I think she looks like a short, cute version of Cameron Diaz.
Apart from the funny writing, I’m loving the art direction: the bright primary colors of the costumes and sets, the quirky design of the aunts’ house, and “The Pie Hole.” I particularly loved the bright red and white striped exterior of the morgue.
It’s a machinist’s toolbox. I bought one at Sam’s Club a couple years ago.
I forgot about the timer. Okay, I concede defeat on this one.
Has anyone figured out where Chuck’s Mom is? Her father died, so she was raised by her Aunts. I have never heard why her mom is not in the picture.
I was wondering why the show had much the same feel as DEAD LIKE ME and WONDERFALLS… then I read the story on it in the new TV GUIDE. D’oh! Same creator!
Bah! Douglas Fairbanks did it first.
Though I didn’t like this ep as much as most people here (finding the staging of the duel particularly poorly done), I still like the show a lot and there are any number of priceless moments from last night (particularly the Pooh jokes) that cement it as a must-see for me each week.
Really? I want one.
But Captain Blood had sound. 
Yes, it has a very storybookish feel to it. Very charming, tempered with the cynical and morbid sense of humor, on top of the great premise and decent vfx, it’s a brilliant show.
Eventually, I’m thinking they’ll want to take on the Chuck & Ned directly touching aspect head-on. Maybe they won’t, but it’s just screaming to be tackled in some way. Ned comes across some loophole he hasn’t yet discovered? Who knows, but they gotta lay the ground work for the season finale.
Those exterior shots of The Pie Hole looks like its being handled using CG. Interesting, if’n I’m correct. This show doesn’t look cheap to produce.
I don’t mean to threadshit, honestly. But could you explain what the “great premise” is? Maybe I’ve simply missed something essential to the enjoyment of this show.
But The Black Pirate had color! 
“Kick Pooh, Kick!” Still has me giggling! There’s something about the way Chuck says “Pooh” that is so playful!
I am curious about the cost of production too; the visual effects, like the playdate village conquering, and the salesman’s imagining of the air suddenly leaving the room/planet… that can’t be cheap to do! The man who was mauled by the dog in the first ep was well done, too… there really was a hole in his face, not just bloody makeup. Visually, this has got to be one of the best things I’ve ever seen on TV.
There is bound to be a subplot about the herbal remedies… maybe one of the aunts has a reaction to one, and Ned must save the day? It isn’t there by accident. I can’t wait til the next one!
I don’t think the herbal remedies themselves are necessarily going to be important. It’s the character, who’s been introduced to turn the love triangle into a quadrangle.
Frankly, I don’t care about much of this, as long as Kristin has a song now and again.
My guess? They’ll trot out the hoary old body-swapping gimmick - say, Chuck and Olive. The show’s taken great pains to emphasize that Ned can never, ever, under any circumstances, touch something he’s brought back to life without killing it, so this seems like it might provide an out. We’ve no indication such things can happen in the Daisies-Verse, of course - but come on, they’ve got people coming back to life and somehow managing not to jump on Kristen Chenoweth. (Those two aren’t related, of course, except that they both require substantial suspensions of disbelief.)
Also, the body-swapping gimmick would provide a stellar excuse to show Ned macking on Olive in the promos for “next week’s episode”.
Perhaps “Unusual, and leading to the irreconcileable sexual tension other shows so lack that they end up making Very Special Episodes that push the show over the shark” would be better, but it requires too much typing.
Lib, it’s a MacGuffin and the show demands you play along so you can enjoy it. If you can’t toss your disbelief out the window, fine, there are [del]many[/del] [del]some[/del]–okay, if you’re going to watch TV at all, including the news, you have to cast your disbelief to the wind. This may not be a good show for you. Instead, you can reread “The Fountainhead.” 
Pushing Daisies is an HD fairy tale. If you don’t like fairy tales, you won’t like this show.
I’ve only seen the third episode, but does anyone else think that, whatever else this show has going for it – quirky stories, witty dialog, decent acting, great art direction – it just can’t last? The whole premise is so utterly contrived, specifically the one-minute rule, and the fact that he can’t touch his girlfriend, that they just aren’t going to be able to sustain it. It will become formulaic and repetitive, and will jump the shark within four or five more eps, or less.
It was funny and unexpected the way they revealed new characters (e.g. the twin brother and Chinese southern guy) that we didn’t know had observed earlier scenes, but that, too, will become gimmicky and predictable in pretty short order if they keep using it.
My guess is that pretty soon they’re going to find ways to break or extend the one-minute rule. If Ned stands on his head while touching someone, they live 10 minutes. Or on the night of a full moon, they live forever, or something sharkjumpingish like that.
Twin Peaks was pretty much toast after the first six episodes that David Lynch directed, although they dragged it out for another year or so. But suspense and bizarrity are easier to sustain than humor and quirkiness, IMHO. I may be wrong, but I don’t see this lasting more than a season. At least not with the same level of creativity as the one ep I’ve seen.
It would be refreshing if, like Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner, they had the sense to do a single, solid season of good shows that wraps up with a good ending: i.e. figuring out a way they can touch without killing Chuck, and living happily ever after. The end. But Hollywood doesn’t work that way, does it?
They managed two good seasons of “Dead like Me”. Stupid “Quantum Leap” was just as gimmicky without the whimsy and lasted years. I think it is very possible this show could have a 2-3 year run. Besides over 3 episodes they have already done much to surprise and be unexpected. The characters are already developing and changing. They still have a lot more to do with the Aunts from what I can see. I think this is a very light hearted quirkiness, not at all like “Twin Peaks”.
I would expect the show to go in some unexpected direction later this season that would surprise all of us. Actually, I would enjoy, but do not expect, an episode arc that involved some of the reapers from “Dead Like Me” but I would not expect it and I don’t know how they could write it in.
Liberal: So far I would recommend this show for people that really enjoyed “Dead Like Me”, “Wonderfalls”, “Big Fish”, "Bettlejuice"and “Edward Scissorhands”. To a lesser degree, I think fans of “Northern Exposure” are more likely to like the show than not.
Jim