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Pushing Daisies
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The facts are these:There once was a piemaker who could raise the dead with a touch — but only for sixty seconds, or else someone else would have to die to take their place. If he touched the resurrected person again, they died permanently. One day, the piemaker was given the opportunity to raise Chuck, his childhood sweetheart... So he did. This act brought the two much closer, but tragically kept them apart; one more touch would mean Chuck would be dead forever. Along with his alive again dog, a grumpy private eye, Chuck's eccentric aunts and a singing waitress, they solved murders, asking the dead who their murderers were in those sixty seconds and then collecting the often substantial reward for finding the killers.That could be the premise of Pushing Daisies if it weren't a laughably inadequate description.Created by Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me creator Bryan Fuller, and set in a world lavishly decorated in Fifties styles, the show effortlessly makes its faintly ridiculous plots believable, as it deftly traces the line between earnestness and irony. Its fast-paced and witty dialogue, quirky characters, and great acting really bring out what can only be called the heart of the show: showing how people connect — or don't connect — with their fellow humans.Unfortunately, it ended up doomed to live up to its name. The first season was truncated by the 2007 TV Strikes, and the second season didn't have much of a head of steam under it. The writing team was given 3 episodes to wrap up the series, and the last episode was aired on June 13, 2009 - one year, eight months, one week and three days after the first. The two seasons together make up a normal full-sized season.Recaps page is here. | |
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Cymbal-Banging Monkey | |
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Cymbal-Banging Monkey: "Circus Circus" | |
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Sure, Let's Go with That | |
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Sure, Let's Go with That: As to why Chuck is alive, the simplest answer is that she faked her death. See also Cassandra Truth. | |
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I Taste Delicious | |
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I Taste Delicious: Said almost word for word by the Colonel when Ned brings him back in the episode Comfort Food. | |
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Daydream Surprise | |
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Daydream Surprise: Olive, as she realizes (too late) how Alfredo feels about her. In "Comfort Food", Lily imagines a conversation with Dwight while she waits for him. | |
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Human Shield | |
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Human Shield: The villain in "Oh Oh Oh—It's Magic" does this to Olive, and is mocked for his choice of hostage by Emerson. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: despite having magical necromancy powers, Ned finds the notion of ghosts risible. | |
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The Runaway | |
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The Runaway: in "Circus Circus". (Kids still run away to join the circus in this world.) | |
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Four-Philosophy Ensemble | |
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Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Cynic: Ned. note Reluctant Warrior/Resigned to the Call. The traumatized bundle of anxiety who often has to get over his own neuroses in order to save the day. The Optimist: Chuck.note The Heart/Plucky Girl. Also The Determinator, considering she doesn't give up despite having lost everything in her life (except Ned.) The Realist: Emerson.note Knight in Sour Armor/The Snark Knight. The Only Sane Man between his three quirky associates who brings them back to reality when their quirks get in the way of the job. The Apathetic/Conflicted: Olive.note Supporting Protagonist/Cute and Psycho/The Ditherer, especially considering she is frequently left out on secrets and goings-on. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Chuck is aware of and afraid of CHUDs (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers). Chuck's father is aware of and afraid of becoming a flesh-eating Zombie. | |
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Victim of the Week | |
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Usually the Victim of the Week recounts something about their murder, or the Narrator sums up the clues Emerson and company have found to solve the Mystery of the Week. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: the episode "Bitches" was advertised in a way that implied Ned and Olive would hook up. | |
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That Reminds Me of a Song | |
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That Reminds Me of a Song: With Broadway actresses Kristin Chenoweth and Ellen Greene in the cast, it was inevitable. Unfortunately, Olive was provided a missed love connection in the person of one Broadway veteran Raul Esparza, who... well, would a duet been too much to ask for? File his song-less appearances on the show along with that of Christopher Seiber. | |
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Redemption in the Rain | |
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Redemption in the Rain: the aunts, in "The Smell of Success" | |
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LongLostSibling | |
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Long Lost Sibling: Ned has twin half-brothers from his father's second marriage. Ned's father abandoned them, too | |
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Childhood Friend Romance | |
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Childhood Friend Romance: Ned and Chuck... more or less. | |
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Clown Car | |
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Clown Car: A number of clowns were driving away from the circus when they were forced off the road and into the lake. When their car is dragged up and the police start pulling the bodies out, it starts out with only one clown...and then another one is pulled out and another one and another one (including a clown wearing stilts), and they just keep coming. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: Usually Subverted, in that the narrator does not spare himself the joy of actually making the pun. For example, in "The Smell of Success" Ned dredges up a sock from the sink in the kitchen of the Pie Hole. By the reactions of Chuck, Olive, and Emerson, its smell is most unpleasant. | |
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Taxidermy Is Creepy | |
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Taxidermy Is Creepy: the reason Randy Mann doesn't have many friends. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: "Circus Circus" has Chekhov's Cannon. A dwarf with a cannon happens to pass by when Ned and Emerson are at the ringmaster's trailer... then, later in the episode, the human cannonball gets fired at them. Charles Charles' pocket watch also applies. It was shown in the very first episode, and cropped up again when Lawrence Schatz stole it note the funeral director revealed to be running a grave robbing racket in S01E03, and then became relevant again come Season 2. Emerson Cod's revolver also applies; throughout the show it is used only to wave around, but it finally gets fired in "S02E07: Robbing Hood" when he destroys an escape rope. It's even noted by Cod: | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: When the first season was cut short due to the Writer's Strike, most of the plot threads set up during the first half received abrupt Ass Pull resolutions. When the second season suffered a similar fate upon the show's cancellation, most lingering threads were simply left hanging, though a choice few received mention in a Ass Pull epilogue. Sadly, the two half seasons do not equal a whole in terms of story. | |
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Bedsheet Ghost | |
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Bedsheet Ghost: Happens twice in "Girth": Young Ned has this as a Halloween costume, and Chuck wears this as a trick-or-treater to her aunts. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Chuck's father died when she was eight, as an unfortunate side effect of Ned bringing back his mother. Ned's father just abandoned him. Emerson Cod is himself a Disappeared Dad...but not through any fault of his own. | |
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Sesquipedalian Smith | |
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Sesquipedalian Smith Emerson Cod | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: In "Dim Sum Lose Sum", the spoken Chinese is all real. except for adding details about the speakeasy, Chuck's translation is nearly verbatim. The sign in Emerson's window, supposedly for his PI business, is actually for a restaurant across from the firm that specializes in pork ribs. Because it is a sign from another business visible in Emerson's office, it is readable from inside the office instead of backwards as a sign for the PI firm would be from inside the building. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: "Girth". | |
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Post-Kiss Catatonia | |
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Post-Kiss Catatonia: Ned sort of dangles in the air with his eyes closed and his lips puckered even after Chuck has stopped kissing him. It happens every time she kisses him, along with the theme music swelling with violins. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment / Parental Neglect: Ned and Chuck both ended up orphaned and eventually grew up in the care of others. Missing Mom: Ned's mother died suddenly when he was nine. Chuck grew up believing that her mother had died in childbirth, but later discovers that her mother is her "Aunt" Lily. Disappeared Dad: Chuck's father died when she was eight, as an unfortunate side effect of Ned bringing back his mother. Ned's father just abandoned him. Emerson Cod is himself a Disappeared Dad...but not through any fault of his own. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: "What the hell happened to people shooting each other with guns?" | |
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BlackHumour | |
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Black Humour: All the time, from the word go: | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: Ned can revive the dead with a touch, and has used that power to revive his dog and later his childhood sweetheart, make lots of money investigating murders, and open a thriving bakery by using old, rotted fruit in his pies (since it becomes fresh-off-the-vine as soon as he touches it). And as a result, he can't touch the woman he loves lest she drop dead instantly, ditto his beloved pet, and if he ever eats any of his pies the fruit will wither and rot in his mouth. Although, if he ever wanted to make a pie for himself, he could get around the whole rotting-in-his-mouth problem by actually using fresh ingredients, which he does later in the series. His second revival was his mother whose lingering caused the death of Chuck's father and then she promptly died when she kissed him good night. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: The Narrator mentions Ned's ability and its rules Once an Episode so new viewers are not lost. | |
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Discriminate and Switch | |
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Discriminate and Switch: A bartender refuses to serve Emerson in "Girth"—not because he's black, but because he's too tall (the bar, as it turns out, is specifically for horse jockeys). | |
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Title-Only Opening | |
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Title-Only Opening: Made in some way out of daisies. | |
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Tomboyish Name | |
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Tomboyish Name: Charlotte "Chuck" Charles. (A common trope in Bryan Fuller works.) | |
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Ludicrous Precision | |
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Ludicrous Precision: The narrator when explaining how long ago something happened. | |
