Episode
Pushing Daisies: Comfort Food
Overview
Ned brings back to life Colonel Likken, who was mysteriously deep fried to death. His world-famous original recipe has gone missing and Likken asks Ned, Emerson, and Chuck to find who stole it.
Details
- Series
- Pushing Daisies
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2008-12-03
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Comfort Food is Episode 8 in Season 2 of Pushing Daisies. It aired on 2008-12-03. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 7: Robbing Hood
A lawyer for the late Gustav Hoffer suspects his client's death was not part of a robbery gone wrong as was reported, but rather murder. He hires Emerson Cod and Ned to find out who killed Hoffer.
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Chuck and Ned deal with the shocking return of someone from their past; Emerson and Olive investigate the death of a lighthouse keeper.
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