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

Narrator: The waif and the scientist fell deeply in love, hiding their affair from the world like a trade secret.

Season 1, Episode 2

Narrator: They had met when the scientist had come to watch sales training on a long lunch. The attraction was instantaneous and they would both confess to replaying this first encounter as they fell asleep in their beds that night. He would remember her hair as being slightly redder, her sweater slightly tighter, but the smile he would get just right. She would remember his look as shy, but flirtatious, his tie as red, but very thin, and that his sandwich was Angus beef patty with butter head lettuce, Roma tomatoes on a sesame-seed whole wheat bun, and a glass of 2% milk.

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

Chuck: What do you know about Emerson, besides he privately investigates?
Ned: What is so great about knowing? When you lift up a rock, do you find whipped cream? No, you find worms. I say ‘no’ to knowing.

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

Olive: Guess mine is not the first heart broken. My eyes are not the first to cry. I’m not the first to know there’s just no getting over you. I’m hopelessly devoted-(couple walks in). Excuse me. We’re closed.

Season 1, Episode 2

Narrator: Olive often imagined there was an orchestra in her heart. Music heard only by her except when her heart broke open and it spilled out into the world,

Season 1, Episode 2

Ned: I’m going out late tonight, a frivolous thing, hardly worth explaining.
Olive: Oh?
Ned: Can you close up?
Olive: I think I just did.
Ned: What?
Olive: See you in the morning!

Season 1, Episode 2