Comfort Food Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Frescorts” Story by Lisa Joy Teleplay by Lisa Joy and Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts Directed by Peter Lauer Emerson: “I’ll be dental damned.” Callista: “With a girl like her, you should be.” Who’d have guessed that, of all the characters on Pushing Daisies, it would be the morose and acidic Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) who would have the happiest relationship with his family? “Frescorts” opens with a charming summary of how private investigator Callista Cod (Debra Mooney, Boston Legal) raised her son to be her…
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Pushing Daisies: “Bad Habits”
Digging Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Bad Habits” Written by Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts Directed by Peter O’Fallon Relaxing in the sunshine of a Tuscan-looking convent courtyard, novitiate Olive Snook is communing with her truffle-snuffing work partner, the pig named Digby. They’ve had a long day searching out and harvesting the delicacy, which forms a large part of the convent’s revenue. How surprised they are, then, when the director of truffle operations, Sister LaRue, plummets to her death from a bell tower directly in front of them. Olive calls in her…