I showed the first disc of Wonderfalls to a friend tonight. God, what a great show.

On the DVDs, "Pink Flamingos" is episode 2 instead of episode 4. What's the correct order? It felt weird to watch it in that order. Darrin's leg healed pretty quickly, I guess (but now that I think about it, I don't think he was wearing a cast in "Crime Dog" either).

Also, has anyone heard from Lilty Cash?

Ooh, I just found her on Facebook.

I've only watched them in DVD order but I have thought they didn't play quite right in the middle.

wait... were only four episodes broadcast?

Maybe it's in the Wonderfalls thread, but isn't there an official order per Tim? I'm too lazy to look but I do seem to remember that.

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As I understand it, the order on the DVDs was the correct order. Fox, in its wisdom aired them out of order. Does this sound familiar?

Airing out of order is not actually a bad thing, I'd say. If your show has shit ratings from the first episode, you need every single good episode up on screen.

On the DVDs, "Pink Flamingos" is episode 2 instead of episode 4. What's the correct order?

For the DVD release, Todd Holland bumped "Pink Flamingos" up to episode 2 because he wanted an episode he directed to come second. (IMHO, "Karma Chameleon" is the stronger second episode, because it explains why Jaye is the way she is, her relationship with her family, and Aaron actually gets some screen time.)

Also, Bryan Fuller swapped the episodes 6 and 7 (compared to the order in which they were written and produced), because he retrospectively decided that the episodes would go better in this order. (I don't completely agree with that, and now if you're watching in DVD order, you get "Muffin Buffalo," with a clip from "Barrel Bear" in it's "Previously...," before you actually get Barrel Bear.")

Interestingly (or stupidly) FOX would've aired "Barrel Bear" second-to-last, had the show made it that far, because they felt it was a weaker episode (and now I'm actually agreeing with FOX).

ETA: Agreeing with FOX that it was a weaker episode, not that it should've aired second-to-last. That would've been stupid and completely illogical.

Well, clearly I completely forgot the order, so sorry about that!

I think airing eps out of order is a pretty big problem - especially for shows that have a strong narrative thread. For sitcoms, it may not be that necessary (depending on the show), but think about if ABC had decided to show some of the strong "Lost" episodes earlier instead of where they reside in the narrative thread.

Fox's moving things around fucked with "Firefly" in a big way.

I believe I'm correct in saying Tim was involved in the moving of Firefly episodes around. Unless I'm wrong.

I don't think it made a big problem - the narrative issues were tiny. It was a pretty self contained show, and each episode was clearly written in a way to keep reintroducing the characters.

I do agree for certain shows it would be a disaster - Lost is a great example, as is something like Drive.

the narrative issues were tiny.

I don't agree.

Well, admittedly not airing the pilot first generated a few.