Pushing Daisies

• Season 2, Episode 13 “Kerplunk” [June 13, 2009]

This short-lived. quirky, genre-fluid show developed a devoted but small fan base but lived for only two short seasons. It’s a bit hard to describe—part fantasy, part comedy, it involves bringing the dead back for brief periods, with lots of rules—but it had immense charm, and a great cast: Lee Pace, Swoozie Kurtz, Ellen Greene, and the always vibrant Kristen Chenoweth, who per the episode description for the final episode, apparently went to Vassar “on a jockey scholarship.” That bit was cut from the actual episode as it aired, although the line does appear in the shooting script.

The relevant part of the episode description reads: “Olive gets close to Sid, with whom she shares her experiences in gender discrimination, what with him being a male synchronized swimmer and her attending Vassar on a jockey scholarship. But was Sid jealous enough of the headliners to commit murder?”