Emerson: While we can appreciate and sympathize with your predicament, Mr. Herrmann...
The Great Herrmann: Please, call me Great.
Emerson: No.

Olive: You turned your assistant into a bunny?
The Great Herrmann: My assistant has always been a bunny.
Olive: Oh, I... I just wanted to see if he knew that.

The Great Hermann: (to Ned) Hello! Excuse me, excuse me. I feel I should hug you. Can I give you a big hug? I'm already hugging you, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Olive: I want a hug!
The Great Hermann: I'm not made of hugs.

Here I was just about to tell you all to shut the hell up, and the you stopped talking so I didn't have to.

Emerson

Do either of you have a gun? Then I'm going with Emerson...

Olive [to Chuck and Ned]

Damn, woman, you got the kung fu grip.

Emerson

Ned: "Maurice" and "Rolston"?
Chuck: You didn't even know their names?
Ned: I'm glad Dad got so fun and creative with naming after I left. "Goodbye, Ned. Hello, Mercutio and Ribald."
Chuck: Maurice and Rolston!

Chuck: Yeah, imagine if we'd dragged Ned here and found out that his dad's still an emotional disaster.
Olive: And it turns out he's older and crankier and drinks $6 bottles of sour mash. Oh, Ned would have a trump card of an I-told-you-so.

Your mother had a hunch. I could gold-leaf my bathroom with what I made off my hunches.

Emerson

Do you ever shiver when you pee? That's how I felt when he spoke.

Ned

Chuck: I can't believe you didn't tell me you have brothers.
Ned: Half brothers.
Chuck: Two half brothers, which is like one whole one.

Olive: Here comes the center of the universe, pulling us all into her gravitational orbit of blame.
Chuck: Oh, well, FYI, um, there is no center of the universe because our universe is forever expanding.
Olive: Like your neediness. "Wah, respect my feelings. Wah, don't fence me in. Wah, don't treat me like I'm dead." Well, if you're so dead, how can you be needy? Oh right... you're selfish!

Pushing Daisies Season 2 Quotes

I could have been swarmed in my underwear.

Ned

Chuck: Don't offend the bees.
Ned: How would I offend the bees?