Pilot
- Episode aired Jul 7, 2006
- TV-PG
- 1h 18m
The police department in Santa Barbara hires someone they think is a psychic detective.The police department in Santa Barbara hires someone they think is a psychic detective.The police department in Santa Barbara hires someone they think is a psychic detective.
- Shawn Spencer
- (as James Roday)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode debuted to 6.1 million viewers, making it the highest-rated premiere for a new basic cable series in 2006. It also became the most watched pilot in USA Network history.
- GoofsYoung Shawn's eyes are brown in the episode, but James Roday, who plays older Shaun, has hazel eyes.
Human eye color can naturally go shades darker or lighter over the course of a person's life, particularly from childhood to adulthood, and can also be affected by factors such as diet and health. Brown has been known to lighten into hazel.
- Quotes
Carlton Lassiter: Where were you the night of the last robbery?
Shawn Spencer: I was robbing a stereo shop.
[He laughs]
Shawn Spencer: I wasn't. I don't know, I guess I was doing the same thing you were doing: not solving crime.
Carlton Lassiter: You're not helping your case here.
Shawn Spencer: My case? Wait, wait, wait. I'm actually a suspect?
Carlton Lassiter: Oh, you're our lead suspect.
Shawn Spencer: I gave you the guy!
Carlton Lassiter: He had a partner.
Shawn Spencer: I have to find *that* guy? I'm confused. When do you start chipping in?
- ConnectionsReferences The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The pilot introduces the main cast of characters (although one of the group is replaced, with decent plot explanation, by the second episode). James Roday is over the top as Shawn, and while his antics can get a bit tiresome, he brings a nice life to the show. Dule Hill plays his best friend and reluctant partner Gus, who gets the lion's share of the good lines, and plays the put-upon but loyal companion to a T. Timothy Omundson brings all the gravitas you'd expect from a hard boiled police detective, unaware that he is the comic relief in the world of Shawn, and is perfect. And Corbin Bernsen shines in the screen time he gets as Shawn's frustrated father, who deep down cares about his son, but is too stubborn at trying to mold him into a protégé.
All in all, a well rounded pilot, that sets the rest of the series into motion.
- vistaine
- Jan 9, 2008