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Pushing Daisies: Bitches

We open this episode at boarding school, and finally learn that Digby the Wonder Dog has been sleeping in Little Ned's footlocker. That's some good crate training.

Little Ned is trying to imagine his old happy home life, but his imagination fails on him. So instead he goes and stares out the window "wearing hope on his head" (in the form of a crazy hat/helmet thing). Little does he know Little Chuck is doing the exact same thing at that very moment.

In the present, Ned wakes up and watches Chuck sleep. He tells her he likes watching her wake up because it's like watching her come back to life again. She gets up, and falls onto him in bed-and doesn't die! So they start making out. And then they start getting nekkid. Which is how we know it must be time for November sweeps (I wonder if the first week of November counted for sweeps, or if sweeps is just out the window because of the writers' strike...). Now nekkid, Chuck declares that she's still wearing too much and takes off her skin to reveal that she's really Olive. And her fake skin was pretty thick, so I suppose that's how tiny Olive was able to hide in Chuck. Who isn't enormous, but a lot bigger than Olive. Everyone is.

Ned wakes up for real and watches Chuck sleep. He doesn't tell her that he likes watching her wake up.

Ned tells Emerson that he had a sexy dream about Olive (see? Sweeps!), and that she had kissed him, and Emerson tells Ned that Olive is into him. Apparently Ned has been totally oblivious this whole time, and now he's coming undone because of that kiss.

Olive also tells Chuck about the kiss. Chuck isn't upset about it, but she doesn't want it to happen again. Olive has noticed that Ned and Chuck don't touch, and Chuck says she's got a "food allergy" to Ned. Olive is annoyed, however, that Ned didn't feel like her kiss was worth mentioning to Chuck.

At that very moment, our Dead Guy, it becoming dead, and...It's Joel McHale! Most of you probably know him from E's The Soup. Your Humble Blogger and other Seattlites remember him from Almost Live!, though. Notably, he played William Wallace at least twice, which meant we even got to see a little skin. And my Crack Staff wants to have his snarky babies.

While drinking his coffee at the kennel club where he works, Harold Hundin is stabbed multiple times by an excessively fancy hairbrush. He lands on the carpet in such a way that the trophy on the kennel club seal on his carpet seems to be...springing from his groin. Hmm.

The kennel club wants Hal's death investigated, so Emerson gets right on it. Hal wants Our Three Heroes to say goodbye to his dog, Bubblegum, for him. He also reveals that he was actually poisoned by cyanide in his coffee. The stabbing occurred as he was falling. He landed on the brush, which was on his desk. And he kept trying to get up, but slipped in the spilled coffee, so thus was stabbed multiple times. He also says his wife is the one who poisoned the coffee. Emerson is thrilled because it's so cut-and-dried.

Or so you'd think. It turns out that Hal had four wives and didn't bother to specify which one did it.

Olive tries to talk to Ned about their kiss, but he claims (unconvincingly) that he hasn't thought about it since it happened. Our Three Heroes and Olive are discussing polygamists. Emerson suggests that Ned might like it, having one girl to have and another to hold. Gee, who could he be talking about?

It turns out that all of Hal's wives were dog breeders. The first wife, Hillary, bred standard poodles and ran a dog couture shop.

The second wife, Heather, was a pet psychiatrist who bred border collies.

The third wife, Simone, is an obedience trainer with Jack Russell terriers.

The last wife, Hallie, trains Labradors for the blind.

Emerson says that Olive can help with this case, though for free, because there are four wives, and if the same people talk to each, the wives will know something is afoot. Olive visits Hillary to buy clothes for Digby, Ned talks to Heather about the sexy dreams Digby's been having, Emerson takes Digby to Simone for obedience training (and seems entranced by her fine, fine bum), and Chuck pretend she's blind for Hallie, which lasts about 5 seconds.

Hallie felt like she wouldn't be alive without Hal. Olive tells Hillary about the Pie Hole. Chuck lies to Hallie, saying that Hal left a note mentioning Bubblegum. Heather explains to Ned that mating isn't just for the betterment of the species; it's also for the betterment of the dog. She then goes and mourns for a moment. We find out that Bubblegum has died. Simone, grief-stricken, backed over her. Simone also married Hal strictly as a business arrangement. Bubblegum was a mix of all four wives' niche dogs, a coll-a-dor-russell-a-poo.

All four wives say they gave Hal his coffee as he left for work the day he died.

All four also show up at the Pie Hole. Hallie mentioned the note, which they all want to read, and Hillary knew about the shop from Olive. All of this is to Emerson's dismay, since the whole point of all this was to keep them from being found out.

Hallie also says that she put almond cream in Harold's coffee, which is significant, since he said that he'd noticed the taste of almond in his coffee. Along with the cyanide.

During the commercial, Hallie is taken in. The cops found cyanide in her car. Emerson is sure she's guilty, Chuck is sure she isn't, and Ned thinks that she looked innocent to him in much the same way that a pie looks ready to come out of the oven.

