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Pushing Daisies: Comfort Food

Chef Colonel Likkin takes a licking, and Ned decides to help his widow obtain her husband's secret recipe. However, the corpse admits that he was murdered and someone stole his recipe. Meanwhile, Chuck makes an impetuous decision after Ned brings her father back to life, and Dwight Dixon drops in... and out.


7.6/10 (11 Votes cast)

Episode Info


Episode number: 2x8
Production Number: 3T7058
Airdate: Wednesday December 03rd, 2008

Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Douglas Petrie

Alternate Airdates:

UK (ITV1) Mar 20, 2009

Guest Stars
Josh RandallJosh Randall
As Charles Charles
Recurring
Stephen RootStephen Root
As Dwight Dixon
Recurring
Tim BagleyTim Bagley
As Colonel Likkin
Patrick FischlerPatrick Fischler
As Waffle Nazi
Beth GrantBeth Grant
As Marianne Marie Beetle
Eric StonestreetEric Stonestreet
As Leo Burns

Co-Guest Stars
Daeg FaerchDaeg Faerch
As Ingmar
Recurring
Nicholas KhayyatNicholas Khayyat
As Eugene
Recurring
Hugh HolubHugh Holub
As Judge
Joleen LutzJoleen Lutz
As The Widow Likkin
Main Cast
Lee PaceLee Pace
As Ned
Anna FrielAnna Friel
As Charlotte "Chuck" Charles
Chi McBrideChi McBride
As Emerson Cod
Jim Dale (1)Jim Dale (1)
voiced Narrator
Ellen Greene (1)Ellen Greene (1)
As Vivian Charles
Swoosie KurtzSwoosie Kurtz
As Lily Charles
Kristin ChenowethKristin Chenoweth
As Olive Snook
Field CateField Cate
As Young Nate

Recap

At the Longsborough Boys School, Young Ned often went down to the kitchen at night to make a pie to relieve stress. One night Eugene discovers him and they share a pie, and other boys soon follow the scent. A party begins but it's brought up short when a teacher finds them and takes Ned away for punishment. ..

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Episode Notes
Beth Grant plays Marianne Marie Beetle, the same character she played on PD creator Bryan Fuller's previous series Wonderfalls in the episode "Muffin Buffalo."



Music
ArtistSong TitlePlayed When
The Bangles / Kristin ChenowethEternal Flameas the Pie Holers take first place


Episode Quotes
Chuck: For the meantime, Olive is depending on you. She said two years ago she could taste that first-prize blue ribbon, and then that taste was replaced with the bitter tang of defeat.
Ned: Bitter tang, bitter Olive. It’s a story.

Olive: Sweet Lord in Heaven, how I hate the Buffalo.
Leo Burns: When you say "buffalo," do you mean the noble breed of bison lost forever to settlers' greed or the upstate New York hamlet still thirsting for Super Bowl glory?

Marianne: And you remember, now--losing doesn’t make you a loser. Oh wait--it does.

Charles Charles: I hate to look in the gift horse’s mouth, but I’m not gonna start craving human flesh, am I?
Chuck: No. Although everything does taste better.

Chuck: I need your help.
Emerson Friend help or pay help? (Chuck hangs her head) See that? That’s the kind of body language you never hear with pay help.

Chuck: You're not mad at me?
Emerson: Hell yeah I'm mad! I'm steamed, furious, red-hot and don't think I ain't gonna yell at you later! But for now let's just put our heads together and try to figure out what to do.

Olive: I'm going to win that blue ribbon, wrap it around her neck, and strangle her with it.
Ned: Olive. You're baking with hate.
Olive: Ah. Rich, buttery, high-in-carbohydrate hate. You know what no one tells you about cooking with the dark side? The food is really good.
Ned: Revenge is a dish best served cold. We're baking pie--warm, delicious, happy-making pie.
Olive: Okay, help cook or get out of the kitchen, short-pants.

