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Pushing Daisies 2.6 FAQ
What’s it called?
“Oh Oh Oh It’s Magic.”
Who’s responsible?
Teleplay is credited to Katherine Lingenfelter (“Girth”).
What says ABC?
“Ned reluctantly agrees to help 'The Great Herrmann' (guest star Fred Willard), a famed magician whose animal assistants are being mysteriously killed off. The magician has been a surrogate dad to Ned's half-brothers Maurice and Ralston (Alex Miller, Graham Miller) ever since their father walked out on them. Meanwhile, Dwight Dixon (guest star Stephen Root) insinuates himself into the Aunts' lives, but Lily is instantly suspicious of his motives. Guest starring in 'Oh Oh Oh . . . It's Magic' are Stephen Root as Dwight Dixon, Fred Willard as The Great Herrmann, Alex Miller as Maurice and Graham Miller as Ralston.”
Does Ned find his dad?
Not this week.
Does Emerson find his daughter?
No.
The big news?
You’ll wonder for a time if there’ll even be a dead body to revive this week. As it is, Ned doesn’t get to employ his special talent until the episode’s penultimate act.
Does Dwight Dixon kill somebody with that gun of his?
Not this week.
What else is ABC not telling us?
Kerri Kenney, of “The State,” “Viva Variety” and “Reno 911” fame, has a substantial role as
What’s doing with Lily and Vivian?
Chuck crank calls her birth-mother. (And English-born Anna Friel affects an English accent to facility the ruse.) Also Dwight visits the sisters.
What’s great?
The great Fred Willard as The Great Herrmann. Emerson’s pet-detective negotiation with the Great Herrmann. Olive and the nose-spike. Kerri Kenney, back in sexy mode. The Chuck-sperm. “Where did I put that rat’s ass I could give?” “I’m not made of hugs.” “Fools rush in! We’re not fools!” Sister Mary Mary’s holy water.
What’s not so great?
Episodes like this make ABC’s continued failure to buy a full second season a hard pill to swallow.
How does it end, spoiler-boy?
A very dirty Dwight Dixon rolls over and looks heavenward.
“L-Prime” liked it too:
What does TV Guide say?
“A magician (Fred Willard) who has been a surrogate father to Ned's half brothers needs the pie maker's help with his act when his animal assistants are mysteriously dying. Meanwhile, Lily is wary of Dwight's intentions.”
What do I say?
This is probably the finest Pushing Daisies yet produced. The best of the season certainly, and I'm having trouble coming up with one from last year's nine that would have outstripped it.
Why so?
Do you just want a stream of adjectives?
Um, ok.
Hilarious. Touching. Cohesive. Intelligent. Fantastical. Substantial.
Doesn't so much cover any 'why' for those words.
Ok, fine. Basically, every weakness this show has ever displayed was eliminated, at least for this hour. The mystery was interesting and rolled into the main story, every single lead actor was on fire – this may have been Lee Pace's finest hour yet as Ned, a raft of guest stars who felt seamless in the world of the show – too many of the mystery-of-the-week-ers end up a little bland/forgettable at times, and we're finally getting to see real payoff in these characters' quests for personal reconciliation with their broken pasts.
So movement on the big fronts then? Ned's father? Chuck's (real) mother? Emerson's daughter?
Yes, yes, no. Emerson's past was passed over this week, but the developments on Pie Maker and Dead Girl's stories more than makes up for it. And the final scene sets up far more substantial developments to come.
Why Lee Pace's finest hour?
Hard to put a finger on it, but he just felt more alive than ever. His comic turns were impeccable, especially for an actor and character so often relegated to the straight man role. He also got to show real growth in Ned's continual coming to terms with his father's abandonment of him, and how it relates to his newly found brothers.
So what's good then?
