That is a crackup. Perfect choice for their story. Ojai is THE most pretentious small town you will ever run across. It used to be somewhat of a combination of pretentious rich liberal aholes, people wanting their acre and a house, and rednecks, but then became something of an "artsy" community that Hollywood celebrities would visit or buy homes in. I'm sure it's even worse now.
It was always a community those of us who grew up in the area would make fun of. I used to work the refuse transfer station there on weekends when I worked at the county dump. You would get both the biggest aholes on the face of the planet and the nicest people you could imagine coming through. I'd get yelled at for the dump price by some alcoholic old redneck, then the next truck to drive up would be Mary Steenburgen bringing me a burrito for lunch while she dumped her own trash.