"Pushing Daisies" Bitter Sweets (2007)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Allan Kroeker

Writers:

Bryan Fuller (creator)
Abby Gewanter (written by)

TV Series:

"Pushing Daisies" (2007)

Original Air Date:

28 November 2007 (Season 1, Episode 8)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

The owners of a new candy store hope to put The Pie Hole out of business. And when one of the store's owners turns up dead, Ned is wrongfully charged with murder.

Plot Keywords:

Waitress | Field | Swimmer | Jealousy | Shyness

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
Molly Shannon	...	Dilly Balsam
Field Cate	...	Young Ned
Michael Cornacchia	...	Burly Bruce Carter
Raúl Esparza	...	Alfredo Aldarisio
Steve Hytner	...	Andrew Brown
Mike White	...	Billy Balsam
Tammy Dahlstrom	...	Woman
Tara Donato	...	Sheila
Joe Don Harris	...	Cop
Wesley Harris	...	Science Teacher
Nicholas Khayyat	...	Eugene
Abbe Meryl	...	Tina
Leyna Nguyen	...	News Anchor
Sy Richardson	...	Coroner
Steven A. Ross	...	Guard
Reginald Veneziano	...	Tony

Directed by
Allan Kroeker

Writing credits
Bryan Fuller		(creator)
Abby Gewanter		(written by)

Produced by
Bruce Cohen	....	executive producer
Bryan Fuller	....	executive producer
Livia Hanich	....	co-producer
Dan Jinks	....	executive producer
Adam Kane	....	producer
Dylan K. Massin	....	producer
Rina Mimoun	....	co-executive producer
Scott Nimerfro	....	co-producer
Peter Ocko	....	executive producer
Barry Sonnenfeld	....	executive producer

Original Music by
James Dooley		(as Jim Dooley)

Cinematography by
Michael Weaver

Film Editing by
Scott J. Wallace		(as Scott James Wallace)

Casting by
Camille H. Patton

Production Design by
Michael Wylie

Art Direction by
Kenneth J. Creber		(art direction)

Set Decoration by
Halina Siwolop

Costume Design by
Robert Blackman

Makeup Department
Daniel Curet	....	key hair stylist
Todd McIntosh	....	key makeup artist
Yuko Tokunaga	....	hair stylist
Stephen Bettles	....	prosthetic makeup artist (uncredited)
Sara De Pue	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Liz Webster	....	hair stylist (uncredited)

Production Management
Claudia Alves	....	post-production supervisor
Mark S. Glick	....	unit production manager (as Mark Glick)
Garfield Whitman	....	post-production supervisor (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Melissa V. Barnes	....	first assistant director
Suzanne Bornstein	....	second assistant director (as Suzanne Saltz)

Art Department
Jeffrey Paul Johnson	....	property master (as Jeffrey Johnson)
Michael E. Johnson	....	props (uncredited)
Chris Withrow	....	set dresser (uncredited)

Sound Department
Rob Cunningham	....	boom operator
Christopher Harvengt	....	supervising sound editor
Edward L. Moskowitz	....	sound mixer

Visual Effects by
Elizabeth Castro	....	visual effects producer
William Powloski	....	visual effects supervisor
Suzette Barnett	....	compositor (uncredited)
Christopher Blazick	....	pipeline engineer: EntityFX (uncredited)
Rommel S. Calderon	....	visual effects (uncredited)
Matthew Collorafice	....	digital compositor (uncredited)
Philip Fraschetti	....	digital artist: At The Post (uncredited)
Chris Hopkins	....	lead matchmover (uncredited)
Aaron N. Leichter	....	I/O coordinator: Entity FX (uncredited)
Andrew H. Leung	....	visual effects: LookFX (uncredited)
Kymber Lim	....	visual effects executive producer (uncredited)
Bob Minshall	....	visual effects (uncredited)
Terron Pratt	....	digital effects producer: Entity FX (uncredited)
Migs Rustia	....	visual effects editor (uncredited)
Wayne A. Shepherd	....	compositing supervisor: At The Post (uncredited)
Jesse Siglow	....	visual effects (uncredited)
Doug Spilatro	....	visual effects (uncredited)
Melinka Thompson-Godoy	....	visual effects coordinator (uncredited)
Justin van der Lek	....	visual effects (uncredited)

Stunts
Jackie Backer	....	stunt double: Kristin Chenoweth (uncredited)
Keith Campbell	....	stunt coordinator (uncredited)
Steve Rizzo	....	stunt double: Steve Hytner (uncredited)
Marc Schaffer	....	stunt double (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Ismael Aranjo Jr.	....	grip (uncredited)
James 'Keeper' Auld	....	grip (uncredited)
Vidal Cohen	....	key grip (uncredited)
Kathryn Comkowycz	....	loader (uncredited)
Eric Dyson	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera, second unit (uncredited)
Jeremy Graham	....	gaffer: second unit (uncredited)
Josh Gundling	....	second assistant camera (uncredited)
David Klein	....	additional cinematographer (uncredited)
Tony Olivieri	....	camera operator: additional unit (uncredited)
Miguel Pask	....	film loader (uncredited)
Craig Price	....	grip (uncredited)
Randy Shanofsky	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera, second unit (uncredited)

