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Sunset Beach

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Sunset Beach	comment	Sunset Beach was an American Soap Opera produced by Aaron Spelling. It ran just shy of 3 years on NBC, airing from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999.Redneck ingenue Meg Cummings (Susan Ward) discovers that her fiancé, Tim Truman (Dax Griffin) is sleeping with a bridesmaid, packs her bags and moves west. Meg is not entirely guiltless, as she's in an online relationship with another man. The mystery man turns out to be Ben Evans (Clive Robertson), a mover and shaker in Sunset Beach, California. At first, Meg finds Ben to be withdrawn and unsociable—which she later discovers is due to his wife's death in a sailing accident. Meg has a rival in Ben's childhood friend, Annie Douglas (Sarah G. Buxton), who teams up with Tim to split the spoils.Another plotline revolves around the Richards family. The patriarch, Gregory Richards (Sam Behrens), is a white-collar criminal who owns much of the town. His wife Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down) is a secret drunk who is rarely allowed out in public. Their daughter Caitlin (Vanessa Dorman, later Kam Heskin) is involved with Cole Deschanel (Eddie Cibrian), an ex-jewel thief whom Gregory hates, and who sleeps with Olivia without realizing her connection to Caitlin. The Richards storyline was more compelling and had better acting, so it grew to dominate the show.The third plotline involves a lifeguard, Michael Bourne (Jason George), who later became a sports physician. He strikes up a romance with Vanessa Hart (Sherri Saum), a journalist at the newspaper. Their relationship is jeopardized by Virginia Harrison (Dominique Jennings), who defies soap convention by being both black and a single mom. Virginia's plan rests on an exotic, disfiguring disease which was supposedly passed down to Vanessa by her estranged mother.Other notable characters include: Olivia's friend Bette Katzenkazrahi (Kathleen Noone), dispenser of town gossip; Ben's brother-in-law, Detective Ricardo Torres (Hank Cheyne), who suspects his sister's drowning was no accident; Madame Carmen (Margarita Cordova), she of the Tarot cards; Francesca Vargas (Lisa Guerrero), who figures into a year-long "Who Shot X" storyline; and Casey Mitchum (Timothy Adams), a nondescript muscle-man.SB had a large fandom in the United Kingdom during its heyday, a surprise considering how daytime (as opposed to prime time) TV historically has a hard time in the UK. Such was its popularity over there that petitions were sent to the UK broadcaster (Channel 5) begging them to have it uncancelled.
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Sunset Beach / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
Sunset Beach / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: Mummy Bernie scrawling out "ROSARIO" onto a memo.
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Sunset Beach / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Sunset Beach / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Ricardo, Paula, Eddie, the entire S.B.P.D. Later joined by Jude the undercover FBI agent.
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Sunset Beach / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Sunset Beach / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Annie never rests. In one episode, we open on Virginia reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War ("Remember, small victories accumulate...") Sun Tzu. Sun freaking Tzu.
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Sunset Beach / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Sunset Beach / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Michael, always. Why does he counter everything Vanessa says with 'Maybe you AREN'T READY to move in with me!'? Nobody listens to Ricardo's survival plans on the Neptune, not even the crew. "The guy's suicidal! And he wants to take YOU with him!"
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Sunset Beach / int_152e7951	type	Anonymous Benefactor
Sunset Beach / int_152e7951	comment	"Mysterious benefactor" is funding the charity cruise, but who is he? Antonio doesn't know who's organizing it but will gladly take their money. This is actually Cole's ex mentor, who wants to ruin him.
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Sunset Beach / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Sunset Beach / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Richards family is a very confused, unhappy, lying family. If Caitlin were give up Trey to her parents that kid's life will be ruined before it starts. They are horrible at raising children. Gregory has quite a sorry domestic situation, to say the least. He doesn't really get along with his kids. He doesn't trust his wife. It's really sad to think that Gregory keeps having kids in the hope that ONE won't hate him. Annie quickly regrets installing herself in the Richards mansion, especially during the Vargas murder case. Gregory tries to make the best of it at Christmastime, inviting the whole family to dinner and leading a toast. "Even resisting the urge to strangle Cole with my bare hands..." Now that is the definition of self-sacrifice. And to all a Merry Christmas.
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Sunset Beach / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Sunset Beach / int_1777688d	comment	Cole's not so stupid. After Annie digs up the surveillance footage of Olivia holding Fran at gunpoint, she proposes selling the footage to the tabloids for millions. Cole puts a damper on that idea, and also double-checks to see if Annie erased any files on the hard drive implicating Gregory. Good thing there's a backup drive she overlooked.
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Sunset Beach / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Sunset Beach / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: While deliberating how to take Gregory to court ("If GOD were her attorney, she wouldn't win this."), Olivia got a call from an old friend who lost touch with her they both became "trophy wives". Barbie suggests they gather some ammunition against Gregory and hooks Olivia up with her lawyer, Les Gordon. He's the only lawyer to ever win a case again Gregory, a fact Gordon reminds him of over the phone (which Gregory nearly throws in anger). Gordon says a few magic words and instantly springs Olivia and Bette from jail.
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Sunset Beach / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Sunset Beach / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Casey is almost always seen shirtless or, if he is wearing a shirt, it will be completely unbuttoned. Most every male. Special mention goes to Cole Deschanel as played by Eddie Cibrian.
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Sunset Beach / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Sunset Beach / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Gregory admits he keeps Annie around because back-to-back divorces would ruin his family-man image. In his paranoia, Wheelchair-bound Ricardo hisses that Gabi is waiting for him to die. He thinks he's just The Beard for her to carry on with his brother.
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Sunset Beach / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Sunset Beach / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: "J. Peterman" himself, John O'Hurley, as the smarmy host of Wheel of Misfortune, a death panel dressed up as a quiz show in Annie's dream. In two other fantasies, Annie and her rogues gallery are invited onto the Leeza Gibbons show and, later, Jerry Springer. Waking up with a fright, Annie is greeted at the door by Jerry (for real) who introduces himself as a census-taker right before she decks him. Micheal's personal trainer at the spa is BILLY BLANKS. Truly timeless storytelling. The Tae-Bo guy!
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Sunset Beach / int_1d3e44f5	type	Artifact of Attraction
Sunset Beach / int_1d3e44f5	comment	Artifact of Attraction: A weirdo cult has sprouted up around the Rosario jewels. Bernie and Hillary are both members of the group, and were warned to "guard [the sapphires] well"—which they didn't, since Cole took them. Since then, everyone involved in the group has been acting strangely. Francesca suggests that Phillip's mania may have been caused by the Rosario curse, too.
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Sunset Beach / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Sunset Beach / int_1e1afc1b	comment	NBC aired a special episode during the Wimbledon tournament which preempted them. The gimmick is that it's a local TV news story, with Bette and Vanessa as anchors: Francesca's watermark reads: FRANCESCA VARGAS — Cat Burglar & Murder Victim Five's Company: The byline for the Evans house. MEG CUMMINGS — Lame Duck Fiancee The newcast is later revealed to be a Bette dream sequence... though it's doubtful she witnessed all of that, such as Gregory surviving his near-deadly fall.
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Sunset Beach / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Sunset Beach / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Gregory offering to representing you pro bono. Also, his pre-nuptial agreement. Annie roped both of the Richards kids into helping her seduce Gregory. When Sean realizes he's been duped, Annie starts to get in his grill about "his righteous attitude" and claims he's liable for whatever happens next. Olivia was paid ten grand to steal Cole, and Bette's husband received a grant to keep his hospital in business. It's a monkey's paw, the deal with Del: Bette is widowed and broke, and Olivia is trapped in a loveless marriage. Tim is such a penis. He falls back on his boy next door act, convincing Sara to help him split up Meg and Ben. Except Tim then uses her cooperation as blackmail to pressure her into further crimes. "Sara, sweetheart... you sold your soul to me, remember that?"
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Sunset Beach / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Sunset Beach / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Diane the mortician.
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Sunset Beach / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Sunset Beach / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: The entire Deschanel family, it seems. Phillip works in "investments" with a "collector's" interest in jewelry and art, no doubt why he's on the casino ship.
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Sunset Beach / int_2200d9ec	type	Engineered Heroics
Sunset Beach / int_2200d9ec	comment	In order to throw Ricardo off his scent, Eddie arranges Paula's kidnapping and hires a hillbilly ex-con to help engineer her rescue. Too bad the kidnapper had other plans. Plans that include organ music and a ratty VW bus with JUST MARRIED painted on it.
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Sunset Beach / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Sunset Beach / int_22a60f6a	comment	Him and Lesley-Anne Down... both good actors, but by some weird coincidence, their children are portrayed by the two of the worst actors on the show. Certainly the guy playing Sean only got the gig because of nepotism.
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Sunset Beach / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Sunset Beach / int_23ff95fb	comment	Annie just says what she thinks. On any other show, Annie would act soppy for one episode, then go back to being a hater... not here. She won't pretend she's going to miss Caitlin after her car wreck, and what's more, she's going to exploit it for another zany scheme.
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Sunset Beach / int_24e48d72	type	Dirty Harriet
Sunset Beach / int_24e48d72	comment	Dirty Harriet: Annie lampshades it when Francesca is shot: this is just like one of those novels where everyone gathers in the conservatory. She struts around the hospital, chirping "It's elementary" m,and "where where you on the night in question?" AJ enlists Gabi as an informant at the Liberty Corporation. Ricardo is her supervisor on this matter. She poses as AJ's secretary while cracking computers.
