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Pushing Daisies: “Window Dressed to Kill”
Nobody gave a crap about Clark Kent. He could disappear off the face of the Daily Planet, nobody’d even notice. But I bet he’d spit spandex to find someone special enough who cared about the man and not the cape. Viewing note: if you missed this week’s Pushing Daisies, you can watch it online at…
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Cupid: Where’s Jar Jar?
Sigh. No, that wasn’t a happy sigh. It wasn’t a sigh of contentment. It was disappointment and disillusionment and disgust. It was lamentation of the fact that Rob Thomas has trodden on his own creation with the same ham-handed, tin-eared lack of grace George Lucas demonstrated with Phantom Menace. It was just a sigh. Cupid,…
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Ugly Betty – “Dress for Success”
I love Ugly Betty. But last night’s show left me a bit – perturbed. Just slightly. In “Dress for Success”, Betty is scrambling to hold on to her position in the YETI program. Being a magazine editor is her dream, her passion. Her family should understand this and know (after three years) that the job…
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Pushing Daisies: “The Norwegians”
Oh Jiminy Jehoshaphat! I went out on a limb for you people. A tree limb, jutting from a cliff with my limbs dangling over certain death. So don’t leave me dangling with Dwight’s disappearance. In a break from format, tonight’s episode of Pushing Daisies eschewed the MoW and was all the stronger for it. Tying…
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Pushing Daisies: “Legend of Merle McQuoddy”
A pie is simple it’s limited. Just a bit of pastry and filling. Cake is complex, layered with treasures waiting to be discovered. Which one do you choose? Pushing Daisies is just bold enough that I believed there was a small chance Chuck would leave with her father tonight. Not forever necessarily, but at this…
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Pushing Daisies: “Comfort Food”
Young Ned’s lesson tonight is one we could all stand to learn: “even a forkful of immediate gratification can lead to a world of grave consequences.” Young Ned learned while opening the oven at the Longborough School for Boys and letting the aroma of pie waft through the night. It was a lesson Chuck could…
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Pushing Daisies: “Robbing Hood”
Ned: I’m out of counter space, so I’m stress baking in my head. Chuck: Feels like you’re stress baking me. Ned: I’m channeling fear into anger. Emerson: Anger leads to hate. Chuck: Hate leads to stress baking the people you love. Watching tonight with one eye and a heavy heart was probably not the best…
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Pushing Daisies: “Oh Oh Oh…It’s Magic”
There have been quite a few very well suited guest stars on Pushing Daisies – Molly Shannon, Patrick Fabian, the brilliant Paul Reubens – but none fit quite so well as Fred Willard. Now, I’m a sucker for Willard, always have been. He’s got a real warmth to go with the absurd-oblivious air he affects,…
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Ugly Betty: “Tornado Girl”
Betty begs for the chance to give the final approval for Mode magazine’s latest edition while Daniel is away at a business retreat, sans cell phone. This particular issue sports a flashy tornado with a supermodel imposed over it and the title ‘Eye of the Storm’. Satisfied the issue is ready to go and after…
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Pushing Daisies Might Finish in Comics
Slice of SciFi is reporting that Bryan Fuller has presented his plans for the second half of the season to ABC execs and is waiting for the pickup. But if the network passes, he plans to complete the story arcs in comics.