Pilot (Bunheads)

Pilot is the 1st episode of Bunheads Season 1. It originally aired on June 11, 2012.

Synopsis
Michelle Simms is shown performing one night in Las Vegas for her usual job as a Las Vegas showgirl. When her one friend asks if she would want to go out drinking one night, Michelle rejects, saying that she has an important audition in the morning as a dancer in Chicago. However, her plans of getting home are shattered when Hubbell Flowers shows up, as he does every month, to take Michelle out to dinner.

Michelle rejects, and says that she has to get home and go to bed, and recruits her friends to go out with Hubbell. Everything goes smoothly as Hubbell accepts, until in the morning at Michelle's audition, she is rejected before even auditoning by the director.

That night, after performing once again as a Las Vegas showgirl, Hubbell shows up again, and this time, Michelle reluctingly agrees to go out to dinner with him, where he proposes to her. She accepts and moves with him to his home of Paradise, California. She meets his mother, Fanny, whom he lives with. Michelle meets Sasha, Ginny, Melanie, and Boo in the studio when Fanny arrives and tells Michelle of her plans to hold a party for them because she could not be at the wedding.

Michelle is sent to Sparkles where she meets Truly Stone and Sam. She also learns of Truly's love for Hubbell and is given a dress for her party. Michelle arrives at the party and is greeted with silence and then small wispers. Fanny and Hubbell get into a small argument and Michelle quickly leaves, meeting the girls in the studio. She shows them what an audition process is like, with Fanny secretly observing from the door. Fanny takes Michelle to a local bar where they share stories of thier dance carrers and even share a dance when Truly comes in and alerts them Hubbell was involved in a car accident.

Cast

 * Sutton Foster as Michelle Simms
 * Kaitlyn Jenkins as Betina "Boo" Jordan
 * Julia Goldani Telles as Sasha Torres
 * Bailey Buntain as Ginny Thompson
 * Emma Dumont as Melanie Segal
 * Kelly Bishop as Fanny Flowers

Trivia

 * This is the debut of Bunheads.
 * All the major characters are intoduced.
 * This features the first and last apearance of Hubbell Flowers.

Errors

 * Michelle asks the girls about a movie theater in town and they say that it closed down, but in the next episode they went to a movie. So far it's unkown if any of them drive or own a car.