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The pilot introduces us to the beautiful neighbourhood of [[{{Suburbia}} Wisteria Lane]].
We meet Mary Alice Young, the narrator, as she goes about her day as a [[{{Housewife}} housewife]], doing her chores and taking care of her house.
That is, until she takes a gun from a box hidden in a closet and [[WhamShot shoots herself]] with it.
After attending her funeral, her neighbours decide to unravel the season’s mystery: what drove Mary Alice to her suicide?
The pilot premiered on October 3, 2004.
!!Tropes appearing on this episode:
* TheAce: There are a couple on Wisteria Lane.
** Bree is the most prominent, and she is introduced in such a way.
---> ''Bree's many talents were known throughout the neighborhood. And everyone on Wisteria Lane thought of Bree as the perfect wife and mother... Everyone, that is, [[BrokenAce except her own family]].''
** Mary Alice herself is also shown to be a fantastic housewife and friend, and her only fault is lying about her size.
* ActionPrologue: Downplayed, but the first scene is Mary Alice’s suicide: the episode doesn’t get any more shocking than that.
* AngerBornOfWorry: When asked, Susan says she's mostly angry that Mary Alice didn't come to her friends for help.
* BaitAndSwitch: After Mary Alice’s death, we focus on what seems a red bloodstain only to zoom out as her neighbour tastes a bit of it. She spilled some tomato sauce.
* BloodyHilarious: The visual gag where Ms. Huber tastes some red liquid right after we see Mary Alice’s death.
* BrattyHalfPint: Despite Lynnette's resourcefulness and nerve, her kids are very cheeky, chaotic and difficult to manage.
* BrokenAce: Despite Bree's skills and hard work, her family is very unhappy with her coldness and rigidity.
* ControlFreak: Part of Bree’s problem; it’s obvious that the dinner conversation is not just about dinner.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: This episode establishes the series’ tone and sense of humour with witty dialogue and black comedy, sometimes both.
* DissonantSerenity: Mary Alice cheerily narrates [[ExaggeratedTrope her own death]].
* DrivenToSuicide: May Alice, in the very first scene.
* DrivingQuestion: At the end of the episode, the very last line sums up this season’s mystery:
--> '''Susan:''' ‘’Oh, Mary Alice, what did you do?’’
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: One for each of the housewives.
** [[LemonyNarrator Mary Alice]] is narrating her day and doing her chores.
** [[NosyNeighbor Martha Huber]] hears something suspicious in her neighbor's house and has a ready-to-go excuse to drop by and snoop around. After finding out she's dead and calling for help, she simply decides to [[{{Jerkass}} keep Mary Alice's blender]].
** [[GuileHero Lynnette]] is trying to negotiate with her kids using Santa as leverage.
** [[ProperLady Bree]] is taking two baskets of muffins to the grieving Paul and Zach. After giving them clear instructions, she callously asks them to give the baskets back once they're done.
** [[HotBlooded Gaby]] is arguing with her husband.
** [[CuteClumsyGirl Susan]]'s awful mac and cheese is almost uncovered by a gust of wind while she has a talk with Julie.
** [[SitcomArchnemesis Edie Britt]] swiftly shows up at Mike's house at the same time as Susan, ready to start a relationship, having prepared some sausage [[BilingualBonus puttanesca]].
* EverytownAmerica: Wisteria Lane, which is reportedly in [[FictionalProvince Eagle State]].
* FamilyVersusCareer: Lynnette's backstory.
* FashionModel: Part of Gaby’s past, as seen in the flashbacks.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: [[ProperLady Bree]] is an excellent cook who won't stop preparing fancy meals.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: At the very end of the episode, we see that [[spoiler: someone wrote a letter to Mary Alice that probably incited her suicide]].
* FishOutOfWater: Bree in the diner.
* TheFunInFuneral: Mary Alice's funeral is crashed by Lynnette's children sneaking into her living pool.
* HappyMarriageCharade: Part of what ticks Rex off about Bree is her insistence on always pretending that everything is fine.
* {{Housewife}}: Despite the title, probably only Bree, Lynnette and the late Mary Alice could be considered housewives. Gaby doesn't need to work but she doesn't do any chore either, spending most of her time shopping, and Susan has a job as a children storybook artist, which allows her to work from home.
