The Sleeping Beauty (30 Nov. 2006)

Ryan can't sleep, and a smitten Taylor tries to seduce him by becoming his sleep therapist. Meanwhile, Seth vows not to call Summer, and Kaitlin struggles when Julie has a fling with her tennis instructor.

Director:

Ian Toynton

Writers:

Josh Schwartz (creator), John Stephens

Stars:

Peter Gallagher, Kelly Rowan, Ben McKenzie

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Peter Gallagher	...	Sandy Cohen
Kelly Rowan	...	Kirsten Cohen
Ben McKenzie	...	Ryan Atwood
Adam Brody	...	Seth Cohen
Melinda Clarke	...	Julie Cooper
Rachel Bilson	...	Summer Roberts
Autumn Reeser	...	Taylor Townsend
Willa Holland	...	Kaitlin Cooper
Chris Pratt	...	Ché
Gary Grubbs	...	Gordon Bullit
Brandon Quinn	...	Spencer Bullit
Michelle Ongkingco	...	Amber
Kat Sawyer-Young	...	Head Dean (as Kat Sawyer)
Matt Crabtree	...	College Scientist
Wayne Dalglish	...	Brad Ward

Storyline

After Ryan's kind help to get out of her ill-considered French marriage, Taylor makes him her third consecutive 'possible' true love, smitten enough to call the moody mourner 'funny', and enforces 'ex' Seth's help to submit him to her 'sleep therapy', which only gives him a sleepless night with his eerily sharp free 'analyst'. Kaitlin's hunky 25 year-old tennis instructor, Spencer Bullit, is masterly stolen by mother Julie, whose sexy German twenty-something 'personal trainer' she has chased. Summer gets caught breaking into a university lab and confesses an illegal 'liberation' of lab rabbits which made no sense, and regrets covering for Ché when he betrays her to the school board to save his own skin. But Summer does keep one rabbit, a mobility obese white rabbit she named 'Pankakes'. At a fund-raiser for Sandy and Kiki's project, Julie charms Texan magnate Gordon Bullit into joining, then finds out that her jock lover, Spencer, is there as Kaitlin's date... and is Gordon's son. ...

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Plot Keywords:

tennis instructor | texan | southern accent | bollywood | kitchen | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

German English

Release Date:

30 November 2006 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Agoura Hills, California, USA

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

44 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Taylor Townsend: [explaining her new crush on Ryan]

• then, when he helped me with my husband, and he kissed me, it was like Dorothy landing in Oz. Everything popped into Technicolor.

Seth Cohen: Ah.
Taylor Townsend: [offended] You think I don't know what that means?
Seth Cohen: I said "ah."
Taylor Townsend: Meaning "Ah, that Taylor. She is so pathetic. Someone's the least bit nice to her and she becomes totally obsessed with them. First me, and then her French husband when he lent her a subway ticket, now Ryan."
Seth Cohen: Well, isn't it kinda true?
Taylor Townsend: So what? Yes. I have a ...
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Connections

References Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

User Reviews

moving on...

Ryan is trying to get over the problems from the past and is now fighting with sleep disorder. Help comes from Taylor who has a crush on Ryan since their last kiss. All treatments don't seem to work until the second "Taylor and Ryan kiss". Seth is not convinced that Ryan needs a new relationship. After a talk with Sandy he realize he should be more supportive and try to let Taylor help Ryan.Summer gets into trouble at Brown at her last "rescue the world project" and is proposed for expulsion. After the silence week suggested by Seth she calls him. They are still in love. Julie and Kirsten find an investor for their matchmaking company with the help of Sandy.