Last Three Pushing Daisies Episodes

Yeah, it's taken me a while to get caught up.

Bitches
1. Aww, the claymation stuff was so cute and then they all fell apart morbidly. Not that I would expect anything less from this show.
2. OH MY GOSH! NED AND CHUCK CAN KISS... is this a dream? I REALLY hope not.
3. Okay, it's a dream. That was depressing.
4. Emerson is uninterested in Ned's dream that ended in Chuck turning into Olive while they were making out.
5. "There was a little moisture. I guess." Headdesk. Ned is so adorable.
6. Emerson thinks Ned's distress is hilarious. It is kind of funny.
7. I love how overdramatic the murder of that random guy was.
8. Chuck: "Did you find his wife?"
Emerson: "All four of 'em. Son of a bitch was a damned polygamist."
Narrator: "Harold Hundin was indeed a damned polygamist."
9. Olive: "We should clear the air."
Ned: "Does our air need clearing?"
Olive: "Our relations on the road?"
Ned: "Oh, I haven't... thought another... thought about that."
10. Ned to Emerson: "Your conscience calls you on the telephone?"
11. Emerson: "I suppose I could pay my bills with blind kids' smiles, but their money is a lot easier."
12. Wow that Snuppy's Puppies building is huge.
13. Emerson while Ned and Chuck were talking about their relationship: "Why do I always have to be around for this stuff?"
14. What is that clicker thing Wife 3 has? She's a dog trainer, it has something to do with that. I don't know how that works with the dogs.
15. Emerson's dream is totally ridiculous.
16. I love this show. PLEASE LET IT SURVIVE THE STRIKE.
17. OH Ned. He is so cute and loveable and awkward and I just want to hug him.
18. Taking the dead Snuppy guy to the funeral and then reviving him to see the reaction of the wives is seriously messed up.
19. Ned looks kind of funny when he runs.
20. Oooooh, Emerson and Simone...
21. This show is so romantic and cute and sappy and it makes me happy inside.

Smell of Success
1. I like that Olive is getting more involved in the story.
2. "Quasi wanted cup pies!"
3. I'm starting to realize that no one will get all of the lines I quote from the show without the context. Number 2 is a perfect example of that. Oh well though. I guess you should just watch the show.
4. The city morgue looks a lot cheerier than it should.
5. Why does Ugly Betty need braces? Her teeth look fine. Sorry, they just showed an ad for it.
6. Napoleon: "Felicitations." Emerson: "Felici-what?"
7. Oh my gosh, that Napoleon guy is so creepy, the way he just sniffs them.
8. "The Pop-Up Book of Sports Related Deaths"? Seriously?
9. Chuck and Olive have such cute clothes.
10. That's a really weird way to warn someone - stick a sock down their sink and cause a back up. How would you even know if they would look at it and see the message on it?
11. Oscar Vibenious is PeeWee Herman.
12. Ned: "Okay if that happens, then I'll say 'what is this, a police state?' (pause) If I ever say that it means I'm having a panic attack."
13. Olive: "What are the stages of death? Something, something something something something, acceptance."
14. Oscar: "Did he tell you what you smelled like when you met him? He thinks people like that."
15. Aww, so Chuck's aunts are doing their mermaid thing again.
16. I want a cup pie.

Bitter Sweets
1. Aww, Ned and Chuck are officially boyfriend and girlfriend. I kind of thought they were already but now they had a sort of DTR.
2. The "some guy" that came in and said all that stuff about the most AMAZING candy store that's opening across the street and he was just some guy telling them about it because it's so AMAZING looks really familiar to me.
3. Aww, that travelling salesman guy really does love Olive.
4. I really hate Chuck's hat and glasses. It makes her look like a creepy weird witch.
5. OHH! That's Molly Shannon. And "Some Guy" is the guy who wrote School of Rock.
6. "Don't mess with the Pie Hos." Haha!
7. I don't like Ned being in jail. It's boring without him with Chuck and Emerson.
8. Dilly: "Take your trunk monkey with you!" She called Olive that, because she had locked Olive in her trunk.
9. The health inspector did it?!
10. What?! Olive and the salesman guy... oh, she was imagining them kissing. I guess she realizes he likes her now though.
11. Ned to Chuck: "When I was in jail, I think you were my phantom limb." That's kind of weird.
12. OH NED JUST TOLD CHUCK IT WAS HIS FAULT HER DAD DIED!!! And then the episode was over! Ahhh!
13. This episode wasn't as good as the other ones I had to catch up on.

this show needs to have a good long life.

