The Day After Tomorrow (The O.C. episode)

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“The Day After Tomorrow”

The O.C. episode

Episode no.

Season 3
(2005-2006)
Episode 20

Written by

Leila Geirstein

Directed by

Norman Buckley

Production no.

2T6270

Original airdate

April 6, 2006 (FOX)

Episode chronology
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"The Day After Tomorrow" is the 71st and the twentieth episode of the third season FOX television series, The O.C.. The episode was written by Leila Geirstein and was directed by Norman Buckley. It originally aired on Thursday, April 6, 2006.

1 Guest starring
2 Plot
3 Music
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Guest starring

[edit] Plot

The college acceptance and rejection letters arrive leaving the kids to consider their future. Seth is rejected from Brown, unbeknown to the rest of the family, Ryan accepted into Berkeley, Summer accepted into Brown and Marissa, accepted into Berkeley.

Is she? Marissa, about to leave for a party with Volchok, reads her acceptance letter but throws it in the trash before grabbing some money from her mother's purse (beer money) and heading out the door. However, as Dr. Roberts comes home, he finds the letter discarded in the trash and shows it to Julie, who believes Marissa is too embarrassed to just tell her she got rejected from Berkeley. Neil tells Julie that she needs to talk to Marissa about this, or perhaps the engagement will not work out.

A celebratory dinner is held by Kirsten and Sandy, for the kids. Ryan and Sadie announce that, since Sadie is a jeweler, a very portable job, she is planning to move to Berkeley with Ryan as he attends to college. This news is greeted with plenty of silence at the table, as Kirsten and Sandy exchange looks at each other and Summer cheerfully tries to stop the awkwardness.

Taylor organizes a college bonfire party, where you have to wear a sweatshirt from the college you are going to. Marissa is supposed to handle the food there, but Summer says, "don't count on it." Surprisingly, instead of going to Baja to "take the edge off of things" with Volchok and his friends, Marissa attends the bonfire, wearing a pink Berkeley sweater. Ryan tells her that he's always there to lend an ear, in case she needs somebody to talk to.

At the bonfire, Sadie is introduced to a Korean friend of Taylor's, but otherwise left alone the entire time - she doesn't know anybody. (Even Johnny didn't go to Harbor, just a public school). However, Ryan is seen socializing with some of his UC-Berkeley-bound friends.

Sadie, sitting on a pier most of the night, finally decides that she doesn't want to move to Berkeley with Ryan, though he's a great guy. This is because he won't get the full college experience, and will have a whole different world she's not a part of. Sadie doesn't want to hold Ryan back from any of this. They break up.

"Saying goodbye will be easier this way," she says, leaving him at the pier. "Keep in touch, Ryan."

Seth tells Summer she should go to Brown but he will go elsewhere, causing them to break up as well. He only says this because he doesn't want to admit to Summer that he was rejected to Brown, but she worked so hard on her application that he, like Sadie, does not want to hold her back.

Summer rips up her "College Life" collage, with plenty of pictures cut out of her and Cohen standing by Brown, wearing fur hats for the winter, and other things about college life. It is left in pieces on the floor. Marissa, seeing Summer red-eyed and crying on her bed, reassures her and they manage to fix their problems.