New York, New Nanny

**New York, New Nanny** is the first episode in Season 1 of *Jessie* and serves as the series pilot. It first aired on September 30, 2011 to 4.63 million viewers.

## Plot

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Jessie is an 18-year-old girl who moves from a small town in Texas to "The Big Apple", in order to try to live on her own and become an actress. When she is not able to pay the driver, she is thrown out of the cab and found by Tony Chiccolini, the building's doorman, and Zuri Ross, one of the Ross family. Once she is introduced to Tony and Zuri, Zuri offers Jessie a nanny job, which she accepts. Jessie is taken to the Ross Penthouse and then introduced to the rest of the Ross kids also including: Luke, a 12-year-old jokester that has an instant crush on her, Ravi, a recently adopted Indian Immigrant who has an apple-toothed lizard named Mrs. Kipling, and Emma, the fashionable natural-born child of the Rosses. The children find Jessie too demanding, and in turn, run away in their parents' helicopter. Jessie finds them and throws up on them. Jessie wins over Ravi's friendship by helping him in his video game. Jessie accidentally ruins Emma's science project for the science fair. Zuri intends to cover up for Jessie by telling Emma that Luke was the one who broke her project. She fixes the project, but Emma is disappointed because her entrepreneur parents have no time for her because they are working on their new movie. Jessie tells Morgan and Christina Ross that they don't spend enough time with their children; she gets fired in return. Jessie decides that she should go to the science fair instead of the Ross parents, in order to support Emma. However, Morgan and Christina Ross actually showed up to the fair. Jessie is then rehired in the end. At the last couple of minutes, the family and Jessie are seen eating ice cream in celebration.

## Cast

### Main

* Debby Ryan as Jessie Prescott
* Peyton List as Emma Ross
* Cameron Boyce as Luke Ross
* Karan Brar as Ravi Ross
* Skai Jackson as Zuri Ross
* Kevin Chamberlin as Bertram Winkle

### Recurring

* Chris Galya as Tony Chiccolini
* Christina Moore as Christina Ross
* Charles Esten as Morgan Ross

### Guest

* Brian Carpenter as Head Judge
* Bryan Oakes Fuller as A.D.

## Trivia

* This episode includes the first appearances of Jessie Prescott, Emma Ross, Luke Ross, Ravi Ross, Zuri Ross, Christina Ross, Morgan Ross, Bertram Winkle, Mr./Mrs. Kipling and Tony Chiccolini, which is a majority of the cast.
* This episode serves as the pilot and the opener to the *JESSIE* franchise.
* At the time of production, the title was *Pilot.*
* Several events in this episode are mentioned in the series finale, Jessie Goes to Hollywood.
* In the Amazon Prime Video version, The theme song is strangely omitted and cut out. The reason for this is unknown.
* Jessie said the first words of the show, which were, “So, then my dad, who’s in the Marine Corps”
* This is the first time Bertram says “it’s so far away”
* This is the first time Jessie’s dad was mentioned.
* It is revealed that Jessie can fly a helicopter
* This is the first appearance of Ravi’s room
* This is the first time Luke hits on Jessie, he will continue to do so throughout the series
* This is the first time Emma’s and Luke’s school is seen
* This is the first mention of Millie the Mermaid
* Angelina Jolie was mentioned.
* The outside shot of the kid’s school is an actual school, located at 259 21st Street, Brooklyn, New York, United States. This outside shot of the school was also used in the 1999 movie “Big Daddy”. As of 2022, this address is NO LONGER A SCHOOL. Currently it serves as a condo.

## Goofs

* When Jessie was thrown out of the taxi, she was thrown from an unreachable area as determined by the driving distance.
* Luke instructed Bertram to make beef soup, but the dinner was salad. However Bertram may have ignored him and made a salad or Jessie told him not to because they would eat together
* While in the cab, Jessie tells the driver that her dad is in the Marine Corps. In #2.27 "G.I. Jessie", she and the kids visit Fort Tavey in Texas where her dad is a Lt. Colonel in the Army, not the Marine Corps.

## Transcript

*To view the **New York, New Nanny** transcript, click here.*