"Pushing Daisies"
Dummy (2007)

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers:

Bryan Fuller (creator)
Peter Ocko (writer)

TV Series:

"Pushing Daisies" (2007)

Original Air Date:

10 October 2007 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

The team investigates an unusual car manufacturer after a murder victim claims that he was killed by a crash test dummy. |

Plot Keywords:

Undead | Restaurant | Back From The Dead | Humorous | Male Female Relationship

Cast

Lee Pace	...	Ned
Anna Friel	...	Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles
Chi McBride	...	Emerson Cod
Jim Dale	...	Narrator (voice)
Ellen Greene	...	Vivian Charles (credit only)
Swoosie Kurtz	...	Lily Charles (credit only)
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Olive Snook
Patrick Fabian	...	Mark Chase
Riki Lindhome	...	Jeanine
Jonathan Mangum	...	Bernard Slaybeck
Omar Avila	...	Manuel
Matt Braunger	...	Rick
Field Cate	...	Young Ned
Taji Coleman	...	Beth
Alex Endeshaw	...	Lab Technician

Runtime:

USA:42 min (excluding commercials)

Country:

USA

Colour:

Colour

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Jinks/Cohen Company

Goofs:

Continuity: While singing "Hopelessly Devoted to You", Olive puts a chair up on a table. Later, when she sits down, that chair is back on the floor.

Quotes:

Narrator: At that moment, the Pie Maker felt a mixture of happiness and trepidation.
Ned: Why is it always a mixture?

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Titanic (1997)

Soundtrack:

Hopelessly Devoted to You

Compared to first episode, Dummy is only slightly good one of "Pushing Daises"

This second episode of "Pushing Daises" has Ned, Emerson, and the just-revived Chuck trying to solve the murder of a scientist killed by a crash test dummy. And a binge-eating Dandelion Girl he left behind who gets involved. While there are many amusing visual touches and lines and I loved many of Kristen Chenoweth's quirks as the waitress Olive in unrequited love with Ned as well as her singing "Hopelessly Devoted to You", for some reason I found this a little off-putting compared with "Pie-lette". Maybe it's seeing Chuck so close to Ned that makes me a little more apprehensive since we know if he touches her again she's dead forever. At least some of that gets solved at the end. Loved seeing Emerson knitting and his results: a vest and gun holders! And the scenes with Young Ned and those frogs were also good. So while this wasn't as good as the first episode, I'm still willing to give "Pushing Daises" a chance.