The funeral director where her casket was (he pilfered valuables from his dead charges, so his death wasn’t seen as particularly tragic).
No. She thinks Chuck has faked her death for some unknown reason, and that it’s a potentially lethal allergic reaction that prevents her from touching Ned.
You didn’t see them last night, but Chuck’s aunts believe she’s still dead, but Olive has a good relationship with them and has agreed to keep Chuck’s resurrection secret from them.
Handprints - Chuck expositioned to Emerson that blood, if not cleaned up quickly with the right cleaning solution, can leave an oily film behind. She then sifted flour lightly over the counter, and the flour that didn’t blow off was sticking to the prints.
I wish I was some flour after watching that scene…
There was a follow-up episode where Chuck learns someone else had to die in order for her to remain alive. It involved a swordfight, hidden treasure, and a Asian-American who talked with a Southern drawl.
I also found the Homeopathic Medicine Guy telling Olive what would happen if he couldn’t touch her very sweet.
This show continues to delight, and I take great pleasure letting myself be delighted.
Don’t forget the Dandy Lion car. What does that say about the people who drove it?
I wanted to smack Ned at the end, but I can see why he did what he did. That boy’s just too honest for his own good.
I loved Olive and Chuck breaking into the candy store. I nearly died laughing when Olive went through the door.
There was a moment of narration when Ned was cleaning up the rats in the candy shop which tickled me. I forget exactly, but I loved his dawning realization that not fighting back might be more difficult than fighting back.
(Of course, had I been Ned, I wouldn’t have taken the rats next door, but I wouldn’t have bothered trying to clean up after the rats, on the general premise that if there have been rats in such a location, a more thorough clean-up is needed than merely removing the rats).
That would apply to a world in which things actually excrete turds. In PD-land, I suspect everyone poops sequins and sunflowers.
And ponies? Huh? Ponies?
Have they ever explained how Ned can eat, since we might expect plant and animal matter to resurrect in his mouth?
And it apparantly doesn’t matter if the foodstuffs aren’t intact, as this episode shows him briefly resurrecting a big pile of leaves, all separated from their parent tree.
Sssshhhht ! you’ll wake up the inconsistencies 
On a serious note, I can’t wait to see the DVDs and listen to the commentaries !
They haven’t, and I found myself watching closely when he pulled the English muffins out of the toaster to see if he touched them and then touched them again. He didn’t.
Although he could have touched and untouched them before putting them in the toaster in the first place.
Looks to me like Steve Hytner, best known for playing Kenny Bania on “Seinfeld”.
Although nobody is yet listed in the IMDB credits for that role (Health Inspector Andrew Brown) for this episode.
I have a feeling that if it’s sufficiently processed, Ned can eat it. And that when it comes to plants, dead equals rotten. Picked and sliced isn’t dead enough.
Good call, Wiki has the guest stars listed as:
Molly Shannon
Field Cate
Michael Cornacchia
Raul Esparza
Steve Hytner
Mike White
Last night’s program got a big ratings jump, I wonder if it was the time or the lead ins bringing in some new people. The rating went from last weeks low of 4.7 up to a 6.2
Jim
Olive: Do you have a credit card?
Chuck: You know how to pick the lock?
Olive: No, to pay for the broken glass.
That’s interesting. It was on right after the new Shrek Christmas special, which apparently got huge ratings, and this year’s airing of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, which didn’t do too bad either, for a 40-year old cartoon. And it seems to me that people who love the Grinch (like me) would be likely to enjoy “Pushing Daisies”. Someone at ABC’s programming department had their thinking cap on.
I was thinking the same thing with the Grinch. The narrative form is very similar.
In the case of ponies, it would be a bushel full of sequins and sunflowers at a shot.
We had the same conversation at our house. My answer was much the same as detop’s.
Well, I’m glad people stayed tuned in for Pushing Daisies (if indeed that gave it a boost), because I watched the Shrek special, and it sucked ass. Cheesy, lame, and IMHO an embarrassment to the Shrek movie series.
On the other hand, they actually used the Waitresses’ “Christmas Wrapping”, which gives them beaucoup points from me.