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Sunset Beach / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Sunset Beach / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Paula got captured by Buffalo Bill in the first season. "Terror Island's" slasher. He is a ripoff of Ghostface and Ben Willis.
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Sunset Beach / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Sunset Beach / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Virginia is a demon in disguise. She pretends to bury the hatchet with Vanessa in order to set her up with an OBGYN who has been bought off by Virginia herself. Tess is the most sickeningly-sweet person. m. Cue another Stopped Clock remark from Annie: It's explicitly revealed that Tess is manipulating Tim. She's pleasantly surprised to have "lovestruck" Tim doing the "dirty work" she can't be caught doing. Parodied in Annie's dreams. Francesca shows up on Jerry Springer wearing a beauty pageant dress, a tiara, and carrying a black rose.
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Sunset Beach / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Sunset Beach / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Ah the inevitable 90s Viagra episode. "Niagra"?
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Sunset Beach / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Sunset Beach / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Annie dreaming about being killed on a bi-nightly basis. The return of Seaweed Gregory! Unlike the one from Annie's fantasy, this one is a zombie. He greets Caitlin at the door in a horrifying POV shot, right before she screams herself awake.
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Sunset Beach / int_2d2c26c1	type	Daddy's Little Villain
Sunset Beach / int_2d2c26c1	comment	Daddy's Little Villain: Del and Annie Douglas. Time for another confab in Hell. He shovels coal while complimenting Annie on her progress and working her like a football coach. Bette laments that Annie took the worst characteristics from her and Del. The belief that "money solves everything" and the gold diggery. "Grandpa Vargas" taught Francesca that to "plan your work, then work your plan."
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Sunset Beach / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Sunset Beach / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Gabi's role in-show. Though she is later revealed to be a deeply troubled child rape survivor, and turns into a more sympathetic character.
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Sunset Beach / int_2dd7023a	type	Death as Comedy
Sunset Beach / int_2dd7023a	comment	Death as Comedy: Francesca, supposedly a smart cookie, gets shot, but she doesn't know how badly. Instead of reaching for the hotel phone to call reception and the paramedics, she proceeds to leave her room and gets tangled up with a bunch of inebriated twats who fail to notice the red stuff she's sporting. Fran escapes the elevator, but gets nabbed by Russel Meeks the nerd (yes, the nerd from the paternity lab) who assumes she's the stripper he hired for his grandpa's birthday. He thinks she's "hammered" because she still reeks of the elevator crowd, but he carts her off anyway. A scene later, Fran pops out in cake in the hotel bar where all the suspects coincidentally gather. Francesca points at the huddled suspects and croaks "YOU" before passing out. Fran's ghost stands over her gurney and bitches about the staff not resuscitating her yet. She has a LOT of payback to enact on a LOT of people and she needs to get cracking. Seaweed Gregory. Annie fantasizes about Gregory popping up in the house while still soaking wet and covered in gunge. All he's missing is a few starfish clinging to his head.
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Sunset Beach / int_2e032e41	type	Latin Lover
Sunset Beach / int_2e032e41	comment	Most every male. Special mention goes to Cole Deschanel as played by Eddie Cibrian.
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Sunset Beach / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
Sunset Beach / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: Derek never got to have sex with Maria, he only let Ben think it. He did rape her though in the art studio, claiming she "led him on". Derek seduces Meg by pretending to be Ben, essentially raping HER as well. Even worse, he forces Ben to watch through a two-way mirror. Pretty skeezy, your brother's watching you getting on... This is a reversal of a plot that occurred in the show's first year, when Meg broke into Ben's house and dressed up as his dead wife Maria, and later had sex with him after he'd suffered a serious brain injury and believed he was with Maria. Although Meg knew Ben was delusional and believed she was Maria, she decided to go through with sex with him anyway. When Ben discovered weeks later that he had slept with Meg, he was not upset, only unhappy she was so upset he didn't realize they'd slept together.
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Sunset Beach / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
Sunset Beach / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Congressman Jack Blair works very hard to get "the women's vote".
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Sunset Beach / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Sunset Beach / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Ben's sadness stubble. Once when Meg dumps him, and again when he sees her smooching Casey under the pier. After Cole discovers the truth abut "their" baby, he and Caitlin take a break as a couple a Adding to Cole's misfortunes, Cailtin finds out about Colivia from Gregory, who gladly seizes custody of Trey. Cole is growing a stubble by that point.
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Sunset Beach / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Sunset Beach / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Rae.
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Sunset Beach / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Sunset Beach / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: Annie is sniffling and almost apologetic when she reverse-blackmails Gregory with Trey's test results. Much later on, Gregory apologizes to her softly preparing to stage her murder-suicide in the power plant. "You've just given me no choice...no choice...."
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Sunset Beach / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Sunset Beach / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Annie grouses that the town would throw a parade if a crazed gunman made off with her instead of Caitlin. In a moment of self-reflection, Annie admits she used to make crank calls "every ten minutes" in her teens. She also harried her workaholic father, Del, by tossing away his golf clubs and misplacing his phone messages.
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Sunset Beach / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Sunset Beach / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Vanessa-Michael and Meg-Ben comprise two of the show's three power couples; Meg was even the show's purported star. Both took a backseat to other concerns in Season Three. Michael's story wrapped once the men in white came for Virgina, and he and Vanessa had a sloppy Second-Act Breakup. Ben was cleared of killing his (not actually dead) wife, but none of that mattered once he was saddled with a family didn't even know about. (Not helping matters was Meg's temporary recasting with another actress, as Susan Ward had left to shoot a movie.) They do, however, get a final bow at the end when Derek resurfaces to brew more evil.
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Sunset Beach / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
Sunset Beach / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Gregory roasts Annie over a spit for one torturous month before finally revealing that he knows about Trey's kidnapping. The "Mr. Blackmailer" routine is a way of getting answers, all the dirt Gregory needs to wind the clock back a year: Caitlin, Olivia, and Trey are back under his roof. They've been free of his control too long. [[spoiler:Gregory also wants revenge for Gregory Junior's supposed death. Gregory can't think of a better revenge on Cole than stealing the son that he and Olivia created, "the son that should have been mine", and raise him as his own. Annie pinning Gregory dead to rights on murder, then kicking him right in the junk! Derek's outrageous plan to discredit Ben, drive him to despair, then seize his riches. "Mysterious benefactor" is funding the charity cruise, but who is he? Antonio doesn't know who's organizing it but will gladly take their money. This is actually Cole's ex mentor, who wants to ruin him. Finally Annie gets a taste of her own lies and schemes when Olivia pretends to befriend her only to rub Gregory's prenuptial agreement in her face. She got exactly what she deserves and more. Olivia couldn't have said it better, who could love a creature like "It".
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Sunset Beach / int_349d44ad	type	Arch-Enemy
Sunset Beach / int_349d44ad	comment	Archenemy: Cole/Gregory and Vanessa/Virginia. Cole and Gregory pissing trading insults with the same gravity as Superman and Lex Luthor. Gregory is disappointed when he greets his son-in-law in the living room one morning, and Cole speeds right past him. "Come on, Cole, spar with me!" Gabby and Carmen screeching at each other in Spanglish. Annie alternating between her feuds with Meg Cummings and Olivia. The latter took precedence during the inheritance squabble. They later become frenemies and team up to bring down Tobias Richards.
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Sunset Beach / int_3573371e	type	Dinner and a Show
Sunset Beach / int_3573371e	comment	Dinner and a Show: Elaine and Gregory with their respective kids. Any scene at Grenedine's.
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Sunset Beach / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
Sunset Beach / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Gregory shares a quasi-incestuous relationship with Caitlin, because of course he does. A similar vibe is felt between Olivia and her favorite, Sean, as she works him over before a police interrogation.
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Sunset Beach / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Sunset Beach / int_3aec9e5e	comment	This was once lampshaded by Annie. She doesn't buy into Cole's "knight in shining armor" act (calling him "Lancelot") and thinks he's being creepy and possessive. Apparently not, since Cole arrives in the nick of time to save Caitlin from bundle of dynamite. Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb, kids.
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Sunset Beach / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Sunset Beach / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Annie is a practiced blackmailer, but woeful liar. Realizing that a second paternity test might expose Gregory as Trey's father (and giving Olivia the leverage to boot her out), Annie tries to convince Cole that a second test isn't worth the risk. In a hospital scene, Annie is on a payphone while fishing through her purse, and drops an incriminating handkerchief belonging to A.J. A helpful nurse retrieves it and hands it to Annie. "WHAT DID YOU HEAR", she shrieks to the room. Post-shark attack Melinda. She really turns on the waterworks, drying her tears on her lawyer's necktie while demanding Sara be arrested for attempted murder. "I was brilliant. They can cast me as ME in my movie." What an ego. Gabi doing fishing around Antonio to find out the source of his troubles. "Let me guess..it's a woman." Antonio: "NowwhatmakesyouthinkImtroubledbyawoman!?"
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Sunset Beach / int_4028c4e	type	Off to See the Wizard
Sunset Beach / int_4028c4e	comment	Off to See the Wizard: "Dorothy" is the pseudonym used by Meg on her dating profile, most likely because they're both from Kansas. "Wicked Witch" Olivia being melted...with vodka. Meg's ending is a kiss to the MGM movie.
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Sunset Beach / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Sunset Beach / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: So, every man has tried to save Meg at some point or another. Meg is about as useful as play-doh in a life and death situation.
