Writer:	Erica Messer, Debra J. Fisher
Director:	Patrick Norris
Star:	Benjamin McKenzie (Ryan Atwood),  Mischa Barton (Marissa Cooper),  Adam Brody (Seth Cohen),  Peter Gallagher (Sanford "Sandy" Cohen),  Kelly Rowan (Kirsten Cohen),  Tate Donovan (James "Jimmy" Cooper),  Chris Carmack (Luke Ward)
Recurring Role:	Ashley Hartman (Holly Fischer),  Bonnie Somerville (Rachel Hoffman),  Rosalind Chao (Dr. Kim),  Samaire Armstrong (Anna Stern),  Rachel Bilson (Summer Roberts)
Guest Star:	Sarah Carroll (Girl #2),  Melissa Strom (Girl #1),  Eric Allan Kramer (Soccer Coach),  Keri Lynn Pratt (Girl #3),  Adam Vanderwielen (Balloon Artist (uncredited))

Music:
"Paint the Silence" by South
"Don't Give Up On Me" by Soloman Burke
"How Good Can It Be" by The 88 (edit)

Summer: (Referring to Marissa) Stay away from her.
Luke: How? We all go to the same school.
Summer: You shoud've thought about that before hooking up with one of her friends. Ass! (edit) Ryan: (referring to his first day of school) We're doomed. (edit) Summer:(to the girls who were talking about Marissa's near overdose in Tijuana) Hey whores! Why don' you go work another corner! (edit) Seth: Anna just sailed to Tahiti.
Summer: Sailing is so not the fastest way to get anywhere.... I mean, if you would have flown, you would have gotten there a lot sooner.
Anna: You should be on the debate team. (edit) Summer: Don't be nervous.
Marissa: I'm not nervous. I'm just not going.
Summer: Coop, you have to go. You own the school. And what about Kickoff Carnival? You're still the social chair.
Marissa: Hm, let's see. Be humiliated in front of the entire school or hire someone to do balloon animals?
Summer: (gasps) You have to hire that guy who makes the balloon octopus. (edit)

Goof: When Sandy and Kirsten are kissing on the bed, in one shot Kirsten is wearing patterned stockings, but in the next shot she is not. (edit) Goof: If you look closely at the newspaper article you can see that some parts of the article are printed twice. (edit) If you read the newspaper article then you will read that Sandy and Kirsten have been married for 17 years. (edit) Ryan has a fear of heights. He says this when he is on the ferris wheel with Marissa at the kick off carnival. (edit) Goof: Durring the soccer scene where Ryan takes out Luke, a sound/camera man is visible on the right side - only on the widescreen though (High Def) (edit)

My Girl

Luke states that he hasn't cried this munch since Macaulay Culkin died in My Girl.

My Girl was a 1991 movie in which Culkin and Anna Chlumsky befriend each other. At the end of the movie, Culkin dies from an allergic reaction to bee stings. (edit) Sandy (to Seth): Don Juan, we're trying to figure out an extracurricular activity for Ryan here.

Don Juan was best known as a womaniser. (edit)