“Illusionists!”; “But shazzam, I have a ticket.”; “It's a magic show.” (possibly the best delivery yet from Lee Pace); “I'm a pie maker.”; “I'm not made of hugs.”; “I just wanted to see if he knew that.”; “Call me 'Great'.” “No.”; “Blah, blah, blah, please stop crying, blah.”; “Accidental death by acute cementia.”; “What did you think you were saying in your head, because I heard what came out of your mouth.”; “Yes, I am gonna kick someone's ass.”; “Emotional or federal?” “I'm going to say yes to both.”; “It was an attempt to corral those words back into my mouth.”; “I knew I shouldn'ta come in here, I knew it.”; The kitten; “Not that kind of a role play.”
What's not good?
Only the fact that my enjoyment of this show is constantly lessened by the fact that the pragmatist in me has already been detaching itself from real enjoyment, knowing that it is essentially doomed. The bump in ratings against the Obamamercial helped a bit, no doubt, but it's more likely just damning with faint praise. Fuller himself, and many of the cast, have gone to the press saying that “no decision has been made” and that “they're waiting for tonight and next week's ratings”, and we here all know that that just means they were waiting for another week of dropping numbers to let the axe fall. So please, for all of you who have ever even kind of enjoyed it, come back for one more week, and those who are inclined to help, tell others (mainly those Nielsen boxed out there, if you know any) to help at least provide a back nine to the season. If not, we'll probably be left with a funny-book ending for the Pie Maker and Chuck, while Fuller is consigned back to Heroes, which after this week's pile of crap episode, isn't a fate that should be wished on anyone. God that show has gotten terrible lately.
Final verdict?
You already know that. Possibly the finest Daisies ever. Watch it already.
How does it end?
Dwight Dixon opens an empty box.
8 p.m. Wednesday. ABC.
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Was $200!!
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I'm going to try my hardest to enjoy the Daisies we have left, even though its going to be difficult knowing that the end is coming.
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Hey there TOASTERslayer. Kinda empty in here, ain't it?
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Perhaps if ABC wants shows to be successful, they could actually try to promote it from now on.
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Too unique for its own good, I guess. Wasn't always a home run but it really deserved to find its niche. Hope its gets one more chance to at least wrap up the series, if not go on. I think the show still has tons of life in it if the right people discover it (I only did very recently).
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In daisies we trust.
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one of the best on television right now... me sad... at its eventual demise.
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... the pies?
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Unless you buy a next full season of this show.
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I don't know how he does it (especially at his age) but the old dude always brings his patented low key A game to a guest appearance. All respect to you sir.
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we need this up get some attention see if some people will tune in tonight. Daisies has to get around 6.5 mil viewers tonight and over a 2.1 in the demo to have any hope of a back 9 or being renewed at all. And, it definitely has to do better than ELi Stone and Dirty Sexy Money
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www.savedaisies.com
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I heartily agree, bee hives would get noticed. Fuck ABC, I ain't sending them free pies, they get BEES!!!
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I heard he was on that CBS Worst Week series, I just saw him on WallE, and now this!I remember when he was the sidekick to Martin Mull. Whatever happened to him, besides commercial voice over work for food wrap?
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"I'm hoping you can take some heat off of me; they're rather needy."
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Was that a clip from "Look Who's Talking"?
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I was sort of looking forward to his Pompeii impression...
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Why can't the general public get behind a romantic pink goth fantasy that features a man regurgitating a live kitten?
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One would think a show that features a couple of dozen dead clown bodies (some complete with stilts) being pulled out of a VW bug that was fished out of a lake would just resonate with the average guy. I can't tell you how many times I've gone by my local Dim Sum shack and played a hand or two of poker with some kung pow chicken
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I really hope they keep Pushing Daisies. It is consisitantly clever, funny, touching, and plain old genius.
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I Just Watched This weeks Mask Magician: Magic Revealed (I Had Burned It On DVD) Followed By Daisies. I kept trying to figure out the "Cementia" trick worked. It was magnets in the shoe. I finally looked up Herrrmans assistant. Turns out she is that RENO 911 chick.
