The Earth Girls Are Easy with Norman Buckley
Beyond the OC (Welcome to the OC)
Melinda Clarke
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Norman Buckley is back for his last appearance on the podcast to discuss Season 4, Episode 8, “The Earth Girls Are Easy” with Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke.
Norman noted that his first appearance on the podcast was S1, Episode 14 “The Countdown,” a New Years Eve episode and his last appearance on the podcast is today’s episode, which is also about New Years Eve! A full circle moment! Norman feels stylistically this is one of the best episodes he has ever directed and he gives great insight and behind-the-scenes details in relation to this particular episode.
The Earth Girls Are Easy synopsis: It’s New Years Eve, Seth, Summer, Taylor and Ryan head to Vegas where they encounter aliens, pregnancy tests and a potential marriage proposal! Meanwhile, Bullit introduces a new accountant Frank who might blow up Julie’s new endeavors at New Match.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Welcome to the OC Bitches. Add free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.6 | Download the Amazon Music app today. Bye, bitches! |
| 0:23.8 | Welcome to the OC Bitches! Season 4 episode 8. |
| 0:27.6 | Earth Girls are easy. Hi Rachel, how you doing today? |
| 0:31.6 | Hi, hi. I'm chewing. You guys, I'm chewing a triple ginger pretzel from Trader Joe. |
| 0:37.1 | It's so good. Uh oh. |
| 0:40.4 | Sorry. That's okay. That's okay. You got to get your nutrients in somehow. |
| 0:44.4 | You're right? |
| 0:46.1 | Sure. Super super healthy. |
| 0:47.7 | So guys, we have Norman Buckley back. If you were listening a few episodes ago, he offered up |
| 0:55.1 | to come back and we will always have him because I guess this would probably be your last episode |
| 0:59.8 | with us. You think? Yes, I think so. Yeah. |
| 1:04.9 | I did one more episode in the fourth season, but that was my least favorite episode. |
| 1:11.2 | Tell us what you're doing. I'm happy to talk about this one, but |
| 1:13.9 | tell us what you just told us since you won't be back when we do the finale. |
| 1:17.2 | Well, I actually told you this in the very first episode that I did with you guys, |
| 1:22.3 | but I directed both of you out of the series finale. I did your last scenes because they brought |
| 1:29.4 | me in to do second unit for Ian Toiton. He in Toiton directed the episode. He was my mentor. |
| 1:36.8 | He taught me a great deal, but he brought me in to do second unit and because there was so much |
| 1:44.4 | stuff to shoot for the series finale and I directed both of your last scenes on the series. |
| 1:50.2 | No. Neither one of you remember that, which is what's really fun. |
| 1:55.5 | Well, you know, such as it is. Sometimes the memories are jogged when I'm watching it. |
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