“Laguna Beach” @ 20

In the premiere episode of MTV’s Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, Lauren Conrad takes the object of her affection, Stephen Colletti, to visit her family’s under-construction beachfront mansion. The scene oozes excess: everything is washed in a lush, sun-soaked tone. A crane lifts a massive palm tree onto the property. Lauren walks Stephen through the construction site, pointing out the house’s most relevant features: “I have two closets. This is my clothes closet, and that one’s my shoe and purse closet.”