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…
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Pushing Daisies: “Oh, Oh, Oh, … It’s Magic!”
The Magic Dies Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Oh, Oh, Oh, … It’s Magic!” Written by Kath Lingenfelter Directed by Adam Kane It died of cute. ABC officially announced on Thursday that Pushing Daisies has been cancelled. Producer Bryan Fuller indicated that he might “continue” the series past its last episode as a comic book; he also indicated that he might be going back to write for Heroes. I suspect we’ll see Fuller’s name on an episode of that show long before we see it on the cover of a graphic novel, and for good reason. Pushing…