Today marks the 10th anniversary of the series premiere ofPsychon USA online grid.
The terrible Vancouver weather made filming the Santa Barbara-set show even more exciting.
FRANKS:When we landed [in Vancouver], it rained for 11 days straight.
Credit: Jeff Weddell
It was likeBlade Runner.
We shot in October and by the end of the episode, there was snow on the ground.
We had people with hair dryers melting the snow on the ground.
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It was just an exciting and fun time.
And Dule is especially sensitive to the cold because hes an islandsman at heart.
The alleyway car chase scene was one of several defining moments for the show.
I liked all the outside stuff, all the challenges.
HILL:I remember that alleyway scene from the pilot too.
I kind of felt like I was on a football field for a second there.
Then, its like, Oh right, we are on TV.
I guess I dont necessarily need to hit him with all of that impact.
RODAY:[Hill] pretty much flattened me.
That was also the one where I ran and dove into a driving car.
These are things we just werent doing from like the midpoint on.
You sort of want them to constantly be facing impossible odds and constantly be overcoming them.
So, I think the addition of action was important for the show.
RODAY:The high-pitched, girly scream was cemented into the fabric of the show from jump street.
I think that was an important moment.
Rodays improvisation with a pineapple led to the shows recurring gag.
So, I felt the need to really put it in and it was so funny.
HILL:The simple thing of the pineapple, You want me to cut this up for the road?
From there, we had this whole runner about pineapples.
It was little things like that and getting happy when we thought that we solved the case.
They stayed throughout the show and we were able to grow from there.
Roday and Hills discovery that they shared a love for 80s music led to the first Psych-Out.
Anything we could come up with from the 80s, we would be singing them off camera.
Its stuff we just kept doing and cracking ourselves up.
RODAY:Nobody could say anything without us turning it into the song.
I think by the end of it, people mightve been a little bit annoyed by us.
We just couldnt let it go.
The pilot is missing Detective Juliet OHara (Maggie Lawson).
FRANKS:They do this testing thing on the thing and all of the characters tested off the charts.
It wasnt that Anne [Dudek, who only appeared in the pilot] tested bad.
It was the reflection that people didnt understand Lassiter was separated from his wife.
They thought he was married and having an affair with her.
You had to listen very carefully to know that.
So, it was a reflection that through her, they were turned off to Lassiter.
RODAY:Its always been a little strange to me that Juliet wasnt in the pilot.
So thats always a little jarring.
