YMMV / Pushing Daisies

• Accidental Innuendo: "Are we weird now because I did it with your dad?” ^note Ned to Chuck regarding his resurrecting her father for one minute
• Angst? What Angst?: Played for Laughs with most (but not all) of the corpses Ned resurrects, in keeping with the show's lighthearted tone. Few of them seem particularly perturbed by their untimely deaths and the accompanying mutilations, instead simply reacting with playful amusement at the strange situation they're in. A character who was killed by being shoved into a deep fryer even takes the opportunity to taste himself.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: All of the references to The Lord of the Rings, since Lee Pace was cast as Thranduil in The Hobbit.
• Ho Yay: It's not even subtext in "Robbing Hood" — Daniel Hill (the lawyer) was in love with Gustav Hofer (his client and the victim of the week). Gustav was married so Daniel held his tongue. Eventually it was revealed Gustav named Daniel the sole inheritor of his estate after overhearing Daniel defend Gustav against his gold-digging wife.
  • Buddy Amicus the murderer of the week in "Frescorts", was motivated to start his friend rental business and kill people after being rejected by football star Ares in high school. Bonus points for keeping Ares' body hidden in his office for years. Holy crap. Depraved Homosexual anyone?
  • Speaking of "Frescorts", Emerson's mother believes for a minute that Ned and Emerson are dating. (Her deduction wasn't unfounded since Emerson answered "the pie maker" when she asked who was keeping him fed lately earlier in the episode.)
  • Chuck and Olive have quite a bit of Les Yay themselves, which is ironic since they're in love with the same man.
  • Hedda from "The Norwegians" has no sense of personal space but definitely crosses some sort of line while checking Olive's pulse by rubbing the back of Olive's hand against her cheek. Olive tries to run with it, claiming her accelerated heart rate is "only because you're so near" when Hedda calls Olive out on her nervousness.
• Moe:
  • Aunt Vivian has quite a few "huggable" traits, despite being a fifty/sixty-something year old lady.
  • And let's not even get started on every time Ned and Chuck are onscreen together.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Car manufacturer Mark Chase (Patrick Fabian) moved to ABQ and became a name partner at the law firm of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill.
  • Ares (Colton Haynes) in "Frescorts" moved to Starling City and became Arsenal.
  • John Joseph Jacobs (Hamish Linklater) from "Girth" later became a priest with a dark secret.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Chuck allows someone to die in exchange for her father's resurrection at the same time her mother is planning to visit the graveyard. Instead of a plotline involving Chuck accidentally (but given the subject of the show, probably temporarily) killing her mother in an attempt to get her father back, the opportunity is instead used to give Arc Villain Dwight Dixon an anticlimactic death.
• The Un Twist: If there is a Corrupt Corporate Executive involved in the case, they are the killer. See Mark Chase, Woolsey Nicholls, Dick Dicker, and Buddy Amicus. Subverted only once, with Ramsfeld Snuppy.

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