Pushing Daisies

Whew! The show opens with this very odd sequence where the pie maker is watching Chuck sleep and then she wakes up and trips as she gets out of bed and falls onto him and she doesn't die, so they get naked, but she says she has too many clothes on (she is naked remember) and proceeds to peel off her skin, and under that skin is Olive- yes, it was a dream...

Weird.

Anyway, so I used to watch 'The Soup' with Joel McHale- good thing because that's how I was able to recognize him in his guest role as this week's murder victim brought back to life. He was poisoned, but as he was dying he fell on a pointy dog brush handle and ended up dying from stabbing himself repeatedly. He had 4 wives (as a polygamist), and alluded that one of them had given him his poisoned coffee. He also had Bubblegum, a special dog he bread himself.

What follows is a confusing but funny sequence of interviews of the four wives and it's well done. The wives figure out where the Pie Hole is and confront the gang- and the youngest wife Halley admits to using Almond coffee creamer (which is how cyanide tastes).

Halley blames another dog trainer, Ramsfeld Snuppy, for the murder out of jealousy over puppy breeding. He plans on cloning the run-over Bubblegum's DNA and selling this new perfect breed in his stores. Snuppy had a contract from Harold selling Bubblegum to him (dead or alive) against the wishes of the wives.

So this whole plot unfolds, the first wife (Hilary) did both murders and Chuck and the Pie Maker realize that they will never be able to touch, but to be able to go to sleep in the same room every night is enough for them.

Awwwww