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It's episode Lucky 13 of season one of the OC and it's a fricking dozy dory. It's a dozy

I think we're just about halfway through season one right it's 27 episodes

it's 800 episodes it's something long it's so many episodes it's so many episodes it is so many episodes.

It is so many episodes.

But this is one of the O.C.

most iconic episodes.

I was actually kind of surprised. I think I had I think there has there's been a lot of

hype about this episode because it is the Chrismaka episode and for me it didn't quite live up to the hype it was darker it was

darker than I thought it was gonna be I kind of I kind of had hoped for more light-hearted

OC episode. Yeah, okay.

But boy, it's dark.

You know, there are several,

there are several Chris Maca episodes. I believe it. I believe they must do one every year, right? It became a whole thing.

I think they did three. I don't think they did one in the final season, but they did they did a

Christmas episode in season two and one in season three. So it definitely became like a hallmark of the

show. Wow, I wonder if every Christmas got episode is kind of depressing as this one was.

Before we get into the joy, the sorrow of the holiday season in Newport, Let's give a quick recap of what was happening

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