Fall Asleep To 100 The Mentalist Facts And Easter Eggs

This video collects 100 facts and hidden details about The Mentalist, covering how Bruno Heller created Patrick Jane, why the show was compared to Psych, and where the CBI headquarters was actually filmed. The Mentalist began as Bruno Heller's attempt to make a Sherlock Holmes series, a pitch that CBS and Warner Bros would not buy in its pure form. Heller reworked the idea by noticing that every street in America has a psychic or a palm reader, and fused the detective with the con artist to create Patrick Jane. This video walks through the show's origins, its wardrobe logic, the Psych comparison that never became a lawsuit, and the real Los Angeles locations standing in for Sacramento. It is narrated slowly and calmly, designed as sleep listening for viewers who already know the series. What's covered in this video: • Bruno Heller's original wish to write a straight Sherlock Holmes adaptation, and his admission that if he could have sold CBS and Warner Brothers on it, that is what they would have done. • How Heller built Patrick Jane as a combination of a Holmes figure and a storefront street psychic, part detective and part con artist working from the same skill. • The deliberate decision to make Jane a fraudulent psychic rather than a genuinely supernatural one, with Heller clarifying the show never claims real psychics do not exist. • Heller's search for an actor with the physical and spiritual grace of Cary Grant, and his account that Simon Baker brought more to the role than the blueprint asked for. • The timing of the series as Heller's follow up to Rome, the HBO and BBC epic cancelled after two seasons largely because of its cost. • The Psych comparison, including that show's premiere on USA Network on the seventh of July, 2006, more than two years before The Mentalist. • Confirmation that no copyright lawsuit was ever filed by USA Network or NBCUniversal against CBS or Warner Bros over the shared premise. • Steve Franks and his Fruit Loops versus Fruity Loop-Os cereal aisle metaphor, his line about the sincerest form of flattery, and the Psych season four premiere "Extradition: British Columbia" that aired on the seventh of August, 2009. • The 2015 Slate piece about a supercut of every Psych joke aimed at The Mentalist. • Production details including the pilot as the first CBS pickup after the 2007 to 2008 Writers Guild of America strike, David Nutter directing, Stage 14 at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Palm Springs location work, and the assignment to pair with NCIS. • The wardrobe reasoning behind Jane's unpressed suits, the magician's vest worn for its pockets, and Baker's suggestion to swap scripted sandals for worn brown dress shoes. • How the Pico House at 430 North Main Street, built between 1869 and 1870 by Pio Pico and designed by Ezra F. Kysor, became the face of the CBI, and how the season one episode "Bloodshot" filmed there on the seventeenth of March, 2009. Mentioned in this video: The Mentalist, Patrick Jane, Bruno Heller, Simon Baker, Cary Grant, Sherlock Holmes, Red John, CBS, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Stage 14, HBO, BBC, Rome, NCIS, Psych, Steve Franks, USA Network, NBCUniversal, Fruit Loops, Extradition: British Columbia, Slate, Bloodshot, David Nutter, Writers Guild of America, California Bureau of Investigation, Sacramento, California State Capitol, Tower Bridge, Sacramento River, Los Angeles, Pico House, Pio Pico, Ezra F. Kysor, Alta California, Hype Nightclub, Palm Springs, The Somnalist Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:38 The Sherlock Holmes That Couldn't Be 8:12 The Psych Copycat Controversy 13:57 Building The Pilot After The Strike 21:20 Secrets Of Jane's Wrinkled Suits 24:38 Fake Sacramento, Real Pico House 33:04 Red John's Smiley Face Origin 38:20 Simon Baker Behind The Camera 45:26 Famous Faces Before They Were Famous 51:52 The Composer Who Scored Everything 58:03 From 19 Million To Cancellation 1:14:45 Remakes, Awards And The Final Goodbye