1. Kristin Chenoweth is so, so skinny. I mean, she's tiny anyway, but she's just stick thin. I don't think she's anorexic or anything, but she is really, REALLY small. She's still cute and funny, but I'm just saying. She needs a couple of sandwiches at least.
2. I love that Jim Dale narrates this show. It makes me happy, because he's the one who reads the U.S. Harry Potter audiobooks.
3. Oh my gosh! That's the saddest thing ever! Ned's dad sent him off to boarding school and left him there, and got remarried to someone with two kids that he actually wanted to take care of and spend time with... POOR NED.
4. "It makes him moodier than a pumpkin full of PMS."
5. I'm with Ned. There is no need for that many Halloween decorations. Or any Halloween decorations at all. No decorations are necessary.
6. I love the subtleties of this show. A while ago they said Ned twitches his eye whenever he lies, and then he lies, and his eye twitches, and there isn't a mention of it, but it's still there very intentional. It's great.
7. Olive being a professional horse jockey... I can believe that, given how tiny she is. The horse probably didn't even notice she was there.
8. That's a really realistic green screen horse race. Yeah, not really. It was clearly on purpose though.
9. Ned looks like a vampire with that coat on.
10. Okay! It's been more than a minute!
11. No commercials! Yay.
12. So Olive fainted behind the counter and Emerson just left her there? Classic, Emerson.
13. Ugh, Chuck, you can't let Ned do anything by himself? What the heck.
14. A bar just for short people...?
15. "Yeah, different like purple and mauve."
16. I'm still not totally sure why Chuck needs to keep the fact that she is alive a secret from her aunts. Whatever though.
17. Haha, the old lady just insulted Olive's dress. I hate it too.
18. "What did you say your name was? Brandon? Butch?" "Chuck?" HAHAHAHAHA. And then Emerson laughed too.
19. This old lady is crazy. And mean. And bitter.
20. Ned, I love you. Lee Pace, I love you and I think we should get married. For real.
21. "I missed you for the two hours I was away from you!" Chuck, shut up.
22. Okay I timed it that time, and it actually was a minute. Hm. I don't think it is every time.
23. It's not a ghost. It's John Joseph Jacobs' mom, or grandma, or whoever that lady was.
24. Oh. Well, it's not a ghost, anyway.
25. What, he got a leg transplant? Is that even possible?
26. Poor John Joseph Jacobs. He's really nice and sweet. But, also slightly creepy.
27. Haha! He even walks kind of like a horse. (The legs were transplanted from his horse. Yeah.)
28. Ned: "Can you not sing." Gordon: "If I don't sing, I throw up." Emerson: "Sing."
29. OHHHHHH!!!!!! I WAS RIGHT! I WAS!!! IT WAS THE MOM! I AM AWESOME.
30. I really like the music.
31. "Tell Ned I love... his pies!"
32. "I love you shovel." Emerson.
33. Whoa, Olive kissed Ned!
34. If a trick or treater came to my door at two in the morning, they are SO not getting candy.
35. AWWW. I continue to adore this show.

most magical show of all

1. Digby is the new Lassie!
2. OUCH, Ned. That's why I hate bees. Bees suck. Chuck has bees for pets. That is just weird.
3. Why can't they hug? They're wearing clothes. As long as their faces don't touch, it would probably be okay. I guess it would be pretty risky, but still.
4. Hahahahaha Olive making Ned touch her heartbeat. That's so awkward.
5. "It's dead, and it's a bird. It's diseased." I agree Emerson. Don't touch it.
6. Why is there a squirrel in the middle of the city?
7. "Just because there's vodka in the fridge doesn't mean I have to drink it. Wait, yes it does." Emerson, you're awesome.
8. Oh Ned! Chuck is kinda weird and fickle! Run away while you can!
9. "What's a rooftop full of bees compared to someone who can catch her when she falls?" I love that line.
10. No commercials again. I'm on a roll.
11. The pigeon that died randomly had a message tied to its leg? Right. That's okay, I don't need this show to be realistic. It's not trying to be.
12. Oh my gosh! Of all the random things that could have happened, Ned pulls the hijacker guy's fake arm off.
13. Why would they just sit there with a fake arm lying on the table in front of all those customers? That seems like a no-no.
14. I want to see a scene where Ned washes his hands. He really should, what with all this touching of dead people.
15. Okay, I don't think putting that dead bird's wing on the one that lost it is going to help it fly again.
16. THE WINDMILL GIRL WAS IN HEROES. She was Charlie, the one that Hiro liked that Sylar killed, the one who could remember stuff really easily.
17. Emerson in the car listening to Chuck and Ned bickering: "I'm going to kill myself."
18. How did that one armed guy manage to tie the windmill girl up without knocking her out? He has one arm. And then he used bows to tie her? That's hilarious. And they're totally falling for each other. How cute.
19. Hahahaha, the windmill girl just gets up.
20. I really like the black and white flashback with the random colors scattered throughout... so wonderful.
21. How in the world did the windmill girl lose her leg? But oh my gosh... Olive's reaction to the girl opening the compartment in her wooden thigh to reveal the diamonds was completely priceless.
22. Okay, dancing in beekeeper outfits around the beehives is not romantic to me. But they are very cute.
23. I love this show! I really, really do. It's so wonderful.

