Pushing Daisies Finale Aired at Paley Center

Pushing Daisies
Finale Aired at Paley Center

Event Date: April 19, 2009

Patricia Morris Buckley — Associate Staff Writer
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Oh, how it hurts to say goodbye. After three episodes, three standing ovations and a bucket of tears the crowd at the Paley Center closed the book on Ned, Chuck, Emerson and Olive — our beloved friends from the over-way-too-soon Pushing Daisies.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "The Norwegians" (The Relationships)

Pushing Daisies
The Norwegians - The Relationships

Original Air Date: 17 Dec 2008

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Think back, way back, to the beginning of Pushing Daisies. After Ned “undeaded” Chuck, she asks how he can bring someone back from the dead and then “redead” them a minute later. “That’s just how I roll,” he told her.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "The Norwegians" (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
The Norwegians - The Case

Original Airdate: 17 Dec 2008

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Normally, our case on Pushing Daisies is unrelated to the relationships between the main characters, and doesn’t involve them beyond a purely investigative role. Well, not this week. This week, our investigators are not Emerson, Ned, Chuck, and Olive. And our dead victim or missing person is not a stranger to our Pie Hole heroes. Our missing person is Dwight Dixon. And Vivian Charles is looking for someone to find him. This is where things get tricky…

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy"

Pushing Daisies
The Legend of Merle McQuoddy

Original Air Date: 10 Dec 2008

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Poor Chuck. At the end of “Comfort Food,” it looked as if she could have it all; a new life, Ned and her dad back from the dead. But as the Narrator wisely says, “Chuck would learn the sad lesson that, try as one might, one can never recapture what once was.”

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "Comfort Food" (The Relationships)

Pushing Daisies
Comfort Food - The Relationships

Original Air Date: 3 Dec 2008


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Have you ever noticed that the last thing the narrator says at the end of the flashback is the theme for the entire show? Yep, just watch next week and see.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "Comfort Food" (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
Comfort Food - The Case

Original Air Date: 03 Dec 2008

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It seems mighty strange that the private investigator is taking care of personal business with the dead girl, and the piemaker is solving murders alone with the waitress. And yet here we are with this week’s Pushing Daisies, in which Ned and Olive are the sole solvers of the murder, which seems to be almost a tack-on to the larger storyline that involves Emerson and Chuck minding Chuck’s personal business.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "Robbing Hood" (The Relationships)

Pushing Daisies
Robbing Hood - The Relationships

Original Air Date: 26 Nov 2008

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The myth of Robin Hood, who stole from the rich to give to the poor, has appealed to our romantic nature for centuries. But can that same principal be applied to real life – or at least life on Pushing Daisies?

You bet it can.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "Robbing Hood" (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
Robbing Hood - The Case

Original Air Date: 26 Nov 2008

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Our case begins with a visit from a former lawyer, spouting out legal rhetoric and terms in common conversation. He tells Emerson that his friend/client/lover Gustav Hofer was robbed and murdered. He suspects Gustav’s gold-digging wife, as Gustav was the richest man in town, his millions coming from a string of inventions that started with the mechanized yarn baller. Sounds like a case after Emerson’s heart.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "Oh Oh Oh… It’s Magic" (The Relationships)

Pushing Daisies
Oh Oh Oh... It’s Magic
The Relationships

Original Air Date: 19 Nov 2008

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Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller promised fans that this year would be about the sins of the fathers (Ned and Chuck’s, that is) and nowhere has that theme been more evident than in this episode.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - "Oh Oh Oh… It’s Magic" (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
Oh Oh Oh… It’s Magic
The Case

Original Air Date: 19 Nov 2008

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Abracadabra.

The Great Pushing Daisies takes the stage to perform its own vanishing act, in which our beloved Pushing Daisies does not air for two weeks in a row (during November Sweeps no less), and then suddenly reappears with a bang, or at least the sound of cement pouring. Same difference.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Dim Sum, Lose Some (Relationships)

Pushing Daisies
Dim Sum Lose Sum
The Relationships

Original Air Date: Oct 29, 2008


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This entire episode was summed up by the ever-wise narrator: “Shrimpboy also believed in a fundamental truth about gambling — that all gains are meaningless unless we risk something.”

