Lost 102 The Pilot Part 2 Trivia, Facts & Description

• This episode's "Previously on Lost" was not built into the episode.
• Throughout "Pilot, Part 1" and "Pilot, Part 2", it is only shown what Jack, Charlie, Kate, Rose, Locke, Boone, Shannon, and Edward Mars were doing on the plane.
• If Sayid's estimation of the French transmission being on a loop for sixteen years and five months is correct, then the recording was most likely made in April 1988.
• J.J. Abrams won an Emmy for the directing of this episode.
• Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffrey Lieber received an Emmy nomination for the writing of the episode.
• Sawyer can be heard using a non-Southern accent in some scenes. Josh Holloway masked his southern accent while filming the pilot. It wasn't until J.J. Abrams explained a couple of weeks into shooting he was hired for his southern accent that he stopped. Some of these scenes have been left in the episode. (Welcome to Oahu)
• When Sayid and Sawyer are fighting, Sayid says "Ibn Al-Kalb" to him. This is Arabic for "son of a dog." Sawyer's favorite expletive is "son of a bitch", which is a female dog.
• Charlie's shoe, a Vans classic checkerboard slip-on, is size eight and is made in China.
• Bolivian television channel PAT was the victim of a hoax when shots from this episode, specifically Kate's flashback of the crash, were broadcast as "the final moments of Air France Flight 447", which crashed in 2009 over the Atlantic
  

• This episode is rated TV-14-LV.

 

- The comic book that Walt reads is Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends #1, published by DC Comics, and a polar bear really appears in it.

- The plane crash sequence was Evangeline Lilly's first day of shooting on the show. Because she is Canadian, a special U.S. employment visa had to be arranged for her. Since this took such a long time, all scenes that featured her character had to be pushed to the end of the shooting schedule. When the visa finally came in, she was flown to the set the very same day.

- The episode won 4 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore), Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.

- Sawyer can be heard using a non-Southern accent in some scenes. Josh Holloway masked his southern accent while filming the pilot. It wasn't until J.J. Abrams explained a couple of weeks into shooting, that he was hired because of his southern accent, that he stopped. Some of these scenes have been left in the episode.

- John Locke mentions that backgammon sets were found in the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia, widely considered the cradle of civilization. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq.

 

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Lost 101 The Pilot Trivia, Facts & Description

• The premiere episodes from the first three seasons are Jack-centric, although he only has one flashback in this episode.
• The premiere episodes from the first three seasons start with a character and locale never seen before on the show.
• The crash site seen in this episode is replicated in "Walkabout" and "Exposé".
• The day of the crash (Wednesday, September 22, 2004) is featured in this episode as well as in "Walkabout" (Locke), "Exposé" (Nikki and Paulo), and "Greatest Hits" (Charlie), in the flashbacks of midsection survivors, as well as the mobisode "So It Begins" (Vincent). It is also shown from the perspectives of others in "The Other 48 Days" (the tail section survivors), "Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2" (Desmond), "A Tale of Two Cities" (the Others), "One of Us" (the Others), and "The Other Woman" (the Others).
• J.J. Abrams won an Emmy for the directing of this episode.
• Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffrey Lieber received an Emmy nomination for writing the episode.
• When this episode was repeated in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2005, the deaths of Gary Troup and the pilot were omitted in order for the premiere to maintain a PG rating. However, reruns shown after 10 p.m. show these scenes.
• The boots Kate removes from a corpse are from the brand "Ariat", an equestrian athletic shoe.
• Sound bytes are used from the PC game Half-Life 2: When the plane's engine explodes and debris rains down, a man is hit by a piece and the sound produced is virtually identical to that of a Combine soldier dying. The sound of the debris crashing is also identical to that of wood breaking in the game. This is one of several allusions to Half-Life within the series.
• Jack's bottle of vodka contains the Cyrillic text "дождь", transliterated as "dozhd", and translated from Russian as "rain". It also included the words "Pure Vodka" written in English.
• The title, like many episodes, has a double meaning: not just the first episode, but the first victim of the Smoke Monster.
• By the end of this episode, only 8 of the main characters have been named for the viewing audience. They are, in order: Jack, Charlie, Sayid, Shannon, Kate, Boone, Walt and Sun (in Korean).
• In the enhanced version, the scene that shows Jack staring out at the ocean after the crash is shown changes. In the enhanced, the ocean is seen for a few seconds before showing Jack's face staring at it. In the original version, the scene immediately cuts to Jack's face staring.
• This episode is rated TV-14 (V).

