But he always had Captain Oats, the toy horse who rarely left his side.
“The idea came up in a script by Jane Espenson,” saysO.C.creatorJosh Schwartz.
“I thought it was the funniest thing.”
Captain Oats from ‘The O.C.’.
(One thing you won’t find on every Breyer horse?
Oats' removable saddle is sold separately.)
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“And thus a great love story was born.”
But in all seriousness, Oats was a character on the show in his own right.
“It ended up giving us a better understanding of Seth,” says Schwartz.
As for what Oats was like on set?
“He always hit his mark,” jokes Schwartz.
“She has a knock off,” says Schwartz.
“Don’t let her fool you.")