Some blind students have put together a "Free Hallie" fund, so now Our Three Heroes are on the case. Again.

Hallie is sure none of her sisterwives could have murdered Hal. She thinks it was Ramsfeld Snuppy, a rival niche dog breeder who wanted to collaborate and make Bubblegum superpuppies.

Snuppy runs a chain of specialty dog stores, Snuppy's Puppies, which I'm guessing the Humane Society wouldn't care for.

Our Three Heroes go to talk to Snuppy, and while watching boxes where dogs are apparently Doing the Deed, Chuck tells Ned that Olive told her about the kiss, and she would rather have heard it from Ned. Chuck wonders if there isn't something to this polygamy Thing. After all, sometimes she may need to hold someone else's hand, and sometimes Ned may need to kiss someone else.

Ned tells Snuppy they want a coll-a-dor-russell-a-poo, and he says he's going to clone them from Bubblegum's ashes, which he has for some reason. Chuck lets it slip that she knows that Bubblegum didn't belong to Snuppy, but it turns out that Hal sold Bubblegum to Snuppy, which is why he thinks the wives wanted Hal dead.

Emerson goes to talk to Simone. Since she knew about the sale and was only with Hal as a business arrangement, Emerson thinks that gives her motive to kill her husband. Simone thinks that Snuppy might have killed Harold to keep the wives from holding up the sale.

Emerson realizes that Bubblegum's leash is still being used; Bubblegum is still alive! And since Simone is the one who has the leash, she's clearly the murderer....Worse yet, Emerson is afraid that he's falling for her. He goes to shake her down, leaving Ned alone with Olive and Chuck. Olive is afraid that she permanently ruined her relationship with Ned with that kiss.

Hillary brings in the order Olive made when she was hunting for information. Olive lets slip that Bubblegum is clonable, which is news to Hillary. Not necessarily good news, either.

Simone admits that she does still have a very much alive Bubblegum, but she still didn't kill Harold. Simone tries to flirt her way out of it, which very nearly works. Instead, she jumps on him, chloroforming him.

He wakes up tied to some agility training equipment to face a growling Bubblegum. Simone thinks he's working for Snuppy to find out if Simone faked Bubblegum's death. After all, Snuppy can't make clones if he doesn't have Bubblegum's DNA.

It turns out that Emerson was once locked in a washing machine for two nights and developed a fear of the dark that now allowed him to develop superhuman strength and break free from his bonds. He runs back to the Pie Hole to tell the other two Heroes that Simone (whom he calls his wife) is going to kill Snuppy.

They find a dead Snuppy holding a coffee mug, though it doesn't smell like almond creamer. Still, Emerson thinks that Simone might not be the killer. Emerson forms a plan. They bring Snuppy to Harold's funeral, a la Weekend at Bernie's.

All four wives are at the funeral, Hallie weeping, wearing black--and handcuffs. The dogs are also there, also wearing black. No handcuffs, though. I assume those are some of Hillary's couture mourning outfits.

The minister, who runs the funeral like obedience class, knows that there are four wives and seems okay with it. All four speak at the service.

Ned revives Snuppy as Harold's casket is being carried past. Hillary shouts that Snuppy's supposed to be dead and goes running out of the chapel. Oh. I guess she did it. She runs awkwardly away, Ned and Digby in close pursuit. Ned tackles her, bringing her to justice.

It turns out Hillary wasn't that happy about Hal marrying three other girls after her. She was thrilled when Hal bred Bubblegum, a one-of-a-kind. Only then he was planning with Snuppy to make her one of a herd. Well, a pack. But a big'n.

Rather than subject her "baby" to her same sort of shared-existence hell, she put cyanide in Hallie's almond creamer since Hallie made Hal's coffee, but never drank any herself.

The wives found out, after Harold died, that the sale had already happened and Snuppy got Bubblegum dead or alive. After Olive told her that Bubblegum could be cloned from the ashes, Hillary thought she had to kill Snuppy so Bubblegum could always be one-of-a-kind.

Simone tells Emerson that she had to act like she'd killed Bubblegum to keep Snuppy from getting her. The "ashes" were just a bubble gum card. Emerson is clearly twitterpated by her.

Ned is chagrined that he tackled a woman half his size. Chuck hugs Digby as a substitute for hugging Ned. Ned is sad that he can't hug anyone as a substitute for her (Or for Digby, for that matter).

Ned apologizes to Olive for being so Weird around her and telling her they had incompatible saliva.

Olive tells Ned that she hopes he and Chuck are compatible. She holds his hand and says that if they aren't, he hopes it doesn't take him long to find out. She just wants him to be happy.

Pondering the hand that Olive had held, Ned reflects that there are many forms love can take. He tells Chuck that she's the only one for him, and Chuck points out that humans have Certain Things that they want. Ned counters that there's a difference between what you want and what you need to be happy. And what he needs to be happy is Chuck.

Maybe they could just invest in those full-body condoms from The Naked Gun.


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