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G-Rated Drug | |
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G-Rated Drug: Chuck spikes her aunts' pies with homeopathic remedies, and Aunt Lily accidentally get an overdose in "Corpsicle". A Mushroom Samba results, and Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Hormone-Addled Teenager | |
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Hormone-Addled Teenager: The 14-15 year old son of the dead lighthouse keeper in "Legend of Merle McQuoddy" is genuinely upset, but when Olive offers him a hug he buries his face in her cleavage. | |
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Accidental Kidnapping | |
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Accidental Kidnapping: Olive Snook as a child. | |
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The Pollyanna | |
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The Pollyanna: Chuck. Despite losing her father, being unable to speak to her aunts, and completely unable to make contact with the man she loves, she still keeps her optimism for the majority of the series. | |
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Pushing Daisies / int_3ec18c6f | type |
Sherlock Scan | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec18c6f | comment |
Sherlock Scan: Oddly enough, it's not Private Detective Emerson Cod who does this, but smell experts Napoleon Le Nez and Oscar Vibenius. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec18c6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec18c6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec18c6f | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec27f76 | type |
Costume Porn | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec27f76 | comment |
Costume Porn: Everyone dresses very nicely, but it's Lily and Vivian who pull out the bejewelled eyepatches and qipaos. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec27f76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec27f76 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ec27f76 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3eecf8f | type |
Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3eecf8f | comment |
Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Subverted, as is usual for this trope: Olive asks Ned if that isn't really a rolling pin under his apron; Ned silently produces the rolling pin, to Olive's dismay. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3eecf8f | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3eecf8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_3eecf8f | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3f0b2f50 | type |
Make It Look Like an Accident | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3f0b2f50 | comment |
Make It Look Like an Accident: Emerson suggests this to Ned, about Chuck's alive-agained father, Charles Charles. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3f0b2f50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3f0b2f50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_3f0b2f50 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ffce9c2 | type |
Family Relationship Switcheroo | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ffce9c2 | comment |
Family Relationship Switcheroo: Chuck is the daughter of the woman she always believed to be her aunt. See also Parental Abandonment, below. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ffce9c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ffce9c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_3ffce9c2 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
Pushing Daisies / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: Any lie Ned ever tells. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_40bb59d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_40bb59d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_40bb59d0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_41c08e5 | type |
Establishing Series Moment | |
Pushing Daisies / int_41c08e5 | comment |
Establishing Series Moment: The very first scene of the show is of young Ned and Digby running playfully through a gorgeous field of flowers until Digby abruptly gets run over by a truck and Ned resurrects him. This instantly establishes both the premise of the series and its signature mix of storybook whimsy and morbid humor. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_41c08e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_41c08e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_41c08e5 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_42839f8b | type |
Sound-Effect Bleep | |
Pushing Daisies / int_42839f8b | comment |
Sound-Effect Bleep: in "Circus Circus", Ned repeats the secretary's description of the head clown as a "real low-down, dirty _____________" just as a circus performer walks by breathing fire, the flames both drowning Ned out and preventing viewers from reading his lips. When the flames clear, Emerson says "I've never heard you say those words." in "Bad Habits", a revived nun swears a blue streak, conveniently drowned out by a church bell. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_42839f8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_42839f8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_42839f8b | |
Pushing Daisies / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
Pushing Daisies / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten | |
Pushing Daisies / int_45007296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_45007296 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_45007296 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_45262f16 | type |
Big Dam Plot | |
Pushing Daisies / int_45262f16 | comment |
Big Dam Plot: "Water & Power" involves a murder at a hydroelectric dam, involving Water Source Tampering and a Mineral MacGuffin hidden in the dam. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_45262f16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_45262f16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_45262f16 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_489b4eea | type |
Ignored Enamored Underling | |
Pushing Daisies / int_489b4eea | comment |
Ignored Enamored Underling: Olive to Ned, who eventually hashes it out with her. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_489b4eea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_489b4eea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_489b4eea | |
Pushing Daisies / int_49d5f48f | type |
Of Corpse He's Alive | |
Pushing Daisies / int_49d5f48f | comment |
Of Corpse He's Alive: Used to flush out the victim's murderer. Of course, done with the advantage that, for one minute, he is alive... | |
Pushing Daisies / int_49d5f48f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_49d5f48f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_49d5f48f | |
Pushing Daisies / int_49f21688 | type |
NotUsingTheZedWord | |
Pushing Daisies / int_49f21688 | comment |
Not Using the Zed Word: Ned, in "Pie-lette"; he thinks it's disrespectful. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_49f21688 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_49f21688 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_49f21688 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4a57732a | type |
Friendless Background | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4a57732a | comment |
Friendless Background: Ned very explicitly had no friends as of the start of the series. Emerson and Olive start as more business associate and oblivious crusher than anything. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4a57732a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4a57732a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_4a57732a | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4ba29ebb | type |
Lost Him in a Card Game | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4ba29ebb | comment |
Lost Her In A Card Game: how Mei got engaged, in "Dim Sum Lose Sum". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4ba29ebb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4ba29ebb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_4ba29ebb | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4c30f8f0 | type |
Twitchy Eye | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4c30f8f0 | comment |
Twitchy Eye: Ned. As noted by Emerson, Chuck and the Narrator, it twitches when he's lying. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4c30f8f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4c30f8f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_4c30f8f0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: "I'm... Charlotte's mother." | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4e7c4536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4e7c4536 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_4e7c4536 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4f6d87f7 | type |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4f6d87f7 | comment |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Casting Lee Pace and Chi McBride (6'3" and 6'4", respectively) opposite Anna Friel and Kristin Chenoweth (5'2" and 4'11", respectively) guaranteed lots of this. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4f6d87f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_4f6d87f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_4f6d87f7 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
Pushing Daisies / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: Many of the murder victims, who retain their injuries after Ned brings them back to life. Among them a man with a chunk of his face torn out by a Rottweiler and a woman whose face melted as a result of being pressed up against a lamp. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_504a1991 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5103ab7b | type |
Sexy Backless Outfit | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5103ab7b | comment |
Sexy Backless Outfit: The Dandy Lion model costumes in "Dummy". At the same time, the front leaves everything to the imagination. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5103ab7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5103ab7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_5103ab7b | |
Pushing Daisies / int_519f108a | type |
Throwing Your Sword Always Works | |
Pushing Daisies / int_519f108a | comment |
Throwing Your Sword Always Works: "The Fun in Funeral" has a slight variant—Ned throws his sword into the wall, where it trips the fleeing villain. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_519f108a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_519f108a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_519f108a | |
Pushing Daisies / int_53bb70b2 | type |
Flashback | |
Pushing Daisies / int_53bb70b2 | comment |
Flash Back: As mentioned above, each episode begins with a segment indicating something about young Ned's past. Usually the Victim of the Week recounts something about their murder, or the Narrator sums up the clues Emerson and company have found to solve the Mystery of the Week. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_53bb70b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_53bb70b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_53bb70b2 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5407b177 | type |
First-Episode Resurrection | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5407b177 | comment |
First-Episode Resurrection: Chuck dies and is revived in "Pie-lette". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5407b177 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5407b177 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_5407b177 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_54428f7b | type |
Ashes to Crashes | |
Pushing Daisies / int_54428f7b | comment |
Ashes to Crashes: In the episode "Girth", in this case they aren't human ashes. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_54428f7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_54428f7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_54428f7b | |
Pushing Daisies / int_546dac59 | type |
Death Amnesia | |
Pushing Daisies / int_546dac59 | comment |
Death Amnesia: Though the newly-revived are generally aware that they have died, they do not remember any sort of an afterlife. The only one who ever actually recalled the period between death and being alive again Charles Charles just described it as "gliding." | |
