Ryan = Seth...Mathematically proven!

In the grand tradition of wholesome, all rounded and most of all constructive holiday activities, the past few weeks have been taken up by much intense DVD watching, which has led me to the following question then conclusion:

What do the following have in common: Smallville, The OC, and Buffy? (and no, that is not some subtle Black Books-esque comment) ((though they are all fabulous! :P ))

Now at first glance these shows may seem to have very little in common (with the possible exception of Buffy and Smallville, but all the same…) However, if you look at the first seasons of each show, you start to notice some remarkable similarities…leading to the conclusion that Smallville is like a combined version of OC and Buffy!

Look! I can even prove it mathematically!

Season 1 Smallville = Season 1 OC + Season 1 Buffy
Season 1 Smallville = Season 1 (OC + Buffy) < [factorising]
Therefore: Smallville = OC + Buffy [dividing both sides by Season 1]

See! It’s irrefutable!

But just in case the mathematics isn’t convincing enough, here’s a few dot points to support it.

· In the Smallville episode “Stray” the Kents temporarily adopt a kid called Ryan (who, as another point, cooks them breakfast. )

· Smallville (as in the place, not the show) = Hellmouth – It’s just like on Buffy where the place they live is built on a foundation of Kryponite/hell and all the people living there (usually classmates) who are affected, have strange powers and for one reason or another become evil.

· Clark = Seth in the way that they both are in love with a girl at school who’s heaps more popular than them, and when they finally get the girl to like them, end up not being able to go out with them, for reasons of Anna or sudden-discovery-of-major-alien-responsibilities-and-have-to-move-to-metropolis-temporarily…also Clark, Seth, Summer and Lana all have dark hair…though that’s stretching it a bit.

· Buffy and Smallville also each have a gang of teenagers who are equivalent to the Scooby gang (in fact in both shows, they make reference to this)

· Smallville and OC both have the adopted son coming into the perfect family. (though this screws up the maths a bit because in this example Clark = Ryan, but previously we proved that Clark = Seth, therefore Clark = Ryan = Seth, which means that Ryan = Seth which doesn’t make sense…)

· Finally they all have the sports teams who rule the school (though this seems to be the case in most American Teen Programs.) More specifically episodes in both Season 1 Buffy and Smallville, they have the Swim team and football team consecutively, who are being made to play better by evil coaches, both by way of: Sauna. In Buffy, the coach puts something in the steam which turns the swimmers into strange sea demons, and in Smallville, the coach puts meteor rocks in the steam bucket and turns himself into strange fire person...

…and that’s only some of the similarities.

So, whoever said that maths wasn’t useful or fun?

I’d like to withdraw some socks!