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‘Snook!!’ Herc’s Seen Saturday's All-New PUSHING DAISIES!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
The facts are these.
There are three completed episodes of “Pushing Daisies” never before broadcast in the United States.
ABC starts airing them Saturday night.
Those episodes, along with the balance of season two, will also become available on DVD and Blu-ray July 21.
During tonight’s installment, there’s much talk of Clark Kent and Kal-El. The barely recognizable Richard Benjamin and George Segal, both sporting odd facial hair, play escaped convicts. The relentlessly hot Constance Zimmer plays Coco Juniper, a window dresser with a porn-star name. There’s a hilariously grisly secondary death. And Kristin Chenoweth is assigned another showstopper of a 1980s pop ballad:
“newc0253” offers a short review of the Olive-centric 2.11:
What’s it called?
“Window Dressed To Kill”
What says ITV?
“The team take on the case of a famed window dresser Erin Embry, who may or may not have been done in by her partner. However, Ned discovers he's unable to help when his life-restoring ability fizzles out on him. Meanwhile, Lily and Vivian receive visitors.”
Ned’s lost his powers?
No, the episode recap is flat-out wrong. Ned is simply unwilling to help, having foresworn using his powers. He is focusing on being, in his words, Clark Kent.
What else does the ITV recap miss out?
With Ned sticking to being an ordinary piemaker, Chuck becomes Cod’s new sidekick in solving the department store murder mystery. Also, Olive’s childhood kidnappers return for apparent revenge.
Any other developments?
Ned declares his love for someone not named Chuck. The return of David Arquette as Randy Mann. Plus a brief appearance by the Sisters of the Divine Magnatum.
So who visits Lily and Vivian?
Ned and Olive and some alleged kidnappers.
What’s good?
The Olive-centric nature of the story, including Olive’s book on double negatives, Olive hanging from a giant cherry and Olive doing another musical number, this time Lionel Ritchie. “That would make me your sidekick”. “And to a lesser extent Coco”. Randy Mann’s Clark Kent monologue. Ned’s decision. More reverse taxidermy.
What’s not so good?
After this episode, only two left. One fears that there may not be enough time to wrap up the main story properly, especially if they keep to the ‘murder of the week’ format.
How does it end?
With Ned’s sudden recognition of his own jealousy.
9 p.m. Saturday. ABC.
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Really though, I had just forgotten about the brilliance of this show and then you mention how amazing it is...thanks, Herc...thanks....
In seriousness though, I'll probably wait for the DVDs -
I want my Pushing Daisies comics. now.
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More pie.
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'nuff said.
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Y'know, I'm suprised someone else didn't jump on this. Hell, Disney could've attempted an adult programming block around this seeing how they haven't had much for the older folks since Avonlea ended.
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But it didn't even get a full season. Add this to the list of shows I absolutely adore that get shit-canned before their time.
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They'll be awful. Part of the appeal of this is the rapid fire dialogue, the effects, Snook's cleavage, the music, etc. I just hope if Fuller gets wrapped up in that purposed Trek series of his, it won't jeopardize this maybe getting a movie, tv or otherwise, in the future.
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Inwards.....
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Coz that's one hell of a piece of ass. It deserves having my eyes wash over it at least once a week.
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I love Herc and I commit frottage on his leg for giving me a Pushing Daisies Talkback.
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anywhere on TV. This show had pacing, it had set design, wonderful actors that sold an unbelievable premise.
Not only did have some of the best make-up F/X - like the deep fried guy who ATE HIMSELF - it gave a sense of of love & joy that in the dark, angsty prevaliance of many TV series that we don't get now a days.
They were sluething out murders, but there was a comic book joy to it all, like an ironic Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew series.
Fast dialogue: The quips were furious. If you weren't paying attention - you missed it. (Most likely the problem) But if you could fall into their riff...
It was one of my farvorite scripted shows since BtVS.
Emerson/Olive spin-off. Like now. -
Magician Parlour Twins. For The Win.
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I absolutely loved this show. I bought the first season on Blu-ray and watched it every single week. I'm not going to watch it get burned off my a network that never supported it.
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There have been very few shows lately where I've been watching that has made me spontantiously cry out, "Yay!" and clap my hands.
Buffy does it for me. The Office. Spaced. Extras. The Venture Brothers. These are my "Yay!" shows.
Actually this talkback, when I first saw it, made do the same thing....
YAY! Pushing Daisies talkback!!
