That was hilarious! The line before that was good, too- " ‘Sister Christian’ is nothing but a heavy-petting power ballad!"
I also enjoyed the guessing game between Ned and Olive about Lily’s secret.
And to keep things balanced, I thought Chuck was awfully cute in her nun outfit!
Just so’s you don’t get in the habit…
Some pig!
Good one!
I liked this episode so much I just watched it again- and I noticed something I missed the first time. Emerson mentioned to Olive that Ned hired a new waitress at the Pie Hole- “Brandy, Candy, I dunno- somebody named after booze or food.”
A new cast member, perhaps?
When Pigby “saved” Olive by grabbing her dress, I yelled out “Oh come ON!” (at most, there would have been a skirtless nun falling out the window). My SF looked at me incredulously and said “Come on? This whole SHOW is ‘come on’!”
It was a really cute episode. I loved the Ned confession switcheroo with the other priest.
I would be surprised if we ever saw her, now that Olive will be back at work. I think that was just a throw-away line to show that the restaurant was still being kept open while Ned and Chuck were playing detective at the convent.
So when Chuck was hanging out the window, the wife and I got to thinking. If Chuck died again, would Ned be able to bring her back a second time? I mean, does a subsequent death reset Ned’s touch counter?
I know it doesn’t fit the show, but I was hoping for a Benny Hill-esque habit off-ripping.
-Joe, loves Kristin
Given the conversation they had this episode, about her feeling “stuck in between”, would Ned do it even if he could?
If Ned’s touch is the cause of the second death, it’s permanent. I presume that the same would apply if he was not the cause, though that specific scenario has not been explored in the show.
I think you look fine just the way you are!
Oh, wait, you meant…
I believe the step-sisters thing is a lie the “aunts” told Chuck. The question is why Vivian would go along with it. Maybe just because, as far as she knows, she and Lilian had no true familial relationship with Chuck, so if they didn’t claim to be related to Chuck’s father, they wouldn’t get to raise her.
Or, maybe Vivian actually does know the score – she’s not as dumb as Lily treats her.
I do see a little change this year in the pacing – not of individual episodes, but of the overarching plot elements. After this episode, it seems clear Ned is going to find and confront his father, Chuck knows her true parentage, and it’s been broadly hinted that Emerson and his daughter will be reunited soon. At last season’s pace, that’s almost three seasons worth of plot.
–Cliffy
You’re probably right about that. I wonder if Pigby will be wandering around in the Pie Hole the way Digby does?
Aw, shucks, thanks!
Regarding the pacing, maybe they’re trying to avoid too many loose ends in case they don’t make it through the entire season.
The series has a history of implying a plot point as having some really lurid explanation, then slapping the audience in the head with something totally innocent. Remember this when trying to figure the sisters out.
To be absolutely fair, this isn’t so much an actual “Season 2” as it is a “Season 1 - Extended”. We only had 9 episodes in Season 1 thanks to the writers’ strike. We’re wrapping up plotlines from THOSE episodes right now. I don’t think we can really say that the pacing has changed so much as that we’re finally getting the resolutions from the truncated first season.
What I’m finding remarkable for myself is that I don’t really care about all the secrets like finding out about how the aunts are related to Charles Charles. It’s not because I’m not interested in those plot lines, because I absolutely am.
I’m just so entertained by everything else that the secrets aren’t stressing me out. The secrets are being revealed one by one, and I’m delighted each time to find out how the story unfolds, but I’m not tensely awaiting the revelations, like I have been when I’ve watched other shows that have done the same sort of thing. I’m not growling at the show to just hurry up and tell us already.
As I’m the sort of person who almost always turns to the back of books to find out how the story ends, this is a completely new experience for me. I don’t know if it’s because of the pacing, and maybe it would be worse if it were slower, but it didn’t bother me last year either. I’m just so enraptured with the show in its entirety that the secrets are like little extra-special bonuses for me, rather than the focus. To me, that indicates some really fantastic story-telling.
(Just to be clear, I’m not saying I’m not enjoying reading everyone’s theories, or even thinking up my own. Trying to figure it all out is definitely part of the fun of the show.)
I’ve noticed that about me too. The secrets are not the end all be all (Lost, I’m looking at you) of the plot, the weekly mystery is. So you’re so busy trying to figure out whodunit that when the Aunties show up at the Piehole, you’ve forgotten why Chuck has to hide under Emerson’s coat.
I think I will go back to the “sit back & enjoy” technique while watching this show. My feeble speculations about plot points are quickly shot down by other, more insightful posters.
I generally don’t try to figure things out, I just take things as they come. Subtlety is lost on me; you have to hit me over the head with a brick to get me to notice something.
But I really enjoy discussing this show with all of you. Other than this board, no one I know watches the show. So I will continue to post in these threads, I’ll just restrict my comments to what I liked about the most recent episode!
And I agree that this show is a great example of some fantastic story-telling. There are so many little things that I like about every episode. It’s fun to watch them more than once, because almost every scene contains details that make me smile, and that I missed the first time.
I snorted coke out my nose after watching the episode, when I found out the episode’s title was “Bad Habits.” That’s brilliance, right there.
(And if anyone cancels this show before it does a chondrichthyesian faceplant, there will be blood. Oh yes, vivid red, gloriously technicolour, blood.)
The thing about Pushing Daisies is that, when it does jump the shark, there will probably be a very quick and subtle background nod to the shark and the jumping in the episode.
I love the show, but honestly don’t care about the plot much. I get the premise, and that’s all I need. Their snappy dialogue makes me laugh, and Ned breaks my heart just a little bit every week. The weekly whodunnit doesn’t really much matter.
I think you’re doing that wrong.
Wasn’t there a minor character named Randi recently? Could she be the new waitress?