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.
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?
Who’s that?
-Joe
Alexis Arquette, the baby of the family.
True, but the Baldwins have to claim Stephan which is just as bad. 
Well, he IS a Republican, so you have a point…
Yes, they know.
–Cliffy
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.
She pushed him with the open yearbook.
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
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.