One Tree Hill

So for those who know me, my lovely roommates Charlie and Sam introduced me to the show One Tree Hill. I know, I am so behind. It's been on for like 8 years and I have just started watching it. I actually watched the last 2 or 3 shows of the 7th season and really liked it. So I made Sam and Charlie start back at the beginning of season 1 with me. I knew a little of the story lines because I caught a little here and there in the 2 years of living with Sam and Charlie. Plus if they wanted to tell me something that had happened in the current episode some times they would have to go back and fill in story lines that I had no clue about. So I knew some of the big events like... *spoiler ahead* Keith dying. (Like you didn't already know that! :) )
Well this past weekend was Fall Break here in North Carolina. So to celebrate not having school Jennifer and I headed to Wilmington. Partly because we wanted to go the beach and partly because I wanted to see the sights of OTH. I was hoping to see cast members, I'm not going to lie, however, I did not. I think they were in Atlanta filming for an upcoming episode. Not that that matters. But there is a studio tour that they do on the weekends when they don't film so Jennifer and I did that. It was so much fun and I found out some things that I didn't know. This is the studios.



Well we went in and saw only OTH sets. The sets that they let us see were Nathan and Haley's downstairs of their house, Brooke's house and Red Bedroom Records. I just have to say that I have stood in the same areas as James Lafferty. (It doesn't matter if everyone and their brother has as well because of the tours.) The whole downstairs of Naley's house is all one set. It was set up for Thanksgiving. So there were gourds all around, pumpkins on tables, 2 tables set up for the big Thanksgiving dinner, pots on the stove that had been used to cook the food for the episode. We found out that there really isn't working electricity or water on set so when they use the sink- it's a hose hooked up to the faucet under the counter. When they need light in the frig when they open it- it's little battery powered lights on the top inside of the frig. The food that is in the frig has been there since Dawson's Creek and it's expired. There's someone that goes in to rearrange the food in the frig so that it looks like they actually use it. There are tons of pictures of the cast together all over the place to make them look like family pictures. And... there is actually a pool on set. To look like the real one at the real house. So you can see it out of the back french doors of their house. It's actually a pool with water in it and with pool toys on the side and everything. I thought that it was so cool that they actually had it on set. It must be awesome to be the Scott's!!
Brooke's house is on set too. So the back drop that you can see out her windows is just that, a back drop. They have 2- 1 for daylight and another for night. They have amazing houses, even if they are just sets.
Red Bedroom Records- not much to say besides that the brick wall isn't actually a brick wall. It's concrete and it's hand painted to look like brick.
One last thing that I learned... is that Chad Michael Murray, Lucas Scott, didn't play basketball but instead knew how to play football so in any scenes with basketball it's not him. He had a stand in that apparently looked exactly like him that did all that for him. Including the opening titles. In one episode Charlie, Sam and I actually saw his stand in and found it pretty funny.

So needless to say, I had fun. Not sure if Jennifer did. And all I got to say is that the 2 people that got me into this show need to come out here and I'll do this all over again with them. I wouldn't want them to miss out.

Oh, and the interns that did the tour for us said that they were hopeful that they would be picked up for another season because the ratings are up. Not that I'm holding my breath but it would be kinda fun to see where another season would take these characters.