Pushing Daisies Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Season 1, Episode 1: Pie-LetteNed, a young man with a very special gift, discovered as a boy that he could return the dead briefly back to life with just one touch. But his random gift isn't without deadly consequences, as he soon finds out. As a pie shop owner, grownup Ned puts his talent to good use by touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavor. But his gift leaves him wary of becoming close to anyone, as beautiful waitress Olive Snook finds out. His life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod learns about Ned's secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases -- and collect the hefty reward fees -- by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers. In the series premiere, Ned is handed the case that changes his life forever. His childhood sweetheart, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, has been murdered on a cruise ship under strange circumstances. Her death leads him back to his hometown to bring Chuck back to life, albeit briefly, and solve the crime. But once reunited with Chuck, Ned can't bring himself to send her back. He helps her escape after her grieving aunts, Lily and Vivian, former synchronized swimmers, think they've buried her forever. Chuck becomes the third partner in Ned and Emerson's private-investigation enterprise, but she encourages them to use Ned's skills for good, not just for profit. Ned is overjoyed to be reunited with Chuck, the only girl he's ever loved. Life would be perfect, except for one cruel twist -- if he ever touches her again, she'll go back to being dead, this time for good.
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Episode 1 - Pie-LetteNed, a young man with a very special gift, discovered as a boy that he could return the dead briefly back to life with just one touch. But his random gift isn't without deadly consequences, as he soon finds out. As a pie shop owner, grownup Ned puts his talent to good use by touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavor. But his gift leaves him wary of becoming close to anyone, as beautiful waitress Olive Snook finds out. His life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod learns about Ned's secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases -- and collect the hefty reward fees -- by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers. In the series premiere, Ned is handed the case that changes his life forever. His childhood sweetheart, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles , has been murdered on a cruise ship under strange circumstances. Her death leads him back to his hometown to bring Chuck back to life, albeit briefly, and solve the crime. But once reunited with Chuck, Ned can't bring himself to send her back. He helps her escape after her grieving aunts, Lily and Vivian, former synchronized swimmers, think they've buried her forever. Chuck becomes the third partner in Ned and Emerson's private-investigation enterprise, but she encourages them to use Ned's skills for good, not just for profit. Ned is overjoyed to be reunited with Chuck, the only girl he's ever loved. Life would be perfect, except for one cruel twist -- if he ever touches her again, she'll go back to being dead, this time for good.
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Episode 2 - Season 1, Episode 2: DummyWhen an automotive expert is found dead, ironically after a strange hit-and-run accident, Ned suspects there's more to the story, especially when he finds out that the deceased worked for a company that was about to launch an experimental car. Meanwhile, Chuck wants some answers about how Ned brought her back to life.
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Episode 2 - DummyWhen an automotive expert is found dead, ironically after a strange hit-and-run accident, Ned suspects there's more to the story, especially when he finds out that the deceased worked for a company that was about to launch an experimental car. Meanwhile, Chuck wants some answers about how Ned brought her back to life.
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Episode 3 - Season 1, Episode 3: The Fun In FuneralAnother strange death at the Schatz Funeral Home leads Ned back to the scene where he brought Chuck back to life. Meanwhile, Olive unwittingly becomes the messenger in Chuck's plan to bring a little sunshine into the lives of Aunts Lily and Vivian via some antidepressant-laced pies.
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Episode 3 - The Fun In FuneralAnother strange death at the Schatz Funeral Home leads Ned back to the scene where he brought Chuck back to life. Meanwhile, Olive unwittingly becomes the messenger in Chuck's plan to bring a little sunshine into the lives of Aunts Lily and Vivian via some antidepressant-laced pies.
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Episode 4 - Season 1, Episode 4: PigeonAfter an airplane crashes into an apartment building, Ned, Emerson and Chuck try to determine whether or not the pilot committed suicide. To Ned's distress, Chuck becomes drawn to the man who appears to be the lone survivor. Meanwhile, Olive takes a wounded messenger pigeon to the aunts for help.
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Episode 4 - PigeonAfter an airplane crashes into an apartment building, Ned, Emerson and Chuck try to determine whether or not the pilot committed suicide. To Ned's distress, Chuck becomes drawn to the man who appears to be the lone survivor. Meanwhile, Olive takes a wounded messenger pigeon to the aunts for help.
