# Pushing Daisies 10/22 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081 "2008-10-22T16:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/61 "2008-10-27T07:25:04Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Yeah, but that’s always been the joke. They live in this hyper-realized fairyland which leads you to think it’s chaste – but it ain’t chaste. > > This is the way the show works – because of the way it’s shot and the colorful sets and wacky characters, it seems at first like a confection. But it’s actually very dark indeed. > > –Cliffy I think the show’s is discreetly subversive . Emerson’s unhealthy love of money and pie, Chuck and Ned’s tragic and shocking romance, the secrets and lies kept and told by all the characters, the violence of the world (what with those murders and all) are part of what makes the show connected to the real world and gives weight to the stories. ---
**Author:** ![Superfreaknduper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Superfreaknduper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfreaknduper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/62 "2008-10-27T15:07:57Z")
I Love You Pushing Daisies!!! On the viewership front, if I watch the show every week online because I’m at work during the initial airing, do those corporate execs know one more measly person is watching?☹ ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/63 "2008-10-27T15:50:57Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > They’re kind of like the down-class edition of The Baldwins[sup]TM[/sup]. With the obvious exception being that The Baldwins[sup]TM[/sup] don’t have an attention-whore transgender sibling. Who’s that? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/64 "2008-10-27T15:54:59Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Who’s that? > > -Joe Alexis Arquette, the baby of the family. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/65 "2008-10-27T15:58:33Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > They’re kind of like the down-class edition of The Baldwins[sup]TM[/sup]. With the obvious exception being that The Baldwins[sup]TM[/sup] don’t have an attention-whore transgender sibling. True, but the Baldwins have to claim Stephan which is just as bad. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/66 "2008-10-27T16:06:11Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > True, but the Baldwins have to claim Stephan which is just as bad. 🙂 Well, he IS a Republican, so you have a point… ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/67 "2008-10-27T16:37:19Z")
> [@Superfreaknduper](#): > > I Love You Pushing Daisies!!! > > On the viewership front, if I watch the show every week online because I’m at work during the initial airing, do those corporate execs know one more measly person is watching?☹ Yes, they know. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/68 "2008-10-28T13:00:09Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > By the way - did anyone else catch how Chuck saved Ned from the falling Spartan? Now _that_ is quick thinking. I just watched this episode last night on my DVR and I don’t recall exactly what Chuck did. Can someone help me with this scene? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/69 "2008-10-28T13:04:19Z")
> [@Algernon](#): > > I just watched this episode last night on my DVR and I don’t recall exactly what Chuck did. Can someone help me with this scene? IIRC, she was holding the yearbook and pushed him out of the way with it. I realize, in hindsight, that the “touch” on the quarterback’s body was probably supposed to elicit a gasp from the audience, who were supposed to assume that he touched Chuck when she pushed him away. But I was more or less expecting the “mannequin” to be an actual dead person (though not a dead mummified person from 15 years before), since I’d figured out it was Buddy Amicus who was the killer about half an hour before that, so it never occurred to me that they expected me to think it was Chuck who got touched. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/70 "2008-10-28T13:06:41Z")
She pushed him with the open yearbook. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/71 "2008-10-28T13:28:00Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Alexis Arquette, the baby of the family. Ah. The one I’ve never heard of, apparently. Thanks. I was afraid that some Rosanna/Patricia fantasies were about to become a bit more…creepy. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081/72 "2008-10-29T12:50:13Z")
Thanks **jayjay** and **GuanoLad**. I don’t spend much time on the SDMB much anymore due to lack of available time, but I know I can always depend on this community for answers to nearly anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-10-22/469081.md?page=3)