# Pushing Daisies 12/12 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798 "2007-12-13T01:13:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/41 "2007-12-13T20:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=simster] No, they have consistently reffered to them as the “Aunts” - [/QUOTE] Except in the [Pie-Lette](http://pushingdaisies.wetpaint.com/page/Transcript:+Episode+1), where the newscaster refers to them as ‘sisters’: > [@](#): > > Former mermaids, Darling Mermaid Darlings, defeated a deadly home invader who may have a connection to the smuggling murder of their niece, Lonely Tourist Charlotte Charles. When asked about a Darling Mermaid Darlings reunion, the sisters mentioned a benefit performance to support “Honey for the Homeless” was in the works. Easily explained away, of course. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/42 "2007-12-13T20:57:13Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] Except in the [Pie-Lette](http://pushingdaisies.wetpaint.com/page/Transcript:+Episode+1), where the newscaster refers to them as ‘sisters’:Easily explained away, of course. [/QUOTE] Ahhh, Here’s how they can be sisters have the same last name as Chuck’s father and not be an insestuious relationship. They both were married to the same man at different times! ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/43 "2007-12-13T21:10:34Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] It’s not unnamed. They live, work and have adventures in Couer d’Couers. The \*state[/] (or province - I get a distinct Canadian vibe from the locale) is unknown. [/QUOTE] And because Couer d’ Couers reminds me of Couer d’Alene, I believe them to live in Idaho. I kind of doubt there exists any similarity beyond the spelling, but in my mind they live in Idaho. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/44 "2007-12-13T21:10:58Z")
[QUOTE=kingpengvin] Ahhh, Here’s how they can be sisters have the same last name as Chuck’s father and not be an insestuious relationship. They both were married to the same man at different times! [/QUOTE] Or they’re a bunch of damn polygamists! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/45 "2007-12-13T21:21:02Z")
[QUOTE=simster] Or they’re a bunch of damn polygamists! [/QUOTE] Which appears to be perfectly legal and acceptable wherever they live. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/46 "2007-12-13T21:29:17Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] Except in the [Pie-Lette](http://pushingdaisies.wetpaint.com/page/Transcript:+Episode+1), where the newscaster refers to them as ‘sisters’:Easily explained away, of course. [/QUOTE] Well, I’ll take the narrator’s word over that of a newcaster’s anyday! ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/47 "2007-12-13T21:44:39Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] No, Couer d’Couers is a small town near the city. [/QUOTE] You’re right- my apologies. That’s where Ned and Chuck lived, and the sisters (or whatever) live now. The Pie Hole is in, I believe, Lakeshore (or some similarly named place). ---
**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:** [December 13, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/48 "2007-12-13T23:37:20Z")
Loved it! My problem is that Ned apparently _walked_ from the City to Couers d’Couers…even if it is a nearby town, that’s a long freakin’ walk. Plus, didn’t Olive leave the apartment to deliver the pie before Ned and Emerson started their stakeout, and arrive at the Aunts’ door the next morning? So it took her all night to get there? Did SHE walk? ---
**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:** [December 13, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/49 "2007-12-13T23:38:42Z")
Oh, and yeah…the look on my face pretty much mirrored the look on Olive’s. THAT was a good final scene of (possibly) the season! ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/50 "2007-12-14T00:23:02Z")
Is it just me or did Olive manage to make brushing your teeth look sexy? Great episode. I’m amazed at how they veer successfully between comedy and tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/51 "2007-12-14T04:45:48Z")
Wow. Little did I know what I was getting into when I shut off the TV and went to get my son. Grant Shaud hasn’t changed much from _Murphy Brown_, has he? I thought Olive would suffer from ill effects from the “vanilla.” ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/52 "2007-12-14T15:15:16Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I thought Olive would suffer from ill effects from the “vanilla.” [/QUOTE] She’s naturally so damn peppy and upbeat that she’d have to drink a gallon of the stuff before anything noticable happened. Bosombosombosombosombosom… ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/53 "2007-12-14T21:21:25Z")
[QUOTE=Clark K] Is it just me or did Olive manage to make brushing your teeth look sexy? [/QUOTE] The Chenowith can make anything look sexy. Check out her run in _The West Wing._ ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/54 "2007-12-14T22:26:37Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] …I thought Olive would suffer from ill effects from the “vanilla.” [/QUOTE] She only tasted one drop before deciding it was “too weak” and dumping the entire bottle into the pie. Lily ate the whole pie (or did Vivian have a slice). ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/55 "2007-12-15T01:42:50Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] She only tasted one drop before deciding it was “too weak” and dumping the entire bottle into the pie. Lily ate the whole pie (or did Vivian have a slice). [/QUOTE] Lily ate the whole pie, Vivian is in training. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/56 "2007-12-16T22:58:44Z")
