Tonight is the premiere of “The O.C.” on Fox. This show is going to be everything that “Sunset Beach” tried to be, but for teenagers instead of middle-aged housewives.

The web site mentions that in order to survive as a teenager in Newport Beach, you need to drive a new BMW or Mercedes, carry a cell phone with digital photos on it, have a credit card which your parents pay off, and wear nothing that’s more than a year old. At first I found humor in the obviously overdone stereotypes that they were using to create this show. But now I realize the really funny part is that many of my O.C. friends actually fit that profile.