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Herc’s Seen Saturday’s Fred Williamson-Enhanced Penultimate PUSHING DAISIES!!
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Pushing Daisies 1.12 FAQ
What’s it called?
“Water And Power.”
Who’s responsible?
Teleplay is credited to "3 lbs." creator Peter Ocko ("Dummy," "Circus, Circus") from a story by Lisa Joy ("Corpsicle") & Jim Danger Gray ("Robbing Hood").
What says ABC?
“Emerson gets a lead in his daughter Penny's whereabouts when he investigates the murder of millionaire Roland Stingwell (guest star Fred Williamson). The prime suspect: Penny's no-good mama, Lila Robinson (guest star Gina Torres), who ran off with the girl years ago. Meanwhile, an awkward Randy Mann (guest star David Arquette) tries to romance Olive. Guest starring in "Water & Power" are Christine Adams as Simone, Steven Wash Jr. as Young Emerson, David Arquette as Randy Mann, Francesca P. Roberts as Amelia Stingwell, Fred Williamson as Roland Stingwell, Gina Torres as Lila Robinson, Robert Picardo as Detective Puget and Matt Winston as Michael Brunt.”
The big news?
The Piehole gang learns that Emerson has a daughter.
Do we meet Emerson’s daughter Penny?
We see her at the fetal stage, and beyond.
How’s Fred Williamson?
Terrific, and at least a little reminiscent of both Darrell Zwerling in “Chinatown” and Meryl Streep in “Death Becomes Her.”
How’s Robert Picardo?
Bryan Fuller’s fellow “Voyager” vet seems almost wasted rocking a fedora as the cop on the case.
Does George Hamilton return?
Not this week. Or, in truth, ever.
What’s great?
Principal Eleanor Swindle. The suddenness of the commencement of the Cod-Robinson romance. Chuck’s Penelope Pitstop outfit. Kristin Chenoweth generally, and Olive replenishing her coffee cup with her mouth in particular. The sudden backtracking of the Mennonite attorneys. “Stingwell was struck by the irony and then by the water.”
What’s not so great?
It really is a pity Fuller’s not running his own show at the moment. With “Heroes” we only get big laughs on the episodes he writes. With “Daisies” the chortles come hard and loud every week.
10 p.m. Saturday. ABC.
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who knew?
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but i do...so fuck the american public and both showtime and hbo are fucking dumb for not buying the show and bringing it to cable...so we all can see anna's tits oh, just watched the edited version of edie falco's new show on showtime its basically "nurse" with cursing, sex and drugs only reason to watch the show is for falco...but it doesnt break new ground and is a throwback to the initial series that only were able to win the cable ace award
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The Paley Center audience howled with laughter during some of scenes in the final episode, me included, and I don't howl with laughter easily. Don't miss it. Oh, and George Hamilton doesn't return to the series, sorry to say.
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...will it be preempted again? I actually had an WSET employee call me back Monday morning after I left a message Saturday regarding when, or if they'd reschedule it. She said "from 10-10:15 they put up a scroll giving this information". The thing is, they didn't. And even if they had, which they didn't, there was no sense in airing it after repeats of two syndicated shows of rival networks and a twenty four year old episode of Gimme a Break. Local afiiliates jerk around their viewers just as much as the networks.
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of the second season. There are whole scenes of this one that are just laugh out loud funny. And Chenoweth just nails it. Did send Herc a review when it aired over here in UK, but he obviously didn't like it. *sniffs* no problem, its okay *bursts into tears*
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HOLY FUCKING ZOMBIE CHRIST!!! Why didn't anyone post anything about last week's ep being the antipentultimate??!?!!?!?!?!?!
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Maybe because it was antepenultimate? Antipenultimate just means second.
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ABC was foolish to cancel it.
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At least it will see a another season.
I find it hard to get excited about a dead show. It's like watching someone strangled on video tape. Lots of frustration it can't be stopped, yet relief knowing it was in the past. -
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A SHOW IN WHICH YOU CAN WATCH THE FIRST EPISODE AND KNOW EXACTLY WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN FOR THE NEXT UNTOLD NUMBER OF MIND NUMBING EPISODES. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE INTERESTING IF HIS COCK WAS THE ONLY PART OF HIS BODY THAT COULD BE TOUCHED. GULP GULP.
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penultimate, antepenultimate, glorious, invis-o, 'here'- as in harry here, beaks here, massa here,'when i was a kid', 'my parents', 'tarantino','embiggen'...oh, you guys can come up with the rest
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I'm fairly certain a good portion of Pushing Daisie fans, could care less about Ned, or his power. It's all about the aunts, Cod, and Itty Bitty.
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...that upset talkbackers and make them cry Herc's use of the terms "penultimate" and "antepenultimate" is one of the stranger.
