"Pushing Daisies"
Corpsicle (2007)

Director:

Brian Dannelly

Writers:

Bryan Fuller (creator)
Lisa Joy (written by)

TV Series:

"Pushing Daisies" (2007)

Original Air Date:

12 December 2007 (Season 1, Episode 9)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

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

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
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
Sammi Hanratty	...	Young Chuck
Jeff Marlow	...	Victor Narramore
Michael Merton	...	Bill Richter
Jon Eric Price	...	Ned's Father
Sy Richardson	...	Coroner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Heidi Pascoe	...	Mermaid (uncredited)

Directed by
Brian Dannelly

Writing credits
Bryan Fuller		(creator)
Lisa Joy		(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
Stuart Bass

Casting by
Camille H. Patton

Production Design by
Michael Wylie

Set Decoration by
Halina Siwolop

Costume Design by
Robert Blackman

Makeup Department
Daniel Curet	....	hair stylist
David DeLeon	....	makeup artist
Todd McIntosh	....	key makeup artist
Stephen Bettles	....	prosthetic makeup artist (uncredited)
Stephen Bettles	....	special makeup effects artist (uncredited)
Sara De Pue	....	makeup artist (uncredited)
Veronica Lorenz	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

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

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Suzanne Bornstein	....	second assistant director (as Suzanne Saltz)
Franklin A. Vallette	....	first assistant director (as Franklin Adreon Vallette)

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

Sound Department
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)
Chris Hopkins	....	lead matchmover (uncredited)
Aaron N. Leichter	....	I/O coordinator: Entity FX (uncredited)
Andrew H. Leung	....	visual effects: LookFX (uncredited)
Kymber Lim	....	executive producer: visual effects (uncredited)
Bob Minshall	....	visual effects (uncredited)
Chris E. Peterson	....	digital artist (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)
Melinka Thompson-Godoy	....	visual effects coordinator (uncredited)
Justin van der Lek	....	visual effects (uncredited)

Stunts
Keith Campbell	....	stunt coordinator (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Ismael Aranjo Jr.	....	grip (uncredited)
James 'Keeper' Auld	....	grip (uncredited)
Vidal Cohen	....	key grip (uncredited)
Josh Gundling	....	second assistant camera (uncredited)
Craig Price	....	grip (uncredited)

Casting Department
Jennifer Lare	....	casting associate

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

Editorial Department
Rachelle Dang	....	assistant editor (uncredited)
Catherine Haight	....	assistant editor (uncredited)
Joe Hathaway	....	digital intermediate colorist (uncredited)

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

Transportation Department
Mark Holmes	....	transportation (uncredited)

Other crew
Chad Gomez Creasey	....	story editor
Kath Lingenfelter	....	executive story editor (as Katherine Lingenfelter)
Dara Resnik Creasey	....	story editor
Bridgette Kelley	....	script supervisor (uncredited)
Jean Nakahara	....	production coordinator (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)
• Independent Television (ITV) (2008) (UK) (TV)

Special Effects

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

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)

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Jinks/Cohen Company

Goofs:

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

Quotes:

Abner Newsome: I heard on the new that that Narramore guy got whacked. He turned me down for a good heart once, so... he can pretty much suck it I think.
Emerson Cod: You don't seem to bereaved at his passing.
Abner Newsome: I'm not, not at all.
Emma Newsome: Abner!
Abner Newsome: Oh please tell me I'm a suspect! Awesome! Cause, cause you know what I did first? I took a magic potion to make the tissue paper sack I call my heart work, then I stepped on his neck with the soggy atrophied bread sticks that used to be my legs.

Movie Connections:

Features "Pushing Daisies: Pie-lette (#1.1)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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!