The Wildest Things You Forgot Happened On One Tree Hill

The 00s were a simpler time. OK you jeans were so low-cut that everyone could see your arse crack, and you got RSI from texting on your Razr phone, but Instagram hadn't been invented yet, concealer could be used as a lipstick and most importantly, One Tree Hill was on TV.

We talk a lot about Friends and Gossip Girl, but One Tree Hill doesn't seem to get that same nostalgia love. Which is deeply unfair because not only did it run for about 17 years, it was responsible for some of the most extraordinary storylines on television.

The show is now available on Channel 4's All 4, so while we've still got so much time to fill, that's something to fill it with. But if by some miracle you haven't got time to rewatch the 17,000 episodes, you can just relive some of these wild memories. Because truly, they were extraordinary.

A dog eats Dan's heart

Starting off with the best ridiculous scene of One Tree Hill, the time Dan is awaiting a heart-transplant, but a dog eats it instead. It's meant to represent how terrible Dan's karma is after being such a monumental arsehole his entire life, but it's presented so seriously you can't help but scream laughing.

Not only does a staff member at the hospital carry Dan's new heart through the waiting room like it's someones lunch, he drops it, it rolls out of the box it apparently was NOT locked in, and a random dog that is allowed in hospital waiting rooms for whatever reason eats it. Dan is watching this entire scenario play out, because of course he would be in the hospital waiting room as his heart arrives instead of you know, being prepped for surgery.

Peyton's fake brother

So Peyton's whole family situation is complicated because her mum dies (everybody leaves, remember?) and her dad works on an oil rig. She's also got a birth mum, much like Phoebe Buffay.

Anyway, part way through the series a nice boy turns up and explains that he's her half-brother. Instead of questioning this, they spend loads of time together until it turns out that he's not her brother, but a crazed stalker who tries to kill her and Brooke, in their prom dresses. Although we must admit, the scene of them kicking his arse was - while wildly unrealistic - one of the best.

Jake kidnapping his own baby

Jake is probably the nicest boy in Tree Hill. He's also a teen father, and when his ex, Nikki, decides that she wants Jenny the baby back, instead of fighting a custody battle he just takes the baby and runs away. Everyone seems to think that this is a perfectly normal way to handle the situation.

Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy dates Peyton

Remember, it was the mid-00s. Pete Wentz was really, really famous. Apparently he decides to date a high schooler and take a break from his world tour to hang out with her. Sure.

Everyone ends up famous

Brooke is a famous designer, Peyton runs a record label, Lucas is a novelist, Nathan does something to do with sports. Hayley is a singer, Dan is a basically Donald Trump. Even Skills, who spent most of his time sleeping with Nathan's mum, ends up being a basketball choreographer (yes that is a real job). Seems like a perfectly reasonable number of famous people to come out of one high school.

Everything involving nanny Carrie

Haley and Nathan hire an incredibly attractive nanny named Carrie to look after their son Jamie. She may be pretty, but she is also sad. Sad nanny swims naked and wants to sleep with Nathan. Hayley isn't best pleased about this situation and eventually, after they fire her, Carrie kidnaps Jamie and frames Dan for it. Then there's a whole thing where she keeps Dan hostage in a cabin, tied to a hospital bed while he's waiting for a heart transplant. It all ends with Carrie chasing Haley through a field of corn trying to murder her. Classic nanny problems, right?

Ghosts. So many ghosts.

Ghost Keith. Ghost Clay and Ghost Quinn. Any ghosts at all would have been too many ghosts.

Actually, everything about Clay

Clay was Nathan's sports agent, who was brought in as a character around the time that other actors left to 'pursue other options'. His storyline went something like this: he was previously married to a woman who died. They had a son called Logan. He forgot all of this for a couple of seasons because he had dissociative fugue disorder.

Katie Ryan

Katie is played by the same actress who played Clay's first wife Sara, only in a brown wig. For reasons which are never totally explored, she becomes obsessed with Clay and ends up shooting him and Quinn.

Taylor constantly trying to have sex with her sisters husband

This might be more infuriating than bonkers, but the introduction of Haley's sister Taylor in season two is accompanied by some wild antics early on. It's revealed that Nathan lost his virginity to Taylor, and she spends the whole time teasing him about it in the most sexual way possible until he finally tells Haley. If it wasn't bad enough that Taylor thrives off her sisters husband being attracted to her, they almost do have sex later in the season when Nathan is angry at Haley for leaving on tour.

After spending a drunken afternoon drinking, dancing and playing arcade games together - a date if we ever saw one - Nathan fully leads Taylor upstairs to have sex with her, goes into kiss her and then realises the error of his ways just in time. Regardless, we will never get over that Nathan trying to have sex with his wife's sister because he's angry at her for following her dreams was just accepted and moved on from.

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