Olive: (referring to Chuck) Doesn't she look like that dead girl?
Emerson: She looks exactly like that dead girl.
Olive: You should take that as a compliment, because she was pretty.

A dog needs to be touched. We all need to be touched.

Emerson: Rhubarb.
Olive: What's that mean?
Emerson: PI secret code for 'get me a damn slice of rhubarb.'
Olive: This isn't Pies r Us, Pie City ... this is a bells on the door, pies-baking, mom and pop place. We chit chat here. Chit!
Emerson: Chat!

Ned: Can you help us get out of these body bags?
Olive: Sure.

Emerson: That was the truth bus.
Olive: That wasn't the truth buss. That was the bitchy, cross town express.

Salesman: It's homeopathic.
Olive: Meaning it only relates to gay people?

(about Chuck) I could smell trouble on her like she stepped in it and it stuck to her heel.

Alfredo: Might I make an observation?
Olive: Compliment or criticism?
Alfredo: A neutral thought I would say. It's not a compliment nor critical.
Olive: Neutral thought, gives me pause!
Alfredo: Neutrafully this portion of the conversation but I do have complimentary observation as part of a followup discussion, which I intend to headline with an offer to repair your espresso machine.
Olive: What's your neutral thought?
Alfredo: You seem decidedly unhappy.
Olive: I haven't decided that!

I'm sure it's just the mailman. Or a windmill-to-windmill salesman.

Ned hates Halloween, you know. Makes him moodier than a pumpkin full of PMS.

What was that rhyme? I scream, you scream, we all scream because you faked your death!

Emerson: Sounds like you're a narcoleptic.
Ned: I suffer from uncontrollable types of deep sleep?
Emerson: What's the other one?
Ned: "Acrophiliac".
Emerson: Words that sound alike get mixed up in my head.
Olive: Me, too. I used to think "masturbation" meant chewing your food. (awkward silence) I don't think that anymore

Pushing Daisies Quotes

Chuck: Do you believe in reincarnation?
Emerson: Hell no. The planet's falling apart. Right now, it's the children's problem. We reincarnate, it's our problem

Vivian: Charlotte was a nice girl.
Lily: With the exception of puberty.
Vivian: Which was when Lily was going through a change of life.
Lily: Impolite to talk about one's menopause in mixed company.