I think I missed this somehow? What was the reference?
One of the reasons why I was originally attracted to this show was because I thought Chuck was being played by Zooey Deschanel (who was in “Big Trouble,” which Sonnenfeld directed). I rather like Anna Friel, though – she has more spark and less snark than Zooey.
When the spokesmodel and the engineer were (presumably) making love in the car. Steamy windows, handprints, etc.
What’s the rule about when he can touch Chuck again? I thought I heard something like 24 hours, or a week, or something. But the impression that I’m getting here is never.
Oh, okay, I did not pick up on that. It does seem like a Titanic reference to me, but I disliked that movie, so I would not think about. Seems like similar scenes have taken place in many movies and shows.
He can never touch her again.
Right, never. He hasn’t touched his dog, Digby, in like 19 years since he brought him back after Digby got hit by a truck. He uses a novelty backscratcher to touch him, and Digby gets most of his human contact from Olive.
That’s why Ned made the partition with the glove-thing in the front seat of his car. So Chuck can ride shotgun without risking accidentally touching him. He reminded her that if their hands accidentally brush, shes “Dead. Again. Forever.”
I also liked the “cheese box” and Chuck and Ned warning each other when they’re working in the kitchen…“coming through” “need to get to the cabinet” etc.
It’s the little touches, almost like the director doesn’t care if you notice or not, that continue to charm me.
The time part of the rule is that if he re-animates something/someone and then touches them again within one minute, and thereby de-animates them, then nothing else will die to take their place. If he allows them to live beyone one minute, something/someone else dies. (As has been mentioned many times above.)
She was nominated for Wicked (she lost to her co-star in the show Idina Menzel) and she won a Tony for playing Sally in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
I think this was the strongest 2nd episode from this year’s crop of off-kilter show premises. The show’s lovely to look at and all the actors are charming and engaging. I definitely look forward to this season if it keeps up like this.
One of my favorite moments was when the narrator described how Bernard and Janine fell in love “he remembered her hair as being a little redder than it actually was, her sweater a little tighter, but he got the smile just right” (or words to that effect).
But I think I could get tired of scenes in which Ned and Chuck are kissing through plastic pretty quickly.
Forgive if this has been answered - what happens if Ned touches someone who has never been dead? Do they die? (it seems that way, otherwise couldn’t he touch Olive (unless he resurected her also))
Brian
He can touch ordinary people just fine. He’s just not interested in Olive.
He can touch folks that are not dead, or that he has not brought back - but since he’s kinda ‘afraid’ of his powers overall, he prefers not to touch anyone, except for the clearly dead, and then only when trying to make a buck.
He ‘can’ touch Olive - and Olive has touched him - he just would prefer to touch Chuck, but can’t because then she would really die.
The rules are simple:
1.) If you/it is dead - he can touch and it will be brought back to life UNTIL he touches you/it again.
2.) If he does not touch you again within the minute, someone/something else dies in the “immediate” vicinity. (But you would die if he touched you again)
3.) If you’re alive - he can touch you till the cows come home - he just doesn’t want to.
I’m waiting for the episode where he has to keep finding the ‘replacement’ — and if he can figure out the proximity required - (He could bring back the victim and the badguy could die in his place).
Because there’s something wrong with him.
Well, yes. Ned can touch dead people and bring them back to life. This lead to him unintentionally killing Chuck’s father and shortly thereafter he touched his mother again, and she died forever.
As a result of this, Ned developed a strong reluctance to become emotionally involved with people and he doesn’t touch people much. Olive’s a little overwhelming, from my perspective. Not a bad person, but not neccessarily the person that a emotionally stunted quasi-recluse is likely to bond with either.
Hey, she is cute, but she is around 10 years older, kind of pushy and does not seem very bright. Why does he have to be interested in her, because you are?
I will admit, pining away for a girl he cannot have is not wise, but love is rarely wise. 
Jim {I hope that wasn’t too snarky, I can’t find another way to put it.}
Of course there is.
His fear of touching people comes from his mother dying when he was a child when his mother kissed him.
He has abandonment issues because his first love, Chuck, left his life for good (or at least until she died) after he killed (inadvertently) her father. And his father dumped him into a boarding school and never returned for him.
Now he’s responsible for his first love being alive, so near and yet still unreachable.
If Ned doesn’t end up in a rubber room before the end of the first season, I’ll be surprised.
Me, I love the Mourge guy. That deadpan and the fact that he recognizes them asks a question but just doesn’t really care about the answer. It’s almost as if he wanted to store the answer to use if something went wrong.
“He said he was a Dog expert and I asked if he was… he assured me he was”
MMHMMMM.
Finally got to this on tape, and may I just say, GAAAH! IMMORTAL FROGS!
Seriously, there’s like a half-dozen immortal frogs running around that school. Or, hopping around.
I only counted three. There were four on the cart Ned was wheeling around, he inadvertently grabbed one and killed it again, and then there were three dead birds.
So, only three immortal frogs. Of course, if one has a fear of frogs, three can seem like a horde…