Files Season 1, episode 1. In the series' opening scene, a city bus pulls up alongside the pier in the adjacent parking lot. Columbo, in "The Most Crucial Game", the private detective Dobbs goes to meet Columbo at a restaurant ("Ocean Side East Cafe") at the end of the pier on the lower deck. Charlie's Angels episodes "The Sandcastle Murders" and "Angels in Waiting". The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series) episode "King of the Beach" was filmed there. Three's Company, in the opening titles of the fourth and fifth seasons. Star Trek: Voyager features an episode in which the pier is in the 20th century Los Angeles. South Park episode "Fishsticks" ends with Kanye West jumping off the Santa Monica Pier to begin a new life as a gay fish. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno commercial bumper South of Nowhere, in the opening credits and in the episode "Girls Guide to Dating", The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episodes The Suite Life Goes To Hollywood Pts. 1/2. Life After People episode "Waves of Devastation" Rocket Power features a pier very similar to the Santa Monica Pier. The Amazing Race this place was the Starting Line for the fifth season. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, when Cromartie tries to track down John Connor on the Pier, who steals a pair of sunglasses and a cap from a Pier vendor to disguise himself NCIS: Los Angeles, when the pilot begins with Agent G. Callen waking up in his small apartment overlooking the pier. 24, when Jack tracks Fayed to the pier, Gredenko gets shot and dies under the pier. Gilmore Girls, when Jess goes to California to find his father. His father works at the pier. FlashForward, when Olivia and Charlie are out at the pier without Mark. In the final episode, it also appears briefly in the background in one shot. Castle, in Season 3 Episode 22, "To Love and Die in L.A.", when Beckett takes down Ganz. Chuck, when Chuck defuses a car bomb rigged by Laszlo underneath the pier (he first meets Laszlo while playing in one of the arcades on the pier). The fourth season of Hannah Montana Forever takes place in Santa Monica instead of the Malibu setting of previous seasons, and the pier is frequently shown as Lilly works at a game booth. 90210, where several scenes are shot at the pier throughout the