Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
214,722
edits
Pilot: Difference between revisions
m
no edit summary
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta10)) |
mNo edit summary |
||
Line 5:
'''Jules''': Yes, but [[Deadpan Snarker|you're aware that there's an invention called television, and on that invention they show shows]]?
'''Vincent''': Yeah.
'''Jules''': Well, the way they pick the shows on TV is they make one show, and that show's called a pilot. And they show that one show to the people who pick the shows, and on the strength of that one show, they decide if they want to make more shows. Some get accepted and become TV programs, and some don't, and become nothing.
|''[[Pulp Fiction]]''}}
A pilot is a "test run" of a series concept, filmed and assembled to give the network an idea of what it will look like, how it will play, and (via viewer testing) what kind of demographic it will appeal to. Usually the network will turn down the pilot. Sometimes it will throw it back to the producers and say, "try again". There are probably ten pilots made for every series that actually makes it on the air, at least in American TV—some insiders have snidely claimed that Hollywood is more about making pilots than actually making shows.
Line 101 ⟶ 102:
* The Pilot Episode of ''[[The Drinky Crow Show]]'' is the only episode not in HD.
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'': The famous opening sequence where Batman foils some bank robbers is similar in the general style of their animated pitch.
* ''[[
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'''s pilot had the inspector himself with a mustache and a british accent (provided by [[Gary Owens]]). When the show was picked up as a series, they had to throw in a [[Hand Wave]] in the aired version explaining the mustache. US tropers, however, can see the aired version [https://web.archive.org/web/20120304150942/http://www.hulu.com/watch/83128/inspector-gadget-original-series-winter-olympics#s-p5-so-i0 here].
* The pilot episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay", is markedly different from those that follow. The larger budget allotted to pilots typically allows for better visual effects compared to those found in "normal" episodes; that is inverted here, as "Turtle Bay" is the only episode of the series to be animated using Adobe Flash. As a result, animation appears choppy and uneven when compared to later episodes, which are hand-drawn. Some characters are drawn in a different style or act with different personalities than in the main series; Dr. Venture, for example, is depicted as a successful, competent scientist rather than a neurotic failure. Several supporting characters from the series also appear, although they are [[No Name Given|unnamed]] at this point. The Venture Brothers themselves also have a pet dog named Scamp (based upon Jonny Quest's dog Bandit), which is never seen outside the pilot; a later episode mentions in passing that Scamp has since died.
| |||