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Sunset Beach / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Sunset Beach / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Tiffany, the vagabond girl, has a line in the Pilot:
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Sunset Beach / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Sunset Beach / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: It wouldn't be Sunset Beach without it.
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Sunset Beach / int_45de9bd6	type	Adopt the Dog
Sunset Beach / int_45de9bd6	comment	Adopt the Dog: Gabi has a breakdown on the witness once she realizes it was her father, not Ricardo, who raped her. That spelled the end of her villainous career. In the last couple of episodes, Annie tries to mend fences with Olivia, and ropes the Richards kids into forgiving their mother.
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Sunset Beach / int_46ee4d3	type	Eye Take
Sunset Beach / int_46ee4d3	comment	Antonio has to hear all of Cole's and later Annie's sins. His face is priceless.
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Sunset Beach / int_478ae179	type	And Now You Must Marry Me
Sunset Beach / int_478ae179	comment	And Now You Must Marry Me: In order to throw Ricardo off his scent, Eddie arranges Paula's kidnapping and hires a hillbilly ex-con to help engineer her rescue. Too bad the kidnapper had other plans. Plans that include organ music and a ratty VW bus with JUST MARRIED painted on it. Upon being rescued and re-imprisoned in a second dungeon by Diana Wood, Ben finds himself dressed in a tux and laid out in a coffin while Diane twirls around in a black wedding dress to the Jonathan Creek theme ("Dance Macabre").
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Sunset Beach / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Sunset Beach / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Oh, Annie. Pobrecita! as Carmen would say. Poor Ben, shuffled from one delusional, melodramatic kidnapper to another, under constant threat of death from an evil twin who appears to be some kind of failed magician (with his knowledge of two way mirrors, holograms, disguises and misdirection). Living in a town where there's only one police officer, who already has it in for you for killing his sister.
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Sunset Beach / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Sunset Beach / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Bette over the course of this series. She's reduced to tears on a few occasions. Vanessa watching her whole world crumble in just a few weeks. Virginia made sure of that. Antonio is almost relieved after he and Gabi have sex, having gotten it all out of their systems. Now the real torture begins.
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Sunset Beach / int_4e7017f1	type	Wig, Dress, Accent
Sunset Beach / int_4e7017f1	comment	Wig, Dress, Accent: Virginia as"Nurse Jones". If you need an indicator of where SB threw its hands in the air and became a pure camp, this is a good place to start. Gregory impersonates his own tweedy, hitherto unknown uncle in order to divvy up his estate.
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Sunset Beach / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Sunset Beach / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Michael, cleaning the street, one crackhead at a time. We later learn that Michael was the gang-banger who shot Virginia's husband (and Jimmie's father). In penance, he took up Jackson's role. Antonio reveals that he is splitting the Titanic II charity cruise money with his old, disgraced parish. He was run out of Rosario after allowing Francesca and her partner in crime, Phillip, to run off with the Madonna and its jewels. At Antonio's urging (and in response to Cole apparently drowning in a flooded passageway on the ship), Francesca makes "a promise to God" to return what she stole. Francesca eventually had the completed Madonna mailed off to its place of origin, but she didn't leave town; so, she did keep the promise but did not reform.
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Sunset Beach / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
Sunset Beach / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Gregory is a changed man after Cole knocks knocks up his wife. Olivia says that the image of Colivia is driving Gregory to do terrible things and slowly making him crazy. She's right, Gregory is shown having nightmares of Cole/Olivia in bed and laughing at him. Francesca's husband, Phillip. Phillip knew Cole would be on the cruise ship, but his wife was kept in the dark. Phillip's steamed over the fact that she's hung up Cole. Ricardo crying Poor Ricardo, he doesn't deserve that. When he sees the sex tape and collapses from stress, he falls into a catatonic nightmare would where he watches helplessly at Antonio/Gabi carrying on together and making taunting him to die so Antonio can have her for himself. More Ricardo nightmares: showing up to his wedding to find Gabi (in her dress) carrying on with the padre at the altar. Ricardo certainty has an over active imagination. Ricardo semiconciously throttling Gabi with one hand. Tyrus runs in and pries him loose. Tyrus claims it's "an involuntarily reflex."
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Sunset Beach / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Sunset Beach / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Are we to understand Gregory keeps fake "thank you" cards on his person in case he gets caught delivering flowers to his mistress? Gregory's video will. Gregory anticipates that Annie will try selling the library he erected in her name. But if she tries, it reverts to a state-owned trust. "So you see Annie, you're not gonna make a dime from me." Olivia doubles over laughing while AJ tents his fingers and smiles. Expert-level mindfuckery from Gregory. Gregory pretends to talk to the "blackmailer", but it's only a cassette tape of his own voice playing into a receiver on the other line. After her eviction, Annie busts into the Richards' safe yet again. It hasn't been emptied yet. But it is full of red dye packs that explode in her face, covering her white pantsuit in paint.
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Sunset Beach / int_51509ce7	type	Convenient Miscarriage
Sunset Beach / int_51509ce7	comment	Convenient Miscarriage: Greg says that he and Olivia used to dance outside her balcony, every night, before Cait (their second child) was born. "Everything changed" when Olivia miscarried. He kept waiting every night under the balcony, but "she never came." That's when it all started. Trivia: Gregory Jr. came after Caitlin and before Sean. Meet Cole, the world's most virile man. He beds a mother and her daughter and, by miraculous coincidence, impregnates them both at the same time. Caitlin's baby dies in an accident, and Olivia is dosed with amnesia serum just after delivering Trey. At the end of S.2, Virginia's attack has caused Vannesa to miscarry.
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Sunset Beach / int_53bb70b2	type	Flashback
Sunset Beach / int_53bb70b2	comment	Flash Back: Used frequently to avoid Continuity Lockout. It's rare for an episode to not flash back at least once: Tim's vendetta is propelled by Mark's final words to him; young Olivia unwittingly becomes an accessory to kidnapping, thus providing a motive for Del's murder; Annie's convoluted plot to steal Trey and erase Olivia's memories needs some backstory. The list goes on.
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Sunset Beach / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Sunset Beach / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Jo Jo, Eddie, and Tim Truman, (semi)loyal employees of Gregory Richards.
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Sunset Beach / int_5535272c	type	Coolest Club Ever
Sunset Beach / int_5535272c	comment	Coolest Club Ever: The Deep. Forget Terror Island, the background dancers here are the real horror. The Kansas bar (The Buckeroo) is much more fun than The Deep. The impression is that The Deep only plays aerobics music. SB exists in a world where couples "request" elevator jazz to dance to? Wei Li requests some muzak as "our song".
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Sunset Beach / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Sunset Beach / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Deschanels are bona fide royalty. Armando was the founder of Sunset Beach and something of a legend between the sheets.
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Sunset Beach / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Sunset Beach / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Rae injecting an "amnesia drug" into a hitman after Casey subdues him; Annie's voodoo; Maria's boating accident.
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Sunset Beach / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Sunset Beach / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Ricardo is a hilariously inept detective. This is somewhat justified, considering that he received his detective's badge in the first episode, and is still somewhat rash and inexperienced. This is commented on by Gregory in their first scene together; he's not intimidated by Ricardo in the slightest. The rest of the clown shoes S.B.P.D. has no excuse.
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Sunset Beach / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Sunset Beach / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Paul was a old flame of Annie's during her six week stint in law school. Seems she spent more time banging Paul than studying. She gets a rude awakening when Paul, now a successful attorney, informs her that she is still an accessory to kidnapping—even if she uncovered the truth about the fake paternity test—because she didn't speak out about it sooner.
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Sunset Beach / int_60b166be	type	Reformed Criminal
Sunset Beach / int_60b166be	comment	Reformed Criminal: Cole Deschanel aka "Cole St. John" used to swindle loose, rich women out of their jewels, but he's fed up with that life and wants to settle down with Caitlin. Unfortunately, he opts for one last roll in the hay with a loose rich woman.
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Sunset Beach / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
Sunset Beach / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Often provided by Annie, but also a slew of other characters as well. Sometimes these would segue into flashback scenes. About two-thirds of the way through the show, however, the surreal scenes mostly disappear, as they didn't mesh with the tone of the storylines.
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Sunset Beach / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Sunset Beach / int_627264e0	comment	And Bette. "Don't look at me in that tone of voice." Great line.
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Sunset Beach / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Sunset Beach / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Virginia's son needs a father, and Virginia needs a man like Michael. She won't let a little thing like Michael being off the market get in her way. Gregory is an extremely moral-free man, but he does love his family. Unfortunately he can't express it in anything approaching a healthy way. After Jude sells him up the river, he nearly slips through the police net a second time, but is talked down by Olivia who points out that he'd rather see his kids again, even if it's from behind prison bars.
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Sunset Beach / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Sunset Beach / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Annie after marrying Gregory for money. The Richards are milder examples. Annie always imagined Olivia and Cailtin as being more shallow than they were.
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Sunset Beach / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Sunset Beach / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: For all his faults, Tim is not a coward, unlike a male nurse who abandons Dana/Maria because he was afraid of dying in the quake. Tim is the rescuer, using a wooden beam to tear down the debris and save Dana despite having being comatose for months. What a miracle. Tim just might be the daytime Jesus. Annie, Maria, and Meg: Ben is always riding off to rescue one or the other, to the annoyance of the other two. When Dana/Maria tried to hitchhike from the hospital, two dudebros in yacht pants drove up in a convertible and tried and rape her on the beach in broad daylight; Ben appeared from nowhere and beat up the rapists with Ricardo's help. Earthquake storyline: Greg leaves AJ to rot in the collapsing building site. But he's willing to risk dying in a car explosion pry Olivia loose from the passenger seat. This was once lampshaded by Annie. She doesn't buy into Cole's "knight in shining armor" act (calling him "Lancelot") and thinks he's being creepy and possessive. Apparently not, since Cole arrives in the nick of time to save Caitlin from bundle of dynamite. Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb, kids.
