Pushing Daisies 2.1: "Bzzzzt!"

[icepixie]

I'd forgotten how much I missed this show. And, let's face it, Lee Pace, who was adorable this week. And the aunts, who were more mysterious than usual this week.

Possibly I've been grading freshman papers for too long and my meter for this kind of thing is shot, but I thought the way they tied together Lily and Vivian getting out of the house, Betty's faked colony collapse, Olive's new home at the convent, and Ned and Chuck expanding their home rather than collapsing it together was quite nice. (Plus, dude, the getting-a-separate-apartment thing was needed like a year ago. I mean, if they won't wear, you know, clothing...)

- Lest we forget how depressing this show can be...
- Jingle slippers!
-"Bee by bee, Ned and Chuck built a home together." Awwww.
- "wear less clothes." Argh. Fewer, dammit.
- "You've already got me shucked like an ear of corn." *snicker* And Chuck is, for no apparent reason, in some kind of bustier and high-heeled getup...
- Yay CGI people!
- YAY dead roaches! Woot!
- Ooof. I'd forgotten how blinding Emerson's shirts are.
- "She wasn't using proper nouns." *snerk*
- "...and I do accept credit cards." Of course you do, Emerson.
- Oh, the set people had FUN this time around.
- "Beemobile"
- "I told you not to turn her over." *giggle*
- "She was thirty-eight, which rounds up to forty which rounds up to fifty which rounds up to old." Ouch.
- Chuck's dress for the interview might be her best one yet. (Although the beehive hairdo for her first day was a mistake.)
- Is this the first time they've actually had customers in the pie shop?
- Heh, so this is where the hump comes in. My heart was in my throat before the reveal of Chuck's former seat spinning.
- I do feel for Olive here. She's in a sucktacular position. I'd have probably thrown a fit by now too.
- Buses are too intimate. Vivian's absolutely right.
- Okay, I laughed a whooole lot at the random Sound of Music homage. I don't understand why it's there, and I hope it does come to something, but I can live with it being there just for the sake of being there. But good on them for not letting the Lily-is-Chuck's-mother thing lapse, and OMG, she stole the father from Vivian! No wonder she drinks.
- "That would almost be poetic if it didn't suck so much."
-"I'm sure it's teeming with fungus and microscopic bugs that feed on human skin, but she was fond of it."
-"Like a gym membership!" *hearts Olive*
- "Unless you're telling me flibbertigibit is a title of respect." Oh, please tell me there's more of a musical number planned.
- "And by cabbage patch I mean your ladyparts." Olive gets the best lines.
- So whatever city everyone lives in is only thirty-nine miles from Salzburg?
- Awwww, Emerson. We haven't forgotten you have a kid too.
- DUN DUN DUN! So wait, who didn't have something mentioned in regards to their parents or children this week? I think that might be Olive. Let me guess, Vivian is actually her mother.

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[icepixie]

WORD.

Thank you.

Naw -- remember the espresso guy?

Like I said above, all I remember is him sitting alone and lovesick. Although...maybe when he was shwoing off his herbal crack case? I think I might remember customers in the background there.

I wonder if he's coming back.

He better be, is all I have to say. I love Alfredo. (Raul Esparza is currently in a revival of Speed the Plow along wiht Jeremy Pivin [aka Cupid] on Broadway, so I guess shceduling might be tough...but they can fly him out to LA for a weekend of filming, dammit!)

I'm still trying to work this out. If Vivian's fiance is Chuck's father, then how the crap is Vivian Chuck's aunt?

Maybe there's a third sister who died at just the right time and they're pretending she was Chuck's mother? Because yeah, you're right; genetically she is Chuck's aunt, but if she doesn't know Lily's the mother, then she doesn't know that. Hmmm.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

I love Alfredo.

That's his name! I knew it reminded me of sauce!

I demand more televised Jeremy Piven.

Maybe there's a third sister who died at just the right time and they're pretending she was Chuck's mother?

I guess I always assumed they were the sisters of Chuck's father? Maybe they used that as a disguise, and they aren't really the sisters of either of her parents.

[icepixie]

That's his name! I knew it reminded me of sauce!

Perhaps his middle name is Pesto.

I demand more televised Jeremy Piven.

Indeed.

I guess I always assumed they were the sisters of Chuck's father?

But if Vivian was engaged to him, that's...kind of oogy.

Maybe they used that as a disguise, and they aren't really the sisters of either of her parents.

Perhaps so. (Well except that technically Vivian is the sister of one of her parents. BUT ANYWAY. I just hope it doesn't turn out that Ned and Chuck are somehow related.)

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Perhaps his middle name is Pesto.

His parents were full of evil. And pasta.

But if Vivian was engaged to him, that's...kind of oogy.

No no, I'm saying *before* we found that out, and that sisters-of-Chuck!dad was a sham all along, made up when Chuck!dad died and the "aunts" swooped in. I'm just wondering how Chuck!dad ended up with custody in the first place...

Well except that technically Vivian is the sister of one of her parents. BUT ANYWAY.

Er. ANYWAY.

I just hope it doesn't turn out that Ned and Chuck are somehow related.)

Wait, what? Noooooo! They CANNOT Luke'n'Leia them! Ned has spent way too much time staring at her bustier for that to be anything but horrifying.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

I think we have seen other customers before, because we've seen Olive serving random people.


I'm saying *before* we found that out, and that sisters-of-Chuck!dad was a sham all along, made up when Chuck!dad died and the "aunts" swooped in.

Maybe Lily, the fiance, and Chuck's official mother were all pretending to apprentice at a cheese shop in Europe together, and the official mother is the missing third sister? And the missing third sister... really did die in not-Europe?

Also: you know, I think there's an argument to be made for 'less clothes.' If we can accept 'clothespin' as a reasonable noun-adjunct/noun compound word, then we're implicitly accepting 'clothes' as a collective noun, so we can treat it as innumerable for grammatical purposes. It's still not ideal, though.

[icepixie]

Maybe Lily, the fiance, and Chuck's official mother were all pretending to apprentice at a cheese shop in Europe together, and the official mother is the missing third sister? And the missing third sister... really did die in not-Europe?

This is starting to sound like a Chekov play mixed with Shakespeare mixed with a soap opera.

Also: you know, I think there's an argument to be made for 'less clothes.' If we can accept 'clothespin' as a reasonable noun-adjunct/noun compound word, then we're implicitly accepting 'clothes' as a collective noun, so we can treat it as innumerable for grammatical purposes.

No. No, we cannot accept it. It is grating and horrible and no, I will not accept it at all. *grrrr*

[icepixie]

I'm just wondering how Chuck!dad ended up with custody in the first place...

I dunno, but this show's got some splainin' to do...

Wait, what? Noooooo! They CANNOT Luke'n'Leia them! Ned has spent way too much time staring at her bustier for that to be anything but horrifying.

...Just for that, watch them go there. Because Bryan Fuller can, in fact, be evil.