The Best Episodes of Pushing Daisies Season 2
Every episode of Pushing Daisies Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Pushing Daisies Season 2!
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Pushing Daisies" season 2 is "Bzzzzzzzzz!", rated 8.2/10 from 763 user votes. It was directed by Adam Kane and written by Bryan Fuller. "Bzzzzzzzzz!" aired on 10/1/2008 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Circus, Circus".
8.2/10 763 votes#1 - Bzzzzzzzzz!
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2008
Emerson is hired by Dusty Fitz, whose wife Kentucky died in a tragic bee-related incident. She was involved with another man who Dusty claims she was preparing to leave, and Dusty suspects murder. Meanwhile, Lily helps Olive move to a nunnery.
Director: Adam Kane
Writer: Bryan Fuller
8.1/10 685 votes#2 - Circus, Circus
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2008
Georgeann Heaps hires Emerson to find her missing daughter, and the trail leads to a circus. Meanwhile Ned and Chuck try to deal with the change in their relationship, and Olive considers staying longer at the nunnery.
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Writer: Peter Ocko
8.6/10 680 votes#3 - Bad Habits
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2008
Olive calls on the Pie Maker and Emerson to solve a suspicious suicide of a fellow nun that she believes is murder. Meanwhile, Chuck considers what to do in the present with her new lease on life.
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Writer: Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg
8.2/10 656 votes#4 - Frescorts
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2008
A sexy new client hires Emerson to solve the murder of her best friend Joe. Emerson and the gang discover that Joe had a lot of best friends... and they all had a reason to kill Joe.
Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 650 votes#5 - Dim Sum Lose Some
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2008
The wife of a murdered chef, Bao Di, hires Emerson to investigate the death of her husband. They soon discover that Bao was heavily in debt, and wagered his daughter Mei's hand in marriage to cover his markers.
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Writer: Davey Holmes
8.5/10 613 votes#6 - Oh Oh Oh... It's Magic
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2008
Ned agrees to help a famed magician whose animal assistants are being killed off; Dwight Dixon tries to cozy up to Lily and Vivian, but Lily is suspicious of his motives.
Director: Adam Kane
Writer: Kath Lingenfelter
8.0/10 565 votes#7 - Robbing Hood
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2008
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.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Jim Danger Gray
8.7/10 639 votes#8 - Comfort Food
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2008
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.
Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Douglas Petrie
8.1/10 599 votes#9 - The Legend of Merle McQuoddy
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/2008
Chuck and Ned deal with the shocking return of someone from their past; Emerson and Olive investigate the death of a lighthouse keeper.
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Writer: Dara Resnik, Chad Gomez Creasey
8.5/10 605 votes#10 - The Norwegians
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/2008
After Emerson turns down Vivian's request to look into Dwight Dixon's sudden disappearance, she turns to another P.I. team led by Magnus Olsdatter, Emerson's bitter rival.
Director: Tricia Brock
Writer: Scott Nimerfro
8.4/10 565 votes#11 - Window Dressed to Kill
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 5/30/2009
Erin Embry, window dresser extraordinaire for Dicker’s department store, is killed and Chuck manages to get the Pie Hole gang on the case. Erin’s fans think it was her window-dressing partner, Coco Juniper, who did the deed. Apparently the two artistic minds did not always meet. Meanwhile, Ned loses his zapping ability which causes him a small crisis of identity. How can he assist in solving cases if he can’t undead and redead? How does it change his relationship with Chuck? And why are Ned and Olive posing as a couple?
Director: Julie Anne Robinson
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 523 votes#12 - Water & Power
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/6/2009
Lila Robinson, a beautiful grifter from Emerson’s past resurfaces, revealing a painful secret that Emerson has kept hidden all these years. Now on the lam for murder, Lila promises Emerson a quid pro quo if he clears her name.
Director: Dean White
Writer: Peter Ocko
8.7/10 663 votes#13 - Kerplunk
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/13/2009
The past becomes the present when one half of the Darling Mermaid Darlings’ arch rivals, the Aquadolls, is killed. In order to find the murderer, the Darling Mermaid Darlings must come out of retirement with Ned as their manager and Olive as their stylist. Chuck, of course, cannot participate. 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?
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Writer: N/A