The Crazy Awesome That Is One Tree Hill

In the last year, I have developed a quite severe addiction to the superbly ridiculous prime-time soap "One Tree Hill." And it's been on my mind lately, so there are a lot of posts on the subject coming your way. (Including one entirely about non-rhetorical bitchslaps) So, here's a bit of a primer to the crazy awesome that is "One Tree Hill."

See, I enjoy it because I know, going into it that it's super ridiculous.

The first four seasons follow the so-called teens (most of the actors were well into their twenties when the show started AGES ago) through their junior and senior years of high-school. Then there was a 4-year gap for college (flashbacked to for the more major characters in the 5th season premiere). And then subsequent seasons (the seventh is currently airing) pick up from there.

I haven't seen the first two seasons in their entirety. Mostly because they involve a lot of bed-hopping and constant teen romance upheaval, which can get old real fast. And the show still thought Chad Michael Murray's Lucas was the main character. And I hate Lucas. Lucas sucks, big time.

Season three? Is easily my favorite. A main character gets murdered in cold blood by another main character! And one of the girls manages to spend the year finding out she was adopted, watching her bio-parent die of cancer, getting shot in a school shooting and nearly bleeding to death in the library, having a crazy psycho stalker pose as a fake long-lost half brother and still having room for an entire plot-line involving dating Pete Wentz from Fallout Boy (obviously before he knocked up and married Ashley Simpson). In one season!! And that's just one character, out of approximately ten. And that wasn't her entire storyline ether. Just the highlights.

Heh.

SOAP!!

And there's a crazy rich girl who apparently used to be fat before her Daddy had her entire body surgically altered into that of a skinny model all before the age of 16! I shit you not! Actual plot!

And the two 16 yr-olds who get MARRIED and spend one whole year working on repairing their MARRIAGE and another season fixing high-school sports games in order to support their family and trying to give a valedictorian speech without going into labor.

Oh! Oh! And the crazy psycho nanny! With her crazy house of torture located smacked dab next to a cornfield!

Heh. So much crazy. So much to love.