Pushing Daily Daisies

Janine: It’s easier if I show you. Follow me.
Chuck: Shotgun!
Ned: Chuck!
Chuck: I hate the back.
Ned: Dead. Again. Forever.
Chuck: Fine.

Season 1, Episode 2

Chuck: Have you ever heard of the Dandy Lion car company?
Rick Page: Nope. You wanna open the kimono on why I’m wearing a silver leotard and hanging from a hook?

Season 1, Episode 2

Chuck: We haven’t seen each other in, like, 20 years. Don’t you want to know about me? I want to know everything about you.
Ned: Look, we’ve all done things we’re not proud of. We all have secrets.
Chuck: What secrets? (Emerson walks up.)
Emerson: Skeletons in the closet.
Ned: Exactly. How long have you been listening?
Emerson: There are skeletons in the closet.

Season 1, Episode 2

(Emerson whips out a security card.)
Ned: Where’d you get that?
Emerson: Contacted the company that makes these doors under false pretenses  They gave me a sample ID badge which I digitally altered using the magnetic code that matches the serial number of this machine. Is that cheating?
Chuck: I don’t know. Is this? (She pulls out a security card.) I gave the security guard a hug goodbye. My upper body distracted him while these things I call ‘hands’ took this off his belt.

Season 1, Episode 2

Ned: Chuck found the clue.
Chuck: I found the clue.
Emerson: Clue is a board game. ‘Professor did it in the parlor with a rubber mallet.’ That’s a clue. We find evidence.

Season 1, Episode 2

Olive: Do they touch much?
Emerson: Wish they would.

Season 1, Episode 2

Olive: So, who’s the funny girl stuck to Ned?
Emerson: Childhood sweetheart.
Olive: Still sweet? His heart?
Emerson: You want the truth?
Narrator: Olive Snook did not want the truth, but her heart was so full that it reached up and nodded her head.
Emerson: He digs her in a way he definitely doesn’t dig you.
Olive: I’ll ju- I’ll just go get your pie.

Season 1, Episode 2

Olive: This isn’t Pies-R-Us, Pie City, or Thousands-of-Pies-in-One-Place. This is a bells-on-the-door, pies baking, mom-and-pop place. We chitchat here…. Chit!
Emerson: Chat?
Olive: You got it.

Season 1, Episode 2

pushingdailydaisies:

Daily Daisy

Olive: So, what’s the poop?

Emerson: The “poop”?

Olive: Poop, scoop, the skinny, the haps, the dillio, the 411 – P.I. lingo.

Emerson: Rhubarb.

Olive: What’s that mean?

Emerson: P.I. secret code for “Get me a damned slice of rhubarb.”

Season 1, Episode 2

Emerson: When you get all jabberwocky in my minute it’s hard to follow up on: ‘The dummy did it.’ I gotta find some real leads, now.
Chuck: Isn’t that what a PI’s supposed to do? Investigate? Isn’t that the fun part?
Emerson: The fun part’s counting my money in the bubble bath.
(Chuck gets up and leaves.)
Ned: Nice image.

Season 1, Episode 2