Pushing Daisies: Bzzzzzzzzz
October 4th 2008 05:11
We get a quick recap of Ned and Chuck’s background, including how she grew up harvesting bees for honey, and how he waited for his father to come pick him up. How he became a pie-maker, and she became dead. And now that he’s brought her back to life, how he wears slippers will bells on them so they won’t accidentally run into each other, and how Digby watches out for them both. Their own canine alarm, as he has had his own experience with not being allowed to be touched by Ned.
“So Chuck and the Pie-Maker made their own home together, bee by bee…Tragically rogue pesticides killed those bees. But only briefly.”
Chuck and Ned stand in their underwear in front of each other and he helps her climb into her beekeeper’s outfits. She reminds him that the last time she asked him to bring someone back to life he said no. He reminds her that that person was her father, and that bringing him back would no doubt have been “weird if not actively traumatic.” Really? If he could bring his own dad back he wouldn’t? Ned argues that that would be one awkward minute as he hasn’t seen or heard from his dad in 20 years. Besides, if he brings a thousand bees to life, maybe they’ll help him get rid of the thousands of water bugs clogging his drain pipes.
He helps Chuck with her face guard and she dumps a bunch of dead bees on him. They hit Ned’s skin and blink back to life. Digby barks at the newly revived bees as they fly happily around him. He knows the feeling bees! Across the yard, a thousand water bugs fall out of the drain pipes, dead.
~*~*~
The Pie Hole
Olive is handing out pies to the customers as Chuck and Ned come in and the narrator reminds us that Olive “once felt as at home in her Pie-Hole uniform as she did in her own skin. But recently both home and uniform had begun to chaff. Believe that Chuck had merely faked her death, Olive had kept the secret that Chuck was still alive. But the secret that weighed the most in Olive’s satchel of deception, was that she was still in love with the pie-maker.”
Ned smiles at her. Olive smiles back.
~*~*~
Meanwhile, across town PI Emerson Cod is looking proudly over his popup book.
“Combining his fondness of detective work and stress knitting, Mr. Cod Offered and constructed “Lil’ Gum Shoe.”
Emerson: I love you Lil’ Gum Shoe.
He puts down the book and lovingly tucks it into his desk. The narrator reminds us that he has time for such things as he works with a pie-maker who “could undead the dead and ask how they got that way.”
A man, Dusty, runs into Emerson’s office. “My wife has been murdered!”
Emerson is confused. If his wife was having an affair, why is he upset that she’s dead? He couldn’t bear the thought of her leaving him but he didn’t want her dead! What line of work was she in? Bees. Emerson tells him that he “knows somebody who…knows somebody…”
“Let me just tell you that I’m sorry for your loss,” he tells the man, pulling out an old credit card machine. “And I do except credit cards.”
~*~*~
The murdered wife was “26 years, 3 weeks, 5 days and 39 minute old when found stung to death behind the wheel of her Betty’s Bee’s Beemobile”. Chuck, Ned, and Emerson enter the morgue to find two bodies. One of them is flipped over. Do they have something to flip her over? Why? The coroner asks. “It’s not like she’s going to be having a conversation.” Right…
He leaves and Ned sets his watch, touching the body. Kentucky wakes up, her entire body covered in swollen bee stings.
Ned: Maybe she’s paralyzed from all the bee stings.
Kentucky: I’m just taking in all my surroundings. Apparently I’m dead.
She gets up and Chuck asks her if her death was an accident. Kentucky looks at her. “Was I accidentally swarmed bees? No. I may have been up to some mischief…” Emerson tells her that her husband thinks it was some workplace romance. Nope. She sabotaged Betty’s Bees. She couldn’t see the person who attacked. They approached slowly….she heard humming…“I tried to get a look at it, but the bees were already stinging my eyes,” she says dramatically.
Ned’s eyes widen. “That’s terrifying!”
Emerson taps his watch. Oh right, five seconds! How’d you do it? Too late, times up. Great. They still don’t know who killed her.
Suddenly they all start to hear some humming. Emerson is afraid. “Is she still breathing?”
