"Pushing Daisies"
Bitter Sweets (2007)

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:

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
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

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Jinks/Cohen Company

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Ned is cleaning the mess left by Chuck and Olive in the Bitter Sweets candy shop (i.e. the release of rats), he uses his Digby-petting device. When he goes to retrieve the rat from the vat with pink goo, there is already a prominent amount of goo (albeit dried) on the lower half of the arm/hand.

Quotes:

Emerson Cod: An attractive man who makes pies for a living shouldn't even spend a short amount of time in prison"

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.