Pushing Daisies (TV Series)

Pie-lette (2007)

Anna Friel: Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles

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Quotes 

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : I'd kiss you if it wouldn't kill me.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : I suppose dying's as good an excuse as any to start living.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : You can't just touch somebody's life and be done with it!

  Ned : Yes, I can. That's how I roll.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : You said you wanted to know who killed me so that justice could be served. See, I don't think that "Justice" was on the menu. Maybe as a side dish, but not as an entrée.

  Ned : It was most definitely an entrée. It was a Special of the Day. Could we drop the metaphor?

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : I can't even hug you? What if you need a hug? A hug can turn your day around.

  Ned : I'm not a fan of the hug.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Then you haven't been hugged properly. It's like an emotional Heimlich. Someone puts their arms around you and they give you a squeeze and all your fear and anxiety come shooting out of your mouth in a big wet wad and you can breath again.

  Ned : That's fine for someone else to do if I'm choking on something other than emotion, but you can't touch me.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : So a kiss is out of the question?

  Ned : I've lost my train of thought.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Do you believe in reincarnation?

  Emerson Cod : Hell no. The planet's falling apart. Right now, it's the children's problem. We reincarnate, it's our problem.

• Ned : This is pushing your luck.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Yeah, well, luck pushed me first.

• [Ned touches the recently strangled-to-death Deedee Duffield and she comes back to life] 

  Deedee : Hey, Charlotte!

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Hey, Deedee.

  Deedee : Now, how'd I know you'd be the first person I'd see when I got to...? Is this...? Which one is this?

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : This is neither. Well, maybe it's both, but, listen, this is the deal: you get to talk for, like, a minute, we're gonna catch up, and then you're not talking anymore.

  Deedee : Does everyone get to do this? 'Cause, girl, we gotta break it down.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Did you know I was gonna get killed?

  Deedee : I thought there might be the possibility, yes. I'm real sorry about that. I probably should've said something. But to be honest, and really, why not, at this point, if it were safe, I would've done it myself. God, this is fantastic! Being honest is fun!

  Emerson Cod : Ask her who killed her and you and what's with the monkeys.

  Deedee : Who are those people?

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : That's Emerson, I don't really know him, and this is Ned. He was my first kiss.

  Deedee : [to Ned]  Now, you're adorable. Look at your li -

  [touches Ned's cheek and becomes dead again] 

  Emerson Cod : You couldn't have... scooted back a little?

  Ned : I didn't know she was gonna touch my cheek. Who does that?

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Actually, she does that a lot.

• Ned : You died for a pair of plaster monkeys?

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Deedee said they weren't worth much, their only value was sentimental.

  Emerson Cod : Those must have been some emotional monkeys.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : I'll be so mad if you're lying. You'll have me scratching the drapes!

  Ned : I'm not lying. Please don't attack the window treatments.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : When were you going to tell me?

  Ned : In the morning or when it came up. Whichever didn't come first.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : [to Ned]  I'd kiss you if it wouldn't kill me.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : I've been ruminating, and by "ruminating" I mean "pondering," not "chewing cud."

• [Olive sees Chuck in disguise come out of Ned's apartment and stares at her] 

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : I'm a friend of Ned's.

  Olive : Does he touch you?

• Ned : You were my first kiss.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Yeah? You were my first kiss too. You wanna be my last kiss? First and last? Or is that weird?

  Ned : That's not weird. It's symmetrical.