Pushing Daisies "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy" Talkback (Spoilers)

[The Penguin]

The facts are these: Charles Charles was touched once by Ned and brought back to life, but Chuck made sure he wasn't touched again so something else has to die in his place. That turned out to be Dwight Dixon, who had a gun trained on Ned & Chuck at that moment.


http://library.toonzone.net/talkbacks/abc.jpghttp://library.toonzone.net/talkbacks/pushingdaisies2.jpg"The Legend of Merle McQuoddy"
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @ 8 p.m. ET/7 CT on ABC
Ned and Chuck deal with the return of someone from their past, while Emerson, assisted by Olive, investigates the odd death of a lighthouse keeper.

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[The Weed Of Cri]

I swear, Chuck gets dumber with each passing episode. True, the woman never did have a lick of common sense, but she's out of control, protecting her father, who has no business being alive again. Why Ned didn't just shut him down the minute he started acting up, I'll never understand. Meanwhile, Olive continues to shine as the real female lead of this show; she gets cooler and sexier with every episode.

[Master Moron]

I swear, Chuck gets dumber with each passing episode. True, the woman never did have a lick of common sense, but she's out of control, protecting her father, who has no business being alive again. Why Ned didn't just shut him down the minute he started acting up, I'll never understand. Meanwhile, Olive continues to shine as the real female lead of this show; she gets cooler and sexier with every episode.

Well, I'd imagine the morals of killing someone who's already dead are kind of sketchy. I mean, if someone murdered Chuck would it still be murder? Probably. On the other hand, you could argue that Ned murders people every episode when he brings them back to life for a minute and then kills them again. But, if he didn't kill them again someone else would die. So, it would be immoral to not kill them. However, in the case of Chuck's father, Dwight already died, so it would essentially turn the act of killing Charles from a moral act into an immoral act. At least, that's the way I look at it.

Wait a minute, I just thought of something. All the fruit in Ned's pies was rotten before Ned touched it. So, doesn't that mean something else has to die to make the pies? What dies when Ned touches the fruit?

[NewcomerDC]

Wait a minute, I just thought of something. All the fruit in Ned's pies was rotten before Ned touched it. So, doesn't that mean something else has to die to make the pies? What dies when Ned touches the fruit?
The vegatables.:p

So far this show has peaked my interest. so I'm guessing that since Chuck's father was the one that got away, I assume that the finale will have something to do with revealing Chuck and Ned's powers of bringing the dead back to life.

Question: If both main characters, since I never knew Chuck could bring people back to life, have the same power of bringing the dead back to life, then why did she had to place a trash bag over Ned's chest? Couldn't they had hugged or will they both die after touching each other? I thought that if they hugged or kissed that their powers would cancel each other out.

[Master Moron]

The vegatables.:p

So far this show has peaked my interest. so I'm guessing that since Chuck's father was the one that got away, I assume that the finale will have something to do with revealing Chuck and Ned's powers of bringing the dead back to life.

Question: If both main characters, since I never knew Chuck could bring people back to life, have the same power of bringing the dead back to life, then why did she had to place a trash bag over Ned's chest? Couldn't they had hugged or will they both die after touching each other? I thought that if they hugged or kissed that their powers would cancel each other out.

No, Chuck doesn't have the power to bring people back to life, only Ned does. Chuck died in the first episode of the show and Ned touched her to bring her back to life. If he touches her again then she dies.

Ned brought Chuck's father back to life, but he only wanted to bring him back to life for a minute to ask him about Dwight Dixon. Chuck slipped a glove on her father when Ned wasn't looking and told him to play dead when Ned touched him. Ned touched Chuck's father again in order to kill him, but he had a glove on, so he didn't die.

[The Weed Of Cri]

Yes, Chuck lied to Ned, tricked him so her dead father could keep living as a corpse, hid her father from Ned (more lies!), and did so knowing full well that someone else would die for her selfishness. Let's face it, she is a brainless, selfish b****. It's time for Ned to drop her (I mean literally drop her where she stands) and starts noticing the amazing Olive.

[The Penguin]

Emerson and Olive made a great team trying to solve the murder of Nora McQuoddy. Their double "Oh hell no!" was perfect. This one had a lot of twists and turns as far as who was responsible. You didn't think it would be Merle (David Koechner!) after the suspicion was immediately put on him, but then you had the way his son Elliott was acting to bring it back that way. Gus & Nora falling in love while Merle was missing felt very real and he was a rather suspicious character too.

"So a depressing word, diorama. It has die in it." :D

But then we had the jilted lover who wasn't really a lover at all, she just thought she was. Annabelle Vandersloop was more than a bit crazy. Things worked out as well as they could (all things considered) for the other three one-time suspects.

"So make it look like an accident. Trip over an ottoman and Dick Van Dyke that ass."

You can certainly argue that Emerson had a good point. Charles Charles seemed intent on making Ned's life a living hell whether it was to get his life back or extract revenge on Ned for killing him, Mr. Charles seemed intent on just making this difficult. Emerson was right about C2 being cut down in the prime of his life and wanting to get out there and do things.

At the same time, Ned couldn't pull a "Dick Van Dyke" because whether he made it look like an accident or it actually was an accident, deep down, Chuck would never forgive him. Ned loves Chuck more than anything else and he's not going to let her father come between them, but he's also not going to deny her her father just to make his life easier.

Of course he may be regretting that now! :eek:

[Master Moron]

Yes, Chuck lied to Ned, tricked him so her dead father could keep living as a corpse, hid her father from Ned (more lies!), and did so knowing full well that someone else would die for her selfishness. Let's face it, she is a brainless, selfish b****. It's time for Ned to drop her (I mean literally drop her where she stands) and starts noticing the amazing Olive.

Yes, but Chuck has bigger breasts. At least, they appear bigger when she wears those sweaters. Maybe Olive just needs to accentuate her chest more.

[DisneyBoy]

I've been tuning in now for about two weeks, thinking the series finale is going to air. Funny how a show's cancellation drums up interest in it...

When is the finale?

[The Penguin]

When is the finale?I don't know that there is an official date yet. This is episode 9 of 13, there is a new episode next week and then one would assume we'd be done until 2009 with the holidays.