The teen melodrama debuted Aug. 5, 2003, created a nickname no one in OC uses and made the county cool around much of the world.
Those led to several real estate-oriented reality shows, a nursing-oriented reality show , and “Storage Wars,” about buying junk – all set, at least some of the time, in Orange County. Later, dramatic fare, like the current “Dead to Me,” and a couple animated shows, “Rocket Power” and “Son of Zorn.” At some point, amidst all that, “The Sopranos” was name-checking Mission Viejo and Tony Soprano himself was having coma-induced hallucination in Costa Mesa.
“Never said ‘the O.C.’ in my life. And I never heard it,” said Gordie Balmer, 52, an investor who grew up in Garden Grove and now lives in a Newport Coast neighborhood similar to the one portrayed in “The O.C.”These days, a lot of people – OK, mostly people who aren’t from Orange County – use the “the O.C.” The shift says a lot about the power of television, and about the story Schwartz managed to tell.
But much like McDonald’s franchisees in France call the Quarter Pounder a McRoyale – sorry, not the Royale with Cheese we heard about in “Pulp Fiction” – the title “The O.C.” is often tweaked or changed entirely when the show airs in international markets.” which is Portuguese for “In the Land of the Rich.” In Brazil, the show is,” which translates to “An Outsider at Paradise.
Still, none of them made the cut for what would become a very early-aughts-era trendy soundtrack of “The O.C.”
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