Pushing Daisies / int_546dac59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_546dac59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_546dac59 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_55e12444 | type |
Smoking Gun Control | |
Pushing Daisies / int_55e12444 | comment |
Smoking Gun Control: The newly-revived generally have incomplete or imperfect information regarding their deaths. Averted in Bitter Sweets. The murder plot is handled in the first 12 minutes. Well, the first one anyway. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_55e12444 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_55e12444 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_55e12444 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_56725578 | type |
Driving a Desk | |
Pushing Daisies / int_56725578 | comment |
Driving a Desk: Olive Snook on horseback in "Girth" and Dilly Balsam in a motorboat in "Bittersweets". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_56725578 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_56725578 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_56725578 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_571a3c67 | type |
Power Incontinence | |
Pushing Daisies / int_571a3c67 | comment |
Power Incontinence: Ned is forced to use an extendable arm with a fake hand on the end to pet his dog, and to come up with multiple creative ways to touch Chuck, because his power is always on. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_571a3c67 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_571a3c67 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_571a3c67 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_581f6468 | type |
Hero of Another Story | |
Pushing Daisies / int_581f6468 | comment |
Hero of Another Story: Emerson Cod, who runs the B-Plot in almost every episode; as numerous episodes are Ned/Chuck/Olive central for the A-Plot, Emerson always takes care of the murder case alongside it when other plots are explored elsewhere. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_581f6468 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_581f6468 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_581f6468 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5889ca1d | type |
Mineral MacGuffin | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5889ca1d | comment |
Mineral MacGuffin: The Dam Ruby in "Water & Power". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5889ca1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5889ca1d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_5889ca1d | |
Pushing Daisies / int_589243b5 | type |
Never Say That Again | |
Pushing Daisies / int_589243b5 | comment |
Never Say That Again: Averted. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_589243b5 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_589243b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_589243b5 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5b351f0d | type |
IntercontinuityCrossover | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5b351f0d | comment |
Intercontinuity Crossover: In "Comfort Food"; Mary Anne Marie Beattle, from the Wonderfalls episode "Muffin Buffalo", appears. Happy Time Temp Agency from Dead Like Me is mentioned in the first episode of season 2 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5b351f0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5b351f0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_5b351f0d | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5cc25ed | type |
Not-So-Imaginary Friend | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5cc25ed | comment |
"You want to walk down together?" "That'd be swell, Harvey." | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5cc25ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5cc25ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_5cc25ed | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5d310fb8 | type |
Sword Fight | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5d310fb8 | comment |
Sword Fight: At the climax of "The Fun in Funeral", Ned has a sword fight with Wilfred Woodruff, the man who killed the victim of the episode. Woodruff's Implausible Fencing Powers are justified; Ned's not so much: | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5d310fb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5d310fb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_5d310fb8 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5f49ac76 | type |
Single-Target Sexuality | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5f49ac76 | comment |
Single-Target Sexuality: Ned doesn't want anyone but Chuck. He's claimed to have had girlfriends before Chuck, albeit not very believably. It may be a case of First Girl Wins. Aside from various emotional issues he has with getting too close to people, stuff like the little story about the bear skin rug explains a lot. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5f49ac76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_5f49ac76 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_5f49ac76 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_60414102 | type |
Zombie Apocalypse | |
Pushing Daisies / int_60414102 | comment |
Chuck's father is aware of and afraid of becoming a flesh-eating Zombie. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_60414102 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_60414102 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_60414102 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_60547993 | type |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
Pushing Daisies / int_60547993 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Olive expresses this sentiment at the end of "Bitches" but struggles to actually stay true to it. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_60547993 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_60547993 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_60547993 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_62663d88 | type |
Men Don't Cry | |
Pushing Daisies / int_62663d88 | comment |
Men Don't Cry: in "Bzzzzzzz!", the Season 2 opener, Emerson is quite outspoken about this. Even Ned agrees. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_62663d88 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_62663d88 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_62663d88 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_62d4ceb3 | type |
Mood Motif | |
Pushing Daisies / int_62d4ceb3 | comment |
Mood Motif: There's music intended to bring to mind wind in the episode "The Smell of Success". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_62d4ceb3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_62d4ceb3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_62d4ceb3 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_64b46855 | type |
Chinese Laborer | |
Pushing Daisies / int_64b46855 | comment |
Chinese Laborer: Wilfred Woodruff's ancestor, in "The Fun In Funeral". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_64b46855 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_64b46855 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_64b46855 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_64edb99c | type |
Always Save the Girl | |
Pushing Daisies / int_64edb99c | comment |
Always Save the Girl: Ned saves Chuck fully knowing someone else will die for it. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_64edb99c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_64edb99c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_64edb99c | |
Pushing Daisies / int_653fdd53 | type |
Shaped Like What It Sells | |
Pushing Daisies / int_653fdd53 | comment |
Shaped Like What It Sells: The Pie Hole is shaped like a giant pie. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_653fdd53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_653fdd53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_653fdd53 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_657f77e4 | type |
Caught with Your Pants Down | |
Pushing Daisies / int_657f77e4 | comment |
Caught with Your Pants Down: Alluded to in "Bzzzzzzzzz!". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_657f77e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_657f77e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_657f77e4 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6595b784 | type |
Animal Reaction Shot | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6595b784 | comment |
Animal Reaction Shot: Digby, in "Bitches" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6595b784 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6595b784 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_6595b784 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6628e603 | type |
Synchronized Swarming | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6628e603 | comment |
Synchronized Swarming: While following a case where a woman says she was attacked by a "terrifying bee man", Ned speculates about being chased by a human-shaped swarm of bees. Turns out it was actually a person covered in bees. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6628e603 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6628e603 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_6628e603 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_66b98472 | type |
Erotic Dream | |
Pushing Daisies / int_66b98472 | comment |
Erotic Dream: Ned, in "Bitches". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_66b98472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_66b98472 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_66b98472 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
Pushing Daisies / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Ned's mother died suddenly when he was nine. Chuck grew up believing that her mother had died in childbirth, but later discovers that her mother is her "Aunt" Lily. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_66dfe36a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_66dfe36a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_66dfe36a | |
Pushing Daisies / int_67d722d8 | type |
A Storm Is Coming | |
Pushing Daisies / int_67d722d8 | comment |
A Storm Is Coming: "Comfort Food" and "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_67d722d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_67d722d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_67d722d8 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_692c48c4 | type |
Navel-Deep Neckline | |
Pushing Daisies / int_692c48c4 | comment |
Navel-Deep Neckline: Olive rocks some while wearing the Darling Mermaid Darling outfit. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_692c48c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_692c48c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_692c48c4 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Very nearly everything, from honey to pop-up books to scratch-and-sniffs to synchronized swimming to department store window dressings. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6b35bdff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6b35bdff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_6b35bdff | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Many of them, including Harold Hundin ("Hundin" is German for "female dog") in "Bitches" Buddy Amicus ("amicus" is Latin for "friend") in "Frescorts" Bao Ting ("bao" is Cantonese for "bun") in "Dim Sum Lose Sum" Napoleon LeNez ("Le Nez" is French for "the nose") in "Smell of Success" Coeur d'Coeurs (French for "Heart of Hearts", symbolizing Ned's suppressed emotions and past). Arguably, Ned's name - an anagram of "end", symbolizing his connection to death. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_6bda9a30 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6c275297 | type |
The Fettered | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6c275297 | comment |
The Cynic: Ned. note Reluctant Warrior/Resigned to the Call. The traumatized bundle of anxiety who often has to get over his own neuroses in order to save the day. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6c275297 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6c275297 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_6c275297 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7026fa | type |
Punny Name | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: Randy Mann. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7026fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7026fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7026fa | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7cd3e | type |