“That’s not breathing,” Chuck answers, and suddenly bees swarm out of Kentucky’s dead again body. Ahhhh! They all run out, slamming the door behind them.
The coroner looks up. “I told you not to turn her over.”
~*~*~
Ned is sitting at a booth at The Pie Hole, alarmed that that could have been him this morning! “Could I have been swarmed? And in my underwear too—I could have been swarmed in my underwear!”
Emerson interrupts that Ned doesn’t just get to put that image in his head “That’s assault on my imagination”, and Chuck feels sorry for Kentucky. “What a horrible way to die.” Olive arrives at the table to add, “Like little stinging secrets don’t just sting you once, they keep stinging you until you’re bloated and full of pus.” She hands Emerson his pie, ignoring Chuck even though she ordered the same kind of pie.
Chuck wonders who had it in for Kentucky, and Chuck answers, “The terrifying Bee Man.” Whoa! Chuck gets a great idea. “What if he didn’t have a face? What if there’s a whole bee folk society who walk around like people?”
Ned: You’re thinking about how you can train your bees to walk around in people shapes, aren’t you?
Chuck: Yep.
Emerson: Ain’t no bees walkin’ around in people shapes. Kentucky was wiggidy-wiggidy-wacked.
Ned: With a swarm…of bees.
Emerson thinks it smells like an inside job, and Ned reminds them that “Kentucky was talking to someone at Betty’s Bees when Dusty was dropping eaves…” Who knew what she was doing and why would they want to kill her? They’re going to need an undercover Bee Girl.
~*~*~
Sitting in the office of the Bee Girl headquarters, “discussing the furry behinds of bees, Chuck realized this was her very first job interview ever. She considered this fact for a moment, then had to ask—”
“I have to ask.” Isn’t he the biggest rival of Betty’s Bees? No, he merged with them. Well, she’s not going to complain, she just hopes he isn’t killing Bee Girls. The guy stops. “What?” She meant the company, not the people. He tells her Kentucky was going to be the new face of Betty’s Bees. What about Betty? He thinks she was too old. Even though she’s only 38.
He tells her, “I would be honored if you called Betty’s Bees your new home.”
“Betty’s Bees in my new home.”
“Ah, stupendous!”
Ned and Emerson listen outside in the car to their conversation. Ned blames Emerson for “Kitty” being the newest of Betty’s Bees Bee Girls.
~*~*~
Chuck enters Kentucky’s office to search her desk.
“Chuck/Kitty searched for any hint of a saboteur. “ She pulls out a key, then checks the closet, finding Betty Bee herself! Chuck introducing herself as “Kitty”. Betty is not so happy that she’s replacing Kentucky . She grabs the key out of the desk and runs down the hall to put it in her own desk.
~*~*~
Back at The Pie Hole, Chuck makes a pie for her aunts as everyone discusses who the killer might be. Olive suggests a work-place romance, but Ned tells her they’ve ruled that out already.
Olive: I’ll just cross that off my list then.
Chuck: I haven’t ruled out work-place romance.
She stares at Ned and he tries not to laugh. Emerson points out that work-place romance is always a motive. “Somebody’s always lovin’ somebody they shouldn’t.” Olive glares at Chuck, nodding to the drops she’s adding to the pie. “For your aunts?” Chuck smiles. “Extra vanilla.”
The Narrator reminds us that Olive found out that it was mood enhancer drugs, not vanilla, while delivering the pies to Chuck’s aunts. Under the pie-influence, Chuck’s Aunt Lilly announced she was Chuck’s mother. It was a secret even her sister didn’t know, and to make sure it was never discovered, Lilly banished Olive from their lives. “Since both Chuck and her mother were supposed to be dead, neither could know the other was alive.”
Chuck decides she’ll give Betty the shake-down tomorrow, which Ned is vehemently against. What if they find out she’s a spy? They might kill her! Chuck argues that they wouldn’t do it during office hours, and Emerson agrees with her. But that’s what they do with spies and saboteurs, “you kill them, and then you don’t feel bad because they were spying and sabotaging.”
Ned: But you could die.
Bored, Olive replies, “And you’re already dead.”
