The Pilot

The Pilot is the premiere of Prep, Life's So Boarding and the Pilot Season. It is followed by The Backscratcher (Episode).

SYNOPSIS

"What are you doing in my man cave?" - Basil Rivera

The episode opens with Lizzie entering her limo to take her to Santiva Prep.

When she arrives, Lizzie hits Harry with the limo door, leading to a longterm rivalry. Shortly after, Harry meets his love interest, Nan. After reuniting with his best friend, Levi, Harry heads to the nurse. Levi then reunites with his other best friend, Lizzie, and signs in with Buffy, head of the student council.

Levi meets his new roommate, Basil, who has placed a kiddie pool in their room. Levi also meets Basil's French personal assistant, Kevin, who refuses to give him a crepe.

Lizzie pays off her new roommate, Nan, to move out of their dorm room while Levi manages to scare Basil out of the room when he convinces him the pool is filled with frog eggs.

When Harry and Lizzie reunite in Levi's dorm room, Harry accidentally spills soda on Lizzie's Mimi Clothing while Lizzie steps on Basil's plastic brick.

Buffy introduces Principal Cade to the students in the lunch room. Shortly after, Basil introduces Levi to his cardboard cutouts. During their conversation, Julian emerges from behind one of the cutouts.

Basil, Buffy, Levi, Kevin, Nan, Julian, Samantha, and Charlotte make Fun-Dough sculptures in their first art class.

Mr. Lang sends Levi and Lizzie to the dean's office after they are caught playing video games in class. There, they reunite with Harry.

TRIVIA


 * A limited release tie-in story recapped some of the events of The Pilot, canonizing several character names or full names such as Charlotte Zaius and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Astin and fleshing out the history of characters such as Basil's father.
 * The full series' title never appears in the episode outside of its YouTube video title.
 * Basil's kiddie pool reappears as the robots' escape craft in Star Preps: The Plaid Awakens and Star Preps: Solo and Ready to Rollo.
 * A photo of Guamahava in this episode appears in the Season 4 episode Basil's Chicken Emporium.