Dead Person Impersonation | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7cd3e | comment |
Dead Person Impersonation: "Pigeon" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7cd3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7cd3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_6d7cd3e | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7089d02e | type |
All Germans Are Nazis | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7089d02e | comment |
All Germans Are Nazis: Invoked and subverted twice. In "Bad Habits", a threatening guy with an accent, thought to be an 'Angry German' by Emerson Cod, was actually Swiss (and non-threatening). In "Comfort Food" was the Waffle Nazi, who appeared with full Lederhosen get-up, Gratuitous German, speech patterns, and threatening personality - only for it to be revealed as fake: he is neither German nor actually speaks the language, but is putting on a show. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7089d02e | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7089d02e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_7089d02e | |
Pushing Daisies / int_716c0b1b | type |
And the Adventure Continues | |
Pushing Daisies / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: Due to the sudden cancelling of the show, numerous plot threads were either abruptly tied or left hanging. By its finalé, Series 2 ends with: Vivian discovering what occurred between Charles and Lily, Chuck revealing herself to Lily and Vivian, Ned and Chuck still continuing their relationship, Emerson getting "Lil Gumshoe" published and presumably finding Penny, and Olive staying with Randy Mann and going on to start her own novelty restaurant. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_716c0b1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_716c0b1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_716c0b1b | |
Pushing Daisies / int_73470774 | type |
Similar Squad | |
Pushing Daisies / int_73470774 | comment |
Similar Squad - the Norwegians though judging from some viewer reactions, they weren't similar enough | |
Pushing Daisies / int_73470774 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_73470774 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_73470774 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_735b4101 | type |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience | |
Pushing Daisies / int_735b4101 | comment |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The interiors of many buildings. The Pie Hole and the morgue are green, Betty's Bees is yellow, the convent (and the nuns' habits) are aqua, and the Chinese restaurant (plus Emerson's office upstairs) are red. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_735b4101 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_735b4101 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_735b4101 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
Pushing Daisies / int_754df088 | comment |
Justified, in that Alfredo's last appearance is in an episode where he is Put on a Bus, and Olive realizes she loved him too late. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_754df088 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_754df088 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_754df088 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_76788531 | type |
Just for Pun | |
Pushing Daisies / int_76788531 | comment |
Combine this with Just For Pun and you get Olive's pig companion, Pigby. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_76788531 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_76788531 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_76788531 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_77dd4ff0 | type |
Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty | |
Pushing Daisies / int_77dd4ff0 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty: Very, very shiny. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_77dd4ff0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_77dd4ff0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_77dd4ff0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_78270847 | type |
Curse Cut Short | |
Pushing Daisies / int_78270847 | comment |
Curse Cut Short: in "Circus Circus", a dead clown mentions that the clowns had made up a limerick about an audience member named Bryce von Deenis. Chuck and Ned speculate on the contents of the limerick: The show also uses Sound-Effect Bleep—see below. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_78270847 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_78270847 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_78270847 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_78f6bb9b | type |
Translation: "Yes" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_78f6bb9b | comment |
Translation: "Yes": In "Dummy", when the CEO of Dandy Lion is presenting a crash test to Japanese investors: | |
Pushing Daisies / int_78f6bb9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_78f6bb9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_78f6bb9b | |
Pushing Daisies / int_79b5990c | type |
Mr. Vice Guy | |
Pushing Daisies / int_79b5990c | comment |
Mr. Vice Guy: Emerson Cod and Greed. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_79b5990c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_79b5990c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_79b5990c | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a368a80 | type |
Comic Role Play | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a368a80 | comment |
Comic Role Play: Olive on Aunt Lily— who tells her to pretend she's Chuck, her daughter, and to tell her what she'd say if Chuck were alive. Chuck is listening in. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a368a80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a368a80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a368a80 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a5cf630 | type |
Smells of Death | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a5cf630 | comment |
Smells of Death: One episode introduces a man obsessed with scents and odors, and he instantly takes an interest in Chuck and Digby, Ned's girlfriend and dog respectively that he brought back to life with his magic touch. He can smell that there's something off about them and wants to know what, as there's not much that he can't normally suss out through smell. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a5cf630 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a5cf630 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_7a5cf630 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b7f1657 | type |
Canine Companion | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b7f1657 | comment |
Canine Companion: Digby (though of course, Ned can't touch him, as Digby was the first thing Ned had ever brought back to life). Combine this with Just For Pun and you get Olive's pig companion, Pigby. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b7f1657 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b7f1657 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b7f1657 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b8b88f2 | type |
Raising the Steaks | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b8b88f2 | comment |
Raising the Steaks: Ned's touch can revive anything dead, including bear skin rugs and rotten fruit. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b8b88f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b8b88f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_7b8b88f2 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7e851477 | type |
Balancing Death's Books | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7e851477 | comment |
Balancing Death's Books: There's a grace period of a minute, but if Ned doesn't re-touch the re-animated, something else of approximately equal "life" value will die in exchange. And even after said grace period, Ned can't touch the re-animated person/creature/whatever, or they'll be dead again. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7e851477 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7e851477 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_7e851477 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: "Pie-lette" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7eb49b31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_7eb49b31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_7eb49b31 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Pushing Daisies / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Dim Sum Lose Sum", when discussing the gambling regulars: Also, when Olive tells the legend of Merle Mcquoddy: | |
Pushing Daisies / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_808cbaeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_808cbaeb | |
Pushing Daisies / int_816a4e80 | type |
Star Wars (Franchise) | |
Pushing Daisies / int_816a4e80 | comment |
"I'm channeling fear into anger." "Anger leads to hate." "And hate leads to stress baking." | |
Pushing Daisies / int_816a4e80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_816a4e80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_816a4e80 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_82518cf7 | type |
Motor Mouth | |
Pushing Daisies / int_82518cf7 | comment |
Motor Mouth: Ned tends to babble rapidly when he's nervous, and he's nervous quite frequently. Arguably Chuck as well. The two of them together have a lot of whiplash-inducing back-and-forth conversations together. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_82518cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_82518cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_82518cf7 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_838343d6 | type |
Fairy Tale | |
Pushing Daisies / int_838343d6 | comment |
Fairy Tale: Essentially. It mixes what is something of a fairy tale romance with some of the darker themes present in the older fairy stories. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_838343d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_838343d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_838343d6 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8411ab92 | type |
Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8411ab92 | comment |
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Aunt Lily and Aunt Vivian. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8411ab92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8411ab92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8411ab92 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_85d24c0b | type |
Cutesy Name Town | |
Pushing Daisies / int_85d24c0b | comment |
Cutesy Name Town: Coeur d' Coeurs. You can't really get more cutesy than that. For the non-Francophones in the room, it means "Heart of Hearts" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_85d24c0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_85d24c0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_85d24c0b | |
Pushing Daisies / int_861ac58a | type |
This Is No Time for Knitting | |
Pushing Daisies / int_861ac58a | comment |
This Is No Time for Knitting: Literally—Emerson Cod's knitting needles turn out to be instrumental in saving himself, Ned and Chuck from the bad guy. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_861ac58a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_861ac58a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_861ac58a | |
Pushing Daisies / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Pushing Daisies / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Following the sudden cancellation of the show, the finalé of Season 2 leaves a few plot threads haning: The relationship plot between Alfredo Aldarisionote Travelling Holistic Businessman and Olive. The fate of re-living Charles Charles. The fate of Ned's father, as well as the hints of his return. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_863fa679 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_863fa679 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8748f851 | type |
Brainy Brunette | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8748f851 | comment |
Brainy Brunette: Chuck is book smart on everything. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8748f851 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8748f851 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8748f851 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_87d8ecf5 | type |
Literal Cliffhanger | |
Pushing Daisies / int_87d8ecf5 | comment |
