39 Best Pilot Episodes Of All Time Which Built Quite A Foundation For The Series

Booksmagic replied:
"The perfect pilot and the perfect finale. And also a pretty forking great middle to go with it."

SCHN22 replied:
"First season is a masterpiece, best season by far."

"The ending of episode 1 was awesome."

"The Fringe pilot did a ton of work getting the characters together and informing you of their personalities while still telling having a compelling plot."

TheShoot141 replied:
"What an amazing first episode. Seasons 1-3 are some of the best TV. Specifically the cliffhanger at the end of season 1, top 3 all time."

"I think Futurama’s pilot is pretty perfect."
 
billys_ghost replied:
"You can watch it on mute with no subtitles and it still makes perfect sense. Great pilot"

"The Walking Dead has one of the best Pilots/First seasons of all time. It falls off slowly at season 2, and gers more and more drawn out and repetitive, but man that show was amazing in the beginning."

ElginBrady420 replied:
"I read the book right before it came out and I thought it would be a real shame if the pilot didn’t end on “The things we do for love.” It did not disappoint."

Ok-Budget112 replied:
"“Team! Team, team, team, team, team. I even love saying the word ‘team’. You probably think this is a picture of my family? No! It’s a picture of The A-Team. Bodie, Doyle, Tiger, the Jewellery Man.”

I used to do a lot of presentations for work. For acknowledgments you’d usually show a group photo but we were always losing and gaining people so I started using a picture of the A-Team because of Reynolm!"

"My crotch is itchy".

"Are you telling me that as my daughter or my grill cook? Cause it should be neither".

freezerbreezer replied:
"The best part was not realising how all the families are related until everyone shows up at Mitch and Cam's."

beansbaxter78 added:
"Currently watching it now for first time. On season 2 now. Every episode has at least one actual laugh out loud moment.

My wife and I both nearly pissed ourselves when Fizbo pulled out the alarm clock to check the time."

DragoonDM replied:
"I was really expecting that I'd have trouble taking Bryan Cranston seriously in a dramatic role, being so used to him as Hal. They even had him in tightie-whities in the pilot, thoroughly reinforcing his "Hal"ness. It was a pleasant surprise to see how wrong I was about that."

GarchompKills replied:
"3.6 not great not terrible."

Redqueenhypo added:
"For me, one of the things that made it incredible was the short chat between Scherbina and Legasov outside the courthouse about the history of Pripyat. Nobody ever acknowledges bad things happened in Eastern Europe prior to 1939."

bfragged replied:
"I have a cousin who’s a comedy writer and claimed scrubs pilot was almost perfect and worth studying."

"Older show but ER's pilot was phenomenal."

"Community, because it introduces all the main characters, their backgrounds, and the direction of the show all in about twenty minutes."

allthingskerri replied: "Honestly I tell people to skip the first episode if they have no idea what black mirror is about. It almost put me off watching anything else after that first episode... But it really does set the tone for everything else."

tomatofruitbat replied:
" Love this show so much, and the pilot was amazing. I got so attached to the characters that I was sad for the end to come."

JasperTheMaster08 replied:
“This job is eating me alive. I can't breathe anymore. I spent all these years trying to be the good guy, the man in the white hat. I'm not becoming like them. I am them.”

SoyBuenoWorker replied:
"The best part is that it’s Orla who we hear talking first and when you realize it’s not her diary, it’s hysterical. I think it’s also the most eloquent you ever hear Orla throughout the whole show, which makes it funnier."

"In my opinion. I don't watch many series (because if the pilot is not good I usually don't bother watching the rest) but this one got me going from the start. At least for the first season, anyway."

"Talks eloquently about how religion and politics can both exist at the White House without being overtly biased towards one side."

MahouMonkey replied:
"When I experienced the pilot for the first time I couldn't believe it was a show. I really felt like I was watching a film and it blew my mind how the world and characters enveloped me into this mystery."

tbkrida wrote:
"I actually just started watching this for the first time 3 weeks ago. Woke up and there was an episode on and it looked interesting. Went back to the beginning and got hooked. On Season 3 now."

Sierra1one7 replied: "Pilot is fantastic. Mr. Robot is one the best shows because it is a great show that actually ends well. Plus it has one of the most captivating scenes I have ever seen, the one with vera in the last season."

CaptainOverthinker replied:
"The person that convinced me to watch it told me “Just watch the first 5 minutes and you’ll be hooked”. They were very, very correct."

zachtheperson replied:
"I still think the Psych pilot might be the best episode of the whole show. Sean had so much more character, and they weren't sticking to the 1.2.3. formula they adopted in later episodes."

Patricio_Guapo replied:
"The entire first season is the best first season of any sitcom ever. It’s flawless."

Aardvark_Man added:
"I legitimately think that the original run is some of the best TV ever made of any type.
It's just endlessly rewatchable, so tightly made and fantastic."

"The ending of the pilot was shocking and really set the tone for the rest of the amazing first series."

"The heavy ideas kept coming fast one after the next and I thought 'whoa, slow down and pace yourselves, guys!' but I was eating it all up throughout episode 1."

MrSnappyPants replied:
"I remember thinking, "this show is emotionally violent". Incredibly well done. The laptop scene, the falling off the building scene. Brilliant."

"That whole monologue that Jeff Daniels does is priceless."

Paddock9652 replied:
Justified doesn’t get enough love in general but the pilot and finale were perfect and I would stack them against any other “golden age of tv” show. The show itself may not have been as tightly written and artsy as some but d*mn is it good."

purpleushi replied:
"The whole first season was incredible. I remember watching every episode at least three times while waiting for the next one to air. I don’t think I’ve ever fallen so fast into fandom for any other show.

That being said, I ended up not even finishing the whole show. Checked out somewhere around the end of season 3 and then tried to finish at some point, but just couldn’t."

Warhorse173 replied:
"I remember my friend told me to watch it, so I did. For about the first 90% or so I thought it was ok, but kind of generic and predictable. Then I got to the last few minutes and I was hooked."

TheCaramelMan replied: "Peep Show is genuinely one of the hardest and cringiest shows I’ve ever had to watch. Every episode is like watching a car crash. And I mean all of this in the best way possible. The stupid and nonsensical sh*t these characters do and the awkward situations they get themselves in is so so so hilarious."