Only two characters are asked to risk something this episode —Ned and Emerson. But they both have a lot of win or lose as well.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Dim Sum, Lose Some (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
Dim Sum, Lose Some
The Case

Original Air Date: Oct 29, 2008


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In my mind, nothing will beat the sight of Lee Pace dressed as a gambling cowboy, sitting in a Chinese restaurant next to a straight-out-of-the-seventies Chi McBride. There is nothing funnier, or more amusing. It even makes up for the poor makeup of Chuck and Olive that was supposed to make them look Chinese. I can forgive the confusion and dullness of the case, all because of Ned and Emerson’s undercover work. So why was Lee Pace a cowboy and Chi McBride a seventies man?

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Frescorts (The Relationships)

Pushing Daisies
Frescorts
The Relationships

Original Air Date: Oct 22, 2008


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Randy Newman said it best: “You’ve got a friend in me.” And this week, the characters of Pushing Daisies learned that they may have to shift their ideas about friendship.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Frescorts (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
Frescorts
The Case

Original Airdate: Oct 22, 2008


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This week’s case on Pushing Daisies was made for all of the people who were lonely weirdoes in high school. Thanks for giving me hope, Pushing Daisies, that I can hire a friend when I need one. It all begins when Emerson Cod gets a visit from a woman named Veronica Villanueva (say that five times as fast as you can) and she hires him to investigate the murder of her “best friend.” Well, it turns out her best friend has another best friend, who also hired Emerson to investigate the murder. So the dead man Joe has two best friends who didn’t know each other, and he was a different man with each of them. Sounds like a fun party.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Bad Habits (Relationships)

Pushing Daisies
Bad Habits
The Relationships

Original Air Date: Oct 15, 2008

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From a Dark Place

As colorful as the nun habits are in Olive’s nunnery, it’s still a dark place filled with secrets, family baggage and, oh yes, sadness.

Olive is doing the best she can, trying to find joy in the little things of life (such as Pigby digging up a particularly tasty truffle), and praying that God would give her a sign that she’ll get over her “habit” of loving Ned. That’s when Sister LaRue, her only friend at the nunnery, drops dead at Olive’s feet — apparently having jumped off the bell tower in a successful suicide attempt.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Bad Habits (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
Bad Habits
The Case

Original Airdate: Oct 15, 2008

Crystal - TwoCents Reviewer
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There’s something ironic about a death in a Convent. And something creepy watching a blue-clad nun thump to the ground in front of Olive Snook. I can admit that, while I am not easily spooked, I cringed at the sight of a dead nun.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Circus,Circus

Pushing Daisies
Circus, Circus
The Relationships

Original Air Date: Oct 8, 2008


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You Can’t Stop the Change

You know the saying that you have to take one step back to take two steps forward? I never quite understood that — until this episode of Pushing Daisies, “Circus Circus.”

This episode was like a colorful picture book version of the best-selling book “Who Moved My Cheese?” because it was all about change. And yes, every single character took one step back to take two steps forward.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Circus, Circus (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
Circus, Circus
The Case

Original Air Date: Oct 8, 2008

Crystal - TwoCents Reviewer
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I feel like Pushing Daisies is deliberately trying to mess with me. The second episode of the second season brings one of my worst childhood fears to the forefront of the show: clowns. Bees were bad enough, but Pushing Daisies has crossed into whole new territory now. I spent more of the show hiding expectedly from the clowns, who only played a small part in the show overall.

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Bzzzzzzzz (Relationships)

Pushing Daisies
Bzzzzzzzz
The Relationships

Original Air Date: Oct 2, 2008

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First, can we all give a collective cheer that “Pushing Daisies” is back? After 10 Pie Hole-free months!!!

And in that time, the characters’ relationships have hung in suspension – sort of like when Hiro on “Heroes” does that time freeze thing. Then zip, Oct. 1, we get to start time again (sorry, got to add another little cheer there).

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Pushing Daisies - Recap & Review - Bzzzzzzzz (The Case)

Pushing Daisies
Bzzzzzzzzz
The Case

Original Air Date: Oct 1, 2008


Crystal - TwoCents Reviewer
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It’s nice to see Pushing Daisies back after nearly a year, sporting a fabulous new murder mystery that is quite frankly more unusual than anything. This particular murder mystery also has a nice relevance to the main characters. I will say that I could do with never having to hear another bee pun again in my life.

Our murder investigation begins when Dusty Fritz visits Emerson Cod, pleading for Emerson to find out who killed his wife Kentucky. In typical Pushing Daisies fashion, Kentucky was killed in an unusual way, a terrible bee-related accident. She was quite literally swarmed to death.

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