The Proposal with Alan Dale

Beyond the OC (Welcome to the OC)

Melinda Clarke

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rachel and Melinda discuss “The Proposal,” (S1 Ep24). They’re joined by Alan Dale, who you may know from Entourage, Lost, and Dynasty, but most likely, The OC, where he played Caleb Nichol. Hear how this New Zealand kiwi made his way to the US to expand his acting career where he’s played several roles, many of them ending in a heart attack! Alan shares his favorite acting role, tells a story of a hair mishap the day they shot the famous booty call scene, and comments on why Caleb proposes to Julie. In The Proposal, which some refer to as “the episode that destroyed everything,” the hosts discuss how the gruesome twosome’s union will change the lives of all characters on the show. Find out which storyline Rachel loved and the scene she couldn’t stop laughing while shooting, plus, way more memories from this episode. The Proposal Synopsis: The Balboa Lighthouse is almost open but a major roadblock, the loss of their liquor license, stands to ruin it all. Luke is leaving Newport but first wants forgiveness from Marissa. When neither she nor Julie will talk to him, he drinks too much and nearly dies. Caleb proposes to Julie and to make her happy, strikes a deal with Marissa. Seth and Summer undergo a massive home repair project to make Marissa feel more at home at Jimmy’s.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the O.C. Bitches! Welcome to the O.C. Bitches. How you doing? I'm doing great.
0:23.7	How are you doing, Melinda? I'm doing fantastic. I'm doing really, really, really, really well.
0:29.4	I've been waiting for our guests for a while on this podcast that we are all coming to love doing
0:37.9	and love reconnecting with people. And if we didn't do this podcast, I don't know that I'd be able
0:42.5	to have this conversation with all of these cool people that we're having conversations with.
0:47.4	So why don't I actually introduce, we are doing episode 24, the proposal. And we are so pleased and
0:56.1	excited to welcome our guest today. Born in New Zealand, this fine actor of stage and screen has
1:00.8	been in pretty much everything. I mean, from over 1100 episodes of the Australian drama
1:07.6	neighbors to ER, X-Files, Ugly Betty, Lost, Entourage, Once Upon a Time, Indiana Jones,
1:13.2	and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Girl in the Dragon Tattoo. Oh my gosh, I love this one
1:17.8	spam a lot. And for the past four seasons, Dynastie, you, I'll know him, is Caleb Nichol, or
1:23.9	Cal to Julie, Dad to Kirsten, Grandpa to Seth, and one half of the gruesome Tussum to Sandy. Welcome
1:31.0	Alan Dale. I have so much fun doing this. It is so nice to, yeah, it's really great with
1:40.3	introductions. I have to give it up to Melinda. But it's so nice to see you, Alan. Thank you for
1:46.0	coming on and being here with us. And also you're sitting in a very cool looking house. I have to
1:52.2	say. Yeah, and all the thing that happened when we first came over here to do the pilot. It was
1:59.4	freezing cold. It was March. And I thought, oh, thanks for having to live here. And I thought,
2:03.7	it's okay, we're just doing a pilot for a remake of Dynastie. No one's going to want it. So
2:08.1	we'll be right. But then they picked it up. And I, I branded a house on the lake, which was very
2:15.2	clever, except it was a long way away. And I have an electric car. So that became a problem.
2:19.6	I got very lonely sitting out there by the lake. And then one day this house came up for sale.
2:24.3	And I'm so low, I think it was. And we, I just loved it. Sorry, we bought it.
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