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Sunset Beach / int_6627e429	type	Children Are a Waste
Sunset Beach / int_6627e429	comment	Children Are a Waste: The Richards family is sickening. They use their children as Chess pieces and weapons.
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Sunset Beach / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Sunset Beach / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Ricardo thinks Ben should remain faithful to Maria even in death (and stay true to her once she reappears). He is not happy with Ben remarrying in the same church, or with Antonio for performing the ceremony.
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Sunset Beach / int_6c3f8ca8	type	Drama Queen
Sunset Beach / int_6c3f8ca8	comment	Drama Queen: Annie's dreams often include a riv or teo at LAD's expense, particularly her hand-on-forehead style of acting. Liv, baby, it's Sunset Beach not Sunset Boulevard. "The world's a stage, us merely players...." How melodramatic can you get? You can always spot an Olivia dream sequence by the way she and Gregory are both screaming in it — even her dreams are melodramatic. Of course Bette can't say "Listen up everyone I'm Emily's mom", she has to give a stagey monologue and kvetch about giving labor... Annie responds to losing all of her Liberty Corporation stock by threatening to jump from the top floor of the Richards mansion. She teeters out the window ledge like a gymnast on a balance beam while Olivia eggs her on. Gregory, under duress, at last agrees to rip up his prenuptial agreement and return her stock. Annie, sniffling, agrees to come back inside, and Olivia groans and slams her window in disgust—startling Annie and causing her to fall anyway. Fortunately, Annie had a safety harness on the entire time. Gregory facepalms.
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Sunset Beach / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Sunset Beach / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: All the suspects (minus Caitlin) are tricked into believing that Francesca somehow survived her attack. Olivia recieves a threatening letter doused with Fran's perfume and forged in her handwriting. Annie wears a Francesca style catsuit (framed to fool the viewer) and plants additional "calling cards" around the beach house and hospital.
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Sunset Beach / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
Sunset Beach / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: Annie ultimately ends up with Jude. In the final episode, Maria meets a new man her psychic mother predicted would be her true love. Bette, who probably deserved to be paired off most of all, ended the series in a quasi-courtship with A.J.: he escorted her to the Evans-Bourne nuptials, suggesting a future for them. Sara and Casey were the only ones left in the room, so they paired up.
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Sunset Beach / int_7431b974	type	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
Sunset Beach / int_7431b974	comment	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: There is one character in particular who is actually disturbing. Sam Behrens, who played a jailbird ex-husband on Knots Landing, gets to be creepy again here, and he puts together a carefully crafted performance of a white collar psycho. Gregory's a bit too 'real' for daytime, and doubly so in Sunset Beach. Del Douglas, on the other hand, fits in perfectly, which is probably why they bought him back as a spook. The producers apparently realized this and later turned Gregory into a cartoon, which doesn't really suit Behrens, either. (And he was outspoken in interviews about not wanting to play a pantomime villain.)
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Sunset Beach / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Sunset Beach / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: ''If the moon rises early and the Santa Anna winds kick up out of nowhere then the moment the sun drops out of the sight the first person you see on the other side of the pier is the person you're destined to be with. (In this case, it's Ben, Cole, and the big fella Dana/Maria runs into in the last episode.)
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Sunset Beach / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Sunset Beach / int_754df088	comment	Gabi falsely accuses Ricardo of rape after they have consensual sex (and already, we've waded into questionable territory), sows discord between him and her sister Paula, and escapes justice by revealing it was just misplaced childhood abuse. Ricardo and Paula are still splitsville, so Laura Harring leaves the show while Gabi sticks around to the end...before leaping from Ricardo's arms into his brother's bed, causing Ricardo to suffer a stroke and almost die. A similar storyline played out happened with Sami Brady and her goody-two-shoes sister over on Days. Sami emerged triumphant from the love triangle while Carrie Brady left town for a few years, simply because she was not as interesting.
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Sunset Beach / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Sunset Beach / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: "I'm getting bored of your melodramatic delays." Ben-1, Derek-Nil. There is a partial excuse given for Derek's inaction. He needs Ben alive to glean the location of his assets, passwords, and the odd memory in case someone asks a question about their past. ("What good is my life without my money?") Gregory falls prey to this.
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Sunset Beach / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
Sunset Beach / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: Elaine is a misandrist, and Bette is halfway there.
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Sunset Beach / int_77e8d49d	type	Clingy MacGuffin
Sunset Beach / int_77e8d49d	comment	Clingy MacGuffin: The jewels taken from the Rosario Madonna statue. Olivia tries to get rid of them the airport, but they just reappear in her hand.
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Sunset Beach / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Sunset Beach / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: The only witness to the killings on "Terror Island" is Tim, whose prior schemes have been exposed for all to see. His desperate, wild accusations of murder are dismissed as sour grapes. Annie is tipped off that Francesca is planning to abduct Trey to blackmail Cole into leaving town with her. Nobody believes Annie, and Cole tells her to stay away from them. Meanwhile Fran cat-burgles her way into the nursery and scoops up Trey. Nobody believes Annie when she's received a death threat, either.
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Sunset Beach / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Sunset Beach / int_7a82c3d2	comment	''All Love Is Unrequited: Ben/Gregory. Both stare through Annie like a potted plant. It's hard not feel sorry for Tyus: he's such a great man and risks his own life to save Vanessa's and Michael's. Yet he's friendzoned forever. Poor forever alone Tyus. In the hospital during the earthquake storyline, Olivia was gazing longingly at Gregory while hugging AJ. Bette hints at one point that she regrets not admitting her feelings to AJ. The look on Casey's face when Meg runs straight into Ben's following Derek's initial defeat. In Season Two, Sara is rightly pissed because Casey was only using her as a stepladder to get close to Meg.
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Sunset Beach / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Sunset Beach / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: These people lie so much they can lie at a drop of a hat. They have got it down to an art. Annie admits that "old habits die hard." She can't even apologize to Bette without an angle. Gregory is as good as one would suspect, spinning his web with a reptilian gleam in his eye.
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Sunset Beach / int_7b80226d	type	GoodCounterpart
Sunset Beach / int_7b80226d	comment	Good Counterpart: A.J. is the suave silver fox to Gregory's possessive sugar daddy. The show made gestures at turning A.J. heel, but it never stuck. Meg is this to ex-fiancee Tim: a corn-spun tourist who finds work with a handsome millionaire after an embarrassing accident at the pier. Tim gets rear-ended by a drunk Olivia in traffic, then leverages his injury to go work for Gregory as his chauffeur cum informant.
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Sunset Beach / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Sunset Beach / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Eddie can't decide whose side he's on, he just turns up every few weeks to twirl his mustache. Annie just enjoys winding people up. Antagonize the cop in charge of the Vargas case, then whine about becoming the lead suspect? Even in her talk show fantasy, Annie throws AJ under the bus, despite their earlier agreement to pin Fran's murder on Gregory. In retaliation, A.J. immediately switches sides, and Annie gets the chair. Cole's not so stupid. After Annie digs up the surveillance footage of Olivia holding Fran at gunpoint, she proposes selling the footage to the tabloids for millions. Cole puts a damper on that idea, and also double-checks to see if Annie erased any files on the hard drive implicating Gregory. Good thing there's a backup drive she overlooked.
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Sunset Beach / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
Sunset Beach / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: Gregory's car gets wrecked in the earthquake, knocking his wife out. Gregory momentarily thinks she's died and goes to pieces. One of his rare Pet the Dog moments. Mark, who has carried a torch for Meg since the very beginning, confesses it to her before marching off to certain death. Then he does it again with Gabi which spoils the sentiment somewhat.
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Sunset Beach / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Sunset Beach / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Olivia is introduced at poolside in complete ennui. She idly points her diamond ring at an insect to see if it will fly away from the beam or sizzle to death. Gregory comes out and swats it with his Wall Street Journal. Their relationship in ovo.
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Sunset Beach / int_81c0e175	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
Sunset Beach / int_81c0e175	comment	An Ass-Kicking Christmas: The final showdown with "Tobias Richards" at the Sunset Beach power plant, circa Winter '99. The story finally wraps up with a Christmas wedding. Derek Evans is apprehended and killed by Ben in the same period of time.
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Sunset Beach / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Sunset Beach / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Gabi wedding #2. This church has a lock on dysfunction: The Cummings and Evans are at each others' throats, the Torres are fighting, and Sean is at loggerheads with his girlfriend.
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Sunset Beach / int_853e45d1	type	Mistaken for Pregnant
Sunset Beach / int_853e45d1	comment	Mistaken for Pregnant: Par for the course in a soap opera.
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Sunset Beach / int_8593b49	type	Twerp Sweating
Sunset Beach / int_8593b49	comment	Twerp Sweating: Caitlin is dating a high-class crook of the kind Gregory usually represents in court. Olivia bribing Sean's girlfriend to leave town, and later bitch-slapping his third girlfriend, Amy, after having too much to drink.
