‘Pushing Daisies’ Fans Were Robbed of a Full Musical Episode
The power and beauty of song and music is a priceless gift. The harmonious and sweet sounding activities typically make things, simply, better. That is why so many iconic and legendary television shows have included boundary breaking musical episodes into their series. Buffy the Vampire is often credited for being one of the first productions to start this enjoyable trend. Fans and viewers of Grey’s Anatomy also got to experience this pleasure back in 2011. Scrubs, 30 Rock, and How I Met Your Mother, are just a few other popular television series who followed the lead.
Unfortunately, there was one well-liked TV show on ABC that just missed out on this opportunity. Take a look back at Pushing Daisiesand the details behind the show’s almost-musical.
The premise behind ABC’s ‘Pushing Daisies’
Pushing Daisies premiered in the fall of 2007, and audiences and viewers immediately got hooked on the mystical life of Ned. Ned grew up in a town called Coeur d’Coeurs where he discovered he had the uncanny ability to bring the dead back to life. The French name of Ned’s home translated to “heart of hearts” and, as the viewers and fans of the series already know, it was one of the show’s many plays on words.
The title of the series, Pushing Daisies, was a not-so-subtle nod to Ned’s supernatural powers. Word Histories explained the origin of the popular phrase and how “to push up daisies” was a poetic way of referring to the dead being buried and quite literally pushing up the flowers from down under.
Though Ned’s power to resurrect the dead was nothing short of mind-blowing, it did, of course, come with a few caveats. For instance, once Ned brought someone back from the other side, he wouldn’t be able to touch them again without killing them and, on top of that, if Ned allowed the people to live more than 60 seconds, another individual would die in their place.
Pushing Daisies only aired for two seasons, but the television show had a tremendous amount of success and viewers while on the air. Sadly, fans and followers of Pushing Daisies will be disappointed to hear that the show missed out on a legendary musical moment.
Fans and viewers were robbed of a full musical episode
Many people have joked about the irony of Pushing Daisies short lived airlife. If only Ned had the power to bring shows back. Nonetheless, well-after the series had come to an end, Mental Floss shared a feature highlighting some of the show’s more intriguing and unknown facts.
Listed amongst the trivia was the surprising information that Pushing Daisies almost had a musical episode. It stemmed from Kristin Chenoweth’s request to perform “Eternal Flame”, and the star who played Olive Snook did just that in season two’s “Comfort Food”. Bryan Fuller, the creator of Pushing Daisies, shared that had the series continued, there absolutely would have been a musical episode to follow. Sadly, as the show’s fans and viewers already know, it just wasn’t in the cards.
One of the stars from Fox’s television series ‘The O.C.’ turned down the lead role on ‘Pushing Daisies’
“15 Lively Facts About Pushing Daisies” shed light on a lot of the behind-the-scenes details that went into creating the series so many people loved. One of the more surprising tidbits the Mental Floss cover revealed was that Adam Brody turned down the role of Ned. Brody, who is best known for his character Seth Cohen from The O.C., felt it was too soon after the beloved Fox series came to an end to take on a new project and role.
In the end, after putting up some initial resistance, Lee Pace ended up playing the part of Ned, the mysterious and charming pie maker with magical powers. Though fans and viewers were robbed of the opportunity to enjoy the cast in a musical episode, many people wonder if the show, and a potential musical, could still be a possibility in the future.
