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The Wonder Years :: Pilot (01x01)
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| Title: | Pilot |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Production Number: | B88003 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday January 31st, 1988 |
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It's the first day at Robert F. Kennedy Junior High for Kevin Arnold and his best friend, Paul Pfeiffer. Brian, Winnie's brother, is killed in Vietnam and Kevin and Winnie share their first kiss.
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This series was inspired by the movie A Christmas Story.
| Ayre Gross was the original narrator of the series and only narrated this episode. When this episode re-aired, Daniel Stern's, the new narrator, voice had been dubbed over Gross's.
| This episode received an Emmy nomination in the Writing category.
| A shortened script version of this episode is printed in a seventh grade reading textbook.
| On 31 January there was the game-day preview which won 30 percent of the audience. Two months later, when the show debuted, 32 percent tuned in.
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Mrs. Ritvo: Kevin Arnold...You're Wayne's brother, aren't you?
Kevin: Well, according to my mother, yes, but my own theory is -
Mrs. Ritvo: You got a tough road of you, young man. A tough road of you.
| Narrator: There where moments that made us cry with laughter, and there were moments, like that one, of sorrow and wonder.
| Narrator: A suburban junior high school cafeteria is like a microcosm of the world. The goal is to protect yourself, and safety comes in groups. You have your cool kids, you have your smart kids, you have your greasers, and in those days, of course, you had your hippies. In a fact in junior high school, who you are is defined less by who you are than by who's the person sitting next to you.
| (Paul and Kevin are looking through the book Our Bodies, Our Selves)
Paul: Holy cow!
Kevin: Try not to drool on it, OK? If Karen finds out I have this, she'll kill me.
Narrator: Paul and I decided that the best way to prepare for junior high school girls was to look at them naked.
| Narrator: Homeroom. I sat between Eric Antonio and Gail Aslanian. They had met on the bus and had taken a liking to each other.
Eric: I love you.
Gail: I love you, too.
Kevin: And I love you both, but I'm having a little trouble breathing here.
| Narrator: In one of those quirks of scheduling, my first class was gym. This meant that I had to wake up in the morning, shower, get dressed, go to school, get undressed, shower and get dressed - all in the space of about 45 minutes.
Coach Cutlip: Well, people. A lot of you probably think this is gym class, huh?
Narrator: I was overwhelmed by a sudden panic. Things hadn't been going that well so far but if this wasn't gym class I was in bigger trouble than I thought.
Coach Cutlip: Well it's not. People, it's physical education class. Through those doors they educate your minds. In here, I educate your bodies. I'm an educator, OK? A body educator.
| Narrator/Adult: Paul was allergic to everything. Wayne used to say he was even allergic to his own snout......He's a funny guy!
| Paul: Well, I guess I'll see you at the bus-stop.
Kevin: Yeah.
Paul: Last night I had a dream that when I got to school, I realized I had no clothes on.
Kevin: If you're naked when you got to the bus-stop, I'll tell you.
Paul: Thanks.
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Kevin states that his locker is two down from Debbie Ackerman but his locker is actually four down from Debbie.
| The gym class uniforms have a different school mascot than the rest of the episodes. In this episode it's a wildcat, and from the next episode on it's an Indian.
| In the first dinner sequence, we can see that all the kitchen appliances and furniture, are positioned in the opposite side of where we saw during all the series: The oven, the round edged shelf and even the kitchen sink is located in the opposite side of the kitchen entrance door. The TV set is also different. All the set was "inverted" for the second episode and remained quite the same since then.
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Kevin: There was only one problem. Charles Manson had the locker between us.
Charles Manson is a convicted killer known for starting a cult 'family' in which he brainwashed his followers into helping him commit the Tate murders.
| Narrator: Dennis McLain won thirty-one games.
Dennis McLain was the last major league pitcher to win 30 games in a season, going 31-6 in 1968.
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