Literal Cliffhanger / Take My Hand!: towards the end of "The Norwegians". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_87d8ecf5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_87d8ecf5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_87d8ecf5 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_87e661e8 | type |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
Pushing Daisies / int_87e661e8 | comment |
Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: "The Smell of Success" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_87e661e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_87e661e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_87e661e8 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_890d4ef2 | type |
Humiliation Conga | |
Pushing Daisies / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: Buddy suffered one in his Flash Back in "Frescorts." | |
Pushing Daisies / int_890d4ef2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_890d4ef2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_890d4ef2 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Chuck, most obviously; but also, briefly, the week's murder victim(s). And now, it would seem, Charles Charles. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8967e17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8967e17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8967e17f | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8af25294 | type |
Bullet Time | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8af25294 | comment |
Bullet Time: "Dim Sum Lose Sum" has a humorous example with a steam explosion. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8af25294 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8af25294 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8af25294 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8c608864 | type |
Digging to China | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8c608864 | comment |
Digging to China: Young Olive in "Bad Habits" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8c608864 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8c608864 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8c608864 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cd3d091 | type |
Repetitive Name | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cd3d091 | comment |
Repetitive Name: Charlotte "Chuck" Charles and her father, Charles Charles Which is why the recurring fan favorite choice for Ned's last name is Edwards. The Mother Superior of the nunnery is named Mary Mary. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cd3d091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cd3d091 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cd3d091 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cf6aa | type |
Literal Metaphor | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cf6aa | comment |
Literal Metaphor: Emerson Cod is fond of these. In "The Smell of Success": And this from "Bad Habits": | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cf6aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cf6aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8cf6aa | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e20b0f7 | type |
Private Detective | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e20b0f7 | comment |
Private Detective: Emerson Cod | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e20b0f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e20b0f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e20b0f7 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e9cf84e | type |
||
Pushing Daisies / int_8e9cf84e | comment |
"Blind Idiot" Translation: The S2 episode "Robbing Hood" erroneously claims that the Latin phrase "orbis pro vox" translates as "ring for rights" (as in, "ring bells for rights"), when it can at best be translated as "a voice for the deprived".note And even that translation is only possible by ignoring the word order and taking "orbis" as the ablative plural of a fairly obscure adjective ("orbus") rather than its much more common noun meaning of "sphere". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e9cf84e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e9cf84e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8e9cf84e | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Lawrence Schatz, the grave-robbing funeral director who dies after Chuck is brought back for more than 60 seconds. Pinky McCoy, who fixed horse races resulting in a near-death injury at the Jock-Off 2000. Dwight Dixon, a grave robber who was only moments away from shooting Ned and Chuck when Charles Charles's 60 seconds ran out. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_90e2b7b4 | type |
Theme Twin Naming | |
Pushing Daisies / int_90e2b7b4 | comment |
Theme Twin Naming: Averted if you consider the show tendency to alliterative and repetitive names. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_90e2b7b4 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_90e2b7b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_90e2b7b4 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_90f6d157 | type |
Confessional | |
Pushing Daisies / int_90f6d157 | comment |
Confessional: Ned, in "Bad Habits". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_90f6d157 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_90f6d157 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_90f6d157 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9218bf79 | type |
Secret Chaser | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9218bf79 | comment |
Secret Chaser: Oscar Vibenius | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9218bf79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9218bf79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_9218bf79 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_92c112f7 | type |
Bitter Almonds | |
Pushing Daisies / int_92c112f7 | comment |
Bitter Almonds: Almond-flavored coffee creamer in "Bitches". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_92c112f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_92c112f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_92c112f7 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_94680696 | type |
Shaped Like Itself | |
Pushing Daisies / int_94680696 | comment |
Especially so when you consider he calls even calls pre-nicknamed characters by his own terms; despite Charlotte Charles understandably being called "Chuck", Emerson instead opts for "Dead Girl". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_94680696 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_94680696 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_94680696 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_94d0eb61 | type |
Lighthouse Point | |
Pushing Daisies / int_94d0eb61 | comment |
Lighthouse Point: One episode featured the murder of a lighthouse keeper. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_94d0eb61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_94d0eb61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_94d0eb61 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9633f14b | type |
Badass Bystander | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9633f14b | comment |
Badass Bystander: Lily, who blasts Chuck's assassin with a shotgun, complete with a nice Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "I can hold my breath for a long time." | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9633f14b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9633f14b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_9633f14b | |
Pushing Daisies / int_963e36bd | type |
Boarding School of Horrors | |
Pushing Daisies / int_963e36bd | comment |
Boarding School of Loneliness, Grayness, and Crushing Depression: The Longborough School For Boys | |
Pushing Daisies / int_963e36bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_963e36bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_963e36bd | |
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555 | |
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555: 555-0155 is Emerson Cod's phone number. | |
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Ridiculously Alive Undead | |
Pushing Daisies / int_991a3be9 | comment |
Ridiculously Alive Undead: While Ned doesn't think "undead" is the best descriptor, those brought back by his power do fall under this trope. Any being Ned brings back to life appears to be no different from the way they were before they died, unless they sustained a gruesome injury or have significantly rotted. They can eat, drink, get hurt, etc. They don't appear to age, and to the trained nose they smell of death, but that's about it. | |
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Bandaged Face | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9adeadc | comment |
Bandaged Face: Chuck's dad. He even has a smiley face drawn on it. | |
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The Corpse Stops Here | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9ce83619 | comment |
The Corpse Stops Here: "Bitter Sweets" | |
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Foreshadowing | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In "The Smell of Success" Aunt Lily mentions a sweater that belonged to Charlotte's mother. The narrator mentions that this made her go to "her dark place." The moment is framed such that it appears Chuck's aunt simply misses her niece. But a later episode reveals that Aunt Lily is Chuck's mother. In the first episode, Lily mentions that Chuck used to threaten to bake anti-depressants into their food in order to cheer them up. Come episode two... | |
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Continuity Nod | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: After nabbing a criminal with a fake arm in "Pigeon" (Ned: "Is this the hand you were holding?"), Ned keeps the arm. In later episodes, he uses it to pet Digby and fish things out of a vat of taffy. The bee brooch used as a bug in "Bzzzzzz!" is also used for the aforementioned Comic Role Play in "Oh Oh Oh—It's Magic" | |
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Un-Paused | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9e869a0c | comment |
Un-Paused: In the first episode, the first thing Chuck does after Ned brings her back to life is grab his tie and bang him on the lid of her coffin in self-defense against her killer. | |
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Leitmotif | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: The love theme, which is somewhat the theme of the entire series. Emerson Cod's theme, which is a noir-esque jazz piece with vibraphone and finger snapping. Olive Snook's Sexophone theme. In the season two opener, "Bzzzzzzz!" a cheerfully tango-ized variation of "Flight of the Bumblebee" threads under and through the rest of the background music. Arrangements of "Ave Maria" appear in convent scenes fairly often. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9f80e1da | comment |
Sarcasm Mode: Emerson, all the time: "Oh, look at that, a dumb idea just found a friend!" And very occasionally, Ned: "'Come to our show, Frère Pie-Maker! It's a magic show." | |
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Secret-Keeper | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9f970427 | comment |
Secret-Keeper: Though most of the main characters are keeping secrets, Olive seems to be an especially popular secret repository. Except, of course, the biggest secret of all... | |
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The Summation | |
Pushing Daisies / int_9fda81a7 | comment |
The Summation: The narrator does this, sometimes several times an episode, and always starting with the phrase "the facts were these..." | |
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Sugar Bowl | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a15af1f3 | comment |
Sugar Bowl: The Pushing Daisies world is brightly coloured, full of pies, tender sweet moments, coy glances, happy honeybees, whimsy, and little charming gestures. This offsets the bizarre murders, morbid humor, and unflinching examinations of personal responsibility and morality. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a188ac4b | comment |
Overly-Long Gag: All the clowns being taken away on stretchers in Circus Circus. It doesn't help that one of them is still on stilts. | |
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Homage | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a1a1491e | comment |
