"Pushing Daisies"
Girth (2007)

Director:

Peter O'Fallon

Writers:

Bryan Fuller (creator)
Kath Lingenfelter (written by)

TV Series:

"Pushing Daisies" (2007)

Original Air Date:

31 October 2007 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

In this Halloween episode, Emerson and Olive track down a "ghost" who's been killing the jockeys at the old race arena where Olive used to race as a former jockey herself. With help from Ned and Chuck, they try to solve the big mystery. |

Plot Keywords:

Jockey | Horse Killed | Ghost Costume | Horse Racing Accident | Undead

Cast

Lee Pace	...	Ned
Anna Friel	...	Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles
Chi McBride	...	Emerson Cod
Jim Dale	...	Narrator (voice)
Ellen Greene	...	Vivian Charles
Swoosie Kurtz	...	Lily Charles
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Olive Snook
Carlos Alazraqui	...	Gordon McSmalls
Barbara Barrie	...	Mamma Jacobs
Ralph P. Martin	...	Pinky McCoy
Christopher Neiman	...	Lucas Shoemaker
Hamish Linklater	...	John Joseph Jacobs
Field Cate	...	Young Ned
Jon Eric Price	...	Ned's Father
Leyna Nguyen	...	Newscaster

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Jinks/Cohen Company

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The dead Pinky McCoy can be seen breathing before Ned even touches him.

Quotes:

Olive Snook: Ned hates Halloween, you know. Makes him moodier than a pumpkin full of PMS.

Movie Connections:

References King Kong (1933)

Girth is another excellent episode of "Pushing Daises"

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

On this special Halloween edition of "Pushing Daises", Olive enlists Emerson's help of finding the murderer of a jockey she used to ride in the races with. She also confronts Chuck about "faking" her death. Meanwhile, Ned, who's startled by Chuck's Halloween decorations since they remind him of the day he found his dad with his new family after his mother's death, goes back first to his now abandoned old house and then to Chuck's aunts' house to relive some of his past. It's here that he finds out about Chuck's pies being sent there. While that's going on, Emerson, Chuck, and Olive go to a long-dead jockey's mom's (Barbara Barrie) home thinking it's his ghost that's responsible for the other jockeys' murders since when he was alive, he was supposed to win the race Olive eventually won...What another excellent episode of "Pushing Daises" this was! And to see Olive and Chuck bond for the first time was fabulous! Nice to see Ms. Barrie on screen again after "Suddenly Susan". One of the jockeys is Hamish Linklater of "The New Adventures of Old Christine". This show is just getting better and funnier. Well worth seeing for anyone with a taste for the whimsically unique.