Episode Details

Mandy has a real, non-joking anxiety about death. You'd think that's the sort of thing a person would mention to a friend before that friend assigns her a series about a man who reanimates corpses for sixty seconds at a stretch to ask them who did it. Jessica Jimenez knew. Jessica Jimenez picked it anyway. Third appearance, still working off the Showgirls debt.So Mandy watched all nine episodes with a Xanax in one hand and a notebook in the other. Six Emmys. One writers' strike. Cancelled anyway. By about episode four she has stopped bracing for the death stuff and girded for the fight with Jessica about Olive Snook's wardrobe. Jessica may be wrong about the wardrobe. Press play.Guest Spotlight
Jessica Jimenez — TV producer, musical-theater mischief-maker, and scholar of the pop-culture deep cut. This is her third trip through the Make Me A Nerd gauntlet, following Return to Oz and Showgirls. Her stated goal this time was redemption. Her actual achievement was getting Mandy to voluntarily watch a show about corpses.Jessica's social links to be supplied — see Pete-Notes.
Reference Links

The Show

• Pushing Daisies (ABC, 2007–2009)
• Pie-lette — the Barry Sonnenfeld–directed pilot
• Pigeon — episode four, the one Mandy got lost in
• List of Pushing Daisies episodes
• Pushing Daisies at the Television Academy — the official Emmy tally
• Where to watch

The Cast & Creators

• Lee Pace — Ned, the pie maker
• Anna Friel — Charlotte "Chuck" Charles
• Kristin Chenoweth — Olive Snook
• Chi McBride — Emerson Cod, knitter
• Swoosie Kurtz — Lily Charles
• Ellen Greene — Vivian Charles
• Jim Dale — the Narrator
• Sy Richardson — the Coroner
• Raúl Esparza — Alfredo Aldarisio
• Patrick Fabian — Dandelion car salesman, and Mandy's actual friend
• Paul Reubens — Oscar Vibenius, who can smell death