“I told you she wasn’t dead.” Ned and Olive look up in horror to see Chuck’s aunts burst through the front door. Ned looks down at the spinning seat Chuck was just sitting in. “If I could breathe, I would vomit.”
The sisters approach Olive. Where’s the pies? They thought she was dead! Lilly tells her that her sister came all this way to find out why she wasn’t delivering the pies anymore.
Olive stares at them both, searching for an excuse, then finally answers, “I’m…really flaky.”
“That’s what I told her!” Lilly exclaims. Her sister compliments the pies and Olive excuses herself, “I’ve gotta go get…somebody’s…something.” Ned takes a staggered step back to let her go.
Olive runs back to get their pies and Chuck pokes out from her hiding behind Emerson. She can’t believe that Olive wasn’t delivering her aunt’s pies! They fight around Emerson, who finally tells them he’s going to add in a scoop of “shut the fudge up”, and Olive rushes back out to shove a pie box into Vivian’s hands. When Vivian asks why she doesn’t talk to her anymore, she thought they were friends, Olive decides she’s had enough.
“I’ve got something to say!” she finally shouts. “And I’m going to say it to you, and you—” she points at Ned. “And you and your hump!” she yells at Emerson, who swings around with Chuck covered in a blanket on his back.
Narrator: Olive wanted to let loose the secrets and lies she’d been force-fed by her friends. That Chuck was still alive. That Lilly was her mother. Instead, what came out was this.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! !!!”
Ned stares at Olive. “What’s gotten into you?”
She tells them she’s sick of being this sawed-off shotgun of secrets. (“Did she just say she was armed?”) No, she’s quitting. She’s tendering in her resignation and, she turns to Ned. “Resigning my tenders to the cold harsh realities of what’s not mean to be”. Ned is shocked. “But this is your home, where will you go?”
Lily orders her sister out, then tells Olive. “I know a place.”
~*~*~
Olive has moved out and Chuck feels bad. She wishes she could thank her for getting her aunt’s out of house. She suddenly realizes that she’s never lived on her own, and decides that it would be romantic if she moved into Olive’s apartment while she was gone. They’ll have their coy little romantic knocking.
Ned: You’ll be knocking?
Chuck: You can knock too.
Narrator: This was not romantic for the pie-maker.
Ned: Yay…
Emerson shows up at the door. “Where’s Olive?”
Currently? Running around the hillside singing at the top of her lungs dressed as a nun.
A bunch of nuns walk by and shush her. “It was a place that valued Olive’s silence,” The Narrator explains, “As much as Lilly did.”
~*~*~
At Chuck’s new job, her boss takes her in to meet and talk with Betty. “And if there’s a lull in the conversation,” he tells Betty, “You just ask Kitty why she loves bees. You’ll be glad you did!” He leaves through the beehive inspired yellow door.
Chuck tells Betty she knows Kentucky was her best Bee Girl, she’s not trying to take over her place. Betty rants about how she’s now just the “honey mascot/consultant. It used to be ‘founder and president’.” She says when all of her bees died it was hard to go on.
Chuck realizes that Kentucky sabotaged her bees with a lot of mites. Betty gets up to reminisce about growing up in the “Honey House.” Chuck is in awe. “You lived with bees? That sounds magical!” The Honey House is empty now, left with Betty. She tells Chuck that “it wasn’t sabotage, sometimes bad things just happen.”
Narrator: Unbenounced to Chuck, sometime bad was about to just happen.
~*~*~
Dusty has joined everyone else at The Pie Hole. They tell them about Kentucky sabotaging Betty’s Bees. He asks if their “reliable source who wishes to remain anonymous” is Betty, because she and Kentucky used to be best friends before Kentucky became the new face of Betty’s Bees. “If I was more comfortable around you people, I’d cry,” he admits . Chuck assures him that he can cry, and Emerson argues that it is not okay for a grown man to cry in public in front of a bunch of happy families enjoying pie! He tells him to go cry in the bathroom and Dusty rushes off.
Chuck tells them that she knows where Betty hid the key. She can get it tomorrow. When Ned doesn’t say anything, Emerson looks at him. What? “I just thought you were goin’ to start squawkin’ about how *dangerous* it would be to go back. Squawk, squawk,” Emerson teases.
