Wild Pilot

**Wild Pilot** is the first episode of season one, and the pilot episode of the Comedies for Kids series *WildSide*. It first aired on September 22, 2011.

This episode was the first episode to be filmed in Season 1. Primary production took place between December 6-10, 2010.

## Overview

The series begins when teenagers Rachel, Justice, Gary, Dean and April move in together in a house in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado. The group must survive their first few days together; which is quickly proven to be an uneasy task.

## Episode Summary

The series opens with Rachel Norman, Justice Leonardo, and Gary Fisherman travelling in the back passenger seats of a taxi cab. The scene features the three strangers having a casual discussion amongst themselves; with Rachel being the facilitator of the conversation. Justice manages to introduce her boyfriend, Mojo, to Rachel, and the other characters are introduced to Rachel's signature catch-phrase. Just as this happens, the cab stops at the curb outside the strangers' new house. The Taxi Driver lets the strangers out of the cab, and the wild adventure begins!

Following the opening credits, the scene then opens with Dean Ford and April Haden travelling in a separate taxi cab towards the same location. During the short scene, April makes an attempt to begin to get to know Dean, however Dean is less than amused. He reminds her that he doesn't know her, which leads April to believe that his real name was "You Know I Don't Know You".

Back at the house, Rachel opens the front door for the first time, and Justice and Gary pile into the house after her out of breath. Gary then proceeds to ask Rachel about the location of the bedrooms to drop his luggage off, and Rachel tells him that the bedrooms were located upstairs. Justice immediately refuses to carry her bags upstairs, and decides to leave them at the front door and lie down on the couch instead. This encourages Rachel and Gary to "explore" the rest of the house. During their exploration, the two come across the kitchen, which Rachel grows immediately fond of, the dining area, the family room, and finally, the backyard. Rachel then begins to complain about its size, before Gary manages to sneak back into the living room with out her knowledge.

Eventually, the doorbell rings, and Justice yells at Rachel from the living room to make her answer it. She reluctantly decides to, and manages to open the door to April and Dean. She firsts greets April, and then Dean afterwards. Upon meeting for the first time, Dean immediately falls in love with her at first sight, and accidentally calls her his future wife. Rachel chooses to ignore him, and encourages her friends to sit together to get to know each other better. She then encourages her friends to introduce themselves and talk about their hobbies and interests. Gary decides to go first, and introduces himself by mentioning his interest in money. April goes next, and reveals to her friends her interest in forks. After April, Rachel encourages Justice to go next, however Justice provides her with a basic introduction about her interest in her cell phone. This makes Rachel go after her, and she decides to provide her new friends with a genuine introduction about her interest in cooking and housework. Dean applauds at this, and eventually introduces himself last. During his introduction, Dean reveals to his new friends that he "guaranteed" that he was going to date Rachel in the future, and that he had an interest in science and inventing. After this, Rachel then encourages all of the friends to stand together in the center of the living room and huddle together. She encourages all of her friends to make a promise to stick by each other no matter what, and the friends confirm their promise by putting their hands together and lifting them unanimously.

After the promise, the new friends make their way into the kitchen, and Rachel volunteers to prepare snacks for them. First, she opens the fridge and pulls out a carton of milk. She offers to poor Dean a glass, however the milk turns out chunky. This causes her to throw the carton away immediately, and prompts her to pull out a plate of blue cheese from the fridge. The friends are more than amused at the offer however. Finally, Rachel decides to check the storage cabinet, and manages to find a jar of coffee beans. She offers the beans to her friends, before they realise that the beans were out-of-date. This encourages Dean to suggest for the friends to go grocery shopping. Rachel grasps at the idea, and immediately begins to put together a shopping list. She then encourages all of her friends to chip in $50 each, and chooses April and Justice to do the shopping together.

