if I remember correctly...

the Flintstone, Jetsons, and Simpsons pilots all involved the family gettin their pets.

Ooooooh spooky..

Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the smartest man in history. From the... town of springfield, Looks like he's gonna crash into a tree

can anyone else think of other pilots like this? i vaguely recall some sitcoms being like this but can't remember exactly which ones

Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest guy in history. From the... town of springfield, he's about to hit a tree chesnut tree

Meet Homer Simpson

His boy Bar-art

Daughters Lisaandmaggie

Marge his wife

well, there was the great series of animal-alien shows like:

silverhawks, thundercats and tigersharks

they all involved crashing on some distant planet and some change occuring within the main characters by the end of the show.

I think you can add Transformers to that list as well.

The "crash into the planet and changes ensue" list, not the "how we got our pet list". Unless you wanta count that little b*tch Spike.