Pushing Daisies is an
American television series created by
Bryan Fuller that aired on
ABC from October 3, 2007 to June 13, 2009. Touted as a "
forensic fairy tale",
Pushing Daisies centers around a pie-maker with the ability to bring the dead back to life with minor stipulations.
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Plot
Pushing Daisies centers on the life of
Ned, a pie-maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. There are some conditions to this somewhat unusual talent. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived person or thing a second time, it falls dead again, this time permanently.
In the pilot episode, Ned discovers his gift as a child by resurrecting his
Golden Retriever, Digby, after the dog is hit by a truck. He later brings back his mother when she dies of an
aneurysm. However, in doing this, he accidentally causes the death of the father of his
childhood sweetheart, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, as the "price" of keeping his mother alive. Even worse, Ned's mother falls dead permanently when she gives him a good-night kiss (which is how he learns the effect of the second touch).