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Sunset Beach / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Sunset Beach / int_87bb6874	comment	Apart from his crooked development deals, the tycoon is working with an "advocate for low-income housing" to launder money though his slums. This was revealed in a bonkers scene of Gregory spinning in his chair like Dr. Claw with a scotch glass in one hand, about to pass judgement on a terrified hoodlum.
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Sunset Beach / int_88c6e936	type	Masquerade Ball
Sunset Beach / int_88c6e936	comment	Masquerade Ball: Valentine's Day at The Deep. Mark dresses up as Elvis. Olivia's cruise.
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Sunset Beach / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
Sunset Beach / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest: Annie's friend Tim gets stuffed into a chest temporarily after being murdered, before finally being buried in cement.
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Sunset Beach / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Sunset Beach / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Del spent much of the show tormenting Annie from Hell. Francesca also appeared in a few vignettes after she died, mostly involving Annie.
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Sunset Beach / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Sunset Beach / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License – Medicine: The original South Bay hospital set really takes one's breath away. What a discreet place to have an abortion: in the middle of the triage, with the door flapping in the breeze, the stirrups sticking out into the lobby and people barging in and out every five seconds.
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Sunset Beach / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Sunset Beach / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Amy Nielsen (originally Dreyer) is a collection of awful, Valley Girl stereotypes. While applying for a waitress job, Amy has to "take down notes" when Hank instructs her on how to serve food. She takes his advice too literally (turn around and then go clockwise), trips and smashes all of her dishes on her first try. Caitlin, dressed as Alicia Silverstone in Clueless, testifies on Francesca's behalf on the set of Springer in a dream. This has a grain of truth, as Annie is constantly being tripped up by Caitlin. When Annie plants the murder weapon in Cole's hotel suite, Cailtin arrives and gets busted in his stead. Cue horror as Annie realizes she just got Gregory's daughter arrested. "She's always doing something to screw me up!"
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Sunset Beach / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Sunset Beach / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Francesca Vargas and Eddie. In Terror Island, Jade gets disemboweled right off the boat. Also from T.I.: Did anybody really care at the time that Elizabeth got killed? She was a spoiled brat and was there purely to start the bodycount.
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Sunset Beach / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Sunset Beach / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Antonio has to hear all of Cole's and later Annie's sins. His face is priceless. Wicked Francesca goes to Antonio's parish and greets him with a "Bless you" instead of "Bless Me". It's framed in the camera so that we can't tell who's confessing to who.
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Sunset Beach / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Sunset Beach / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Despite giving up the ghost, Dax Griffin (Tim) agreed to come back for Meg's dream sequence in Kansas. Cole was apprehended again by Scotland Yard but was sprung from jail in time for the finale.
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Sunset Beach / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Sunset Beach / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: The charity cruise, all to raise donations for Antonio's old mission in Mexico. Casey talks Sara into attending on a lark, because she deserves a break from the paparazzi.
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Sunset Beach / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Sunset Beach / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: For Ben, Meg was the Betty and interchangeably Annie/Maria were his Veronicas. For Meg, Ben was her Veronica and Tim was her Betty. Amy and Emily. Amy is the gold digger superficial blonde, Emily is the spunky brunette who trained with Sean at the lifeguard program.
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Sunset Beach / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Sunset Beach / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Annie grumbles something to this effect to Meg before her wedding. Then she walks over to the next room and says the same to Olivia.
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Sunset Beach / int_98c4ea5f	type	Falling Chandelier of Doom
Sunset Beach / int_98c4ea5f	comment	Falling Chandelier of Doom: The "Shockwave" storyline. After Olivia is pinned by some falling debris, both she and Annie are nearly crushed beneath a chandelier as the latter tries to pry her loose.
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Sunset Beach / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Sunset Beach / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Much trading back and forth of Trey Deschanel, conceived by Cole and Olivia and declared dead upon delivery. Actually, Annie stole the baby and handed it off to Caitlin, who miscarried after a car accident and didn't tell anyone. Caitlin was unaware of Trey's parentage and let Cole think that they were having a son together. (Making this something of a zig-zag; Gregory believes he lost a son when he didn't, and Cole correctly assumes Trey is his, but is kept in the dark about his other dead child. Also inverted in that it wasn't Caitlin's baby but Olivia's.) Even after Gregory catches on to what happened, he still believes that Trey is his.
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Sunset Beach / int_993783f2	type	Hot Men at Work
Sunset Beach / int_993783f2	comment	Hot Men at Work: Everyone, but the lifeguards are impossibly ripped.
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Sunset Beach / int_9d080c44	type	Ice Queen
Sunset Beach / int_9d080c44	comment	Ice Queen: Rae. Elaine was treated badly by Cole's father, A.J., and came away with a distaste for all men. She is open in her lack of regard for her daughter's fiancee, Ricardo, and advises Paula to keeper her options open.
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Sunset Beach / int_a1d48853	type	Stupid Crooks
Sunset Beach / int_a1d48853	comment	Stupid Crooks: Olivia, in a rush to dispose of evidence before the police canvas her house, opens a drawer too quickly and sends a cascade of bullets rolling across the floor. Annie, who drops her .38 in the middle of a crowded lobby when someone calls out her name.
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Sunset Beach / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Sunset Beach / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Casey. He does get his girl in the finale, though. Tyus is awesome. He is not a tofu-brained surf bum who can never make up his mind, but simply a good friend.
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Sunset Beach / int_a40e7874	type	ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive
Sunset Beach / int_a40e7874	comment	In S.2. Michael boots out the evil OBGYN and takes his spot behind the desk. He spins in his chair—with hands folded, no less—when Virginia comes stomping through the door.
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Sunset Beach / int_a545e2a4	type	Money Fetish
Sunset Beach / int_a545e2a4	comment	Money Fetish: Del shagging a married woman, in her husband's bed, on top cursed pirate gold.
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Sunset Beach / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Sunset Beach / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Numerous Annie dreams, including her "wake". At first, Annie mistakes it for Francesca's funeral and mills about the room, observing with delight that it feels more like a party. She peeks in the casket and sees herself, screaming. Search For Dignity: In Annie's Golden Age TV fantasy, everyone breaths a sigh of relief when they hear that Annie is in an irrecoverable coma. ("THANK HEAVENS.") Annie's electrocution on Jerry Springer is celebrated with game show music, convention balloons and falling confetti. The ladies fight over who gets to pull the switch. Nobody seems to mourn Francesca, with Greg and AJ smirking evilly as they witness her final breaths. A short time later, everyone reconvenes at the hospital. "Is she DEAD?" Olivia demands, not looking particularly innocent. Caitlin: "I won't be able to sleep anyway. Not until she's dead." Annie offers some fat free vending machine chips to Olivia, who refers to Fran as "that insufferable Vargas creature". Annie just says what she thinks. On any other show, Annie would act soppy for one episode, then go back to being a hater... not here. She won't pretend she's going to miss Caitlin after her car wreck, and what's more, she's going to exploit it for another zany scheme. Annie later muses that she should donate Gregory's body to science, but doubts that they'd even take it. Sean quips that his father's wake is turning into "a state funeral", with all of Gregory's old enemies coming out of the woodwork to make sure he's dead. Even Antonio struggles to say something nice about the guy. When it's Caitlin's turn to speak, she announces that she's going to stand up and defend Gregory's memory, if only because someone ought to.
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Sunset Beach / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Sunset Beach / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Elaine caught onto the fact that Del had stolen her infant son, Cole, and declared him dead. She killed him in revenge. When prison doors began to, creakily, open, Gregory got her off and she fled SB with little fanfare. Annie is more pitiable than anything, but she manages to talk her way out of an astounding amount of trouble. Despite causing the majority of the problems on the show, she never gets punished aside from being mistrusted. Annie hopped aboard the Moral Event Horizon Express by ripping Trey out of his mother's womb and telling everyone he died. It's arguably the worst crime committed by anyone on the show, short of fishhook murder. Here it's shrugged off as, stuff happens. Gabi falsely accuses Ricardo of rape after they have consensual sex (and already, we've waded into questionable territory), sows discord between him and her sister Paula, and escapes justice by revealing it was just misplaced childhood abuse. Ricardo and Paula are still splitsville, so Laura Harring leaves the show while Gabi sticks around to the end...before leaping from Ricardo's arms into his brother's bed, causing Ricardo to suffer a stroke and almost die. A similar storyline played out happened with Sami Brady and her goody-two-shoes sister over on Days. Sami emerged triumphant from the love triangle while Carrie Brady left town for a few years, simply because she was not as interesting.
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Sunset Beach / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
Sunset Beach / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Ben has been obsessed with the memory of his dead wife for four years. And yet here he is playing grief counselor. Wannabe cyrano Aunt Bette. Gregory bought a new whole house just so he wouldn't have to sleep in the same bed where Olivia and Del made whoopee, and now here comes Del's sister lecturing him about romance matters.
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Sunset Beach / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Sunset Beach / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Tim Truman can be sweet when he's not being a slimy slug. He seems to genuinely care about the first Caitlin Richards (during his stint as their limo driver), and he's the only person in SB who gives Tess a fair shake. ("Seattle's loss is my gain.") Annie can't GIVE it away. She keeps ramping up her single-entendres each time Gregory turns her down. Get a clue woman, the loins sleep tonight.