Homage: Exactly how much this show owes to the classic French film Amélie varies from "it's the writer's favourite film, there's bound to be some similarities" to "attempted shot-for-shot remake". Also see the homage to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds in "Bitter Sweets". As well as the Hitchcock references in "Bitches", culminating with Emerson's dream homage to Vertigo. In some episodes Chuck's fashion style is a clear tribute to Audrey Hepburn. A lot of scenes are shot in style of a Film Noir with the window shades casting shadows over the characters' faces, most notably in "Girth", "Bitches", and "Bad Habits" when Olive goes to hire Emerson. | |
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Bindle Stick | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a20ff0b5 | comment |
Bindle Stick: Young Ned, in "Circus Circus" | |
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Indirect Kiss | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a33ff511 | comment |
Indirect Kiss: Ned and Chuck, by necessity, in increasingly creative ways. | |
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City with No Name | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a698ad42 | comment |
City with No Name: The city where the main action takes place is never named, though we do know that it's in (fictitious) Papen County, 131 miles due north of Coeur d'Coeurs (Ned and Chuck's equally fictitious hometown). Information on placing Papen County in a US state or region is internally inconsistent. Ned's apartment building, though, is "played" by the famous Bradbury Building in Los Angeles. | |
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MacGuffin | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a6c69bd | comment |
MacGuffin: Charles Charles' pocket watch, apparently. | |
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Lonely Rich Kid | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a7016efe | comment |
Lonely Rich Kid: Olive grew up this way. | |
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Taxidermy Terror | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a74bd88e | comment |
Taxidermy Terror: Ned is terrified of preserved animals, but not for the usual reasons. He's afraid of accidentally resurrecting them. | |
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Time-Shifted Actor | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a78f8506 | comment |
Timeshifted Actor: Because of the opening flashbacks mentioned above. | |
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The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a7ddc88e | comment |
The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Even without Ned's aid Emerson Cod is a capable investigator. But he still can't find his daughter. | |
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Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick | |
Pushing Daisies / int_a9f1b1bb | comment |
Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick: A few examples in the episode "Oh oh oh it's Magic." While several tricks of the episode are explained throughout the course of the episode, a couple are patently impossible (including the twins elevating a Lovely Assistant with bolts of electricity). | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
Pushing Daisies / int_aa07ca54 | comment |
Obfuscating Disability: In a season 2 episode we see a brief flashback to Emerson Cod's childhood. His mother faked putting him in danger to expose a man who had made fraudulent insurance claims. She pushed a stroller with a baby doll in it down a flight of stairs- the allegedly wheelchair-bound man with a neckbrace and a broken arm ran from his wheelchair to catch the baby with both hands. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All of them are whimsical, from "Pie-lette" to "Dim Sum Lose Sum". | |
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Pushing Daisies / int_ad9559e6 | type |
Arc Villain | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ad9559e6 | comment |
Arc Villain: Dwight Dixon for half of the second season. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
The Realist: Emerson.note Knight in Sour Armor/The Snark Knight. The Only Sane Man between his three quirky associates who brings them back to reality when their quirks get in the way of the job. | |
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They Called Me Mad! | |
Pushing Daisies / int_af98df4e | comment |
They Called Me Mad!: The scent scientists—both Napoleon Le Nez and Oscar Vibenius. Mark Chase during his Motive Rant about the invention of the Dandy-Lion SX. | |
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Catchphrase | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: The narrator has "At this very moment" and "The facts were these..." Played with in "Robbing Hood": Played with once by the Narrator himself when describing a scene faked to look like a natural death: Emerson's is "Aw, hell no!" Which has been stolen by the Narrator once and by Olive on more than one occasion. | |
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Film Noir | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b034d333 | comment |
Film Noir: The show's aesthetic draws pretty heavily on the Film Noir, particularly Emerson's office, the clipped, rapid-fire dialogue, and a good portion of "Dim-Sum Lose Some". Also, several film noir classics can be seen playing in the background in a few scenes of "Corpsicle". | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b24ce4b2 | comment |
In the season two opener, "Bzzzzzzz!" a cheerfully tango-ized variation of "Flight of the Bumblebee" threads under and through the rest of the background music. | |
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Just Between You and Me | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me: Subverted. The murderer in "Dummy" explains his entire plan... without realizing that the heroes, who are trapped inside a car, can't even hear him. | |
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Genki Girl | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b2f26025 | comment |
Genki Girl: Chuck, determined to make the most of her second chance at life. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b5049d76 | comment |
Added Alliterative Appeal: The writers seem very fond of this. See also Repetitive Name, below. Recurring character Dwight Dixon Merle McQuoddy, his boat the Knockout Nora, and Typhoon Tyrone, which sunk her. Main character Charlotte "Chuck" Charles and her father Charles Charles. Episode 11 of season 2 is full of alliteration. | |
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Institutional Apparel | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b70b1e3b | comment |
Institutional Apparel: Ned wore a bright orange jumpsuit when he was Mistaken for Murderer in "Bitter Sweets". | |
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Valley Girl | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b970a40 | comment |
Valley Girl: Elise, the gold-digging wife in "Robbing Hood." | |
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Came Back Wrong | |
Pushing Daisies / int_b983a56b | comment |
Came Back Wrong: All of the bodies of the people Ned brings back to life remain as they were when he touched them. This is not always pleasant to watch. Interestingly, this doesn't seem to apply to the fruits Ned resurrects. One explanation or rationalization could be that Ned's powers can reverse/heal the effects of time or death by "natural" causes but can't reverse physical trauma. | |
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First Girl Wins | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ba0791de | comment |
He's claimed to have had girlfriends before Chuck, albeit not very believably. It may be a case of First Girl Wins. Aside from various emotional issues he has with getting too close to people, stuff like the little story about the bear skin rug explains a lot. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
Pushing Daisies / int_babc974 | comment |
Sadistic Choice: In "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy", Charles Charles, the father Chuck always longed for, offers to take his daughter on a life of adventure—far, far away from the man she loves. | |
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Impairment Shot | |
Pushing Daisies / int_bc3b029b | comment |
Impairment Shot: In "Oh Oh Oh—It's Magic", we see what the dead person sees when Ned touches them a second time. | |
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Clear My Name | |
Pushing Daisies / int_bc3cb7ff | comment |
Clear My Name: Ned is jailed for the murder of Billy Balsam in "Bitter Sweets". | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
Pushing Daisies / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: Ned, in "Circus Circus"; Emerson, in "Robbing Hood". | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes | |
Pushing Daisies / int_bdc0a18e | comment |
Idiosyncratic Wipes: Often an Iris Out. These were once extremely common, especially in cinema, but they look old-fashioned or even slightly cheesy to modern eyes, which are used to more unobtrusive scene wipes. (Therefore, perfectly suited to the show's theme of retro charm.). In "Oh Oh Oh—It's Magic", some of the scene transitions are curtains opening and closing. "Robbing Hood" uses an animated bell for some of its scene transitions. "Window Dressed To Kill" uses slide-close doors. "Kerplunk" used shark jaws. | |
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Sexophone | |
Pushing Daisies / int_be6b0200 | comment |
Olive Snook's Sexophone theme. | |
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Messy Pig | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c01db132 | comment |
Messy Pig: Pigby who accidentally killed someone in "Bad Habits". | |
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Evil Gloating | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c0d598fe | comment |
Evil Gloating: Dilly in "Bitter Sweets"... until the Pie Hole gang proved they had nothing to do with her brother's murder. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c0d598fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c0d598fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c0d598fe | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c1967d3e | type |
Retro Universe | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c1967d3e | comment |
Retro Universe: From Chuck's Hepburn-esque wardrobe to Ned's and Emerson's beautiful old cars, the world is like a more colorful version of the past... or the past as it should have been (although the idealized past apparently includes the Reagan administration as seen in "The Smell of Success"). | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c1967d3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c1967d3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c1967d3e | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c33ba0a8 | type |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Alfredo Aldarisio. Initially a love interest for Olive, he eventually fixes the espresso machine for her and attempts to catch her eye to no avail. Later on in the series, he then simply disappears with minimal explanation and the Alfredo/Olive subplot is dropped, only returning when Olive is quickly paired with Randy Mann when the show suddenly ended. Justified, in that Alfredo's last appearance is in an episode where he is Put on a Bus, and Olive realizes she loved him too late. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c33ba0a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c33ba0a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c33ba0a8 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c40c8b74 | type |
And Starring | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: With Swoosie Kurtz (Aunt Lily) And Kristin Chenoweth (Olive) | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c40c8b74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c40c8b74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c40c8b74 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c47fed84 | type |
Waking Up at the Morgue | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c47fed84 | comment |
Waking Up at the Morgue: at least Once an Episode, starting with Chuck in the first episode | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c47fed84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c47fed84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c47fed84 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c5385ad9 | type |
Horrible Judge of Character | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c5385ad9 | comment |
