The Rainy Day Women with Josh Schwartz

Beyond the OC (Welcome to the OC)

Melinda Clarke

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Josh Schwartz returns to join Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke to discuss “one of the greatest episodes ever,” The Rainy Day Woman, S2 Episode 14. Josh discusses how the Rainy Day woman idea came about and how they created all that rain for the episode. We get the real lowdown on how the Spider-Man kiss was shot, was it truly romantic? Insights into the Alex and Marissa relationship, Seth’s reaction, and what was Sherman Oaks The Real Valley in reference to… Hear about the ads the cast turned down and that infamous super bowl commercial that Josh will not let Rachel forget. Also, hear about Melinda’s love for cigars, rapid fire questions with Josh, and cassette tapes are making a comeback! The Rainy Day Woman Best Synopsis: Summer can’t fight it anymore, Seth is the one. Ryan is surprised when Lindsay finds out she’s Caleb’s daughter yet makes a difficult decision. Marissa’s relationship changes its course when she moves in with Alex.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the OC Bitches. Welcome to the OC Bitches. Bitches, bitches, bitches.
0:23.2	Today we're a season two episode 14, the rainy day women, the best episode, not only
0:31.8	of the OC, but ever in television history. According to some people, that was a quote
0:38.3	that I found, Lee Palmieri, a journalist. I don't know if you know her or not.
0:44.0	I don't know her personally, but I'm familiar with Decider and obviously I'm now a big fan
0:47.9	of theirs.
0:48.9	And everyone who, if you hear that voice, you might actually recognize it now since
0:52.9	it is his third time here with us by the first three feet. The trifecta. Yeah, you're
0:58.6	the first three feet. Nice studio, you guys got here. Is it reminiscent a little bit?
1:03.2	It's reminiscent. I walked in. I'm like, that is not the backing, but good enough close
1:08.0	enough. It's close enough. It's all you can ask for in Hollywood. Well, thanks for having
1:12.0	me back, guys. Very excited to be here. Thanks for coming out to the deep valley today
1:15.1	from this fine afternoon. It's my pleasure. What do you mean? I thought we were in
1:18.9	Malibu. I mean, OC. Newport. Newport. All we're missing is Seth's boat saying, give
1:25.0	me sex. They give me sex. Oh, we're going to get into all that today. I actually really
1:29.9	enjoyed this episode. So the rainy day women. Yes. It definitely, in my, of course, research,
1:38.2	it is one of the favorites, if not the favorite of quite a few people. And I'm curious for
1:44.8	all the title. How did the title come to be? What came first? The Spider-Man kiss, the
1:52.5	idea of rain, the Bob Dylan song. I think, I mean, I had basically, I just had, I didn't
1:59.1	have much. I just had this idea that I just really wanted it to rain in Newport Beach.
2:03.8	I just thought, I, again, being an East Coaster, coming out to California, so Cal for college
2:09.0	as I've talked about, I was stunned to see how people reacted when it rained in Southern
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