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Episode 5 - Season 1, Episode 5: GirthSeveral jockeys are trampled to death, supposedly by the ghost of a long-dead rider, John Joseph Jacobs (Hamish Linklater - "The New Adventures of Old Christine"), and his spooky horse. Since she was a jockey before working at The Pie Hole, Olive hires Ned and the team to investigate. Meanwhile, Ned finds himself haunted by the ghosts of his own past as Halloween nears. Guest star Barbara Barrie ("Suddenly Susan," "Barney Miller") appears as Mamma Jacobs.
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Episode 5 - GirthSeveral jockeys are trampled to death, supposedly by the ghost of a long-dead rider, John Joseph Jacobs (Hamish Linklater - "The New Adventures of Old Christine"), and his spooky horse. Since she was a jockey before working at The Pie Hole, Olive hires Ned and the team to investigate. Meanwhile, Ned finds himself haunted by the ghosts of his own past as Halloween nears. Guest star Barbara Barrie ("Suddenly Susan," "Barney Miller") appears as Mamma Jacobs.
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Episode 6 - Season 1, Episode 6: BitchesWhen a dog breeder who may have produced the perfect pooch is found dead, Ned and company try to figure out who exactly did the deed, especially after they learn that the deceased was a polygamist who left four grieving widows.
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Episode 6 - BitchesWhen a dog breeder who may have produced the perfect pooch is found dead, Ned and company try to figure out who exactly did the deed, especially after they learn that the deceased was a polygamist who left four grieving widows.
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Episode 7 - Season 1, Episode 7: Smell of SuccessWhen the assistant to renowned scent expert Napoleon LeNez (Christopher Sieber) is found dead after a "scratch and sniff" book explodes, Ned, Chuck and Emerson try to figure out whom the deadly missive was intended for. Meanwhile, Olive continues her campaign to get Lily and Vivian back in action. Paul Reubens ("Pee-wee's Playhouse") guest stars as Oscar Vibenius.
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Episode 7 - Smell of SuccessWhen the assistant to renowned scent expert Napoleon LeNez (Christopher Sieber) is found dead after a "scratch and sniff" book explodes, Ned, Chuck and Emerson try to figure out whom the deadly missive was intended for. Meanwhile, Olive continues her campaign to get Lily and Vivian back in action. Paul Reubens ("Pee-wee's Playhouse") guest stars as Oscar Vibenius.
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Episode 8 - Bitter SweetsA vindictive taffy shop owner, Dilly Balsam (recurring guest star Molly Shannon - "Saturday Night Live," "Evan Almighty"), sets up shop down the street from the Pie Hole. Dilly is determined to drive Ned out of business by any means necessary. Michael White ("The School of Rock," "The Good Girl") guest stars as Dilly's brother, Billy.
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Episode 8 - Season 1, Episode 8: Bitter SweetsA vindictive taffy shop owner, Dilly Balsam (recurring guest star Molly Shannon - "Saturday Night Live," "Evan Almighty"), sets up shop down the street from the Pie Hole. Dilly is determined to drive Ned out of business by any means necessary. Michael White ("The School of Rock," "The Good Girl") guest stars as Dilly's brother, Billy.
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Episode 9 - Season 1, Episode 9: CorpsicleAfter a shocking turn of events, Ned tries to make peace with Chuck. Meanwhile, Emerson tries to get Ned to concentrate on their latest case, an insurance adjustor found frozen solid. And scent expert Oscar Vibenius (recurring guest star Paul Reubens) returns, trying to figure out what is so different about Chuck.
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Episode 9 - CorpsicleAfter a shocking turn of events, Ned tries to make peace with Chuck. Meanwhile, Emerson tries to get Ned to concentrate on their latest case, an insurance adjustor found frozen solid. And scent expert Oscar Vibenius (recurring guest star Paul Reubens) returns, trying to figure out what is so different about Chuck.
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Episode 10 - Season 2, Episode 1: Bzzzzzzzzz!In the second season premiere, Chuck goes undercover as a "Bee Girl" at a honey-based cosmetics company after their new spokesmodel (guest star Autumn Reeser - "The O.C.") is stung to death. Chuck soon discovers that office politics are killer -- literally -- between the founder, Betty Bee (guest star Missi Pyle - "Boston Legal," "Heroes") and the new owner, Woolsey Nicholls (guest star French Stewart - "3rd Rock from the Sun," "The Closer"). Meanwhile, Ned can't stand Chuck's growing independence -- or the fact that she wants to move out of his apartment. And Lily spirits Olive off to a nunnery so she won't spill Lily's deep, dark secret.
