Unpleasantville

Unpleasantville is the twelfth episode of the First Season and the series.

Summary
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Main Cast

 * Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert
 * Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
 * Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
 * Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert
 * Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers
 * Katerina Graham as Bonnie Bennett
 * Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes
 * Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
 * Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood (credit only)

Special Guest

 * Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman

Guest Cast

 * Malese Jow as Anna
 * Dillon Casey as Noah
 * Sean Faris as Ben McKittrick

Co-Starring

 * Joey Nappo as Kid

Trivia

 * Antagonist: Noah
 * This episode had 3.71 million viewers in USA.
 * Elena uses Jenna's red car since her car was totaled in the previous episode.
 * It is mentioned that Elena's dad, Grayson, was a doctor.
 * Elena learns that her biological mother's name was Isobel.
 * Stefan tells Elena, when she asks, that pictures of him in his past were burned and/or buried.
 * Matt is shown to drive some kind of truck.
 * Elena displays some knowledge of self-defense when fighting off Noah. She also stabs him with a pencil, confirming that vampires may be wounded by any wooden weapon.
 * Dillon Casey, who played Noah, also starred alongside Nina Dobrev in the Lifetime movie Too Young To Marry, in which the two played teen lovers who got married after high school graduation.
 * Elena will not actually kill a vampire until season two's episode The Dinner Party.
 * Episode Title:
 * The title "Unpleasantville" is a reference to the movie Pleasantville in which two teens were transported into a 1950's sitcom. Turning the title of that movie on its head juxtaposes an outwardly carefree, 1950s-themed school dance with Elena's decidedly unpleasant encounter with a vampire named Noah.
 * Deaths:
 * Noah by Stefan Salvatore

Cultural References

 * Pleasantville, a 1998 motion picture.

Quotes
: And you're transparent when you're deflecting. : Don't you have school?

Noah: Hello, Elena. : Hey, who's this? Noah: (spying on Elena) You hit me with your car, is that a new one? You got away from me... you won't next time.

: It's a job, you know some of us have to work Caroline. With my mom in and out...things are tight so.

She was 16, a runaway, and about to give birth. He delivered her baby and gave her a place to stay, but a few days later she disappeared... and there you were. Your parents were trying so hard to have a baby... it just wasn't happening. All Miranda ever wanted was to be a mom.



I went to school here you know, they do the 60's and 70's too FYI. : Oh, can't wait. Can I get you a drink? I hear the punch is real boss.

You and the Salvatore brothers. : No, but if I'm going to be with Stefan, then I have to learn to tolerate Damon. It's not like I can kill him. : There's a thought. : Mmm, I'll help.

Anna: She's not Katherine, Ok, Katherine is in the tomb. Noah: I know, but until we open that tomb I have her to play with. Anna: Don't be stupid, that girl is with the Salvatore brothers. Noah: They don't scare me, they never have.

Noah: Hello, Elena. Here's what your going to do, there's a exit door behind you. You have 5 seconds. : No. Noah: Or your brother dies. I can snap his neck so fast, I bet there's not even a witness.

: I got a job as a teacher. : Do you know what I am? : You're my student's brother. : Is everything you're telling me the truth? : Yes. : Then forget we had this conversation.