* KidsPlayMatchmaker: Julie sure wants Susan and Mike to get together, so much so that she investigates him.
* LemonyNarrator: Mary Alice is particularly sassy in this episode.
--> '''Gabrielle:''' Guess we found the skeleton in her closet!\\
'''Mary Alice narration:''' ‘’Not quite, Gaby. Not quite.’’
* LethalChef: Susan's cooking skills are... Not good.
%%-> ''it was the only dish she knew how to cook, and she rarely made it well. It was too salty the night she and Karl moved into the new house. It was too watery the night she found lipstick on Karl's shirt. She burned it the night Karl told her he was leaving her for his secretary.''
--> '''Mike:''' I just refuse to believe that anyone would mess up macaroni and cheese.
--->''(beat)''
--> '''Mike:''' How did you... It tastes like it's burned ''and'' undercooked.\\
'''Susan:''' Yeah, [[SelfDeprecation I get that a lot]].
* MeetCute: Mike and Susan's first encounter is very awkward but they're both obviously charmed with each other.
* MistressAndServantBoy: Gaby's affair with her teenager gardener, John Rowland.
* MyBelovedSmother: It's clear that Bree cares more about keeping her image of the perfect family than about making her children happy, even refusing to concede on something as simple as a dinner course.
* NosyNeighbor: Martha Huber.
%%* ParentingTheHusband: Lynnette's husband Tom is not the most mature.
* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: Implied to be part of Lynnette’s problems: she wasn’t ready to raise three rowdy kids, but she can’t bring herself to admit anything of the sort.
* ParentsAsPeople: Three out of the four main characters are parents, and we see their struggle to raise their children as well as they can.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Mary Alice's head, aside from resting in a pool of blood, has nothing unusual about it, despite having just committed suicide by shooting herself in her temple.
* ProperLady: Bree is very traditional and always behaves as such.
* TheRival: She’s not an antagonist ‘’per se’’, but we can see that Edie will be a thorn on Susan’s side for the remainder of the season.
* SourOutsideSadInside: Bree doesn't get why her iron-fist-in-velvet-glove parenting style can't make her family happy.
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone to an extent, but particularly Mary Alice and Bree, who won't even let her husband see her cry.
We meet Mary Alice Young, the narrator, as she goes about her day as a [[{{Housewife}} housewife]], doing her chores and taking care of her house.
That is, until she takes a gun from a box hidden in a closet and [[WhamShot shoots herself]] with it.
After attending her funeral, her neighbours decide to unravel the season’s mystery: what drove Mary Alice to her suicide?
The pilot premiered on October 3, 2004.
!!Tropes appearing on this episode:
* TheAce: There are a couple on Wisteria Lane.
** Bree is the most prominent, and she is introduced in such a way.
---> ''Bree's many talents were known throughout the neighborhood. And everyone on Wisteria Lane thought of Bree as the perfect wife and mother... Everyone, that is, [[BrokenAce except her own family]].''
** Mary Alice herself is also shown to be a fantastic housewife and friend, and her only fault is lying about her size.
* ActionPrologue: Downplayed, but the first scene is Mary Alice’s suicide: the episode doesn’t get any more shocking than that.
* AngerBornOfWorry: When asked, Susan says she's mostly angry that Mary Alice didn't come to her friends for help.
* BaitAndSwitch: After Mary Alice’s death, we focus on what seems a red bloodstain only to zoom out as her neighbour tastes a bit of it. She spilled some tomato sauce.
* BloodyHilarious: The visual gag where Ms. Huber tastes some red liquid right after we see Mary Alice’s death.
* BrattyHalfPint: Despite Lynnette's resourcefulness and nerve, her kids are very cheeky, chaotic and difficult to manage.
* BrokenAce: Despite Bree's skills and hard work, her family is very unhappy with her coldness and rigidity.
* ControlFreak: Part of Bree’s problem; it’s obvious that the dinner conversation is not just about dinner.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: This episode establishes the series’ tone and sense of humour with witty dialogue and black comedy, sometimes both.
* DissonantSerenity: Mary Alice cheerily narrates [[ExaggeratedTrope her own death]].
* DrivenToSuicide: May Alice, in the very first scene.
* DrivingQuestion: At the end of the episode, the very last line sums up this season’s mystery:
--> '''Susan:''' ‘’Oh, Mary Alice, what did you do?’’