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Sunset Beach / int_ab03a74	type	Christmas Miracle
Sunset Beach / int_ab03a74	comment	Christmas Miracle: Antonio and Cole manage to re-assemble the Rosario statue by January 1st with seconds to spare. It's a Christmas miracle! Marta Hernandez is cured from illness! It's snowing outside! In California! Charles Dickens ain't got shit on this. Antonio actually says, "It's called the miracle - The miracle of Christmas" when Ricardo gawks around and says that there must be a rational explanation.
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Sunset Beach / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Sunset Beach / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Maria's diary entries, which were secretly forged by Annie. She makes Ben sound like some kind of wife-beating lunatic. Gregory reading through Olivia's love letters from when they were courting. They're splitsville two years into the marriage.
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Sunset Beach / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Sunset Beach / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Gregory is a master. And Bette. "Don't look at me in that tone of voice." Great line. Olivia had her moments. A.J. And this: Nice moment from Ricardo while investigate Fran's shooting: And:
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Sunset Beach / int_afe698ea	type	Plot-Inciting Infidelity
Sunset Beach / int_afe698ea	comment	Plot-Inciting Infidelity: The show kicks off with Meg leaving her fiance at the altar after learning that he's been cheating on her. She comes to California to find the man that she was in an online relationship with, meaning that she's playing this trope too.
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Sunset Beach / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Sunset Beach / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Virginia's evil is hinted to have caused the quake. Lampshaded here: An earthquake interrupts the rehearsal dinner before Carmen can play the sex tape in front of everyone; the commotion causes the TV to short out for good. Carmen is nuttier than squirrel shit in this sequence. ("DOS MIA IT'S A SIIIIGN!")
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Sunset Beach / int_b3aa5504	type	Convenient Coma
Sunset Beach / int_b3aa5504	comment	Convenient Coma: Tim after Derek smothers him. He awakens, but Tim can't communicate who the killer is, even non-verbally, without risking his life and Meg's. Dana/Maria does not know what "an internet" is.
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Sunset Beach / int_b3e3b9af	type	Playing Cyrano
Sunset Beach / int_b3e3b9af	comment	Wannabe cyrano Aunt Bette. Gregory bought a new whole house just so he wouldn't have to sleep in the same bed where Olivia and Del made whoopee, and now here comes Del's sister lecturing him about romance matters.
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Sunset Beach / int_b414868	type	Take It to the Bridge
Sunset Beach / int_b414868	comment	Take It to the Bridge: The alarming tendency of characters to fall off the pier. Meg lampshades it in the finale.
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Sunset Beach / int_b43d89c7	type	Slow "NO!"
Sunset Beach / int_b43d89c7	comment	Tim falls from the scaffold in instant-replay, complete with cuts and slow-motion repeats of "NOOOOO (drumroll), NOOOOOOO (drumroll), nooooo (drumroll), noooooo...."
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Sunset Beach / int_b54fe3ce	type	Classically-Trained Extra
Sunset Beach / int_b54fe3ce	comment	Classically-Trained Extra: Sam Behrens as Gregory. He took that character and elevated it so high above the quality of the writing. He lends a degree of sanity to the proceedings that the more extroverted Richards don’t, i.e. he avoids making you laugh when you shouldn’t. Him and Lesley-Anne Down... both good actors, but by some weird coincidence, their children are portrayed by the two of the worst actors on the show. Certainly the guy playing Sean only got the gig because of nepotism.
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Sunset Beach / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Sunset Beach / int_b588a9b6	comment	This has a grain of truth, as Annie is constantly being tripped up by Caitlin. When Annie plants the murder weapon in Cole's hotel suite, Cailtin arrives and gets busted in his stead. Cue horror as Annie realizes she just got Gregory's daughter arrested. "She's always doing something to screw me up!"
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Sunset Beach / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Sunset Beach / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Olivia can't leave Gregory without losing her children, her money, or being thrown into a sanitarium. Both parties have extramarital affairs under their belts, but Gregory controls the purse-strings and no litigator can hope to compete with him. Not long after Caitlin's supposedly deadly car crash, Ricardo—who hired Gregory to defend him against Gabi's rape allegations—tries to call Gregory off. Not because he's a grieving man who can't handle the job, but because Ricardo thinks he's out for blood. D.A. Bette Steele. Just as Ricardo starts to believe Ben's story about his twin brother, the D.A. circumvents him and locks Ben up. Steele shows up again when Caitlin confesses to the shooting of Francesca Vargas. Not only does she swallow this obviously-bogus statement (in spite of Caitlin's obvious lack of mental faculties and a lack of salient details) and closes the case. When Sean intervenes on his sister's behalf, Steele threatens to charge Sean with obstructing her investigation if continues meddling. When Francesca's true killer is found, a frustrated Annie points out that they gave the D.A. the killer "on a silver platter". The D.A. is not being cooperative because it was, legally, entrapment. The voice modulator could also have faked Gregory's voice. Hence the tape is declared valid. The DA still threatens to arrest them if they cross her path again. She also threatens to fabricate charges against them.
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Sunset Beach / int_b6287eff	type	Briar Patching
Sunset Beach / int_b6287eff	comment	Viewers would often spot Gregory fuzzy and in the background, silently observing events play out. The way he sold the polygraph to Gabi was amazing; what a master manipulator.
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Sunset Beach / int_b62ea95	type	Doomed New Clothes
Sunset Beach / int_b62ea95	comment	After her eviction, Annie busts into the Richards' safe yet again. It hasn't been emptied yet. But it is full of red dye packs that explode in her face, covering her white pantsuit in paint.
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Sunset Beach / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Sunset Beach / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Several as part of the running side-plots.
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Sunset Beach / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
Sunset Beach / int_ba0b808e	comment	Gregory and Olivia. The marriage is a sham; a with Gregory taking credit for lifting Olivia "out of the gutter" and turning her up into a society woman. Annie doesn't fare better, despite her efforts to make it work. She raises a toast to "a new beginning" at Grenedine's, and Gregory knocks her glass to the other side of the restaurant with a giant smash. In a heart-to-heart with Dana/Maria, Annie calls the glass "a hand grenade in the ongoing war" between the two.
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Sunset Beach / int_bc80725e	type	Wedding Finale
Sunset Beach / int_bc80725e	comment	Wedding Finale: The show closes with Vanessa's and Meg's wedding.
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Sunset Beach / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
Sunset Beach / int_bd5e9702	comment	His Name Is...: Once Tim realizes he's been had by Derek, he makes for Surf Central to warn Meg, but it intercepted and brutally killed. This is a replay of what happened to Mark on the island.
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Sunset Beach / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Sunset Beach / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: Annie and Tim in the pickup truck.
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Sunset Beach / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Sunset Beach / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Look, Kam Heskin just can't act. It's like getting blood out of a stone. She can't even stare down a gun convincingly. And don't get us started on her phone conversations with the blackmailer. Someone ought to have lassoed the SB munchkins (Leo, Amy, Sean, Brad, Emily), stuffed them in a box and fired it into the sun. Kam Heskin is as wooden as the child actor playing her in the past. The driftwood on the beach out-acted her.
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Sunset Beach / int_c2ab0eaf	type	Double Agent
Sunset Beach / int_c2ab0eaf	comment	Tess. She's actually in league with Derek, sent to double Tim with lurid promises of breaking Ben and Meg up. Tim smells a rat and follows her to a rendezvous with Derek, whereupon he's apprehended and killed.
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Sunset Beach / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Sunset Beach / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Tim falls from the scaffold in instant-replay, complete with cuts and slow-motion repeats of "NOOOOO (drumroll), NOOOOOOO (drumroll), nooooo (drumroll), noooooo...." Carmen watching her son's illicit sex tape. "ANTONIO! POR QUE!" Later repeated with Ricardo seeing the tape. In sickbed, Ricardo screams NO and immediately starts choking bitches. In his dream that is. Annie gets tossed into a jail cell with an orange jumpsuit and ankle ball in one fantasy.
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Sunset Beach / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Sunset Beach / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Leo, who? Virginia tried to skip town with Jimmie after she was found out by Michael, but Michael caught him at the bus station while he was buying them tickets to Oregon. Jimmie is eventually sent away while Michael keeps him in the dark about Virginia being sent to an asylum.
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Sunset Beach / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Sunset Beach / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Olivia predicts that Annie plans to "take over Sunset beach" with Gregory's money. She gloats that Annie doesn't know that Gregory's will cuts her out entirely.
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Sunset Beach / int_c74e9880	type	Death Cry Echo
Sunset Beach / int_c74e9880	comment	Death Cry Echo: The hitman groans like King Kong when Cole sends him hurtling off a cliff.
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Sunset Beach / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sunset Beach / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Casey bluffs an assassin by claiming to be a bag man for Jeff Spicoli, Sunset Beach's most feared crime boss. Bette's grisly homage to Weekend at Bernie's The scenes with Elaine, Bette and Olivia wearing hoods and standing around in a cemetery are a cute nod to Macbeth (three witches) and The Witches of Eastwick (blonde, brunette, redhead). The black & white TV fantasy. Annie, wearing a flower-patterned dress and a bun, desperately humps Gregory's leg while begging him to love her. Annie eventually tosses the script away in disgust, storms off-set and tears her dress off, causing the world to revert to color. This is probably a nod to Pleasantville. Spike wishing he could trade in the Richards for the Camdens. Sara's fantasy is a direct lift from the opening to Friends. All of the characters are credited as themselves, apart from Sara, who is "Pitiful Loser."
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Sunset Beach / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Sunset Beach / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Derek and Tess for Benjy, Elaine for Cole.