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Which I knows sound ridiculous, because this show is "doomed". But still, I really love Root, he is one of our great character actors. I really hope DAISIES is spared the axe and gets saved. If ABC has a little faith, I truly believe ratings can improve and DVD sales can make it a profitable venture. God knows the fanbase (small as it may be) is devoted in its love for this outstanding, deliriously delectable slice of heaven.
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This will never grow stale to me. I intensely love it. KEEP IT ABC. KEEP THE DAMN FUCKING SHOW. Here's your Spring Wednesday schedule: Daisies, Lost, Mars. DO IT.
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I will not eat another pie in my entire life until this show gets at least another season. And I like pie. Especially Banana cream. Ooh, this is gonna be hard.
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Amen My Mom Is a Whore (never thought I'd say that). Apparently only a few of us are enjoying this show. The talkback traffic is completely mirroring its ratings. I thought AICN frequenters were better than that...
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that a rich, original and well-made show like this can't gain an audience. Instead, people flock toward even shittier remakes of shitty old popcorn shows or reality shows.
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argh. damn you abc. first show on regular tv i've been bitten by since firefly. and its probably not getting a full second season.
why can't they see the possibility in making 13 episodes a year just to rake in the dvd sales.
meh put some more reality tv on while i turn off regular tv again. PD is the only reg tv show I have to watch every week. -
...and is it tied to the reason he keeps leaving his family? Also, Stephen Root is great in everything.
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Sorry, guys. That's from Mediaweek.com just in the last hour or so. The strike that keeps on giving - giving out hurt, that is - does in another show.
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Thanks for the (extremely bad) news.
I'm not really surprised though. Thats what happens when an already struggling show gets put on the shelf for two weeks during sweeps. -
It'll be a couple of weeks before the ratings tally is accurate. Don't lose hope, people!
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hopefully one day there will be a DTV movie to wrap up the story. damn shame it didn't catch on with the masses but it happens all too often.
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www.savedaisies.com
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or fair to make the number of posts in talkback as any indicator of ratings. Why just the past few Pushing Daisies TBs were pretty busy and the majority had the same concern of the show being cancelled. Perhaps, it is just as Herc and L-Prime suggests that people are distancing themselves already from the bad news (I however, am a sucker for punishment).
Speaking of punishing me, ABC is fucking *killing* me. I reading the overnights & the comments this morning - basically talking about the unofficial "official" cancellation of PD - when ABC spins out a press release on how Pushing Daisies beat Knight Rider for the first time, blah, blah, blah, thought I was out/pull me back in cakes. *sigh*
Anyway, it was suggested that they are going to air the remaining 13 episodes but appartently ABC doesn't announce cancellations in a press release, so PD will probably just air the remainder and disappear. -
Not even best of the season. That distinction goes to the Nunnery episode. Still stellar in every way but I don't know if people are just anxious about its imminent cancellation cause the hyperbole gun has been drawn a lot this week. This episode did however feature Chuck's most ridiculous hat and/or dress (whatever that gothic feather thing on her head was)
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some of the things I loved about last night's ep:
Emerson & Olive's short hand communication. It's not even one word anymore, he just growls at her. The Twins and their metal detectors, running after a supposed murderer - they could eventually become a couple of real life Venture Brothers; small seedlings are present but not formed. "So you like comic books and action figures?" / "Not that kind of geek.". Ned Kickin Ass. Chuck's feathered hoodie. The entire last scene with Ned & Chuck in the car - so sweet that Ned, coming to terms with some of his own parental anxieties, wanted to reciprocate those feelings for Chuck as well.
And just as a general observation, I love how, not just clever, but smart the four main characters are written. It really smacked my face last night when Ned cautioned the foolish, rushing twins and when Olive, when she found out Ned & Olive didn't have a gun, went with Emerson (plus she wants to lick his bald head, of course). This move of Olive's was even undercored later on in the episode when she made the meta comment, "I can't *believe* they left me alone with a dead body." Even Olive knows she's not that stupid!
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