Chuck laughs and Ned tells them both that “This is Chuck’s life and she can live it however she’s like. I can’t expect her to sit inside all day and HIDE!!”
Chuck rolls her eyes. “No I don’t need—” No, seriously! HIDE! Chuck falls under the table as Emerson snaps the blinds shut and Ned runs outside and right into Vivian.
Ned tells her the shop is closed. He quickly changes the sign to “Closed”. “See?” But, there’s people in there…Right, cleaning crew, he tells her. So what is she doing there? To Be honest, she wasn’t craving pie, she was craving company. Lilly left and she didn’t know where else to go.
Ned sits down on the bench with Vivian and she confesses how everything in her house still reminds her of Chuck. She talks about her favorite pillow. Ned tells her he knows how she feels. Chuck’s moved out and—Vivian gives him a funny look. What? “I mean moved on. ” He tells her that maybe it’s time for her to move on too and…”get rid of the pillow…”
~*~*~
Olive finds her Mother Superior and asks when the porter is coming for her things. The Mother Superior tells her not the porter “the poor”. The poor will come for her things as part of her vow of poverty.
“I thought that was a temporary vow because I’m only going to be a temporary nun,” Olive answers. Is there some kind of storage facility? As long as she’s there she will live under their rules. The Mother Superior tells her that once she has her child, she can go back to the outside world. “Whoa, hold that pregnant pause,” Olive chases after her. “I’m not with child. Unless it was immaculate conception or I wore some strange man’s underwear...” Oh, she just assumed “based on who brought you here.”
Lilly is shocked. “This is where Lilly came to have Chuck?”
“Ah, here come the poor!”
Olive tries to grab her things back, but it’s too late. The poor have run off with her things.
~*~*~
Chuck shows up to work to find Ned working the front desk. What’s he doing here? Oh he just got a new job. The other guy had some, uh intestinal problems. Chuck is shocked. “You pruned his pie?” And then he waited until they called the temp agency, called the temp agency and cancelled and showed up here with a smile and a happy attitude.
Chuck things this is the most romantic thing she’s ever heard. Emerson, listening in on their conversation from outside, says very articulately, “He is stalking you.” He doesn’t think he’s stalking her and who’s she to judge him for drugging someone’s pie? Ned leans into Chuck’s mic. This isn’t stalking it’s just “good old fashioned chivalry.” Emerson rolls his eyes.
Betty walks out. “Walk with me.” Ned hurries after her as “Chuck beelines for the stolen Bee Key.” As she’s snooping around Betty’s office, she makes another discovery: A picture of Betty with a bee beard. Unfortunately, this is just before she herself is discovered. Chuck turns around. “AAAAAHH!!!” It’s the scary Bee Man!!
~*~*~
Ned and Emerson walk into Betty’s office and Ned gasps. “Chuck!” Poor Chuck is sitting at the desk, completely covered in bees except for her eyes. Ned tells them both that he warned them this could be dangerous! “Just because you’re alive again doesn’t mean you couldn’t be dead again there’s a reason I don’t let Digby play in traffic!”
Ned rushes over to grab the nearby coat rack and Chuck points at Emerson. “Why you—why’s she pointin’ at ME?” Ned points out that she wants him to open the door! Oh, right.
Emerson flings the door open and Chuck slowly scoots the office chair up to the window. Ned just keeps telling himself “don’t look at the bees, don’t look at the bees” and suddenly Chuck spits something out of her mouth. The bees all fly after it and Chuck turns and grabs Emerson in a hug.
Ned: What happened to you?
Narrator: What happened was this: The Bee Man was not composed of the bees, the drones were gathering around their queen safe inside the Bee Man’s mouth. But when he spat, she signaled the bees to attack.
As Chuck was screaming, “She kept a cool head and an open mouth.” In other words, she accidentally swallowed the safely encased queen bee, thus causing the drones to swarm Chuck.
They’ve decided that Betty was the Terrifying Bee man after all. She must have come up here after leaving Ned to “wiggedy, wiggedy wack you for being a spy.” Chuck pulls out the key. She holds it up to Betty’s childhood picture. She knows what house it belongs to now.