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Sunset Beach / int_ce6652e5	type	Classy Cat-Burglar
Sunset Beach / int_ce6652e5	comment	Classy Cat-Burglar: Francesca. After she died, Annie borrowed her shtick by enlisting Cole's help to crack Gregory's safes (she couldn't do it herself).
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Sunset Beach / int_d371868b	type	Precious Puppy
Sunset Beach / int_d371868b	comment	Precious Puppy: Spike, the Jack Russell Terrier. He's later included in the titles! He was originally a stray doggie, but was adopted by Olivia after she railroaded his original owner, Tiffany, out of town. Later, Spike is caught nomming on Olivia's pregnancy test kit and leads her on a merry chase through the house, a prank he later ascribes to revenge.
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Sunset Beach / int_d43a63c3	type	Elvis Impersonator
Sunset Beach / int_d43a63c3	comment	Valentine's Day at The Deep. Mark dresses up as Elvis.
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Sunset Beach / int_d4689f3	type	Sarcasm Failure
Sunset Beach / int_d4689f3	comment	Amy Nielsen (originally Dreyer) is a collection of awful, Valley Girl stereotypes. While applying for a waitress job, Amy has to "take down notes" when Hank instructs her on how to serve food. She takes his advice too literally (turn around and then go clockwise), trips and smashes all of her dishes on her first try.
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Sunset Beach / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
Sunset Beach / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: Once LAD's real-life maternity has ended, we cut to Olivia apparently living in a shojo manga now, attending a costume ball at sea with A.J. who is dressed in a tuxedo and face mask. Ben's lookalike, Derek, as the island slasher. Evil voice modulator guy. Gregory laments that he loves seeing Annie "twisting in the wind" but that he has quite a special day planned for Trey's first Christmas: he gets all dressed up, escorts Annie to the scene of the crime (Trey's nursery), plays an incriminating tape of Annie and shuts down any avenue of escape. This is a trial. Of course Annie lamely tries to wriggle out of it and claim it's all some "psychotic's sick joke."
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Sunset Beach / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
Sunset Beach / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: The overarching plot of SB seems to be a clash between the Deschanels, who founded Sunset Beach, and the Richards, who have spread like a cancer and corrupted it. A.J. and Gregory both hold stock in the Liberty Corporation, which owns much of the beach, and each side is looking to oust the other.
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Sunset Beach / int_d60bc4a0	type	Longing Look
Sunset Beach / int_d60bc4a0	comment	In the hospital during the earthquake storyline, Olivia was gazing longingly at Gregory while hugging AJ.
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Sunset Beach / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Sunset Beach / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster; Viewers would often spot Gregory fuzzy and in the background, silently observing events play out. The way he sold the polygraph to Gabi was amazing; what a master manipulator. At the hospital, Annie immediately tries to insinuate that A.J. shot Francesca, hoping to throw suspicion off herself. Gregory smiles like a crocodile. He pretends he only just learned about the shooting himself, and cuddles Catilin while alone. Very eerie in hindsight. When threats don't work, Virginia tries to befriend Vanessa in order to get close enough to inseminate her. Once Michael finds out Tyrus is Baby Daddy, she verbally abuses Vanessa to speed up the break up and get her to call off the engagement. Then Virginia convinces Vanessa to put her baby up to adoption? Virginia's got some cheek: insisting to Vanessa that Michael doesn't want to bring up another man's baby when she wants him to be a father to Jimmy. Derek's revenge. Maria was estranged from Ben and fled to Seattle to deliver Benjy, according to Tess. When Maria left to reunite with Ben, Tess took care of Benji and had faith that one day Maria would return for her son. She learned about Maria's coma (caused by a car accident at Dana Point) and later recovers in a psychiatric journal. She guilt-trips Maria that Benji needs his mother AND father. Tim stumbles onto the truth but foolishly tries to blackmail Tess and keep the money from himself, just as she predicted he would.
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Sunset Beach / int_d8085f48	type	Hollywood Voodoo
Sunset Beach / int_d8085f48	comment	Hollywood Voodoo: Annie requests, in order, an amnesia serum, a love potion, and finally an intoxicant from Mrs. Moreau. Another repeat customer, Virginia, requests a salve which mimics a grotesque skin disorder. Gregory later darkens the poor woman's door.
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Sunset Beach / int_d80a8085	type	Younger and Hipper
Sunset Beach / int_d80a8085	comment	Younger and Hipper: The mid-season retool. The show was already skewing toward a slightly younger audience, but the central plot—a rich guy's murder being pinned on his pearl-clutching mistress—was not the sort of fresh concept Aaron Spelling was looking for. A more attractive corpse arrived in the form of Francesca, and the Richards clan became satellites to Cole and his entourage. The intro sequence was jazzed up to be less adult, and the stories became slightly more outrageous.
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Sunset Beach / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Sunset Beach / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Annie and Olivia for Del's shooting. Not that Annie helps her case by publicly shouting, "I'll kill him" or "I'm way past upset — I'm postal". Ben Evans is teased as a lady-killer for quite some time. It turns out that Maria really did vanish and suffer amnesia after Derek staged her death. It all but destroyed Ben's reputation, but he was never arrested or charged. Adding to Ben's problems, his crazy twin is running around California and framing him for more murders.
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Sunset Beach / int_dd891949	type	Who Writes This Crap?!
Sunset Beach / int_dd891949	comment	The black & white TV fantasy. Annie, wearing a flower-patterned dress and a bun, desperately humps Gregory's leg while begging him to love her. Annie eventually tosses the script away in disgust, storms off-set and tears her dress off, causing the world to revert to color. This is probably a nod to Pleasantville.
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Sunset Beach / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Sunset Beach / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Gregory and Olivia. The marriage is a sham; a with Gregory taking credit for lifting Olivia "out of the gutter" and turning her up into a society woman. Annie doesn't fare better, despite her efforts to make it work. She raises a toast to "a new beginning" at Grenedine's, and Gregory knocks her glass to the other side of the restaurant with a giant smash. In a heart-to-heart with Dana/Maria, Annie calls the glass "a hand grenade in the ongoing war" between the two.
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Sunset Beach / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Sunset Beach / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Tim is, without a doubt, the most ineffectual adversary this show produced. He's catapulted into an anti-hero or everyman role in the wake of Terror Island, doggedly trying to bring Ben to justice. Annie grudgingly reformed over time, too.
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Sunset Beach / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
Sunset Beach / int_e031b7ef	comment	Slave to PR: The Richards family, or at least Gregory, take great pains to pose as pillars of the community. Annie accuses Olivia of talking in a "fake British accent" to sound posh and make everyone forget about her low-rent origins.
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Sunset Beach / int_e08f3fed	type	Chair Reveal
Sunset Beach / int_e08f3fed	comment	Chair Reveal: Gregory Richards, the pit boss of South Central. Apart from his crooked development deals, the tycoon is working with an "advocate for low-income housing" to launder money though his slums. This was revealed in a bonkers scene of Gregory spinning in his chair like Dr. Claw with a scotch glass in one hand, about to pass judgement on a terrified hoodlum. In S.2. Michael boots out the evil OBGYN and takes his spot behind the desk. He spins in his chair—with hands folded, no less—when Virginia comes stomping through the door. Cole spends two minutes jawing at a rocking chair with its back to him. He doesn't check that it's Caitlin, not Olivia, who is brooding in the nursery before spilling his guts about his affair.
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Sunset Beach / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Sunset Beach / int_e135b3de	comment	Nobody seems to mourn Francesca, with Greg and AJ smirking evilly as they witness her final breaths. A short time later, everyone reconvenes at the hospital. "Is she DEAD?" Olivia demands, not looking particularly innocent. Caitlin: "I won't be able to sleep anyway. Not until she's dead." Annie offers some fat free vending machine chips to Olivia, who refers to Fran as "that insufferable Vargas creature".
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Sunset Beach / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
Sunset Beach / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': The dude hired to kill Cole. Hope you got a good deal on that guy, Gregory. An assassin who lunges at his target, when they are both standing on the edge of a cliff but doesn't realize that even if he does hit the target, they'll both crash on the rocks below? It's flattery calling him stupid. When he hears of a cliffside murder, and assuming it's Cole: "A male... how horrible... how did he die?" Once more with feeling, Gregory.
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Sunset Beach / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
Sunset Beach / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: Annie pays a visit to her own wake in Ben's bar. In true slattern fashion, her memorial photo is wearing a tiger print top. She also attends her funeral in a nightmare, watching helplessly as everyone parties like it's 1999. Gregory attendS his own while dressed up as a monk. He makes a commotion by kicking something over on his way out, and Cole tries to nab him, thinking he might be a spy. Silly Antonio calls him off, claiming it's a monk who's there on retreat and can't speak.
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Sunset Beach / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Sunset Beach / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: About the most exciting thing to happen to Randy Spelling (Sean) over the course of the show was an assassin mistaking him for Cole and garroting him—not fatally, though. This was the final break with his father, who hired the hit. After Gregory falls to his apparent death at sea, Sean is shaken and confides to Emily that he hated his father yet loved him, even though Gregory wasn't worthy of being loved by anybody. Cole has pent-up anger at his dad for dumping Elaine and never even keeping in touch. He still addresses his father as "AJ".
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Sunset Beach / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Sunset Beach / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: ".....WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER!" Classic SB line. They must use it at least 3 times throughout the series, always spoken by a Richards, too. Bette: "I hear those wheels turning/hell-o/poopsie/knock knock/bingo/puhleeeze" Voodoo Lady: "Virgeena eez bad to zee bone." Derek's "brother, dear". Carmen: "¡Ay Dios mia!"