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Why would you even bother to address TITBAG? Just let him do his thing and the rest of us will have a conversation around him.
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I'll address anyone. Sportos, Motorheads, Geeks, Sluts, Bloods, Wastoids, Dweebies, Dickheads, and even Titbags. I don't discriminate.
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...that the word penultimate is particularly en vouge these days? It's like people learned it all of a sudden and now it's everywhere. It's like how fast food restaurants latch on to whatever is new: one has angus beef, suddenly you see angus beef everywhere. One starts using chipolte, everyone's got it. "Penultimate" is the panini bread of entertainment writing.
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Fair enough then... I guess somebody has to.
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Which was the best new comedy of this last season with a fun cast. So naturally it got canceled.
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Jun 06, 2009 2:51:13 PM CDT
Pentultimate and its "ante", "sub-ante", "octo-ante", "Jon and K
by rippergiles
and it's the recent outcry over "pentultimate", "antepentultimate", "megapentultamate" and "orgasmonialpentultimate" that had me make that ill-received snarky remark. I cared not if it was used correctly, incorrectly, or in conjunction with a rope in the closet of a celebrity's hotel room. I was just pretty hopped up on vicodin (and somewhat still am) from my recently demolished leg and decided being a cuntrag on the internet was the most clever thing I could ever do. Ever. In the history of both cuntraggery and clever things.
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Guess talkback doesn't like retardedly long titles. That said, the lame title to my above post I actually wrote read:
Pentiultimate and it's "Ante", "Sub-ante", "Octo-ante", "Jon and Kate and the Other Woman and Her New Lawyer Plus Eight-ante", "Proto-Ante" and "Cool Ranch" flavors -
I get some pretty huge laughs on the Heroes Eps that Fuller doesn't write. Just a different sort of laughter.
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Pushing Dasies was one of the better shows to come along. Even though it slowed down a bit in the 2nd series, it's a pity that it was closed down.
As a result, next week's episode is kind of crap as they try to tie everything up in a rush job -
that I still want to read "Lil' Gumshoe"?
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Emerson's eyeroll before that line was awesome. And could I have more Gina on TV, please?
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...Animal Crossing for some reason.
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should do a Girls with Big Eyes Buddy Comedy.
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That guy looked exactly like Gary Oldman in Dracula!
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I have not heard it more in recent days than in the past.
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The second season has had some of the best episodes. Its not going out badly at all.
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I can't believe it's almost gone forever. HBO or Showtime needs to touch this series and bring it back to live. Pushing Daisies was the most entertaining, heartwarming television show I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Shame on the network, they're fucking idiots.
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update on the weekends. now it seems like they just say fuck it and take the whole weekend off while other sites update with breaking stories and reviews. hm.
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That's why they think you're a righteous dude.
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Last night's disappointed me just because was hoping for some resolution on the Emerson/Penny front. Seeing her in a car driving away and smiling isn't nearly enough, since I know with 1 episode left, that's all we're gonna get. But I get that they didn't know that when they wrote it. Oh well, I'm gonna miss this show SO much. And would it kill ABC to admit that next week's episode is the series finale? That "On the next new episode" BS left a bitter taste in my mouth at the end of a show that usually leaves me grinning from ear to ear.
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Damn lack of edit button...
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Lovecraftfan, in saying it was going out badly I was refering to the end of the last episode, which I have already seen. It is finished up in a very botchy way. I will bet that after seeing it, you will agree.
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its rushed enough to not be completely satisfying, but still done well enough to be anti-climatic. It almost makes me wish they'd left it on a cliffhanger...almost.
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Jun 07, 2009 9:52:36 PM CDT
As much as I loved the 1st season, the show grew stale.
by snake foreskin
I haven't enjoyed the second season nearly as much. Mostly because they left off much of the romance between the Pie Maker and Chuck in favor of the capers. And the truth is, the capers aren't all that well executed. It's a stylish show with a very specifc energy and rhythm, but that isn't enough to make the show a keeper. I really loved the first season though. It's one of my favorite seasons of TV ever.
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WANT
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Massive asteroid hits Earth, killing all life except Pie maker dude. Pie maker dude finds unpaved patch of dirt in empty lot next to pie-shaped pie shop, reaches down, touches the ground, brings Earth back to life. Scary weeble-looking waitress, dead chick pie maker dude brought back to life, creepy aunt with eyepatch who used to be on Sisters, black private eye, all happy! Once dead chick so happy she forgets self and kisses pie maker dude, dies. Pie maker dude distraught, sits down on bare ground to cry, touches dirt again, Earth dies again, except for piemaker guy. Showrunner goes back to his previous job of Tim Kring's janitor.
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