Pushing Daisies Season 2 quotes

Chuck

The world would be a better place if everybody dabbed calamine on welts of bad news.

Lily

It's time to nip you in the budding romance.

Vivian

But lying to yourself about love never works.

Emerson

Here Lies Dwight, Here Lies His Gun, He was bad, Now He's Done.

Ned

[Having just been threatened by Chuck's father, whom he recently brought back to life] Hate to contradict you, Charles, but nobody in the village was after Doctor Frankenstein; they were after his monster.

Emerson

Oh look: a dumb idea just found a friend!

Narrator

Oh! Hell no!

Olive

Ned, I really appreciate you going along with all of this.

Ned

You don't have to thank me. I've been curious having a normal relationship. This one has been really interesting to try on.

Olive

Try on? You try on a sweater at the mall. You try on your best friend's bra and you smile on the inside because yours are bigger and better. You don't try on a person!

Ned

Clearly not the right choice of words.

Narrator

The pie-maker helped his friends in need. Not by pretending he was something he was not but by embracing the very thing he always was. It gave him a feeling of joy he would later liken to leaping tall buildings in a single bound.

Olive

[to Randy Mann] Sorry if I was sending you mixed messages. But, you know, messages are like nuts. Who wants all the same kind? Mixed is the best.

Chuck

But why, why do we love something if loving something just makes us stupid and just have more to lose?

Ned

Why love something? Because we can.

Chuck

Aww.

At that very moment, time stopped, as it was wont to do when present, past and future collide; when one's existence ceases to be measured in days, hours and minutes, but instead in immeasurable quantity of life events. For Lily and Vivian Charles, the reappearance of a daughter and niece was the life event that would eventually overshadow a thirty-year-old betrayal and result in a splash of water, the roar of a crowd, and a whirlwind tour around the world--twice. Private investigator Emerson Cod would experience a life event, when life found him through the pages of a pop-up book and he was reunited with his own little gumshoe.

{knocking at Emerson's office door} Hello, I'm looking for Emerson Cod.

Jocky cum waitress cum private investigator Olive Snook would experience two life events in quick succession: the first, opening her heart to a formally friendless taxidermist; and the second by opening a culinary palace dedicated to the art of macaroni and cheese called the Intrepid Cow. For the Piemaker and a dead girl named Chuck, their shared life event began with a touch and became the promise a new family brought about by the words

Chuck

I'm alive.

Narrator

At that moment, in the town of Coeur d'Coeurs, events occurred that are not, were not, and should never be considered an ending. For endings, as it is known, are where we begin.