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Joan of Arcadia :: Pilot (01x01)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Pilot |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Production Number: | 100 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday September 26th, 2003 |
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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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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.
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •3 Doors Down | Kryptonite | | | •Amy Fairchild | Kryie & Gloria | | | •Avril Lavigne | Tomorrow | | | •David Loring | Run | | | •(Instrumental) | Concerto for Clarinet | | | •Katy Rose | Overdrive | | | •Kit Hain | I Don't Know What It Is | | | •Melissa Ritter | Bizarre | | | •Morphic Field | There's A Love | | | •Sinead O'Connor | I Believe In You | |
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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.
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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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