“Comfort Food” - Chuck turns to Emerson for help in dealing with the consequences of her actions, while Ned and Olive compete at a comfort food cook-off that turns deadly when a chef is found deep fried and dead, on “Pushing Daisies,” WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
“Pushing Daisies” stars Lee Pace as Ned, Anna Friel as Chuck, Chi McBride as Emerson Cod, Ellen Greene as Vivian, Field Cate as Young Ned, with Swoosie Kurtz as Lily and Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook. Jim Dale is the narrator.
Guest starring in “Comfort Food” are Stephen Root as Dwight Dixon, Beth Grant as Marianne Marie Beetle, Eric Stonestreet as Leo Burns, Tim Bagley as Colonel Likkin and Patrick Fischler as the Waffle Nazi.
“Comfort Food” was written by Douglas Petrie and directed by Peter Lauer.
Pushing Daisies is back on ABC last night after two weeks of delay. The preview for its next episode which is titled “Robbing Hood” has been given, showing a new murder case that Ned, Chuck and Cod have to solve after a rich old man is found dead trampled by a chandelier.
When resurrected from his death, the old man named Gustav Hoffer says to the threesome that they have to find his will. He got killed when a chandelier is shot by its thread and falls down on him during a robbery. A lawyer for the millionaire suspects his client’s death was not part of a robbery gone wrong as was reported, but rather murder. Cod and Ned have to find out who kill Hoffer, interrogating also his much younger wife, Elise, and a latter-day Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, Lily fumes as the suspicious Dwight Dixon begins romancing clueless Vivian. “Robbing Hood” will air November 26.
The show is in the middle of talks that it will be canceled due to poor viewing rating. The production stopped at episode 13 earlier this month, and industry insiders are saying that the network are not interested in stretching the show to a full season. ABC spokesperson has come forward for this, stating that no decision has been made yet.
Creator Bryan Fuller also commented, “We have heard nothing in any official capacity. Our ABC exec was on the set last night saying they are still swinging in the fight to keep ‘Daisies’ on the air. Spirits are high and hopeful and everyone here is very proud of our work and this show.”
In the new “Pushing Daisies“, “The Great Herrmann”, a famed magician whose animal assistants are being mysteriously killed off seeks the help from Ned. More about Ned’s father and family will be revealed in this episode.
Since Herrmann has been a surrogate dad to Ned’s half-brothers Maurice and Ralston ever since their father walked out on them, Ned reluctantly helps him. He, Chuck, Emerson, Olive, Digby, and Pigby become witnesses to a magic trick gone horribly wrong. Meanwhile, Dwight Dixon (guest star-Stephen Root) insinuates himself into the Aunts’ lives, but Lily is instantly suspicious of his motives.
“Oh Oh Oh…It’s Magic” will be delayed for two weeks and back on screen on November 19 to give time slot for special edition of “Dancing with the Stars” and the 42nd Annual CMA Awards.
The wife of a murdered chef, Bao Di, hires Emerson to investigate the death of her husband. So Ned, Emerson, Chuck, and Olive all go undercover at the Chinese restaurant where the murder took place. Meanwhile, Ned encounters a mysterious man who claims to have ties to his past, and Emerson is reunited with polygamist widow Simone Hundin.
(S02E04) “Where are you living anyway?” - Ned to Emerson
Did you realize that this week’s Pushing Daisies episode is actually only the 13th installment of the refreshing series? I forgot about it for a second or two when I told myself “About time!” after realizing that “Frescorts” was going to offer us some Emerson backstory. I guess the almost-nine-months hiatus, thanks to the writers’ strike, made us long for more details about the show’s characters. In any case, let me say this: Yay for some Emerson backstory!
So Emerson’s mother, played by Everwood’s Debra Mooney, was a famous PI who was more a friend to Emerson than a mother. It explains why Emerson became a PI but doesn’t give all clues as to why he is so secretive (the gang doesn’t know where he lives). I know a PI is more than likely to try to protect his privacy but Ned, Olive and Chuck are Emerson’s friends… one would expect that they would have least seen his place’s front door, no?
My favorite scene of the episode is definitely when Emerson and Calista performed their interrogation routine. It was hilarious while being effective. I wouldn’t have liked to be one of the persons being asked the questions as the mother and son duo was a bit frightening.
Calista’s presence didn’t offer us much to chew on (aka juicy details from Emerson’s past) but what she did provide is the needed push for Emerson to find his daughter. It’s more than likely that he will rewrite his book and that it’ll get published just in time for his daughter to pop up during November Sweeps.
