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For the 1988 film, see Earth Girls Are Easy

"The Earth Girls Are Easy" is the 84th episode and the eighth episode of the fourth season of the FOX television series, The O.C.. The episode was written by Mark Fish and was directed by Norman Buckley. It originally aired on Thursday, December 21, 2006.

Guest starring

Plot

It's New Year's Eve, and Seth and Summer are stressing over New Year's Plans. Seth's plan is to have no plan, while Summer obviously wants to do something special. He gives her a t-shirt that says, "Jamaican me crazy!" and explains that it's funny because it's not funny. Rolling her eyes, Summer says, "And what are the plans tonight? 'Jamaican' them up as we go along? I am tired of babysitting, Cohen."

Julie is still running her prostitution ring, but is having doubts hiding things from Kirsten. Bullit is throwing a New Year's Party, and wants her to go, but Julie's busy with the bookkeeping. She meets up with Spencer and tells him to stop the business, but he says, "we're going to make $40,000 tonight." They agree to do the party but burn the books the day after.

Seth hijacks Ryan and Taylor's Las Vegas trip so the four can all go together. Taylor finds out that Summer's period is late and tries to get her to take a pregnancy test while in Summer's bedroom. Summer refuses, and Taylor puts it in a brown bag to bring along on the trip, claiming it is toothpaste. While driving to Vegas, Taylor tells Ryan, "Can we stop to pee? Oh, and I really want to try out this new toothpaste, Summer."

Bullit tells Kaitlin she's invited to attend the party, and that there will be two Saudi princes coming. He is about to leave when Kaitlin finally advises Bullit to ignore her mother, a trick she always uses. He gives her a five hundred dollar bill, so she "can buy a dress or a lollipop or something."

At the gas station, Seth says he wanted to brush his teeth but forgot his toothbrush and paste, so before anybody can stop him, he reaches for the bag. Taylor says the pregnancy test is hers, and they dash off to the bathroom where Summer is finally convinced and takes the test. When taking the it, both Summer and Taylor are afraid to look and stash the test in Taylor's purse. Seth and Ryan are talking outside about the girls' strange behavior, and Ryan too believes that the test is Taylor's. Summer tells Taylor to look at the test, when a girl dressed as an alien in the bathroom steals Taylor's purse and then they chase her down to what looks like an old building turns out to be a gathering of people dressed up as aliens.

Bullit, who is taking Kaitlin's advice and ignoring what Julie is saying, brings in Frank Perry to the office to do the bookkeeping, so she can attend the New Year's Party. Julie, forced to attend, hopes he doesn't report anything to the police. At the party, where clients are clearly enjoying the male prostitutes physically, Kirsten begins to get a little suspicious of Julie Cooper and asks her where the people they set up with the clients were. She responds that they must have found somebody else.

During the loud, noisy gathering, Seth meets a guy dressed as Kid Chino who takes pictures with him and is a "huge fan of Atomic County", and Ryan asks Taylor why he was the last to know she was pregnant, but Taylor doesn't deny anything. He asks her if she had sex after her marriage but before they started dating, and she said he thought she was a whore. Finally, a frustrated Summer reveals she's the one who might be pregnant, but since she still doesn't have the purse she wouldn't know how, starting 2007 off wrongly. The girls, both angry and one drunk, drive off in the car leaving the two boys behind on New Year's.

Frank meets Kirsten and Sandy, and after shaking hands with him, Sandy says he is familiar and he could've sworn he knew him from somewhere. He then exits to tell Julie to come to his hotel room, so she leaves the party as well. Bullit, alone for New Year's, is approached by Kaitlin, who asks him how to do that dance with the number. He laughs and asks her how the princes went, who are shown sitting at a table miserably and one halfheartedly blowing a party noisemaker. Bullit then teaches her the Texas two-step.

Seth and Ryan, talking outside, see the alien girl who stole Taylor's purse giggling and running upstairs with another guy. While the two are in bed, teasing and playing with each other, Ryan and Seth sneak in and Seth reaches for the bag, which is underneath the bed and snatches it from her. However, Taylor and Summer start to finally feel remorse and call Ryan - bad timing. His phone rings and the couple in bed, startled, do a sit-up in record time and start running after Seth and Ryan, who have already bolted. They hop in Kid Chino's car, who is honored to do a favor for Seth Cohen.

Back at Newport, Seth enters Summer's room with something behind his hands - the bag. He tells her, "Ryan asked me a question in Kid Chino's car that day, and it was, 'Could picture myself without you?'. And the answer is I couldn't." Summer thinks she's "totally pregnant" and Seth produces the bag, but first showing her a ring suspiciously looking like an eyeball and proposes to her. Summer asks if they should wait, but Seth says, "do you want this to change because you're pregnant, and I'd feel that I'm committed to you, or because I love you?" She accepts, and they somewhat awkwardly hug. They finally check the test, which reveals Summer is not pregnant, and they hug again.

At the hotel room, Julie cautiously enters and Frank tells her he doesn't want sex for his silence; he wants information on the Cohens. At the same time, Sandy enters his office and is flipping through the records where Frank is arrested for driving under the influence various times. His name is highlighted on the sheets in neon: Frank Atwood. Flashing back to the hotel scene, Frank says, "because I'm Ryan's father."

Music

• "Smile Like You Mean It" by Tally Hall
• "Warung Beach (Mashtronic Remix)" by John Digweed
• "Dogzilla" by Dogzilla

Trivia

• Tally Hall covers "Smile Like You Mean It" originally by The Killers. The cover is also featured in Music from the OC: Mix 6.
• The title of the episode comes from the 1988 movie Earth Girls Are Easy.
• While Sandy is leafing through Franks records at the end of the episode, he is listed as being Male on two sheets, Female on one and having no gender on a fourth. He also is listed as being White, L and again, nothing under race. He has different jobs on each record, all of which require some experience in the field.
• This is the first appearance of Kevin Sorbo as Frank Atwood.

External links

• Full Cast & Crew at the Internet Movie Database
• Recap from the official website
• Video Clip of The OC, Season 4, Episode 8

• Articles with topics of unclear notability from June 2009
• The O.C. episodes
• 2006 television episodes