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Pushing Daisies

TV·2007–2009·2 seasons, 22 episodes·ABC·Drama, Mystery, Supernatural·1h·8.1·Created by Bryan Fuller

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As a young boy Ned discovers that he can return the dead briefly back to life with just one touch. But his random gift isn't without deadly consequences, as he soon finds out. Grown up Ned puts his talent to good use by touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavor. He opens a pie shop. But his gift leaves him wary of becoming close to anyone, as beautiful waitress Olive Snook finds out. His life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod finds out about Ned's secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases (and collect a hefty reward fee) by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Pushing Daisies S02E10The NorwegiansS02E10 · 8.5While Ned and Chuck try to locate the whereabouts of Chuck's father, Vivian hires a crack team of Norwegian investigators to help find Dwight Dixon.
  2. 02Pushing Daisies S01E01Pie-letteS01E01 · 8.3Ned uses his unique powers to bring his childhood crush, Chuck, back to life and solve her murder. But he is also forced to keep his distance from her, because if he touches her, she will be dead forever.
  3. 03Pushing Daisies S02E11Window Dressed to KillS02E11 · 7.8Ned refuses to help Chuck and Emerson solve the murder of a department store window display artist, and is forced to pose as Olive's fiancé when Olive's childhood "kidnappers" arrive after they escape from prison.

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Episodes by season

Season01Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode9Episodes2007Aired 7.5Season avg
  1. S01E01Pushing Daisies S01E01Season's bestPie-letteOctober 3, 2007 8.3Ned uses his unique powers to bring his childhood crush, Chuck, back to life and solve her murder. But he is also forced to keep his distanc
  2. S01E02Pushing Daisies S01E02DummyOctober 10, 2007 7.4The team investigates an unusual car manufacturer after a murder victim claims that he was killed by a crash test dummy.
  3. S01E03Pushing Daisies S01E03The Fun in FuneralOctober 17, 2007 7.7Emerson asks Ned to bring the funeral director he killed back to life, knowing that it will expose the secret about why Chuck is still alive
  4. S01E04Pushing Daisies S01E04PigeonOctober 24, 2007 7.4Emerson, Ned and Chuck are on a case of stolen jewelry goods, and solving a murder/suicide case, as well as finding out about a missing pris
  5. S01E05Pushing Daisies S01E05GirthOctober 31, 2007 7.3In 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 r
  6. S01E06Pushing Daisies S01E06BitchesNovember 14, 2007 7.4When a dog breeder is poisoned to death, suspicion falls upon his four wives as well as a businessman who was planning to market his new bre
  7. S01E07Pushing Daisies S01E07Smell of SuccessNovember 21, 2007 6.9A woman dies in a scratch-and-sniff book explosion. Was the scientist who wrote the book the target of the explosion, or was this part of an
  8. S01E08Pushing Daisies S01E08Bitter SweetsNovember 28, 2007 7.3The 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 wrongfull
  9. S01E09Pushing Daisies S01E09CorpsicleDecember 12, 2007 7.5Ned tries to make amends with Chuck after his confession, and Emerson finds a corpse in ice.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2008–09Aired 7.4Season avg
  1. S02E01Pushing Daisies S02E01Bzzzzzzzzz!October 1, 2008 7.1The gang tries to solve a murder of a woman who works for a company that makes beauty products from honey.
  2. S02E02Pushing Daisies S02E02Circus CircusOctober 8, 2008 6.8The Pie Maker and his friends solve a mystery in the most unlikeliest of places: the circus.
  3. S02E03Pushing Daisies S02E03Bad HabitsOctober 15, 2008 7.5Ned, Chuck, and Emerson go to Olive's nunnery to solve a murder. However, Olive is nervous that she will reveal to Chuck the secret identity
  4. S02E04Pushing Daisies S02E04FrescortsOctober 22, 2008 7.2Emerson's mom comes to town just in time to help the team investigate the murder of an employee at a professional friendship service busines
  5. S02E05Pushing Daisies S02E05Dim Sum Lose SomeOctober 29, 2008 6.8While the gang investigates a murder at the Dim Sum restaurant below Emerson's office, a woman from Emerson's past reenters his life. Meanwh
  6. S02E06Pushing Daisies S02E06Oh Oh Oh...It's MagicNovember 19, 2008 7.6The team investigates the disappearance of the magician who took Ned's two half-brothers under his wing. Dwight Dixon comes to Lily and Vivi
  7. S02E07Pushing Daisies S02E07Robbing HoodNovember 26, 2008 7.2The detectives connect the death of a millionaire to a modern day Robin Hood, while also trying to figure out what Dwight is really up to.
  8. S02E08Pushing Daisies S02E08Comfort FoodDecember 3, 2008 7.7Chuck doesn't tell Ned that she kept her father alive after Ned brought him back, and Dwight Dixon dies because of it. Meanwhile, Ned and Ol
  9. S02E09Pushing Daisies S02E09The Legend of Merle McQuoddyDecember 10, 2008 7.7Emerson and Olive investigate the murder of an infamous lighthouse keeper's wife, while Chuck's father schemes to keep Ned and Chuck separat
  10. S02E10Pushing Daisies S02E10Season's bestThe NorwegiansDecember 17, 2008 8.5While Ned and Chuck try to locate the whereabouts of Chuck's father, Vivian hires a crack team of Norwegian investigators to help find Dwigh
  11. S02E11Pushing Daisies S02E11Window Dressed to KillMay 30, 2009 7.8Ned refuses to help Chuck and Emerson solve the murder of a department store window display artist, and is forced to pose as Olive's fiancé
  12. S02E12Pushing Daisies S02E12Water and PowerJune 6, 2009 6.9The death of the man who runs the local dam puts Emerson on a trail that leads back to his ex, and perhaps his long-lost daughter.
  13. S02E13Pushing Daisies S02E13KerplunkJune 13, 2009 7.6One-half of Vivian and Lily's old rival synchronized swimming team is eaten by a shark during a show, which provides Vivian and Lily with an

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

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