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Sunset Beach / int_e7ae07f5	type	Briefcase Full of Money
Sunset Beach / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Briefcase Full of Money: Vanessa's suitcase of proofs on the South Central money launderers. The Deschanel Jewels were squirreled away in Del's suitcase for a rainy day. Annie's blackmail payoff suitcase. Caitlin beats a mugger over the head with it like she's in WWE.
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Sunset Beach / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Sunset Beach / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Antonio reveals that he is splitting the Titanic II charity cruise money with his old, disgraced parish. He was run out of Rosario after allowing Francesca and her partner in crime, Phillip, to run off with the Madonna and its jewels. At Antonio's urging (and in response to Cole apparently drowning in a flooded passageway on the ship), Francesca makes "a promise to God" to return what she stole. Francesca eventually had the completed Madonna mailed off to its place of origin, but she didn't leave town; so, she did keep the promise but did not reform.
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Sunset Beach / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Sunset Beach / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Parodied in the series finale: Following the double wedding of Meg and Ben & Michael and Vanessa, Meg wakes up back in Ludlow on the eve of her wedding to Tim. In a homage to The Wizard of Oz, she realizes that the past three years in Sunset Beach have been a dream, and that the characters in the show were actually her friends and family back home... only to wake up from THAT dream and reappear in bed with Ben.
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Sunset Beach / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Sunset Beach / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Tess. She's actually in league with Derek, sent to double Tim with lurid promises of breaking Ben and Meg up. Tim smells a rat and follows her to a rendezvous with Derek, whereupon he's apprehended and killed. Gabi's role in-show. Though she is later revealed to be a deeply troubled child rape survivor, and turns into a more sympathetic character.
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Sunset Beach / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Sunset Beach / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Annie pinning Gregory dead to rights on murder, then kicking him right in the junk!
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Sunset Beach / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Eddie. One minute he's sleeping with another man's wife, then assembling blackmail photos on same, threatening to make someone his prison bitch, lifting evidence from a murder scene, setting up a stalker nest in the basement of his co-worker's house, and closes the day by hiring an ex-con to abduct somebody. And then he's promoted to Detective for his service to the community. Following the resort bombing, Ricardo is shown going through Fran's old tape collection. Gabi pinches the tapes before he can come across the X-rated one. She also steals impounded cash and a gun to keep Francesca silent on the matter. Ricardo, once he's gone mental. He fakes his death and almost sends his brother and wife to prison for life.
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Sunset Beach / int_eb6912	comment	Gregory Richards, the pit boss of South Central. Apart from his crooked development deals, the tycoon is working with an "advocate for low-income housing" to launder money though his slums. This was revealed in a bonkers scene of Gregory spinning in his chair like Dr. Claw with a scotch glass in one hand, about to pass judgement on a terrified hoodlum.
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Sunset Beach / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Sunset Beach / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Ben and Derek. Derek's only aim in life is to ruin his brother's. Ben thought Derek was drowned along with Maria in the boat accident. The headaches Ben kept getting were a sign that Derek was back in town. In season three, Ricardo attempts to stage his own "murder" and let Antonio take the fall for it. He succeeds, but eventually he confesses to the police once he realizes just how evil he's becoming.
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Sunset Beach / int_f09d379	type	It's A Small Net After All
Sunset Beach / int_f09d379	comment	It's A Small Net After All: Really faulty email service they had back in the 90's, where anyone anywhere could use someone else's username without a password.
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Sunset Beach / int_f1919d5b	type	Being Evil Sucks
Sunset Beach / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: By season 3, Annie is disheartened and worn out from the villain biz. When all's said and done, all Gregory wants is to hold his family together, which makes him one of the more tragic characters because he simply cannot see how all the horrible things he does prevents that.
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Sunset Beach / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Sunset Beach / int_f19e8a55	comment	Post-shark attack Melinda. She really turns on the waterworks, drying her tears on her lawyer's necktie while demanding Sara be arrested for attempted murder. "I was brilliant. They can cast me as ME in my movie." What an ego.
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Sunset Beach / int_f3c801ef	type	Cranky Landlord
Sunset Beach / int_f3c801ef	comment	Cranky Landlord: Gregory has Cole mugged to deprive him of his money, then bribes every realtor in town not to sell to Cole and make him move in with Gregory instead. Olivia gets the beach house in the divorce, making her Annie's new landlord. She kicks Annie out in order to turn her bedroom into a nursery.
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Sunset Beach / int_f6b1c9f3	comment	Fran escapes the elevator, but gets nabbed by Russel Meeks the nerd (yes, the nerd from the paternity lab) who assumes she's the stripper he hired for his grandpa's birthday. He thinks she's "hammered" because she still reeks of the elevator crowd, but he carts her off anyway. A scene later, Fran pops out in cake in the hotel bar where all the suspects coincidentally gather. Francesca points at the huddled suspects and croaks "YOU" before passing out.
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Sunset Beach / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
Sunset Beach / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Gregory's revenge schemes are more than a little convoluted. Virginia is not to be explained; she cannot be rationalized at all. You'll never look at a turkey baster the same again. So Caitlin isn't going to tell Cole about the miscarriage, instead she's going to get pregnant again very quickly. Then there is the business of the Rosario jewels. Cole is already being blackmailed by Vargas: he doesn't need extra incentive to lift the jewels. If Olivia wore the necklace at the party, Cole would swallow the bait no problem. Olivia had the rubies in her possession, so why not skip the nonsense with planting them on Annie and then donating them to a museum?
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Sunset Beach / int_f74f567f	comment	Bastard Understudy: Del Douglas was more of a father to Gregory than Gregory's own father was. Gregory repays his generosity by trying to murder him and then framing Del's daughter for the crime. A year later, he enters into a marriage of convenience with Annie in order to steal her inheritance, the Liberty Corporation stock. Phillip calls Cole "his former protege": he taught Cole how to steal, and how to woo.
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Sunset Beach / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
Sunset Beach / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Virgina. Sara and Gabi were afflicted for a little while.
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Sunset Beach / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: Bette has a dartboard with a head shot of Gregory. She encourages Olivia and AJ to let off steam. Olivia is hesitant to throw darts at Gregory's eye sockets, so AJ neatly places a glossy of Annie over Greg's photo.
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Sunset Beach / int_f945dff4	type	Facepalm
Sunset Beach / int_f945dff4	comment	Annie responds to losing all of her Liberty Corporation stock by threatening to jump from the top floor of the Richards mansion. She teeters out the window ledge like a gymnast on a balance beam while Olivia eggs her on. Gregory, under duress, at last agrees to rip up his prenuptial agreement and return her stock. Annie, sniffling, agrees to come back inside, and Olivia groans and slams her window in disgust—startling Annie and causing her to fall anyway. Fortunately, Annie had a safety harness on the entire time. Gregory facepalms.
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Sunset Beach / int_f954d8e5	comment	Mark, who has carried a torch for Meg since the very beginning, confesses it to her before marching off to certain death. Then he does it again with Gabi which spoils the sentiment somewhat.
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Sunset Beach / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Sunset Beach / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Used liberally. It's a soap opera, people.
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Sunset Beach / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Anyone else want to kidnap Ben? Hurry up reserve your place on the list, it's getting long.
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Sunset Beach / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
Sunset Beach / int_faf4a043	comment	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Meg's fiance cheats on her? He's a bastard. She's technically cheats on him? (She was in an online relationship with Ben). It's the beginning of the show's Super Couple.
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Sunset Beach / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Sunset Beach / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Father Fit (Antonio) is sexy when he's angry. Casey, the asskicking best man. He ejects Annie/Tim and then threatens to tie them up if they show their faces in the chapel again, "house of the Lord or not!" Casey lobs Tim out of Surf Central when he catches him jawing with his girl. Tim nearly leaves earth.
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Sunset Beach / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
Sunset Beach / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Eddie, Del, and Derek.
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Sunset Beach / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Sunset Beach / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Tiffany looks pretty fit for a street rat. A solid month of confinement in a dungeon and Ben's hair is slightly disheveled. After 40 episodes, Ben doesn't feel hungry, never grows stubble, and sits obediently in the chair as though he hasn't even attempted to free himself. He should be sporting a railroad tycoon beard. Oh, and he must be smelly by that point. How many times Ben has relieved himself since he's been tied up? In the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes, everyone's hair is still perfect. How the hell did no one get mascara running on that sinking ship? Tim rises from his coma looking better than when he entered it: perfect hair and body.
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Sunset Beach / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Sunset Beach / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Antonio used to work a Mexican parish, but got drummed out. Phillip explains that he used Francesca to seduce the Padre while he lifted the Madonna statue from under his nose. Ben was protecting Maria's honor. He didn't tell anyone what happened on the boat: that Maria slept with Derek, or that she stabbed and "killed" him (supposedly) on the boat. Ricardo later admits he needed closure, someone to blame. Ben is supposed to be a Man of Mystery but his past behavior is questionable. "My wife and I were estranged for nine months exactly and I never used my money or connections to find out where she was. Also I have an identical twin who tried to kill us both but that's nobody's business because my wife saw him naked."
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Sunset Beach / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Sunset Beach / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Leave it to Spike to out-perform the entire SFPD.
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Sunset Beach / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Gregory's car gets wrecked in the earthquake, knocking his wife out. Gregory momentarily thinks she's died and goes to pieces. One of his rare Pet the Dog moments.
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