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: One for each of the housewives.
** [[LemonyNarrator Mary Alice]] is narrating her day and doing her chores.
** [[NosyNeighbor Martha Huber]] hears something suspicious in her neighbor's house and has a ready-to-go excuse to drop by and snoop around. After finding out she's dead and calling for help, she simply decides to [[{{Jerkass}} keep Mary Alice's blender]].
** [[GuileHero Lynnette]] is trying to negotiate with her kids using Santa as leverage.
** [[ProperLady Bree]] is taking two baskets of muffins to the grieving Paul and Zach. After giving them clear instructions, she callously asks them to give the baskets back once they're done.
** [[HotBlooded Gaby]] is arguing with her husband.
** [[CuteClumsyGirl Susan]]'s awful mac and cheese is almost uncovered by a gust of wind while she has a talk with Julie.
** [[SitcomArchnemesis Edie Britt]] swiftly shows up at Mike's house at the same time as Susan, ready to start a relationship, having prepared some sausage [[BilingualBonus puttanesca]].
* EverytownAmerica: Wisteria Lane, which is reportedly in [[FictionalProvince Eagle State]].
* FamilyVersusCareer: Lynnette's backstory.
* FashionModel: Part of Gaby’s past, as seen in the flashbacks.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: [[ProperLady Bree]] is an excellent cook who won't stop preparing fancy meals.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: At the very end of the episode, we see that [[spoiler: someone wrote a letter to Mary Alice that probably incited her suicide]].
* FishOutOfWater: Bree in the diner.
* TheFunInFuneral: Mary Alice's funeral is crashed by Lynnette's children sneaking into her living pool.
* HappyMarriageCharade: Part of what ticks Rex off about Bree is her insistence on always pretending that everything is fine.
* {{Housewife}}: Despite the title, probably only Bree, Lynnette and the late Mary Alice could be considered housewives. Gaby doesn't need to work but she doesn't do any chore either, spending most of her time shopping, and Susan has a job as a children storybook artist, which allows her to work from home.
* KidsPlayMatchmaker: Julie sure wants Susan and Mike to get together, so much so that she investigates him.
* LemonyNarrator: Mary Alice is particularly sassy in this episode.
--> '''Gabrielle:''' Guess we found the skeleton in her closet!\\
'''Mary Alice narration:''' ‘’Not quite, Gaby. Not quite.’’
* LethalChef: Susan's cooking skills are... Not good.
%%-> ''it was the only dish she knew how to cook, and she rarely made it well. It was too salty the night she and Karl moved into the new house. It was too watery the night she found lipstick on Karl's shirt. She burned it the night Karl told her he was leaving her for his secretary.''
--> '''Mike:''' I just refuse to believe that anyone would mess up macaroni and cheese.
--->''(beat)''
--> '''Mike:''' How did you... It tastes like it's burned ''and'' undercooked.\\
'''Susan:''' Yeah, [[SelfDeprecation I get that a lot]].
* MeetCute: Mike and Susan's first encounter is very awkward but they're both obviously charmed with each other.
* MistressAndServantBoy: Gaby's affair with her teenager gardener, John Rowland.
* MyBelovedSmother: It's clear that Bree cares more about keeping her image of the perfect family than about making her children happy, even refusing to concede on something as simple as a dinner course.
* NosyNeighbor: Martha Huber.
%%* ParentingTheHusband: Lynnette's husband Tom is not the most mature.
* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: Implied to be part of Lynnette’s problems: she wasn’t ready to raise three rowdy kids, but she can’t bring herself to admit anything of the sort.
* ParentsAsPeople: Three out of the four main characters are parents, and we see their struggle to raise their children as well as they can.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Mary Alice's head, aside from resting in a pool of blood, has nothing unusual about it, despite having just committed suicide by shooting herself in her temple.
* ProperLady: Bree is very traditional and always behaves as such.
* TheRival: She’s not an antagonist ‘’per se’’, but we can see that Edie will be a thorn on Susan’s side for the remainder of the season.
* SourOutsideSadInside: Bree doesn't get why her iron-fist-in-velvet-glove parenting style can't make her family happy.
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone to an extent, but particularly Mary Alice and Bree, who won't even let her husband see her cry.