Yep, that was David Arquette playing weirdo Randy Mann. It was a good casting choice for such a character. It was nice to see Ned bond with someone outside of the Pie Hole circle. And, not spoiling too much here, we haven’t seen the last of Randy but it’ll be a few weeks/months before he resurfaces.
So far, I enjoy seeing Chuck and Olive be BFFs. It will be fun to see how they try to better themselves to make their friendship work and, as I’ve mentioned in my last review, see how they deal with the aunts if one of them stops by to visit Olive. The Chuck/Olive pairing also provides new conflicts and problems for Ned to deal with. Chuck has a new friend now… maybe it’s time Ned gets a new friend too?
PUSHING DAISIES - “Bad Habits”- Chuck, Emerson and Ned go undercover as a Catholic nun and priests and pass themselves off as investigators from the Vatican to help Olive prove that her best pal at the nunnery (Mo Collins as Sister Larue) didn’t kill herself, but was actually murdered, on “Pushing Daisies,” WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
PUSHING DAISIES Season 2 kicks off October 1st but we’re going to jump to October 8th because we’ve got your first look at episode 2.02 entitled “Circus Circus” featuring stars Lee Pace, Anna Friel and Chi McBride. Squee…
The new season of “Pushing Daisies” has been given a sneak peek through a clip of its first episode, “Bzzzzzzz!”. The clip will see a spokesmodel for a cosmetic company stung to death with horrible spots all over her body.
Ned, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, wakes up the woman who is badly stung in the corpse room. Led by the incident, Chuck then goes on undercover to investigate the honey-based cosmetic company and discovers that there’s more complicated politics inside the office, mainly concerning the relationship between the founder Betty Bee and the new owner, Woolsey Nicholls.
Meanwhile, Ned can’t stand her growing independence, or the fact that she wants to move out of his apartment. In other developments, Lily spirits Olive off to a nunnery so she won’t spill Lily’s deep, dark secret.
“Bzzzzzzz!” will be aired on ABC on October 1 at 8:00 P.M..
So what’s better than a Pushing Daisies star saving you from the deadly embrace of crystal meth? Not much, but the answer to that (and, lets face it, most other questions) is free freakin’ pie. ABC really doesn’t want you to forget about the whimsical show that was cut short by the writers’ strike, so Pushing Daisies is hitting the road.
ABC has outfitted an Airstream trailer to look like The Pie Hole, the shop in which most of Daisies‘ action takes place, and is driving it across the country to give fans free pie. In addition to the delicious confections, the temporary Pie Hole will feature props from the show and plasma TVs on which fans can watch footage from the show.
The Pushing Daisies Tour begins this Sunday and makes 10 stops. Follow me after the jump for the full schedule.
August 31: Anaheim, CA – Downtown Disney
September 7: San Francisco, CA – Ghirardelli Square– Chocolate Festival
September 10: Los Angeles, CA – Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade
September 12: Las Vegas, NV – Fashion Show Mall
September 14: Phoenix, AZ – Westgate Complex
September 17: Denver, CO – Larimer Square
September 20: Dallas, TX – Addison Oktober Fest
September 24: Chicago, IL – Lincoln Park
September 26: Philadelphia, PA – The Shops at Liberty Place
September 29: New York, NY – Times Square
ABC has also started a site that you can go to to follow The Pie Hole’s progress at pushingdaisiestour.com. It doesn’t appear to be up at the moment, but should be functional shortly.
I don’t know if it’s my love of Pushing Daisies, or simply my love of pie, but this sounds like the best idea ever to me. I think I may even risk venturing into Times Square to see it. In fact, I wish more shows would do something like this. I want the Project Runway contestants to come by and make me a dress or a Grey’s Anatomy trailer to come give me medical advice. What other shows do you think should hit the road?
Man, Intervention is a downer. Between the alcoholism, the anorexia and the 8-10 per-day dust can huffing habits, it is really hard to watch that show and maintain a positive outlook on life. Luckily, Kristin Chenoweth, Broadway extraordinare and effervescent star of Pushing Daisies, has found a solution to all that nastiness: a peppy song about the dangers of crystal meth.
Chenoweth has teamed up with Funny or Die to create her own episode of Intervention. It still has distraught family members confronting an addict in a nondescript hotel room, but instead of a laundry list of ways that Bob, a musician and a meth addict, is ruining his and everyone else’s life, there’s a peppy song about “Tina,” the poor man’s cocaine, that includes warnings about “waking up in a pile of your own urine and doo-doo.”
The video is after the jump.
Intervention with Kristen Chenoweth even has happy little animated birds and sparkles. What meth addict could resist that? The language in the video is NSFW, but I have a feeling that if you work in the kind of place in which you could watch a video with people singing about crystal meth, throwing in a few curse words isn’t really going to put your job in jeopardy.
