Return of the Muffin Buffalo Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Comfort Food” Written by Douglas Petrie Directed by Peter Lauer Any considerations I might have had about Pushing Daisies becoming too syrupy-sweet were completely axed by the sight of a man eating his own deep-fried skin in this episode. That image is one I’d like erased, please. It was almost gross enough to make me turn off the television, the first time Pushing Daisies has really stepped over the line from black humor to plain bad taste (you should pardon the pun). All was forgiven, however, when…
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Pushing: Daisies: “Robbing Hood”
Daddy Dearest Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Robbing Hood” Written by Kath Lingenfelter Directed by Adam Kane Written by Jim Danger Gray Directed by Paul Shapiro Here’s a sterling example of the brilliant, subtle wordplay that I’m going to miss when Pushing Daisies goes off the air: in tonight’s episode, an outcast Indian boy at Young Ned’s boarding school from hell names his pet bunny “Akbar”. Before he invented The Simpsons, cartoonist Matt Groening created a comic strip called Life in Hell, featuring two fez-wearing rabbits named Akbar and Jeff. This subtle homage to a great “underground” strip…