"Pushing Daisies" Corpsicle (2007)

Director:

Brian Dannelly

Writers:

Bryan Fuller (creator)
Lisa Joy (written by)

TV Series:

"Pushing Daisies" (2007)

Original Air Date:

12 December 2007 (Season 1, Episode 9)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

Ned tries to make amends with Chuck after his confession, and Emerson finds a corpse in ice.

Plot Keywords:

Minute | Murder | Pie | Death | Restaurant

Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Lee Pace	...	Ned
Anna Friel	...	Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles
Chi McBride	...	Emerson Cod
Jim Dale	...	Narrator (voice)
Ellen Greene	...	Vivian Charles
Swoosie Kurtz	...	Lily Charles
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Olive Snook
Paul Reubens	...	Oscar Vibenius
Grant Shaud	...	Steve Kaiser
Julia Campbell	...	Emma Newsome
Field Cate	...	Young Ned
Colby Paul	...	Abner Newsome
Audrey Wasilewski	...	Madeline McLean
Tina Gloss	...	Ned's Mother
Allan Graf	...	Angry Neighbor

Runtime:

Netherlands:55 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Netherlands:6

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Jinks/Cohen Company

Trivia:

The opening shot after one of the ad breaks of a snow covered street with arch and white picket fence in the foreground is actually from the film Groundhog Day (1993). The original shot is of the street in front of the bed and breakfast after Bill Murray's character wakes up the day after his repeating ordeal.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Ned and the narrator refer to the monkey Bobo as a "Bonobo." A Bonobo is actually a type of ape, while the monkey portraying Bobo looks to be a Capuchin.

Quotes:

Emerson Cod: Anybody ever ask you why you wear that sweater?

Movie Connections:

Spoofs A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Soundtrack:

Jingle Bells

The bodies in the snowmen were brilliant!

In this episode of Pushing Daisies, Chuck deals with the pain of Ned telling her that he killed her father. Ned is devastated because he didn't mean to 'kill' her father. So Chuck lives with Olive until she stops 'hating' Ned. Chuck knows it is about time for her aunts to get a pie, but she doesn't want Ned to find her, so she sends Olive to go make the pie. But Chuck tells Olive the anti-depressant in the bottle is vanilla. While baking the pie, Olive tastes the 'vanilla' and thinks it is to weak, so she puts the whole bottle in the pie! Later, Emerson Cod investigates these 'corpsicles' in a boy's yard waiting for a heart transplant. The first murder victim had 'KIND' indented across his forehead. They have to find the killer before more social workers turn up dead in this brilliant episode!