Pushing Daisies: "Smell of Success"

[icepixie]

Channel 2, in its infinite wisdom, decided that I cared enough about a thunderstorm warning in a county over 100 miles away to want several break-ins and a scrolling warning across the bottom of the screen for, oh, the first forty-five minutes of the show tonight. ARGH. I think that county actually gets their station out of Paducah, fer cryin' outloud!

Anyway, thoughts on what I saw of the show below the cut.

- Olive: "Unless that's a rolling pin you have under your apron."
Ned: *produces rolling pin* *looks terrified*

- Aw, Ned and Chuck have their first real fight! Well, for a little while.

- "KnitWit Magazine." *cackle*

- It's a Weepies song on the J.C. Penny commercial! One I own! For once, I am ahead of the pop culture curve!

- Olive: "This is your future." *holds up tumbler with water*
Lily: "Is it vodka?"
Olive: "No, it's water."
Lily: "As in Russian for vodka?"

I LOVE LILY.

- Emerson reminds me more and more of Ray Vecchio. I think they'd get along great.

- Does Bryan Fuller have a vendetta against red cars? He seems to blow them up frequently on his shows...

- "Klondike-5." Does anyone besides people over a certain age and communications geeks like me even know what that means anymore?

- "Look, there's the killer." *snerk*

- Vivian's voice really, really started to grate tonight. I know it's not Ellen Greene's real voice; I wish they'd let her drop it.

- "Ned!" "Chuck!" "Oscar!" "Napoleon!" *pause* "Hi, Emerson." "Hi, Olive." Bless.

- Heh, "solid" reputation. *hearts fecal pun*

- Ooooh, hate this song. Hate it.

- They're...wearing pagodas on their heads?

- Six dollars for a cupcake-sized pie? Seriously?

- Ooooooh. I like Oscar being all suspcious about Chuck. Nice.

All in all, not bad, although I think I would've gotten into it more without all the friggin' interruptions. Loved the aunts getting more screentime--anything with the aunts is good--and Olive and Chuck "bonding." Really like the Oscar character, and the thread introduced at the end. A bit meh on the plot, but whatever.

Comments

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

I loved Olive and Chuck getting more time to bond, and the crying incident made me laugh. The aunts are still as wonderful as ever, and although it was a little cheesy (okay, a lot cheesy), I enjoyed the song at the end. I watch this show with a huge grin on my face most times.

"Klondike-5." Does anyone besides people over a certain age and communications geeks like me even know what that means anymore?

Old telephone numbers used to be a place and then the number, right? When there weren't so many of them?

[icepixie]

I thought the song was too cheesy, but I hate that song, so take that for what it's worth.

Old telephone numbers used to be a place and then the number, right? When there weren't so many of them?

Pretty much. It was actually whatever word they could make starting from the letters on the same keys as the first two numbers, hence "Klondike-5" for 555. Easier to remember, I guess, or something.