Probably a good thread to ost this to as we won’t have any new Episodes for a while. [**AFI** TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS](http://www.afi.com/tvevents/afiawards07/default.aspx) DEXTER EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS LONGFORD MAD MEN \*\*PUSHING DAISIES \*\* THE SOPRANOS TELL ME YOU LOVE ME 30 ROCK UGLY BETTY The Show is also \*\*Golden Globe \*\* nominated for … Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy \*\*Lee Pace \*\* Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy **Anna Friel** Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy \*\*& \*\* 2008 Nominated \*\*People’s Choice Award \*\* Favorite New TV Drama **Satellite Awards** Best Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical: \*\*Lee Pace \*\* Best Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical: \*\*Anna Friel \*\* Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/57 "2007-12-17T18:14:36Z")
We saw _Atonement_ (ugh) yesterday, and were surprised to find Lee Pace sporting a 30s-style mustache and a British accent in the trailer for the comedy [**Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970468/) (also with Frances McDormand and Amy Adams). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/58 "2007-12-17T18:55:00Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] 😕 What the hell does an insurance adjuster have to do with organ transplants? [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > posted by h.sapiens > The bonobo thing bugged me, too. Also what is sniffy-guy going to do with the hair he took and almost took? Hair is dead. And what’s in that homeopathic herbal stuff when a splash (face it - that was a small bottle) will leave you seeing mermaids? And this after it had been baked in a pie. I always worry that the heat will destroy the effectiveness . . . nah. The stuff has to be magic. Magic isn’t affected by anything except other magic. I have to agree with Dinsdale in the end. The show is so stylized that I can’t really see anything as being completely real. So the insurance adjuster represented a complex multi-authority medical problem. I complain about it to my fellow watchers, because that is definitely no the way things work, but then I let it go. Did you see those bee-hive cosies? Weren’t they cute? Bees are now kept in rectangular boxes, so that’s an anachronism. But the old-style rope hives are cute and the hive cosies are just adorable. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/59 "2007-12-17T19:08:35Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] Also what is sniffy-guy going to do with the hair he took and almost took? Hair is dead. And what’s in that homeopathic herbal stuff when a splash (face it - that was a small bottle) will leave you seeing mermaids? And this after it had been baked in a pie. I always worry that the heat will destroy the effectiveness . . . nah. The stuff has to be magic. Magic isn’t affected by anything except other magic. I have to agree with Dinsdale in the end. The show is so stylized that I can’t really see anything as being completely real. So the insurance adjuster represented a complex multi-authority medical problem. I complain about it to my fellow watchers, because that is definitely no the way things work, but then I let it go. Did you see those bee-hive cosies? Weren’t they cute? Bees are now kept in rectangular boxes, so that’s an anachronism. But the old-style rope hives are cute and the hive cosies are just adorable. [/QUOTE] I think he wanted to analyze the hair. Magic works as well as any other explanation. This show requires a large does of suspended disbelief, but it works. The Bee Hives, the old cars, the lack of cell phones and computers, the Mermaid show and even the old neighborhood in the City to Couers d’Couers looks like it must butt up to the town in “Edward Scissorhands” all point to a setting that is out of time. This show does not take place in our world and makes little attempt to. I am still surprised they slipped and had a Hummer in the one episode. Everything else makes it nearly timeless. I wonder who knitted the Bee Cosies? Could it have been the resident grouch? Jim ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798/60 "2007-12-17T21:09:13Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] I think he wanted to analyze the hair. Magic works as well as any other explanation. This show requires a large does of suspended disbelief, but it works. The Bee Hives, the old cars, the lack of cell phones and computers, the Mermaid show and even the old neighborhood in the City to Couers d’Couers looks like it must butt up to the town in “Edward Scissorhands” all point to a setting that is out of time. This show does not take place in our world and makes little attempt to. I am still surprised they slipped and had a Hummer in the one episode. Everything else makes it nearly timeless. [/QUOTE] It could be the next town over from the Central City of the 1990 Flash series. That had the same sort of mixture of old and new in it too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pushing-daisies-12-12/429798.md?page=4)