big hug, the TITANICesque flashback, a classic OC music montage and the show coming full circle with ‘Architect Ryan’ helping out a new ‘young Ryan’… Well there’s no need for me to do a play-by-play, check out the clip above.

My one complaint — while I’m thrilled the show ended on a high note — with everybody living happily ever after. I’m not quite sure ‘Welcome to Berkley B*tch’ has the same ring to it.

With Princess Sparkle and Captain Oats galloping off into the sunset following last night’s series finale of THE OC it’s time for the cast to get realistic. This is Hollywood, and you’re only as good as your last hit. So as a public service, we at theTVaddict.com thought we’d offer up some sound career advice for our favorite dislocated Newport residents. Not everyone can be as fortunate as Melinda Clarke, who, in true Julie Cooper style, has already moved on now that CBS has cast her in the LL Cool J pilot THE MAN. So to help ensure that last night’s finale wasn’t the last time we’d see the cast, we selected four deserving individuals upon whom to shower our worldly advice… free of charge! ‘Cause we’re just that generous.

ADAM BRODY [SETH COHEN]
Forget Seth’s Emo wardrobe, pop culture references and comic books. It’s time to show us you can actually act. We’ve watched your career since GILMORE GIRLS, and lets face it, you’re ‘playing’ yourself. It’s time to stretch your wings, challenge yourself and take on a character that doesn’t know the difference between the Millennium Falcon and the Starship Enterprise.

REAL-LIFE ROLE MODEL: Take a page from Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s playbook (or better yet, hire his agent!) After daring turns in Brick and Mysterious Skin, this perennial Sundance favorite has already made us forget his early role as troubled David Collins on NBC’s failed attempt to re-launch DARK SHADOWS.

BENJAMIN MCKENZIE [RYAN ATWOOD]
After four years in THE OC, there’s two emotions we’re sure you’ve mastered: teenage angst and brooding anger. Why not channel that emotion into a daring low-budget film and transforms yourself into an indie darling. Drug dealer, Iraqi veteran, psychotic — anything to make fans forget that you were the boy from Chino. Rest assured, once you’ve built up your indie cred, offers will come pouring in, and you’ll have your pick of Jerry Bruckheimer billion-dollar blockbusters.

REAL-LIFE ROLE MODEL: Johnny Depp started his career on 21 JUMP STREET and then made such interesting career moves as playing schlock director Ed Wood. Where is he now? Rolling in dubloons thanks to the wildly successful Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise.

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The moment I knew THE OC was going to be something special was this opening scene (see video above). Marissa and Ryan meeting for the first time and (gasp!) smoking. On television you’ll notice (or at least you will from now on) that kids can drink excessively, sleep with whomever they want, do drugs until they OD — but the one thing you’ll never see them do is smoke. This scene set the tone for a different kind of show and an incredible first season of THE OC.

We thought we’d post links to some of our favourite OC related obituaries from around the web.

Our Thursdays are less Seth-y: Goodbye to ‘The O.C.’ By Maureen Ryan

Good-bye, ‘O.C.’ Entertainment Weekly

The O.C.’s Greatest Moments TV Guide

Farewell to THE OC Alan Sepinwall

When talking about the Cohen family of Newport Beach it’s only appropriate to throw in some Jewish terminology. This is afterall the family that brought back schmeared bagels, the ‘nanna’, passover and Chrismukkah to network television. So we’ll start off today’s farewell tribute to THE OC by saying SHALOM. Which in case you aren’t familiar with the Jewish language, means ‘Good-bye’ in Hebrew (as well as ‘hello’ and ‘peace’). Be sure to check back all day with theTVaddict.com as we reminisce about our favourite OC moments and don’t forget to tune into THE OC series finale at 9PM tonight on FOX (or 7PM on CTV in Canada).

To get us started, here’s a classic kiss that will never be forgotten. Least of all by Sony’s lawyers who should be suing THE OC for blatant plagiarism!

With THE OC coming to a close tomorrow night at 9PM on FOX, we at theTVaddict.com thought we’d offer up some of our favourite OC quotes. So here it goes, and if we’ve forgotten anything, feel free to add it in the comments below.

“Welcome to the O.C., bitch. This is how it’s done in Orange County.”
– Luke, after pummeling Ryan.

“God! Dad, those eyebrows are out of control!”
– Seth, eyeballing his dad’s work ID card.

“Open your mind here, Dad. This isn’t me we’re talking about. With Ryan here, we have a chance to have a real athlete in the family. Somebody to achieve all that your Jewishness has prevented me from accomplishing. Hey, I always wanted to play soccer.”
– Seth, helping Sandy find an after-school activity for Ryan.

“Allow me to elaborate. See, for my father here, a poor, struggling Jew growing up in the Bronx, well, Christmas meant Chinese food and a movie. And for my mom over here, Waspy McWasp, well, it meant a tree, it meant stockings and all the trimmings.”
– Seth, explaining the genesis of Chrismukkah.

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This week, theTVaddict.com celebrates THE OC ending its four year run this Thursday at 9PM on FOX. Today we’ll start off by hearing from some of the stars themselves.