 

• This is the only first hour of a season in which all main cast members appear.
  • Yunjin Kim (Sun) appears without speaking lines.
• This is the only season premiere to feature Michael and only one to feature Jin and Boone in a speaking part until the Season 6 premiere.
• With a budget of roughly $12 million, this episode, along with "Pilot, Part 2", was the most expensive pilot in TV history. Boardwalk Empire's 2010 pilot cost $18 million.
• Jack was originally intended to get killed off in the pilot episode, with Kate replacing him as the de facto leader of the survivors. However, due to strong notes from the network against the death, the writers decided to keep Jack and introduced the short-lived pilot character instead. (Pilot, Part 1 audio commentary) Contrary to popular belief, this story change occurred long before the casting of Matthew Fox.
• At one point in the development of the script, Boone's name was going to be "Five" (he would have been named "Boone Anthony Markham V" and gone by "Five"). When they decided to change it back to "Boone," they ran a find-and-replace on the script, which resulted in the the dialog between Kate and Jack in the stitching scene reading as: "One, Two, Three, Four, Boone." (Pilot, Part 1 audio commentary)
• The pilot, although uncredited, was played by Greg Grunberg. Grunberg, a childhood friend of J.J. Abrams, has appeared in many of his productions as a good luck charm.
• September 22, 2004, the date this episode originally aired, is also the date within the storyline on which Oceanic Flight 815 crashed. This was confirmed aloud in "Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1" and "The Glass Ballerina".

 

"Pilot, Part 1" is the first of the two-part pilot episode of Lost. It was originally broadcast on September 22, 2004, and "Pilot, Part 2" aired the following week. The two parts re-aired together on October 2, 2004. Jack Shephard, a doctor from Los Angeles, finds himself one of forty-eight survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious island. With the help of other survivors, he begins to treat the injured and attempts to find the cockpit of the plane in the hope of contacting civilization.

The episode establishes the show's use of flashbacks to show characters' lives before arriving on the Island. The one flashback in this episode depicts Jack's view of events on the plane just prior to the crash.

 

Bones 101 Pilot Trivia & Description

 

• Actor David Boreanaz is also known for playing the role of vampire superhero Angel on the eponymous WB Network television series Angel.
  

• Actress Emily Deschanel is also known for playing the role of Pam Asbury on the  2002 Stephen King miniseries Rose Red. She has also appeared in episodes of Law&Order:SVU, Providence and Crossing Jordan.

• Jonathan Adams is a series regular on Bones in season 1 only.

• Eric Millegan is a series regular on Bones from season 1 until midway through season 3.

• Actor Sam Trammell, who plays Ken Thompson in this episode, will go on to play a leading role in the HBO TV series  True Blood as shape-shifting bartender Sam Merlotte.
  

• Actors John M. Jackson and Shawn McDonald are uncredited for their participation in this episode.

"Pilot" is the premiere episode of the crime procedural television series Bones. It was directed by Greg Yaitanes and written by series creator Hart Hanson. It first aired on the FOX Network on September 13th, 2005. The series is inspired by the works of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who is also the author of a series of novels from which the show is based. Bones stars Emily Deschanel as the brilliant, yet socially inept forensics anthropologist Doctor Temperance Brennan. She is partnered with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, played by David Boreanaz, and is based out of the fictional Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, D.C.. Seeley's nickname for Brennan is "Bones", due to her occupational proclivities and he refers to her team of specialists as "Squints". The other cast members on the series includes Brennan's team, which is played by Michaela Conlin, Eric Millegan and TJ Thyne in the respective roles of Angela Montenegro, Zack Addy and Doctor Jack Hodgins. The team's supervisor is Doctor Daniel Goodman played by Jonathan Adams.

 

Baywatch 102 In Deep Trivia & Facts

• In more recent re-runs of Baywatch, the Season 1 theme song "Save Me" by Peter Cetera is replaced with a different song, "Overboard" by Kim Carnes.
• The character Eddie Kramer is based on real-life L.A. County Lifeguard, Mitch Flyer, who makes an appearance in this episode as lifeguard Steve.

In Deep is the second episode of the 1st season of Baywatch. It originally aired on September 22, 1989.