~*~*~
As Chuck followed the bee key that was key, Olive followed her homesick heart to the confessional.
Olive: Forgive me Father, for I am going to file a police report on all my worldly possessions.
She knows it’s greedy and wrathful, but there was a miscommunication. Suddenly the screen flies up to show an eye-patched Sister. “I knew you’d lapse,” Lilly tells Olive. Olive asks her how long she’s been lurking there. As long as Olive has.
They leave the confessional and Olive tells her she wants to go home. “You know things about me that nobody knows,” Lilly warns. “This place knows things about me nobody else does.”
Olive: Like that your holiday here 30 years ago, and found a baby in a cabbage patch, and by cabbage patch I mean your lady parts?
Lilly tells her Vivian thought she was in Paris. Why didn’t Lilly just tell her? Because Chuck’s father was Vivian’s fiancé. Olive is shocked! “You did NOT just tell me another secret!” Olive tells her that Chuck thought he mother died in childbirth! Lilly says it doesn’t matter now because Chuck is dead. She tells her to stay as long as she likes to try and work out her man problems.
Narrator: But Olive feared that Aunt Lilly’s version of “as long as you like” was considerably longer than hers…
~*~*~
Narrator: 39 miles away, north by northeast, the private detective, the pie-maker, and Chuck, climbed a winding road to the home of Betty Bee. A home that was supposed to be vacant. *sound of buzzing* But it was not vacant at all.
~*~*~
Chuck pulls out the key and finds it covered in honey. That can’t be good! Inside, the vacant house has been transformed into a giant bee hive. “Her bees didn’t die,” Ned says. “She stole them.” Emerson suddenly decides a crazy cat lady wasn’t so crazy. Turns out Betty and Kentucky were in it together, stealing the bees from their boss, “boo boo”.
“Boo boo had it coming!”
They all swing around to find Betty standing there. She rants about how her boss could have the company and everything, but he wasn’t getting her bees! “Hello Kitty,” she tells Chuck, then looks at Ned. “And you, you’re not a temp!”
Emerson tells them that they’re private detectives hired by Kentucky’s husband to find out who killed her. Betty said that there is no murderer because the bees did it. The only way they’re going to nail Mr. Woolsley with the murder is if they can some how get his DNA off one of those bees. Oh.
~*~*~
Chuck, Ned, and Emerson barge into Mr. Woolsley’s office. Emerson introduces himself. He’d like to ask him about the murder. He argues that it wasn’t a murder. Chuck holds up the queen bee.
“This is the bee you spat at me” that day in Betty’s office. They’re betting the DNA would match.
~*~*~
Narrator: The facts were these: Woolsley Nickles was madly in love with Kentucky Fitz. The operative words was madly.
Shortly after Kentucky accepted the job of the new face of Betty’s bees, he found out that her gratitude was not quite what he expected it should be. He found infected bees in her possession. “Betrayed and broken hearted” he killed her in a way that would look “accidental”. Mr. Woolsley confesses, never knowing that the sabotage was a hoax, or that Betty had stolen back his bees.
Narrator: Since Kentucky Fitz was like a sister to Betty Bee, Betty Bee was like a sister to Dusty Fitz and made him her new partner.
Narrator: Realizing that his colony had not collapsed but merely expanded into his and her sweets, the pie-maker labored to make Chuck’s suite fill like home.
Chuck comes in to find her books, her furniture, her special pillow. “How…?”
“Welcome home.”
And so the pie-maker found out that home was a feeling of where you belong. For Emerson, that home was Lil’ Gumshoe,
For Olive home was the place she hoped to find herself and perhaps find new friends for which she did not have to keep secrets. Olive leans down to pet a pig she has named “Pigby.”
For Chuck, “Home was where the pie-maker was”.
Narrator: And this home was a place where the pie-maker’s father who had abandoned him would return to. Even if the pie-maker never knew he was there…
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Awwwww, I forgot how cute this show was! Some of the lines on this show make me wonder if the writers weren't living in my own head. LoL Great to have this fantastical comedy back! It makes me want to rewatch all of the first season.
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