Orange County, California

:This is an article about the county in California. For other uses, see Orange County (disambiguation).

Orange County in literature and popular culture

Film and television

Orange County has been the setting for numerous films and television shows:

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• It is best-known as the setting of the eponymous 2003 Fox Network television drama The O.C. (although the series is actually filmed in Los Angeles County to keep production costs down). The show has been criticized by residents who feel that the show misrepresents their community.
• It is the subject and setting of the eponymous 2002 movie Orange County.
• It is also the setting of the sitcom Arrested Development.
• The film Better Luck Tomorrow was shot and set in the northern Orange County cities of Cypress and Anaheim.
• MTV's ' was filmed in the Orange County coastal town.
• A plot line in the television drama The West Wing involved a dead liberal Democrat unexpectedly winning a Congressional seat from an Orange County district.

Orange County has also often been used as a shooting location for films and television programs. Examples of movies at least partially shot in Orange County are Tom Hanks's That Thing You Do and the Coen Brothers's The Man Who Wasn't There.

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Tom Hanks - That Thing You Do - Coen Brothers - The Man Who Wasn't There

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Music

Popular punk rock bands such as The Adolescents,Thrice, Social Distortion, Agent Orange The Offspring, Avenged Sevenfold, and the bands No Doubt, Stryper, Lit, O.C.Supertones ,Sugar Ray, Throwdown, Rage Against the Machine, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, and Jeffries Fan Club all hail from Orange County.

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Punk rock - The Adolescents - Thrice - Social Distortion - Agent Orange - The Offspring - Avenged Sevenfold - No Doubt - Stryper - Lit - O.C.Supertones - Sugar Ray - Throwdown - Rage Against the Machine - Reel Big Fish - Save Ferris - Jeffries Fan Club

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Literature

Famous horror author Dean Koontz has set a number of his novels in the area.

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Dean Koontz - Novel

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Orange County is the place in which Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias Trilogy is set. These books depict three different futures of the Orange County (survivors of a nuclear war in The Wild Shore, a developer's dream gone mad in The Gold Coast, and an ecotopian utopia in Pacific Edge). Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly was also set in Orange County.

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Kim Stanley Robinson - Three Californias Trilogy - Philip K. Dick - Novel - A Scanner Darkly

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The modern fantasy novel "All the Bells on Earth" by James P. Blaylock is set in Orange, a city in northern Orange County.

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James P. Blaylock - Orange

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Religion

Orange County is also the base for several significant religious organizations:

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• The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, Bishop Tod Brown)
• Chuck Smith, father of the Jesus People movement, is headquartered at Calvary Chapel located in Costa Mesa.
• Reverend Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral is located in Garden Grove.
• Trinity Broadcasting Network began as Channel 40 in Tustin, now in Costa Mesa.
• The Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warren and his Saddleback Church is in Lake Forest.
• The Vineyard Christian Fellowship movement began in Orange County.
• The Newport Beach Mormon Temple serves the 50,000 Latter-day Saints in the county.
• The Family was founded in 1968 in Huntington Beach by David Berg.