Casting Department
Jennifer Lare	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Carol Kunz	....	costume supervisor

Editorial Department
Carmelo Casalenuovo	....	assistant editor (uncredited)
Rachelle Dang	....	assistant editor (uncredited)
Joe Hathaway	....	digital intermediate colorist (uncredited)
Randy Loveridge	....	post-production (uncredited)
Justin Virag	....	post-production assistant (uncredited)

Music Department
Tom Trafalski	....	music editor
Steve Kaplan	....	scoring engineer (uncredited)
Peter Rotter	....	orchestra contractor (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Gina August	....	driver (uncredited)
Mark Holmes	....	transportation (uncredited)

Other crew
Chad Gomez Creasey	....	story editor
Kath Lingenfelter	....	executive story editor (as Katherine Lingenfelter)
James A. McCoy	....	set production assistant
Dara Resnik Creasey	....	story editor
Pascual Romero	....	production assistant
Francie Brown	....	dialect coach (uncredited)
Allison Cox	....	office production assistant (uncredited)
Rebecca Locke	....	assistant production coordinator (uncredited)
Jean Nakahara	....	production coordinator (uncredited)
Lisa 'Petey' Peterson	....	assistant accountant (uncredited)
Kristin Starns	....	production assistant (uncredited)
Taylor Thompson	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Bryan Fuller		creator

Sound Department
Randall L. Johnson	....	boom operator (2007) (pilot)

Visual Effects by
Alena Bejenarou	....	character technical director (2007)
Sun Chung	....	visual effects (2007)
Ryan Reeb	....	visual effects (2007)

Stunts
Sophia Crawford	....	stunt double (2007)

Editorial Department
Andrew Charlton	....	assistant editor (2007)

Other crew
Jason Halley	....	key set production assistant (2007)
Joe Don Harris	....	stand-in (2007)
Megan Schmidt	....	set production assistant (2007)

Production Companies

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

Distributors

• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (2007) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Independent Television (ITV) (2008) (UK) (TV)
• Net5 (2008) (Netherlands) (TV)

Special Effects

• At The Post
• LOOK! Effects (visual effects)
• Makeup Effects Laboratories

Other Companies

• LaserPacific  film laboratory & high definition laboratory
• Liberman/Patton Casting  casting
• Panavision  camera equipment provided by
• Warner Bros. Studio Facilities  sound post-production (as Warner Bros. Studios Facilities, Post Producion Services)

Runtime:

Netherlands:55 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:6

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Jinks/Cohen Company

Goofs:

Factual errors: Ned inflates a balloon in the science lab using a tap labeled VAC (vacuum).

Quotes:

Olive Snook, Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles: Don't mess with the Pie Hos!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Birds (1963)

Bitter Sweets is another enjoyable episode of "Pushing Daises"

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

All right, here is this episode in a nutshell: The murder of a man named Tony is blamed on his girlfriend Tina, Tina gets out of jail when Tony's friend Alfredo is fingered by Tony after Ned revives him for a minute, Alfredo blames it on his girlfriend who is an inflatable doll but takes the rap for her anyway, Billy and Dilly Balsam (Mike White and Molly Shannon, director and star of Year of the Dog from earlier this year) have opened a candy shop called Bitter Sweets across from The Pie Hole (which now reads "The Pie Ho" after the lights of the last two letters fritz out) meaning rivalry between the shops though Ned doesn't believe in competition, Billy later turns up dead in a candy vat that Ned discovers as Dilly catches him thinking he's the culprit and has him arrested, Chuck and Emerson resolve to solve the crime without Ned's help, Ned ends up in jail with Alfredo who's happy knowing his "girlfriend" is waiting for him, and after the case is closed and Ned's free, he finally confesses to Chuck that he killed her father which stuns her as the episode ends...I've skipped through some plot points but if you've already seen "Bitter Sweets" you know what happened between the lines. Another enjoyable episode of "Pushing Daises" and it's nice to see Olive think of someone other than Ned, specifically that salesman who likes her who's now gone to other places. Here's hoping he returns soon. Next week's preview shows that Chuck leaves after knowing Ned's truth about her father. Hope she doesn't go too far away. Knowing that the next episode that comes two weeks from now was the last before the writer's strike, I hope that gets resolved (to the writers' favor) in time for some new ones at least next spring. "Pushing Daises" is just too good a show to just disappear. Fingers crossed! P.S. Loved seeing Molly Shannon again.