Horrible Judge of Character: Aunt Vivian seems to have really bad taste in men. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c5385ad9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c5385ad9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c5385ad9 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c6dd74c5 | type |
Unbelievable Source Plot | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c6dd74c5 | comment |
Unbelievable Source Plot: Subverted because the investigator is on the inside and therefore knows the secret. The protagonist can bring the dead to life for a minute and interview them about their death. Sometimes, it feels like they still have to lie all the time to others about why they know so much. Not *quite* a paradigmatic example, but still showcases the endless lies necessary to cover their secret investigative trick. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c6dd74c5 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c6dd74c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c6dd74c5 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: "Follow the yellow thick hose!" Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds Emerson describes a character as going Blood Simple. The Godfather Part II: "I knew it was you, Fredo." Happy Time Temp Agency The Sound of Music Father Dowling Mysteries M*A*S*H Hamlet: "What got thee to a nunnery?" Sister Christian "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy" is larded with shout outs to the 1977 Disney movie Pete's Dragon (1977). The movie had starred Pushing Daisies' narrator Jim Dale. Superman: The Movie Vertigo: in "Bitches" "You want to walk down together?" "That'd be swell, Harvey." They Might Be Giants : Olive makes a metaphor about "a birdcage in your soul" and sings Birdhouse In Your Soul not long after in the same episode. "I'm channeling fear into anger." "Anger leads to hate." "And hate leads to stress baking." "Magicians?" "Illusionists!" Emerson describes Chuck as happy-Golightly. A 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' example appears in episode 3, when Alfredo Aldarisio is imagining the atmosphere leaving the earth and sucking him out into space while destroying the earth, you can see a yellow bulldozer driving by outside. Another 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' example appears in "The Norwegians" — the charcoal sketch of Dwight Dixon Vivian gives to Emerson has Dwight posed like Rose in Titanic (1997) (complete with his pocket watch around his neck like Rose's sapphire necklace). | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c75df49a | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c83cd6b8 | type |
The Nicknamer | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c83cd6b8 | comment |
The Nicknamer: Emerson has a nickname for every character, every episode. Especially so when you consider he calls even calls pre-nicknamed characters by his own terms; despite Charlotte Charles understandably being called "Chuck", Emerson instead opts for "Dead Girl". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c83cd6b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_c83cd6b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_c83cd6b8 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ca85e684 | type |
Power Trio | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ca85e684 | comment |
Power Trio: Ned/Chuck/Emerson as Ego/Superego/Id, respectively. Also: Thin/Short/Big (respectively). | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ca85e684 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ca85e684 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_ca85e684 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Mark Chase during his Motive Rant about the invention of the Dandy-Lion SX. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cbe687ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cbe687ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_cbe687ab | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cd7f2d9a | type |
Lip-Lock Sun-Block | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cd7f2d9a | comment |
Lip-Lock Sun-Block: Ned and Chuck's first kiss as children | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cd7f2d9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cd7f2d9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_cd7f2d9a | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cf92fea8 | type |
Cassandra Truth | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: Charlotte tells Olive the truth in the ninth episode, but Olive understandably believes it’s a Sarcastic Confession: | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cf92fea8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_cf92fea8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_cf92fea8 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d29a6629 | type |
Death by Childbirth | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d29a6629 | comment |
Death by Childbirth: Chuck's mom. This is later subverted when it is revealed that Aunt Lily is really her mother. She lied because Vivian was engaged to Charles. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d29a6629 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d29a6629 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d29a6629 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2aa7d09 | type |
Littlest Cancer Patient | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2aa7d09 | comment |
Littlest Cancer Patient: Subverted, in "Corpsicle", by heart patient Abner Newsome, the least likable kid-with-a-terminal-disease in the history of the trope. It's because he's heartless. (See also Stealth Pun.) | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2aa7d09 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2aa7d09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2aa7d09 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2b59903 | type |
Cool Old Lady | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Both of Chuck's aunts are cool old ladies, but especially Aunt Lily, who shot Chuck's murderer. After nearly being killed herself. With zero depth perception. In the very first episode. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2b59903 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2b59903 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2b59903 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2ccb43e | type |
Delicious Distraction | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2ccb43e | comment |
Delicious Distraction: Ned's pies, especially those Chuck bakes with cheese on the crust for her aunts. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2ccb43e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2ccb43e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d2ccb43e | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d332bf54 | type |
Lampshaded | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d332bf54 | comment |
Lampshaded in "Dim Sum Lose Sum", where a sudden lack of snarkage clues Ned and Chuck into Emerson's absence. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d332bf54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d332bf54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d332bf54 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d46ddfa2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d46ddfa2 | comment |
The Apathetic/Conflicted: Olive.note Supporting Protagonist/Cute and Psycho/The Ditherer, especially considering she is frequently left out on secrets and goings-on. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d46ddfa2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d46ddfa2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d46ddfa2 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d50a5478 | type |
Unlimited Wardrobe | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d50a5478 | comment |
Unlimited Wardrobe: To the point Chuck can dress thematically to the centerpiece of a given episode. So can Olive. And Chuck's aunts... right down to Lily having eyepatches to match her outfits. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d50a5478 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d50a5478 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d50a5478 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d6618014 | type |
Last Request | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d6618014 | comment |
Last Request: Chuck appends asking for this to Ned's usual "who murdered you?" once she enters the picture. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d6618014 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d6618014 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d6618014 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d782bd52 | type |
Equivalent Exchange | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d782bd52 | comment |
Equivalent Exchange: Giving someone life costs another's: a human's for a human's, an animal's for an animal's, a plant's for a plant's. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d782bd52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d782bd52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d782bd52 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d7b34c31 | type |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Specifically, Jim Dale always refers to "Young Ned" in the flashbacks, but adult Ned is always "The Piemaker." | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d7b34c31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d7b34c31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d7b34c31 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d88f0679 | type |
Interrogating the Dead | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d88f0679 | comment |
Interrogating the Dead: At least Once an Episode | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d88f0679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d88f0679 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d88f0679 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d9d864e2 | type |
Stage Magician | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d9d864e2 | comment |
Stage Magician: Ned's twin half-brothers and their mentor, the Great Hermann. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d9d864e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_d9d864e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_d9d864e2 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_db32e308 | type |
Whodunnit to Me? | |
Pushing Daisies / int_db32e308 | comment |
Whodunnit to Me?: Chuck helps solve her own murder in "Pie-lette". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_db32e308 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_db32e308 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_db32e308 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_db8b1727 | type |
Window Love | |
Pushing Daisies / int_db8b1727 | comment |
Window Love: Practically obligatory for Ned and Chuck, as they can't touch in any other way. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_db8b1727 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_db8b1727 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_db8b1727 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dbf168d6 | type |
Flirty Stepsiblings | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dbf168d6 | comment |
Flirty Step Siblings / Not Blood Siblings: How they explain Vivian and Lily having the same last name as Charles and Vivian thinking Chuck is hers and Lily’s niece if Charles is Vivian’s ex-fiancé and Chuck being Lily’s secret daughter. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dbf168d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dbf168d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_dbf168d6 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dcd29760 | type |
They Would Cut You Up | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dcd29760 | comment |
They Would Cut You Up: Ned's greatest fear. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dcd29760 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dcd29760 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_dcd29760 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dd6dcee0 | type |
Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dd6dcee0 | comment |
Tradesnark™: Both the Narrator and Ned refer to "Betty's Bees, trademark" in "Bzzzzzzzzz!". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dd6dcee0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_dd6dcee0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_dd6dcee0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e0e8cce6 | type |
