Secrets come out on 'Pushing Daisies'
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- December
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All kinds of secrets came scurrying out of the woodwork on last night’s “Pushing Daisies.”
Sure, the mystery revolved around a kid with a bad ticker and the insurance agents (who keep rejecting his application for a heart transplant) who end up as corpsicles.
But the installment was really all about keeping secrets—or, more importantly for us fans, letting the truth out.
Chuck—upset at Ned for unwittingly killing her father—reveals the truth about her resurrection to Olive (though she doesn’t believe her).
Olive sides with Chuck when she hides from Ned in her apartment—telling the piemaker that she doesn’t know where Chuck is. (Ned’s clued in later when Olive starts answering questions with questions—the sure-fire way to know if Olive is lying.)
Chuck gives a lock of her hair to nosy Oscar Vibenius, who’s obsessed with her unusual scent of honey and death. (Close call: Oscar gives it back before analyzing it, and luckily for Ned, Chuck keeps her trap shut.)
Progressing to bigger news, Emerson reveals to a heartsick Ned that he has a daughter.
Then there was the shocker of them all—SPOILER ALERT—that Aunt Lily is really Chuck’s mother.
Nothing like an overdose of pie and homeopathic mood lifters to bring the truth out.
Lily’s hallucinatory confession to Olive was such a bombshell, I completely forgot about Chuck’s father.
I’d heard that he might be resurrected last night, but Ned refused to do that for Chuck so he could say good-bye. Poor guy, he didn’t want to have Chuck upset by only getting to see her pops for 60 seconds—or having her watch Ned send him back to the afterlife.
All in all, it was a nice episode to send “Daisies” off on hiatus.
There was a bit of a cliffhanger, lots of funny lines and visuals (Emerson’s riff on the idiocy of Christmas sweaters; Chuck’s beehive cozies) and plenty of angst (Ned finally gets aggessive—well, as aggressive as he can—by throwing snowballs at an angry neighbor).
And here’s something else I noticed again last night: The show’s hilarious penchant for name repetition.
Past episodes have introduced the Darling Mermaid Darlings, of course, as well as the Boutique Travel Boutique.
And last night revealed Charles Charles (Chuck’s father), the Wisher Wish Foundation and Bobo the bonobo (monkey).
Don’t know quite what to make of that little quirk, but it sure does makes me chuckle.
But here’s really the “Daisies” question of the day: What’s going to happen to the show, now that the writers’ strike has bumped new episodes off the air?
Naysayers worry that new shows like “Daisies” haven’t built up enough momentum, so viewers won’t return when they come back.
So, “Daisies” fans, will you stay loyal—no matter what? If the series has a nine-month hiatus—which is a possibility—will you return and watch?
Or will you say good-bye to the Pie-hos and chalk it up to a lovely, innovative season that was unfortunately all too short?
(Photos courtesy of ABC)Â
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At least it went out on a high note. Favorite line
" LAP dance, not tap dance!" Liked 50ft. Woman on T.V. Oscar
lurks in the sewers like The Penguin did in the second Batman movie. Paul Reuben's did a cameo as the Penguins father in that film.