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Overview
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Writers:
Bryan Fuller (creator)
Peter Ocko (written by)
TV Series:
Original Air Date:
10 October 2007 (Season 1, Episode 2)
Plot:
The team investigates an unusual car manufacturer after a murder victim claims that he was killed by a crash test dummy. full summary | full synopsis
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"Dead people don't talk...usually" more (3 total)
Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
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USA:42 min (excluding commercials)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
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Factual errors: The narrator states that Emerson Cod "finished purling the row," Emerson is actually knitting it. more
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Ned:
Can you help us get out of these body bags?
Olive Snook:
Sure.
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Hopelessly Devoted to You more
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Is the commercial announcer played by same woman who plays Chuck?more
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After introducing its wacky yet endearing premise in the pilot, Pushing Daisies moves into even zanier territory with Dummy, which also marks the true beginning of the show's bizarre whodunit formula.
Actually, there's another element, too: the beginning is always devoted to the misadventures of young Ned (Field Cate) as he learns to master his abilities. In this case, we get to see him experiment with frogs in the science lab to determine the one-minute rule about reviving dead people. After that, it's straight to the newest case: a corpse who claims he was killed by a crash test dummy at the car factory he used to work for. While the gang investigates the downsides of the "cars of the future", Emerson is unhappy about Chuck joining the team, Ned is unhappy because he can't touch his sweetheart and Olive pines over her unrequited love for the pie-maker.
Okay, so the concept of killer dummies might come off as a bad parody of the Child's Play movies, but thanks to great wit and excellent acting it all holds up. Highlights include Emerson's deadpan remarks (not to mention his knitting hobby) and Olive's musical number (no wonder Kristin Chenoweth was nominated for an Emmy), and that's just when they're apart - the real treat comes when they're sharing scenes ("Do they touch much?" "I wish they did").
And, in keeping with the show's oddball central romance, the epilogue, while sentimental, manages to be sincerely touching. As a doomed love story, it beats the hell out of Titanic.