Pilot Rejection Quotes

I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.

There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.

Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

I've done, like, eight pilots, and every time, everyone thinks it's going to go for 10 years.

I always say I'm not going to care this time, but I always do. Like, I did one this season called Tax Man with Martin Short, which was like, "Are you kidding me? Doing a pilot with Martin Short? Like, career high." And I just assumed, because it's Martin Short, like, "How are they not going to pick that up?" But they didn't.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.