Corpsicle (12 Dec. 2007)

Ned tries to make amends with Chuck after his confession, and Emerson finds a corpse in ice.

Director:

Brian Dannelly

Writers:

Bryan Fuller (creator), Lisa Joy

Stars:

Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride

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
Swoosie Kurtz	...	Lily Charles
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Olive Snook
Paul Reubens	...	Oscar Vibenius
Grant Shaud	...	Steve Kaiser
Julia Campbell	...	Emma Newsome
Field Cate	...	Young Ned
Colby Paul	...	Abner Newsome
Audrey Wasilewski	...	Madeline McLean
Tina Gloss	...	Ned's Mother
Allan Graf	...	Angry Neighbor

Storyline

After Ned told Chuck he is responsible for her father's death, she took off. Now Ned is looking for her in the wintry streets, unable to find her. Oscar Vibenius however, ís able to find Chuck and tells her he knows that she (along with Digby) has a secret that has something to do with death... With Chuck not being able to go to The Pie Hole, Olive makes the pie for Chuck's aunts. What she doesn't know is that Chuck's special ingredient is a drug. She thinks it's vanilla and because she considers it rather weak, she puts in a lot more than Chuck usually does. In the meantime, there's a case involving corpses of life insurance agents ending up in snowmen that needs to be solved.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 December 2007 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Bradbury Building - 304 S. Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jinks/Cohen Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

55 min 55 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The opening shot after one of the ad breaks of a snow covered street with arch and white picket fence in the foreground is actually from the film Groundhog Day. The original shot is of the street in front of the bed and breakfast after Bill Murray's character wakes up the day after his repeating ordeal.

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Goofs

When Olive lays the upper crust on the pie she is making for Chuck's aunts, the crimping around the edge "magically" appears.

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Quotes

Olive Snook: After all the commotion, I peeped my peeper out the peephole, saw her get on the elevator and you taking the stairs. Take it you didn't catch her.

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Connections

Features Pushing Daisies: Pie-lette (2007)
Flashback of Ned and Chuck playing Rodan and Godzilla; Flashback of the death of Charles Charles.

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Soundtracks

"March"
(from "The Nutcracker")
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arranged by Jim Dooley (as James Dooley)
Performed by the Pushing Daisies Orchestra

User Reviews

The bodies in the snowmen were brilliant!

In this episode of Pushing Daisies, Chuck deals with the pain of Ned telling her that he killed her father. Ned is devastated because he didn't mean to 'kill' her father. So Chuck lives with Olive until she stops 'hating' Ned. Chuck knows it is about time for her aunts to get a pie, but she doesn't want Ned to find her, so she sends Olive to go make the pie. But Chuck tells Olive the anti-depressant in the bottle is vanilla. While baking the pie, Olive tastes the 'vanilla' and thinks it is to weak, so she puts the whole bottle in the pie! Later, Emerson Cod investigates these 'corpsicles' in a boy's yard waiting for a heart transplant. The first murder victim had 'KIND' indented across his forehead. They have to find the killer before more social workers turn up dead in this brilliant episode!