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e0e8cce6 | comment |
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: "I grew up" is the reason Ned gives for disliking Halloween, even though it is really because that's when he found out his father had a second family. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e0e8cce6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e0e8cce6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e0e8cce6 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e11b003d | type |
Translation Convention | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e11b003d | comment |
Translation Convention: Subverted in "Dim Sum Lose Sum", when the Narrator notes that "Bao chose to respond in English." | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e11b003d | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e11b003d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e11b003d | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e34400ab | type |
Ambiguously Gay | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay Leo Burns, the coordinator in Comfort Food. Hilarious in Hindsight as he's played by Eric Stonestreet. Oh, and he's the murderer of the week. Virtually all the males involved with the aqua dance show in Kerplunk. Willy Gherkin, the new real estate agent/former personal trainer in "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e34400ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e34400ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e34400ab | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e3f7524b | type |
Dice Roll Death | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e3f7524b | comment |
Dice Roll Death: A caveat of Ned's resurrection power is that if he brings someone back for more than one minute, another life must be exchanged for the one brought back. This only affects the immediate area and appears to be completely random. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e3f7524b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e3f7524b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e3f7524b | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e4f05faa | type |
Jaw Drop | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e4f05faa | comment |
Jaw Drop: Ned, when he's shocked. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e4f05faa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e4f05faa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e4f05faa | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e563bf09 | type |
Insistent Terminology | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: In "Pie-lette": | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e563bf09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e563bf09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e563bf09 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e59ad7c | type |
Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e59ad7c | comment |
Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism: Lily spent time at a convent when pregnant with Chuck. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e59ad7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e59ad7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e59ad7c | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e75d1aee | type |
Friendly Local Chinatown | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e75d1aee | comment |
Friendly Local Chinatown: As part of the Emerson's PI status, as well as the pervasive noirish milieu, his office is located in the local Chinatown, directly above a dim-sum restaurant. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e75d1aee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e75d1aee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e75d1aee | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e79b033c | type |
Scooby Stack | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e79b033c | comment |
Scooby Stack: Chuck, Emerson, and Ned peeping out from a curtain in "Dim Sum Lose Sum". | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e79b033c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_e79b033c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_e79b033c | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ea8ba51d | type |
No Full Name Given | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ea8ba51d | comment |
No Full Name Given: If Ned has a last name, we haven't yet learned it. The narrator, who often refers to characters by their full names, calls him "young Ned" in the flashbacks and "the pie maker" in the present. Doubles as a meaningful name, given that it is an anagram for 'End' and 'NDE', the acronym for 'Near Death Experience'. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ea8ba51d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ea8ba51d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_ea8ba51d | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb5b71fe | type |
Clingy Jealous Girl | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb5b71fe | comment |
Clingy Jealous Girl: Olive Snook, who bordered on Stalker with a Crush early on. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb5b71fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb5b71fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb5b71fe | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb8f64a6 | type |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb8f64a6 | comment |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: in "Bitter Sweets". Ned goes to clean up a vermin infestation planted by Olive and Chuck (a task made even more difficult for him because he can't directly touch the dead rodents) in a rival's store—only to find a corpse and get Mistaken for Murderer. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb8f64a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb8f64a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb8f64a6 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb9e6184 | type |
Stupid Sexy Flanders | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb9e6184 | comment |
Stupid Sexy Flanders: Emerson can't stop looking at the highly effeminate male aqua dancer in the series finale. And he's not happy about it. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb9e6184 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb9e6184 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_eb9e6184 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eeaeb6df | type |
Appeal to Obscurity | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eeaeb6df | comment |
Appeal to Obscurity: in "Circus Circus": | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eeaeb6df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eeaeb6df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_eeaeb6df | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eee99653 | type |
Can't Have Sex, Ever | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eee99653 | comment |
Can't Have Sex, Ever: Ned and Chuck, though deconstructed in that they've apparently found ways around the "no touching" problem. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eee99653 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eee99653 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_eee99653 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eff83d77 | type |
Mundane Utility | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eff83d77 | comment |
Mundane Utility: Ned's pies are great because the fruit he uses is extremely fresh; all the fruit he touches is brought back to life, so it tastes like it's not more than a few minutes off the plant when it hits the oven. | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eff83d77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_eff83d77 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
Pushing Daisies / int_eff83d77 | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f06b07ff | type |
Locked Out of the Loop | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f06b07ff | comment |
Locked Out of the Loop: Olive doesn't know about Ned's strange touch-related gift, other than that he can't/won't/doesn't touch Chuck or Digby and has a locked room full of rotten fruit. Chuck actually told Olive the truth, with predictable results. Chuck's aunts don't know that Chuck has been brought back to life. At least, not until the last few seconds of the series finale. | |
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The Coroner | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f19b8b46 | comment |
The Coroner: Mmm-hmmm. | |
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Uranus Is Showing | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f19ccfee | comment |
Uranus Is Showing: Young Emerson gets sent to the principal's office for making this joke. | |
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Banana in the Tailpipe | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f2b9b1c0 | comment |
Banana in the Tailpipe: A potato variety appears in "Corpsicle" | |
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Never Say "Die" | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f51c5f3c | comment |
Never Say "Die": Ned is reluctant to ever refer to someone as dying or having been killed if it's due to his touch. | |
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Cosmic Deadline | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f5c3defd | comment |
Cosmic Deadline: The last couple of episodes are a very obvious rush job that fail to resolve most of the lingering plot threads. | |
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Snow Means Love | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f7eda5d8 | comment |
Snow Means Love: "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy" | |
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Faking the Dead | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f9876f7e | comment |
Faking the Dead: Chuck, sort of. Olive thinks Chuck's faking her death. | |
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Running Gag | |
Pushing Daisies / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Emerson has trouble keeping track of the difference between "narcoleptic" and "necrophiliac." | |
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Big, Thin, Short Trio | |
Pushing Daisies / int_fb2136ec | comment |
Also: Thin/Short/Big (respectively). | |
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Undeath Always Ends | |
Pushing Daisies / int_fb23483d | comment |
Undeath Always Ends: Averted with Chuck, Digby, and Mr. Charles. Exaggerated with everyone else, for good reason. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
Pushing Daisies / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: everywhere, as well as all over the place. (See also Repetitive Name, below.) Chuck's aunts used to be the Darling Mermaid Darlings. There's a life insurance firm called Uber-Life Life Insurance. The travel agency Chuck frequented was Boutique Travel Travel Boutique. It was run by... Dee Dee. | |
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Weather and Environment | |
Pushing Daisies / int_fcc26c0b | comment |
Weather and Environment: Redemption in the Rain: the aunts, in "The Smell of Success" Snow Means Love: "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy" A Storm Is Coming: "Comfort Food" and "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy". | |
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Theme Naming | |
Pushing Daisies / int_fd94c4ac | comment |
Theme Naming: Ned's three closest human associates all have food-related names: Olive Snook, Emerson Cod, Charlotte Charles. (A charlotte is a French dessert: a "crust" made of ladyfinger cookies enclosing a mousse of some sort. Her nickname, "Chuck", can also refer to a cut of beef.) Also, both Snook and Cod are types of fish. | |
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Brick Joke | |
Pushing Daisies / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Emerson's confusion of "narcoleptic" and "necrophiliac" — set up in "Pie-lette" for a payoff in "Pigeon". | |
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Cut Short | |
Pushing Daisies / int_ffa0483f | comment |
Cut Short: The finale is a mad rush to try to tie up several of the loose ends, and misses a few in the process. We never did find out what happened to Charles Charles or meet Ned's dad beyond a five second shot at the end of one episode. He was going to be played by George Hamilton. | |
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