Ned: He's not just dead. He's extra-crispy

Colonel Likkin: I hate to go, but at least I'm going delicious.

(Chuck kisses him on the cheek)
Emerson: Ah. Don't be pecking me, woman. That's the peck of cahoots, which we are definitely not in.

Olive: I know it’s a tragedy, obviously, but you know what they say, when God closes a door, he opens an oven.
Ned: They don’t say that, and if they do they don’t have much compassion for a dead colonel.

Olive: You've never solved a murder mystery alone before.
Ned: I'm not alone.
Olive: Me? Oh. I just got all tingly. And not just in the nether regions.

Olive: Okay, how do we go about this… this whole P.I. thing? Do we just jam the gun in the suspect’s mouth and say, “Sing, canary, or I’m gonna decorate this wallpaper with your guts”?
Ned: Neither. Technically, I don’t believe you can blow someone’s guts out their mouth.
Olive: Wuss.

Chuck: Why would he want us dead?
Narrator: As is traditional, the “why “ in this case was met with an equal and opposite “because.”

Olive: Hey! You know what I love about Vivian? Her imagination. She thought you and I were a couple now. It's crazy. It's like imagining us as hobbits. Or on jet packs. Or hobbits on jet packs.

Ned: We’re not the saboteurs.
Waffle Nazi: Oh, ja, ja. Mein waffle cord leaped into your arms like a puppy wanting love and then cut itself in two.

Waffle Nazi: I do not speak a word of German. I speak English with a German accent. Pageantry!

Chuck: Dwight might not have been the nicest man, but everybody deserves a burial with dignity.
Emerson: Fine, I got buttloads of dignity to sprinkle on the ground. Come on. Get holy.
Chuck: Thank you.
Emerson: Here lies Dwight. Here lies his gun. He was bad. Now he’s done. Let’s go.

Emerson: What’s with the shotgun?
Lily: Military salute.
Emerson: For Dwight Dixon?
Lily: For Charles. But if I happen to miss and blow Dwight’s head off, purely by accident, well, that’s something my lawyers can pretty much sort out later.

The Widow Likkin: The Colonel would be so proud. Now that I have the recipe, that nice doughnut man and I are gonna go into business together. "Finger Likkin Doughnut Holes."
Ned: Sounds delicious… and filthy.
Olive: America's favorite. You'll make a fortune.



Other Episode Crew

CreatorBryan Fuller (1)
Executive ProducerBarry Sonnenfeld  |  Peter Ocko  |  Dan Jinks  |  Bryan Fuller (1)  |  Bruce Cohen
Co-Executive ProducerAaron Harberts  |  Gretchen J. Berg  |  Lawrence Trilling
ProducerDylan K. Massin  |  Davey Holmes (1)  |  Scott Nimerfro
Co-ProducerLivia Hanich
Consulting ProducerDouglas Petrie
Production DesignerMichael Wylie
EditorScott James Wallace
CastingJennifer Lare  |  Camille H. Patton
Unit Production ManagerDouglas S. Ornstein
First Assistant DirectorCary Jones
Second Assistant DirectorSean D. Whitler
MusicJames Dooley
Music EditorTom Trafalski
Costume DesignerRobert Blackman
HairstylistDaniel Curet
Make-upDavid Deleon  |  Todd McIntosh
Set DecoratorHalina Siwolop
Property MasterJeffrey Paul Johnson (1)
Post Production SupervisorClaudia Alves
Supervising Sound EditorChristopher Harvengt
Re-Recording MixerB. Tennyson Sebastian III  |  Michael C. Casper
Director of PhotographyMichael Weaver (2)
Story EditorDara Resnik Creasey  |  Chad Gomez Creasey
Sound MixerEdward L. Moskowitz
Executive Story EditorKatherine Lingenfelter
Costume SupervisorCarol Kunz
Visual Effects SupervisorWilliam Powloski
Visual Effects ProducerElizabeth Castro
 
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