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Joan of Arcadia

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  Episode Information  
Title: Pilot
Episode Number: 1
Season: 1
Season Episode #.: 1
Production Number: 100
Original Airdate: Friday September 26th, 2003
10/10 (1 Vote cast)
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Episode Crew
Director: James Hayman
Jack Bender
Writer: Barbara Hall
  Episode Summary  
Sixteen-year-old Joan Girardi and her family have recently moved to the town of Arcadia, Maryland. One day, she encounters a boy of about her own age who makes an extremely outrageous claim: that he is God. He gives her a simple assignment: get a job. Meanwhile, her father, Will Girardi, is investigating a serial killer.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
Baadja-Lyne OdumsplayedCafeteria Woman (God)Recurring (first appearance)
David Burke (1)playedFather Ken MalloryRecurring (first appearance)
Erik PalladinoplayedLt. Michael DaghlianRecurring (first appearance)
Ivonne Coll (1)playedMarleneRecurring (first appearance)
Justin ScotplayedOfficer EicherRecurring (first appearance)
Kimberly Kevon WilliamsplayedElyseRecurring (first appearance)
Kris LemcheplayedCute Boy (God)Recurring (first appearance)
Morocco OmariplayedPrinicipal ChadwickRecurring (first appearance)
Patrick BreenplayedSammyRecurring (first appearance)
Stephi LineburgplayedSophieRecurring (first appearance)
Billy MayoplayedDesk Sergeant Drake 
Deborah TheakerplayedMrs. Marx 
Dee NelsonplayedMrs. Dorsett 
Larkin CampbellplayedMan in Army Boots 
Noah BeanplayedOfficer Osborne 
Ruth SilveiraplayedPatti 
Spencer RedfordplayedLeslie 
  Episode Notes  
All five members of the Girardi family are named after saints.
 
The series is set in the fictional town of Arcadia in Maryland.
 
In the original draft of the pilot, the Girardi family were named the Delaneys.
 
  Featured Songs  
ArtistSong TitlePlayed When
3 Doors DownKryptonite 
Amy FairchildKryie & Gloria 
Avril LavigneTomorrow 
David LoringRun 
(Instrumental)Concerto for Clarinet 
Katy RoseOverdrive 
Kit HainI Don't Know What It Is 
Melissa RitterBizarre 
Morphic FieldThere's A Love 
Sinead O'ConnorI Believe In You 
  Episode Quotes  
Kevin: Ever get the strange feeling you're being discussed?
Luke: I never get that.
Kevin: Because you're too boring.
 
Sammy: You don't happen to have any references on you.
Joan: No, but I was sent by God...
(He looks at her like she's crazy)
Joan: She said! Revealing her acerbic wit!
 
Joan: So you're a science geek, right?
Luke: I prefer "man of science."
 
Will: Helen, Canada's where people go when they can't really afford to go on a vacation.
 
God: I'm omniscient, Joan - it comes with the job.
 
Joan: Let's see a miracle.
Cute Boy (God): How about that?
Joan: It's a tree.
Cute Boy (God): Let's see you make one.
 
Helen: Let's sit down to a normal family brekfast.
Luke: Yeah, let's try something new.
 
Will: Did you happen to see his shoes?
Joan: Oh, yeah. I think they were Gucci.
 
Sammy: (on the phone) Is it breathing? It's moving? It's hopping? If it's hopping it's not dead!
 
Luke: So, what you do is that you shoot these photons at this piece of paper--
Joan: And a pervert appears in the yard.
 
Luke: As the great physicist Faraday once said, "Nothing is too wonderful to be true."
 
Joan: What about my hair?
Luke: It's on your head.
 
Joan: Who are you?
Cute Boy (God): I've known you since before you were born, Joan.
Joan: I'm going to ask you one more time.
Cute Boy (God): I'm God.
Joan: You're what?
Cute Boy (God): God.
Joan: Don't ever...talk to me again.
 
  Episode Goofs  
Both Will and Helen are very blasé when Joan tells them that she thought she saw a pervert outside her window the night before. This is very strange, considering that it is revealed in "Just Say No" that Helen was raped when she was nineteen.
 
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