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A brief explanation of the “Moment-by-Moment” concept, which is basically one girl’s viewing odyssey through a vast and strangely populated terrain of television, and her reactions therein, as she watches. Other people may or may not figure into this equation, depending entirely upon who she’s able to rope into watching these things with her. Context (where appropriate and necessary) and time points will be provided for those playing along at home; each new MBM shall be posted shortly after each new episode of Pushing Daisies has aired. I trust you all realize that spoilers will, by necessity, be involved, but just in case…now you can’t say I didn’t warn you. Also, it should be noted that the times I’m using while writing this come from DVRing each episode when it premieres, and do, as a result, include timing for commercials. Keep that in mind if you watch and read this later while viewing the DVDs when they’re released. Ready? Let’s play.
Pushing Daisies, Moment-By-Moment. Season Two, Episode Six - Oh, Oh, Oh…It’s Magic
- 2:45 - I would so pay to see Monster Trucks on Ice.
- 3:00 - Emerson, in a high-pitched, girly voice, “A magic show?!?! Where did I put that rat’s ass I could give?”Oh, Emerson. I love you more with each passing episode, and every time, I think to myself that I can’t possibly love you more. Even though I know I totally will next week.
- 3:15 - AHA. Cherry Rhubarb Crumble, is it? Strictly speaking, that doesn’t look like a crumble…it’s too composed. Still, keeping in mind for a moment some recent observations I had about the nature of pie as a concept, it’s well within bounds. A recipe will follow in the next post…though of course I can’t guarantee that it’s their recipe. But if you want to bake along at home, you’ll be well set!
- 4:50 - The twins are trying to entice Emerson, Ned, Chuck, and Olive to come see them do their magic show and have just produced tickets in a trick involving the aforementioned cherry rhubarb crumble. Everyone seems interested except Ned, who has deep-seated psychological issues with magic but is trying to tamp them down and be polite. The boys finally get to him, and ask whether he’ll be there or not.Wait…was that “brere” or “frere” Piemaker? Laugh all you like, but if it’s “frere,” that explains some things!
- 5:15 - In order, from left to right: Emerson, Olive, Chuck, and Ned are ranged around a table at Two for the Show’s performance. Everyone is dressed rather nicely.Joe (longtime PD viewing accomplice): Chuck should be wearing those gloves. *nods toward Olive*
- 5:20 - Ned’s upset about Maurice and Ralston dredging up his childhood trauma, and gratefully takes a lozenge from Olive to help settle his magically-stress-induced acid reflux. Emerson seems to understand about not being able to become brothers overnight, and Ned takes the ball and runs with it.AHA. Ned said “frere”! He’s not that much older than the boys, is he? I don’t think so. I sense impending issues…
- 5:40 - Aunt Lily is sitting by the phone with her cockatiel nearby and her martini glass in hand.Joe: Wait, did you see that?
Me: See what?
Joe: *rolls back the recording* THAT.
Me: *stares at the cockatiel drinking from the martini glass while Joe laughs hysterically* Oh. THAT.
- 8:15 - The Great Herrmann is explaining about Cementia, after having dragged Emerson up onstage in order to quell any heckling that the act might otherwise generate from him, having been informed that he might heckle beforehand.I can’t decide whether I’d be amused or disturbed to see someone name their child “Cementia,” but for some reason, I can visualize it happening.
- 8:35 - Cementia is underway, and The Great Herrmann’s lovely redheaded assistant is showboating for the audience.Wait…is that The Former Mrs. Laupin? From Viva Variety? *checks later and adds links because yes, it is!*
- 14:10 - Emerson and The Great Herrmann (”Call me ‘Great.’” “NO.”) are haggling over whether or not Emerson will help find who killed all his animal assistants.Have I mentioned that I love a character who can seamlessly integrate the word “prestidigitating” into his everyday speech? Because I do. ♥
- 14:45 - The Great Herrmann: “Now, if you’ll excuse me, the county bridge-and-tunnel folk have arrived…for the nine o’clock.”
Has anyone tried to place Coeur de Couers on a map? Because the kneejerk reaction is to think it’s somewhere near New Jersey, which I’d never really thought before. Hrrm.
- 16:05 - Dwight Dixon has just appeared at Aunts Lily and Vivian’s door.Joe: Is that Milton from Office Space?
Me: *grabs phone and goes to look*
Joe: Can you please wait till the episode is over?
Me: Oh, you’re right. Sorry. *looks later and fills in the links*
- 26:01 - Ned is promising Maurice and Ralston that he’ll kick the ass of whoever killed their “next-best-thing Magic Dad.”There it is again! “Frere” Piemaker! THEY WERE NEVER LOOKING FOR A BROTHER, I TELL YOU! And why should they be, when they’ve got each other?
- 32:55 - We’re flashing back to when Maurice and Ralston’s dad left them at Herman Gant’s Magical Express, and we’re seeing the whole trick over as dad disappears.This makes it seem like The Great Herrmann was in on the whole thing, doesn’t it?
- 35:32 - Our intrepid team is “using metal detectors to detect the metal shackles worn by the Great Herrmann.”Because that’s going to be the only metal in the place? That’s hardly a reasonable assumption.
- 43:57 - After the revelation of the missing magnets from The Great Herrmann’s shoes, Chuck recalls that the Geek had apparently swallowed magnets. Emerson: “So what?” Chuck: “Sew BUTTONS.”I never in a million years thought I’d hear someone say that on TV. *is highly amused*
- 49:07 - The Geek has taken Olive hostage and is using her as a human shield, the effectiveness of which is questioned severely by Emerson Cod. He’s threatening to use the pearl-handled pistol he allegedly swallowed and is, even at this moment, cocking with his stomach muscles. Olive mentions that she hears a clicking, but then realizes it’s actually a ticking…like a watch.Now there’s a thought. Is this going to turn out to be the pocket watch that Dwight Dixon is searching for? The one that was apparently buried with Chuck?
- 52:52 - Olive is inside Lily and Vivian’s house, and Vivian has just gone to bed, leaving Lily alone to talk with Olive. Chuck is apparently communicating with Olive via some secret means which Ned has devised, so that Olive can be Chuck’s conversation-proxy with Aunt Lily.I’m VERY curious to know how and why Olive agreed to do this, since she still thinks Chuck was never dead in the first place and had merely faked her death for some mysterious and selfish reasons. Agreeing to try to keep unnecessary drama from occurring at The Pie Hole by having the aunts and Chuck meet accidentally is one thing, but this? Maybe it’s her genuine affection for Lily and Vivian, and wanting to not see them get hurt? I also worry that Aunt Vivian isn’t really asleep, and is overhearing the whole conversation.
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