At the grocery store, April appears to be doing the shopping herself while Justice stays close behind her on her cell phone. After around half an hour of shopping, Justice finally notices the lack of food in April's shopping cart and begins to question her on it. She then learns that April was simply purchasing the items on the list in order. Justice then decides to encourage April to purchase the same "like" items at a time, however April doesn't fully understand what she means. Justice finally cracks, and decides to encourage her to grab "anything" off the shelf to make the cart fill up quicker. This works, and the trip manages to be finished in a little over an hour. At the conclusion of the trip, Justice remains on her cell phone while April carries all of the shopping bags by herself.

Back at the house, the rest of the friends are seen exploring the top floor, specifically the bathroom and storage closet. In the middle of their exploration the door bell rings, and Dean ultimately decides to answer it. He answers the door to Justice and April, who arrive home with all of their groceries. April then decides to place all of the groceries into the kitchen, and the rest of the friends follow her.

In the kitchen, Rachel begins to unpack the groceries bags, only to discover that the items in the bags were in small portions (thanks to April). She also discovers other useless items, such as five tins of sardines. A little while later, Rachel is seen preparing snacks in the kitchen with the ingredients she could salvage. Dean suddenly gets the idea to take all of the food back for a refund, however the friends quickly realise that April got rid of the receipt. This meant that the friends were stuck with useless food items for the rest of the week.

That night, the friends enter their bedroom for the first time, and discover that Justice already pre-assigned their beds. Rachel then quickly reminds the friends to make the most out of their food situation, and the friends fall asleep.

The following morning, the friends wake up to discover that April was already awake. The friends then head downstairs and discover April watching TV. The friends also learn that the TV had no remote, and that April ate all of the cereal packages; leaving the friends with no breakfast. This prompts them to eat anything they could find in the kitchen - Rachel grabs a tub of yoghurt, Justice grabs a packet of chips, Gary grabs a bottle of soda, and Dean grabs a full tub of margarine. Rachel, Gary, and Justice quickly finish their "meals", and soon complain that they were still hungry. This leads them to eye Dean, who was still visibly eating his tub of margarine with a spoon. They then quickly decide to chase him for it, and Dean decides to run straight into the kitchen. Unfortunately, the friends catch him, and decide to attack the margarine tub with their hands. After they empty the margarine tub completely, the friends complain that they were still hungry. This prompts Gary to pull out cupcakes, and the friends decide to delve themselves into them. At the conclusion of the "breakfast", Justice makes a claim that she would never eat margarine or cupcakes in her life again, and Rachel agrees with her. The friends eventually get sick, and proceed to vomit everything they just ate into the bin. The episode concludes with April walking in on the friends vomiting, and Rachel telling her to run away in the opposite direction.