Pooh! Kick, Pooh! Kick!

1. I wonder how many episodes are going to have the narrator explaining about Ned's ability. It's good that it's there, because then people (like you) can start watching it even if they missed the first few episodes.
2. I'm really sad that Chuck and Ned can't be together because Ned brought her back to life, and if he touches her again she goes back to being dead.
3. I'm also really sad that Chuck's nickname is Chuck. Her real name is Charlotte Charles, I think, but she goes by Chuck, which bothers me, because there is another good show I watch about a someone named Chuck, and that Chuck is a guy.
4. Olive is so funny. I feel bad for her because of how much she likes Ned though. Kristen Chenoweth is so tiny and adorable.
5. Chuck is actually kind of annoying me right now. She was okay the first two episodes, but she's starting to get to me.
6. Ned needs to tell Chuck about what happens when he lets dead people stay alive. Oh - there we go. He did. Okay. Next step is telling her it's his fault her dad died.
7. Somehow I lucked out and I got an episode that isn't showing intermittent commercials. This also happened when I watched The Office last week. It's kind of amazing. Thanks ABC.com.
8. "This is a pie house, not some herbal crack den." Oh Olive.
9. How does Chuck have so many different outfits? I mean in the first episode she was wearing one of Ned's coats. I like that she wears such bright colors though, considering this is her second chance at life and she wants to get as far away from death as she can.
10. That's a really, really fancy funeral home.
11. This show makes me want to work in a pie store.
12. Hmm, I think Olive is going to figure out what's going on.
13. "Where are we going?" "You're going to heaven!" "I got in?!" "Yeah! But heaven's closing in like five minutes."
14. These minutes are awfully long.
15. "Are you adopted?" That's exactly what I was wondering, Ned, what with an Asian guy with a really heavy southern accent claiming he is descended from a civil war hero. But then the backstory explained about the stealing of identity and it made more sense.
16. This is slightly reminiscent of Pirates of the Caribbean.
17. Ha ha! Ned, I love you.
Bad guy: "I think you should know I was thrice named alternate sword master at the southern area regional volunteer infantry re-enactment regiment."
Ned: "I wanted to be a Jedi."
18. Emerson getting stuck in the window is just hilarious. And then Chuck trying to get him out - "Remember! Mind over matter makes Pooh unfatter!"
19. "You killed Louis Shatz and put him in my freezer. I put FOOD in there!" Ned... I think I want to marry you.
20. Awww, Ned is a prince charming all by himself, he doesn't need a sword and a corny accidental Roman looking toga.

I love this show. So dearly.

Pulling Pansies

I just watched the second episode of Pushing Daisies.

This show is insane and totally wonderful. I don't know why it took me so long to notice this, but Kristen Chenoweth plays Olive, the waitress who works at the pie shop and is in love with Ned. (If I hadn't seen it on IMDB, I certainly would have figured it out when she started singing.)

But - cars that run on dandelions? The way that mascot girl was dressed up? I loved that. Who came up with this show?* It is the most creative TV show I've ever watched. And Lee Pace is just adorable and makes you love him more every scene.

And Emerson. Emerson and his knitting. Emerson and his total straight face in every situation. Emerson and every single thing he says. "If I wanted to mingle with a bunch of geeks wearing leotards, I'd have stayed in art school." So great.

Anyway... if you haven't started watching this show, you should watch it. If you watch any of the new shows I tell you to watch, pick this one, because it's just... wonderful.

*Bryan Fuller made this show. Looking at his IMDB profile (if you didn't know, I am kind of addicted to IMDB.com), he was apparently a producer and writer for Heroes last season, and he wrote the episode Company Man, which is the episode that a lot of people say is like, the best one of the whole series so far. He also had a lot to do with Wonderfalls, which I vaguely remember watching parts of, and there were talking inanimate objects in it, and a girl worked at a novelty shop at Niagara Falls... and it was on Fox, so it got cancelled after eleven episodes. And apparently he also did some stuff with Star Treks Voyager and Deep Space Nine.

Pushing Daisies

This show is magical. I thought it was going to be another show kind of like CSI or Law and Order with a supernatural element in it - or maybe more along the lines of Psych, where some random guy is helping the police solve crimes. But it's not really like that at all. It's more like... well, like Amelie, or Big Fish, or something similar with that magical realism aspect. The characters are all endearing and wonderful, and I like the narrator. It's cute and funny and very imaginative - nice to have a murder mystery solving type show that isn't exactly like the other eight million murder mystery shows that have existed in the past.

And, Ned, the main character, is a pie maker. Which makes me think of the most wonderful movie ever made - Waitress. So more or less, Pushing Daisies is a combination of Amelie and Waitress - my two favorite movies that don't have a superhero in it.