eta: Juliebird! Weird meat x-post!

hee!

Bringing a fruit back from rotten implies that it dies sometime after it comes off the tree

I think it would be safe to guess that it's not until the fruit starts showing visible signs of death that it counts as dead, and therefore suspect to the one-touch, no-touch'm-again-or-ick-for-Ned.

that his touch made the fruit taste just picked

I think that was referring to Ned's reviving the moldy strawberry.

edited for misplaced sentence.

I thought the name "Digby" rang a bell, and it turns out to be a significant one: [link]

Didn't they show a bunch of daisies dying in one episode when he was reviving fruit?

I thought this was because of the one minute rule. He didn't re-dead the fruit, so something in proximity has to die.

Digby is also home of the Siesta Motel, home of Bob: the greatest guy in the world /car accident in Nova Scotia

I wonder if there's a circle around the pie shop in which fruit immediately rots.

He keeps some pot of fresh flowers nearby for sacrifice when he makes his pies. In ep 3, when he tossed a re-freshed peach to Chuck, a bunch of mums by the side of the kitchen wilted and died. There was a cute moment in which Digby looked all distressed at the flowers dying and Ned looked at Digby and made this "don't give me that look" face.

wooden hand/arm that Ned uses this week to scratch Digby is the arm he ripped off of Lefty last week!

That was adorable! I loved that whole scene: Ned being all defensive about not believing in ghosts and Chuck telling Emerson about little Ned wetting his pants during a seance at her aunts' house. Lee Pace was ultra-cute when he said "I did NOT! Uhm, I knocked over a plate of hors d'oeuvre and the brie was runny." Emerson's face when he said "I'd stick with the pissing the pants story" was priceless.

last night's pizza too fast!

If Ned were to eat something he'd touched, like he did this last ep, it would turn bad forever in his mouth. If he ate it right after making it, it would still turn bad.

I loved that whole scene: Ned being all defensive about not believing in ghosts and Chuck telling Emerson about little Ned wetting his pants during a seance at her aunts' house.

I totally missed that scene. It must have been when we had the trick-or-treater false alarm. (Nine years, no trick-or-treaters. I don't know why my husband thought this year would be different.)

I loved that Digby made the dog purring sound when Ned was petting him.

The weird thing about this show, I find, is that I often enjoy it more when I watch the episode the second time. The first time around, I spend more time boggling at the WTF moments (of which there are many.) There are also a lot of details I miss on the first watch -- like Olive's gigantic bag of cash from the win having a huge dollar sign, the see/hear/speak no evil monkeys at Mrs Jacobs' house, etc.

I hear that the Writer's Guild of America strike is on as of today. I have concerns about the impact the strike will have on fledgling show like Pushing Daisies.

As much as I like Pushing Daisies, I have a couple of handwavey problems. If the death is scaled to the life he brought back (as in bird = squirrel or another bird or fruit = flowers), why did the fly he brought back kill his mom? Also, if he'd returned to his childhood home before, why had he never seen Chuck if she was right across the street the whole time? And weren't the aunts elsewhere rather than right across the street?