## Future References (contains spoilers)

* Being that this is the first episode of the series, many running gags and character revelations are introduced in this episode and appear in multiple future episodes. These include (in order of appearance).
	+ Justice's cell phone addiction and her relationship with Mojo.
	+ Rachel's catchphrase of "RAN-DOM!".
	+ Justice's laziness.
	+ Rachel's fondness of cooking, and the mention of her famous father Michael Norman.
	+ Dean's crush on Rachel.
	+ Gary's aspiration of becoming "America's Richest Man", as well as his stubborn-ness with his money slightly later.
	+ April's fondness of forks.
	+ Rachel's fondness of housework and chores.
	+ Dean's fondness of inventing and science.
	+ Justice's distaste of Dean.
	+ Rachel being left-handed.
	+ Dean's fondness of females in general.
	+ The television set with the missing TV remote.
* This episode also introduces locations that are seen in future episodes.
	+ The taxi-cabs that the friends are travelling in at the beginning of the episode are shown in the episodes Wild Bowling Day, Wild Big Sister, and Wild and Wet.
	+ The House and most of its rooms are introduced in this episode and appear in almost every future episode.
	+ The shopping mall that Justice and April attend is seen and mentioned frequently in future episodes, such as Wild Soup Seller.
* Dean mentions falling in love with Rachel at first sight from this episode in Wild Valentine's Day.
* In Wild Thanksgiving, Justice envisions a flashback to the scene where the friends are eating margarine and cupcakes for breakfast. The scene is also mentioned a few more times in the episode, as it provides the reason why Justice chose to avoid purchasing cupcakes for the Thanksgiving dinner.
	+ Dean also mentions that the event happened "over a year ago", meaning that the events of Wild Thanksgiving was supposed to be set more than a year after the events of this episode.
* In Wild Psychic, the psychic's crystal ball displays a flashback to the opening scene of this episode; where Justice introduces Mojo to Rachel. Apparently, her crystal ball was set to "flashback" mode at the time.
* The scene where the friends enter the house for the first time is mirrored in Wild Luck Charlie when the friends enter the Duncan house for the first time.
* A couple of events from this episode is shown as flashbacks in Wild and Bad Memories.
	+ Gary getting crushed by the towels from the storage closet is displayed in Gary and Dean's combined bad memories.
	+ The scene in which the friends make a promise towards each other is displayed right at the end of Rachel's good memories.
* Wild Life Before shows the viewers a "flashback" to the events prior to the events of this episode; specifically the events leading up to the friends boarding the taxis displayed in the opening scenes of the series. The characters are seen wearing the same clothing and hairstyles that they wore in this episode. Additionally, April and Dean's conversation displayed in Wild Life Before is continued on from the one that was displayed in this episode.
* Dean once again brings up himself falling in love with Rachel at first sight in Wild Vacation, and this event is also brought up in Wild Friendship, Wild Dean's Soul Mate, and Wild Warehouse.
* The final scene/s of Wild Finale is intentionally identical to some of the opening scenes of this episode:
	+ The friends recreate their promise huddle, and many of the original words are repeated. It also takes place in the same spot as it did in this episode (in the middle of the living room).
	+ The characters exit the series in the reverse order they entered the series (besides Dean, who has an additional scene with Rachel afterwards).
	+ Upon Dean's exit, he stands in the doorway and says the line "Hey future wife... I mean Rachel" just as he did in this episode. Instead of being annoyed though, Rachel is flattered, since her and Dean are an official couple at the time.
	+ Before Justice's exit she appears to be lying on the couch, which is a reference to her first entrance in this episode.
	+ In this episode Rachel opens the door for the first time, while in the finale Rachel is the last friend to leave the house and close the door.
	+ After Rachel officially closes the door behind her, she says her final line "Wow. This situation didn't turn out so stupid after all", which is a contradiction of her opening line "This is a very stupid situation!". As a bonus, her line in the finale is also the final line of the entire series.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Sierra McCormick as Rachel Norman
* Chloe Moretz as Justice Leonardo
* Kyle Massey as Gary Fisherman
* Zachary Gordon as Dean Ford
* Rebecca Graham as April Haden

## Trivia

* Primary production for this episode began on December 6, 2010.
* According to Kenwood Delay, the first scene filmed of the series was the scene where all of the characters introduce each other. Delay always said that this method was helpful, as the cast were just getting to know each other at the same time that their characters were.
* This episode premiered on Comedies for Kids on September 22, 2011 to 7.4 million viewers.
* This episode marks the first appearance of Rachel Norman, Justice Leonardo, Gary Fisherman, Dean Ford, April Haden, Mojo, and the Taxi Driver.
* This episode only features three primary locations - the taxi cabs, The House, and the grocery store.
* This episode debuted the show's theme song.
* The scene where the friends discover that Rachel is left-handed was made on total accident. According to Delay, Sierra accidentally picked up the pencil with her left hand, and Delay decided to turn it into a character trait for Rachel. In real life, Sierra is Ambidextrous.
* The margarine that the friends ate towards the end of the episode wasn't actually margarine.

## Goofs

* The cup of off milk mysteriously disappears after the friends consume the coffee beans.
* The grocery issue is never resolved on-screen. It is unknown how it got resolved and when it happened, although it is implied that it would've been resolved in between the events of this episode and the events of the next episode.