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Episode 11 - Season 2, Episode 2: Circus CircusNed, Chuck and Emerson search for a missing teen, Nikki Heaps (guest star HAYLEY McFARLAND - "Gilmore Girls," "ER"), who has run off to the circus … a circus where people keep turning up dead. Meanwhile, overcome with guilt, Lily pays Olive a visit at the nunnery. Recurring guest star DIANA SCARWID ("Wonderfalls," "Truman" "What Lies Beneath") appears as Mother Superior.
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Episode 12 - Season 2, Episode 3: Bad HabitsChuck, Emerson and Ned go undercover as a Catholic nun and priests and pass themselves off as investigators from the Vatican to help Olive prove that her best pal at the nunnery, Sister Larue (MO COLLINS - "MADtv"), didn't kill herself, but was actually murdered.
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Episode 13 - Season 2, Episode 4: FrescortsWhen a popular escort at a rent-a-friend agency turns up dead, his antisocial roommate (David Arquette - "Scream" films) is a suspect. Debra Mooney guest stars as Emerson's mom.
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Episode 14 - Season 2, Episode 5: Dim Sum Lose SomeNed is startled when the mysterious Dwight Dixon (recurring guest star STEPHEN ROOT - "NewsRadio," "The West Wing") claims to be an old friend of his father's.
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Episode 15 - Season 2, Episode 6: Oh Oh Oh... It's MagicNed agrees to help a magician (FRED WILLARD) whose animal assistants are being killed. And Dwight Dixon (STEPHEN ROOT) works himself into the aunts' lives, but Lily is suspicious.
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Episode 16 - Season 2, Episode 7: Robbing HoodNed, Chuck and Emerson investigate the case of a dead millionaire (Shelley Berman - "Boston Legal," "Curb Your Enthusiasm"). Dwight Dixon (Stephen Root) romances a clueless Vivian.
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Episode 17 - Season 2, Episode 8: Comfort FoodChuck turns to Emerson for help dealing with the consequences of her actions, and Ned and Olive compete at a murderous comfort food cook-off.
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Episode 18 - Season 2, Episode 9: The Legend of Merle McQuoddy (fka: Candle On the Water)Ned and Chuck deal with the traumatic return of someone from their past. Emerson and Olive investigate the odd death of a lighthouse keeper. Mary Kay Place guest stars.
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Episode 19 - Season 2, Episode 10: The NorwegiansNed, Chuck and Emerson meet their match with a team of Norwegian detectives, who may discover all of their secrets. Orlando Jones guest stars as Magnus Olsdatter.
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Episode 20 - Season 2, Episode 11: Window Dressed to KillWhen Ned declares he's no longer using his "gift" to solve crimes, Emerson enlists Chuck's help to investigate the murder of a window dresser. Meanwhile, Olive gets a blast from her past -- the two cons who kidnapped her as a child (she convinced them to in an effort to get her parents' attention) break out of jail and ask for her help. Richard Benjamin ("Deconstructing Harry," "The Sunshine Boys," "He & She," "Goodbye, Columbus") and George Segal ("Just Shoot Me!," "The Cable Guy," "Look Who's Talking," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") guest star as Jerry and Buster. Recurring guest stars David Arquette appears as Randy Mann and Diana Scarwid appears as Mother Superior.
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Episode 21 - Season 2, Episode 12: Water and PowerEmerson 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 is Penny's no-good mama, Lila Robinson (guest star Gina Torres - "Firefly," "Alias," "Standoff," "24," "Cleopatra 2525"), who ran off with the girl years ago. Meanwhile, an awkward Randy Mann (recurring guest star David Arquette) tries to romance Olive.
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Episode 22 - Season 2, Episode 13: KerplunkWhen one half of the synchronized swimming duo the Aquadolls (guest stars NORA DUNN - "Saturday Night Live," "Sisters," "The Nanny" and Wendie Malick - "Just Shoot Me!," "Dream On," "Frasier") meets with an unfortunate end (murder by shark?), the Darling Mermaid Darlings get a chance to come out of retirement at a traveling water circus. But the surviving Aquadoll may know a little too much about Lily's past. Meanwhile, Ned, Chuck and Emerson go undercover to solve the murder.
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