Stacked
Saturday, December 2nd, 2000SEASON 1 – Fox
Created by Steven Levitan
Theme song by Steve Hampton and John Adair (and Paul Bessenbacher, uncredited)
- 001. Pilot – 4/13/2005
- Gavin P. Miller (Elon Gold) is a divorced, published author of a very low-selling book, who has opened his own bookstore called Stacked in Los Angeles with his younger brother Stuart (Brian Scolaro), who has a master’s degree in Psychology, but is basically a red-blooded male who is constantly chasing women, despite seldom getting any. Also working at Stacked is Katrina (Marissa Jaret Winokur), who mans the coffee shop counter. They have one regular customer, the curmudgeonly Professor Harold March (Christopher Lloyd), former head of the Physics department at Cal Tech, who likes to hang out, drink coffee, and read the paper. Once day a beautiful, busty woman named Skyler Dayton (Pamela Anderson) stops in the store after catching her musician boyfriend Eddie Banks (Charles Mesure) cheating on her once again, this time with two women at once, to search for a relationship self-help book. Stuart has an immediate crush on Skyler and tries to help her find a book. Gavin criticizes the book she winds up with and tries to steer her toward a headier book, but Skyler says the author looks too mean and buys her original choice, then hangs out to read it. After she asks Harold if he thinks people can change, and he says no, Skyler decides to break it off with her boyfriend. When she invites him to the bookstore to break up, Gavin becomes nervous when she tells him how he has an explosive temper. Meanwhile, Gavin still desires a reconciliation with her wife Charlotte (Paget Brewster), who stops by the bookstore with their children Owen (Vincent Martella) and Allegra (Carlie Westerman). Charlotte declines his request for a date because she has started to see a doctor. Gavin counters by telling her that he too is seeing someone, then sneaks over to Skyler and asks her to pretend to be his girlfriend. Charlotte is shocked, and their son Owen can’t take his eyes off her chest. Eddie shows up at the bookstore and pleads with her to come back to him. Charlotte also returns and has second thoughts about leaving the door open for a reconciliation. Gavin decides to pass on the offer, quoting lines from the book that Skyler is reading. Skyler throws him out of the bookstore, so he asks Charlotte out. She impulsively accepts, but then Gavin reminds her that their kids are in the car. Skyler announces a fresh start for herself to be her own soulmate, so Stuart asks her to come work at the bookstore. Gavin doesn’t think it is a good idea at all, especially considering the choice she made for the relationship book. Then Harold comes across an article that the author of the headier book had just strangled his wife with his Nobel Prize and stored her head in the freezer. Bruce Dent is the customer, Bruce. 11/27/23