The O.C. Easter Eggs: Johnny Harper Predicts His Own Death

In season three episode 10 "The Chrismukkah Barmitzvakkah" the episode's focal point is raising money for Johnny's surgery. Stubborn Johnny tries to raise money himself via shady ways and instead the gang helps him out by getting Ryan to throw a charity bar-mitzvah. Johnny predicts his own death in the following scene below, Johnny and Marissa talk privately at the Diner.

Marissa: Hey, thanks for meeting me.
Johnny: Of course, after last night you really talked me off the ledge

THE LEDGE!!! WHAT!!!

Flash forward to Season 3 episode 14 (yes only 4 episodes later) "The Cliffhanger" Johnny is getting drunk with Kaitlin on the beach, suffering from depression involving Marissa not being in love with him like he wanted. Johnny decides to climb a very high cliff. Kaitlin panics and tries to get him down to no avail. Kaitlin is in need of some serious intervention,  Ryan and Marissa come to the rescue.

Ryan climbs up the cliff and confronts a drunk and stumbling Johnny to try and talk him to get him back on solid ground.

Johnny refuses to give in to Ryan heroics claiming that if he Ryan saves him Marissa will only like him more....

Johnny gets closer and closer to the edge holding a near empty bottle of Jim Beam. Johnny's shoes start to slip on the cliffs gravel - all of a sudden its too late.

Ryan tries to reach out for Johnny but he is too late and too far away. Johnny slips off the edge of the cliff.

Ryan reaches out but is left with seeing a horrible sight. This is a huge realization for Ryan, its the first time his efforts to help someone completely fail, we aren't used to seeing that happen in this series.

Ryan looks down at what is left of Johnny and is in complete shock.

Marissa and Kaitlin then shield their eyes as cry for their friend. 

Poor Ryan, he tried his best. 

So yes in a way Johnny predicted his own death. Johnny was an interesting character but I thought that the writers wrote his story to a dead end, there wasn't much more the writers could do and to be honest I would have rather seen Oliver come back (as rough as that was) than go on and on with the Johnny story..I mean think about it, it was a total downer story - nothing good ever happened to him. His girlfriend cheated on him, he broke his leg and couldn't surf anymore, gets the surgery and then falls off a cliff and dies..On a side note this story smells very similar to the Oliver story line, Marissa gets close to a guy that has ulterior motives in which she is of course blind to (everyone else sees it), Ryan starts to hate the guy, the guy falls crazy in love with Marissa and then goes literally crazy. If it were up to me (Rooney line) I would have had Johnny go on his surf tour after his leg recovered and that would be that but the writers had their reasons i'm sure and lets face it in the land of The O.C. you either die or move away to never be scene(puns) again, no side characters get out alive! How would you have written the Johnny story?

Where to find it:

Season 3 episode 10 "The Chrismukkah Barmitzvakkah"
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Season 3 episode 14 "The Cliffhanger" (how appropriate)

Seth Cohen's Computer: The O.C. Trademark Research!

While The O.C. was at its prime Warner Brothers made sure to protect certain O.C. catch phrases, Logo's and even Seth's made up holiday. Warner Brothers purchased many trade marks during The O.C.'s run which were used on promotional products, toys, mugs, T-shirts,  key-chains, posters you name it. Most of which can still be found on Ebay. Now having a trademark doesn't necessarily mean that the holder is going to create merchandise with the trademarked image or phrase, its also to protect from others trying to do it. Here is a list of the most popular OC trademarks that were filed, I think you will find this interesting..All of which can be found on the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) website.

Filed November 17, 2004

Dead January 3, 2014

Here we have the classic logo seen on the original promotional material for the show. I have also scene this trademarked logo used on promotional t-shirts etc.

Filed: June 14, 2005
Dead: November 8, 2013

Another example of the above image

Filed: November 11, 2004

Dead: July 11, 2006

Even the shows most hated but later loved Luke Ward's pilot episode catch phrase "Welcome To the OC Bitch" was trademarked. Albeit much later than the airing of the pilot episode, they probably didn't realize it was going to be as big of a line that it was. That way only one musclebound water polo player can utter this epic line. 

Filed: October 13, 2004

Dead: September 22, 2007

Yes here we have Seth's made up holiday which was the first time the holiday ever had an official name. Seth combined both of his parents faith's into one super mega holiday also known as Chrismukkah. This was trademarked much later than the season one episode "Best Chrismukkah Ever", which aired on December 3rd 2003. The name trademark allowed Warner Brothers to own the rights to creating merchandise with the word Chrismukkah on it and or to protect other people from doing the same thus slandering the show. A bonus tid-bit: There is another holiday that combines Christmas,‎ Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, its called Chrismahanukwanzakah. What a mouthful but if Seth found out about this holiday you know the man would embrace it to the core!

Filed: April 18, 2007

STILL ACTIVE

Here we have the most popular and ultimately well known The O.C. trademarked logo still seen today on the series DVD's etc. 

Filed: October 26, 2004

Dead: June 28, 2006

Last but not least the holy grail of all holiday hats, the Yamaclaus! Interestingly enough The O.C. creators jumped on this trademark in early October 2004 before the season 2 episode "The Chrismukkah That Almost Wasn't" aired on December 16th 2004. Warner Brothers must have had an idea that it's festive hats would be a big hit! You can't say a lot of characters contributed to Seth's holiday as much as Lindsay, which greatly complimented the holiday before she left the show forever. Later in 2012 after the trademark died, a group of guys actually scooped up the Yamaclaus trademark and still currently (as of 2014) has an online shop where you can buy a YamaClaus's all year round. The idea is pretty brilliantly played and their packaging and marketing rules! Examples of their version can be found in the image below or by going to yamaclaus.com 

Well there you have it, some of the best and only O.C. trademarks I could find. Interestingly enough there wasn't a trademark for the graphic novel Atomic County..hmm, we better call Zach and George Lucas about this, they could be missing out on millions or even billions!!