I am – Hercules!!

Four years ago, a 26-year-old named Josh Schwartz created a show about the romantic adventures of a comic-book nerd who found his life transformed by a fighty kid from the wrong side of the tracks. The fact that “The OC” made me laugh and even occasionally cry seemed almost like icing on the cake.

The Feb. 19 edition of TV Guide has a nice roundup by Damian Holbrook of the show’s highest highlights, from Luke’s rude welcome to Summer giving Seth the Spider-Man kiss to Marissa going all lesbian to the first onscreen celebration of Chrismukkah.

The show likes to end its seasons with big deaths and one hears rumors that this final season of “The OC” will prove no exception, with the (quake-precipitated?) fatality arriving this very night. (I’m thinking it might be Bullet or Frank Atwood.)

Next week brings the series finale, set six months after tonight’s installment.

9 p.m. Thursday. Fox.