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No more Daises.Herc, seen the Breaking Bad finale? Word is, it's just as good as the rest of the season has been.
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Next week's ep is even better. In fact its probably one of the best of the whole run.
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I know it's been shown in Germany and...and.... but...
You know what? Being a spoiler whore for most things, I will do the logical thing and fuck off until show time. -
I especially got sick of the part during the show where the narrator would say "the facts were these" and launch into a long, boring exposition.
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saw it a while back on TV. Kinda makes you wonder why more UK reviews haven't been posted - Brit opinions not good enough for the mighty AICN?
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We *know* that they have been shown elsewhere. We know that we can find recaps, spoilers and bit torrents. Or is it too much to ask you not to be pissy about it considering it was originally produced and shown on the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)?
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Didn't quite fuck off, did I?
Ok, I'm going now for real! -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8073734.stm
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/keeps running farther away
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There's some very funny stuff in it. The wrap-up is rushed, but at least there is one. I look forward to buying the comics, as the real wrap-up will happen there. Or, that would be my guess.
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There are two shows whose cancellations I will never be able to get over - Carnivale, and Pushing Daisies. Both are the television equivalents of literary masterworks... and both were canceled before their stories were done. I'm going to miss you, Pushing Daisies.
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It is not possible for me to not watch this show. I would watch Kristen Chenowith fold laundry.
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That seems awfully short.
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and i think that bryan fuller is a closeted heterosexual the man has the perfect eye for female talent...and he writes his female characters so well, that it is impossible not to fall in love with them gonna miss this show...
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DC is publishing the next season as comic books.
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You're the gayest dude to walk these talkbacks since HARRISONFORDS_ANALPASSAGE.Unless you're not a dude.Or there are lots of BTVS loving "Yay" exclaiming straight dudes out there that I'm unaware of.
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and all I have to say is WHY, GODDAMN YOU, WHY DID THIS GET CANCELED? Such a blissful pleasure to get wrapped up in. It's the kind of show that when the episode ends, you just sort of sit there and try to hold on to that bliss for another precious few seconds before it washes away. Did anyone ever send any pies to ABC?
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wish this very unique show had been given a chance to find its audience.
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you'll be telling me grass is green next.
This show was awesome, very niche in its appeal, but fantastic nonetheless. And I agree with David Lazarus Long, the only way to extend the bliss is by watching it again straight after! -
Easy cheap out. Maybe I'm just bitter about this show getting canceled. BTW apart from Stephen Baldwin I don't know who the fuck these 'celebrities' are supposed to be (I'm a Celebrity...blah blah blah)
I hope they all get eaten by fire ants. -
I was kind of hoping that they would all go the way of cannibals.
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Carnivale
Invasion
This is getting old; yeah, they might finish it in the comic books, but so what? Don't the networks get the idea of a DVD ending if they want to cancel a show -
May 30, 2009 4:47:00 PM CDT
WHY IS IT COOL TO LIKE SHOWS JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE CANCELLED?
by digital8
and yes I had to use all caps
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actually, it seems it's the other way around: shows get cancelled just because i like them.and it's not cool at all.
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we seem now to be importing this American idea of cancelling shows halfway through their story because of poor ratings. it was never this way when i was a lad. it's a bit like dinners. back in the day, at school, in the army, at work, one dish was cooked for your dinner and you ate what you were given. then came consumer choice and mealtime options now we're almost as fat as you lot.Auntie (the BBC) was funded by the government through the TV licence: if you had a tv, you paid the BBC a yearly fee. this meant that there was less pressure on produucers to get huge ratings week in week out. now, this lead to some right old shite being shown, but it also allowed some quality niche programming that could afford to takes its time developing a story: they weren't in anbject terror of cancellation from week to week, and so we avoided such sorry happenings as Mary-Louise Parker getting her tits out on Weeds. normally of course i would always heartily applaud Mary-Louise Parker getting her kit off, but in the contaxt of the show it was just cheap - a desperate ratings-grab. of course, the production values were crap, as each episode had to be made on three and sixpence, but therein lies the charm of Blake's 7 and Doctor Who.and there were no ads on the Beeb. so we saw entire movies, start to finish, in one go without having to tune out the Cheez-Wizz. ah, happy days.
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Only two more articles that Herc starts off with "The facts are these".
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... spends most of the movie in red-corduroy-cutoff Daisy Dukes. Along with her cute Brit accent.
Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!
One of the best things about this show (besides the great ensemble acting, comic timing and cracking dialogue) was the unending parade of hot cleavagy chicks in minidresses.
Fuck yeah!!!!!!! -
My abc affiliate is airing a Children's Miracle Network telethon, and it appears, at this point, tonight's episode, the episode I've waited five months to see....the traditional way, won't be rescheduled. Now I'm not pissed over the telethon itself, but if they don't give those of us a scrolling message in a hour regarding if it will air at a later time or not, I will be extremely disappointed. If national coverage of tennis/golf can push cbs soaps to early morning hours, then local affiliates should do the same. You can best believe I'll be checking the station regularly tonight, or if abc.com will have the episode available on their site.
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First, check to see if it's on at 1:37 or something. That's what I usually get when preempted.
Second, re: your comment that Herc isn't a 14 year-old girl in the Jay Leno thread. Herc *is* a 14 year-old girl. He/She's downloaded into a new 14 year-old girl every January 1st. It's like Being John Malkovich, but an annual event. El Cosmico tried once and failed (went too late), and now he's stuck pining for control. -
the screw this show and its audience over even further....It's not like the telethon is a surprise, or that they are not aware when the affiliates go off the network feed.Same telethon here. ABC: the B is for Bastards
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Funny pie names, double negative fun & sidekicking. Good so far.
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the will to live. Hee
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you didnt know that fuller is gay? where have you been man? but inside that gay guy is a leering hetero dude...for everyone of his shows he chooses the most beautiful, well rounded, female leads...he inately knows what guys want to fall for...and i have fallen for them all
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They don't usually red the murders like that, do they?
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Oh you pie-making dead-waker. Leave the Snook alone already!
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KOMO in Seattle.... Oh well, I half intended to boycott ABC and just watch the dvds, which I pre-ordered already anyway.
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liked P.D. quite a bit. Liked Fuller's work on heroes. One thing I noticed during s1, this show loves to show breast cleavage, and I love to let 'em.
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They're just showing reruns of House, Cold Case, Cold Squad, and Gimme a Break (!) :(
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...deciding to air the show, without any notice, or program guide update AFTER reruns of House, Cold Case, and gawd damned GIMME A BREAK. Gimme a Break. REALLY!? You air it at 3AM after sitcom that no one has gave a shit about for two and a half decades? REEEEEEALLY!? Christ, I even missed the opening moments. Which are essential to following the episode. IS IT REALLY SO HARD TO SCROLL THE FRICKING RESCHEDULED TIME ACROSS THE SCREEN AT THE ORIGINAL AIRTIME???
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... How sad is it that I'm live blogging, by myself, at 3:35 in tha mornin'?
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...wonder how much that Rhino set 'em back?
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Nice.
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I loved the shot of the gurney, half a corpse in a body bag next to a bucket."You try on your best friend's bra and you smile on the inside because yours are bigger and better"
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And there is zero perjorative intent in that statement. Come on, he likes Gilmore Girls and Designing Women.
All of you saying he is a 14 year old girl are missing the point. He's simply gay. -
Cant remember which talkback but he definitely admitted it on here somewhere.
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I just checked my TIVO guide, and I'll be recording this episode tonight at 6 in HD. That's KOMO in Seattle, which someone earlier mentioned.
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That's it...nothing profound to read here...move along.
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I am officially declaring this the second greatest show in the history of TV, after BtVS. But the 20 episodes we've seen so far are MUCH better than the first 20 of Buffy and in fact wipe the floor with the first 20 of any other show.
Shermdawg, the "mysteries" are highly unconventional and are not to be judged by the difficulty of their solution for the viewer or their plausibility in the real world. That's completely not the point. They serve two purposes: first and foremost as just an excuse for character interaction, and second, to be baroque and memorable. Every mystery in every conventional police procedural will be more complicated and more "clever." And they all blend together indistinguishably. The PD case of the week typically features a visually memorable setting and a perp with unusual and sometimes even genuinely novel motivation. Nothing "lame" there at all. -
made me laugh
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...as much as I love this show, part of me is glad it's ending. I don't think a Chuck-Olive-Ned love triangle in which Ned actually has feelings for Olive is the way to go. Maybe it was just a shallow "Why-isn't-she-into-me-anymore?" jealousy, but if it's not, I call it lame. If you compromise the Chuck-Ned romance, you really kill the show's entire spirit in my mind.
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