The actor says he “cannot bear” to watch himself on the beloved teen show.

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That theme song doesn’t provoke great memories forThe O.C.starAdam Brody.

“To the point where I’m doing a terrible imitation of him for most of my twenties.

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Adam Brody on ‘The O.C.'.Everett Collection

I’ve since knocked that off.

I just watch it now and I’m like, ‘Settle down.'”

“Honestly, we were in such a bubble,” he said.

“It was pre-social media.

We’re filming down in Manhattan Beach.

It wasn’t like I had 20 million Twitter followers or whatever.

“I was living in Hollywood, I wasn’t around that many places,” he added.

Then I’m seeing movies and I’m getting cool meetings.

But we filmed that show, like, nine and a half months a year.

There wasn’t much time to capitalize on it, really.”

The O.C.recently cracked the top 10 on our list ofthe 50 best teen shows of all time.