Chad Michael Murray has earned his place within the TV corridor of fame for his roles on collection like Gilmore Ladies, Dawson's Creek, and One Tree Hill, and, a lot to his chagrin, his place within the meme corridor of fame for one notorious scene from that final present.

"It was a kind of scenes the place I keep in mind I begged and pleaded, begged and pleaded, 'Please, I don't have to be there. There isn’t a want for Lucas Scott to be there. In the event you actually need to do it, positive. Go forward and write the scene, nevertheless it's horrible,'" Murray not too long ago recalled in dialog with James Lafferty, who performed his character's half-brother Nathan Scott on the teenager drama.

Murray opened up in regards to the scene in query throughout a wide-ranging dialog in regards to the collection for PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive problem. In the event you've spent any time on-line because the creation and mainstreaming of meme tradition, you've seen it: Lucas' father, Dan (Paul Johansson), is about to obtain a coronary heart transplant when the EMT carrying the organ drops it on the hospital ground — and proper into the jaws of a hungry golden retriever.

"The scene went down in infamy," Murray joked.

The actor proceeded to stipulate all of the fictional stars that needed to align for this extremely inconceivable occasion to happen — underlining its sheer ridiculousness.

For starters, the canine, "who'd unintentionally consumed marijuana," apparently had house owners who thought to themselves, Why would you are taking him to the vet? We don't try this in pet emergency. Let's go to the ER. The workers at mentioned ER then have the gall to inform these house owners, "'We're not going to ship you to the vet. No, we're going to let the canine sit back right here.'"

"Subsequent, we're going to clearly get exhausted as a result of we additionally ate a few of these mentioned pot brownies and fell asleep," Murray continued, declaring that the canine's leash needed to be comically lengthy sufficient to journey the incoming EMT, who determined to make such a significant supply in a concerningly informal method. "The case is just not locked off. It's coming proper in [a cooler]."

Lastly, Murray identified the inanity of his character's father "not within the prepping room ready" for coronary heart surgical procedure, however simply chilling within the ER. "In fact, I occur to be there" to see the guts go "skidding throughout the room. It's not in a bundle. It's simply sitting proper there on prime of ice" to the canine, which is miraculously now not on a leash.

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In a 2017 oral historical past of the infamous scene, One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn recalled that the origins of the scene lay within the thought of cultivating some sympathy for the villainous Dan.

"I simply felt like, we don't need Dan's redemption to be too straightforward," Schwahn mentioned. "We don't need him to get a coronary heart transplant and have or not it’s too typical. We need to take him to the sting of hope after which see what he's fabricated from. I simply thought, 'What's an absurd method of this man getting actually near getting this coronary heart transplant and never getting it?'"

Johannson, who really needed to play the scene straight, reacted incredulously when he first learn it. However when it got here time to movie the season 6 second, he remembered absolutely committing.

"In the event you half-ass the second for one thing like that, it could actually come throughout fairly dangerous…. However should you absolutely commit, you may utterly persuade your self that you’re a man who wants a coronary heart transplant who simply noticed your final hope get eaten by a canine," Johannson mentioned.

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