38 Facts About Summer Roberts

Summer Roberts is a fictional character on the FOX television series The OC.

However, due to Bilson's performance, Summer Roberts became an increasingly important character.

Summer Roberts grew up in Newport Beach, California, with her wealthy father, Dr Neil Roberts.

Summer Roberts was often paired in scenes with her best friend, Marissa Cooper, who was the leading female of the series until her death.

Summer Roberts became the female lead character of the show's fourth season.

Summer Roberts's character was only scheduled to appear in a few episodes, but was considered a hit, and ended up being in each of the series.

Summer Roberts was unusual in combining the qualities of a conventionally attractive and desirable character with a tough, outspoken, "take-charge" attitude.

In season 4 Summer Roberts adopts a pet rabbit and names her Pancakes.

Seth and Summer Roberts become a couple, and announce their romance at a school kissing booth, after which they become very close.

Zach is starting to become friends with Seth, whom he met shortly before Zach and Summer Roberts started dating, yet their friendship is a little mixed since they both have feelings for Summer Roberts.

Summer Roberts seems committed to putting Seth behind her, although at times it becomes clear that she still has feelings for him.

Summer Roberts was about to go on an overseas trip to Italy with Zach and his family, when the feelings she still had for Seth prevented her from doing so and she left her heartbroken Zach at the airport, going back to Seth.

Towards the end of the season Summer Roberts becomes worried about her best friend Marissa's behaviour, unexplained bruises and a tension with her boyfriend Ryan and his brother Trey.

Summer Roberts consults Seth about this, who feels obliged to tell Ryan and as a result the tragic events of Trey's shooting happen, with Seth and Summer Roberts arriving at the aftermath of the shooting.

Summer Roberts is adjusting to her senior year at Harbor School, with the year starting with her best friend Marissa Cooper expelled from Harbor as a result of her involvement in the shooting of Trey Atwood.

Summer Roberts is initially insecure about her relationship with Seth, because she often felt that he was smarter than her and she feared that he would break up with her for someone more like him.

However, when Summer Roberts gets a very high SAT score, it gives her the ambition to change, and she begins to focus on school.

Summer Roberts cares a lot about Seth and when he starts smoking pot, she becomes worried about him and forgives him if he promises to stop.

When Summer Roberts finds out that Seth is still smoking pot, she is upset, but Seth apologizes with a letter on a napkin, admitting his lies and mistakes, and tells Summer Roberts that if he messes up again, she can show it to his parents.

Shortly before they get their college acceptance letters, Summer Roberts says that if should she get into Brown and not Seth, she will not go.

Seth, not wanting to be responsible for Summer Roberts turning down a major educational and life opportunity, says he does not want to go to Brown anymore.

When Summer Roberts falls off the stage after being announced Prom Queen for the second time in a row, Seth runs to her and tells her the truth about Brown and they reconcile.

Summer Roberts has dealt with several changes in her home life, such as her stepmother, an unseen character, leaving and divorcing her father.

Summer Roberts eventually accepted the relationship and recently announced engagement seeing the happiness it had brought her father despite her own reservations about Julie.

Summer Roberts is adjusting to life in college without Seth and Marissa in an unexpected fashion.

Summer Roberts tries to separate herself from Orange County and her former materialistic lifestyle.

Whilst attending college she befriends another college freshman, Che, an environmentalist, and Summer Roberts becomes one as well in an attempt to take her mind off Marissa's recent death.

Summer Roberts attends protests, stops shaving her legs and rearranges her dorm to fit her new lifestyle.

Summer Roberts decides to find a balance between the two extremes, but her environmental activism occasionally creates trouble for her, such as when she and Che release lab rabbits from a science lab.

Close to New Year's Eve, Summer Roberts has a pregnancy scare, and Seth proposes to her.

In "The French Connection", Summer Roberts meets up with former best friend Holly Fischer to find out what life is like as a "Newpsie-wed".

Summer Roberts realizes that she has changed and no longer belongs in her old world; she fears that she does not know who she truly is, and breaks off the engagement with Seth in order to find herself.

Later, Summer Roberts helps rescue a groundhog in a political protest in which Seth and Che are arrested.

Also, in "The Case of the Franks" Summer Roberts gets offered a job at GEORGE travelling around the country speaking to children in high school.

Summer Roberts believes that this is one part of her destiny, while Seth is the other.

Summer Roberts is not amused and says that he should stop being lazy and actually do something with his life.

Six months later, Seth and Summer Roberts fall into a rut after the earthquake, and spend hours watching Briefcase or No Briefcase.

Summer Roberts attends protests and works to save the environment and educate students on environmental issues for a year.