Pushing Daisies
Pie-lette
TV Flash files “Pie-lette” as a desk essential hour — Pushing Daisies (2007–2009) on ABC, season 1, episode 1, aired 2007-10-03, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 22 in the Pushing Daisies guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2007-10-03 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Dummy” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Pie-lette”. Pie-lette is the dessert-pilot: a pie-maker's forbidden touch, candy-colored noir, Kristin Chenoweth in the margins, tragedy under the frosting.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ned 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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pie-lette sit in the Pushing Daisies guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 22 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Pushing Daisies S01E01 air?
Pie-lette aired 2007-10-03 and is listed at 60 minutes.
How much Pushing Daisies is there?
Two shortened seasons (2007–2009), canceled too soon — writers' strike timing is part of the forever bring-it-back energy.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A pie-maker wakes the dead with a touch he can never use on the woman he loves. Bryan Fuller's Pushing Daisies is candy-colored noir — storybook frames, Kristin Chenoweth in the margins, tragedy under the frosting — canceled too sweet, still the sugar rush to chase.
The first thing you see is frosting. Bryan Fuller's Pushing Daisies (2007–2009) looked like a storybook among ABC dramas: candy-colored noir, storybook frames, tragedy under the sugar, a pie-maker who can revive the dead with a touch he can never use on the woman he loves. Lee Pace as Ned, Anna Friel's Chuck, Kristin Chenoweth's Olive in the margins (and then not in the margins), Chi McBride's Emerson, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz. Whimsy with a tragic engine. Visually unique on purpose. Network television that…
Filed against
- Lee Pace as Ned
Lee Pace’s Ned made Pushing Daisies a pie-shop tragedy in candy colors — 2000s catalog noir, a touch he cannot use, Bryan Fuller’s sugar rush canceled too sweet. Halt and Catch Fire and Foundation stretched the same elegance into…
- Anna Friel as Chuck Charles
Anna Friel’s Chuck Charles was the woman a pie-maker could wake and never touch again — Pushing Daisies as Bryan Fuller’s candy-colored noir, storybook frames, tragedy under the frosting, canceled too sweet. TV Flash still chases that…
- Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook
Kristin Chenoweth's Olive Snook sugared Pushing Daisies from the margins — Bryan Fuller's candy-colored noir, a pie-maker who cannot touch the woman he loves, tragedy under the frosting. Canceled too sweet, still the sugar rush to chase.…
- Chi McBride as Emerson Cod
Chi McBride played Emerson Cod on Pushing Daisies — a pie-maker who wakes the dead with a touch he can never use on the woman he loves, Bryan Fuller's candy-colored noir, storybook frames, tragedy under the frosting. Canceled too sweet,…
- Ellen Greene as Vivian Charles
Ellen Greene sweetened Bryan Fuller's candy-noir as Vivian Charles on Pushing Daisies — storybook frames, tragedy under the frosting, a pie-shop world canceled too soon. Kristin Chenoweth in the margins; Greene in the family weather. TV…
- Swoosie Kurtz as Lily Charles
Swoosie Kurtz ornamented Pushing Daisies as Lily Charles — candy-colored noir, a pie-maker who wakes the dead with a touch he can never use on the woman he loves, tragedy under the frosting. Bryan Fuller sweetness canceled too soon. TV…