Pushing Daisies (TV Series)

Girth (2007)

Anna Friel: Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles

Quotes 

• Emerson Cod : There's a legless skeleton of a horse in John Jacobs' tomb, and Olive knows you're dead.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : First of all, huh? And secondly, Olive thinks that I faked my death which is completely different to knowing that I'm dead.

  Emerson Cod : Yeah, different like purple and mauve.

• Olive Snook : [about Mamma Jacobs' house]  Hansel and Gretel would've lived a lot longer if they had to find this dump.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Hansel and Gretel lived, by the way, once they tricked the witch into the oven, they stole her jewels, went home with their father, only to discover that their stepmother, who had sent them into the woods had died of evilness.

  Emerson Cod : You can't die of evilness.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Happens all the time you do something mean or hurtful to someone like tell a secret... Bang! You're dead.

  Olive Snook : Or Bang! You're not really dead you're just pretending to be dead while other people who think you're dead are heartbroken.

  Emerson Cod : Or Bang! You talk too much and you both go wait in the car.

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Where've you been?

  Ned : Not important.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : It's important to me. I missed you.

• Mamma Jacobs : What did you say your name was? Brandon? Butch?

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Chuck.

  Mamma Jacobs : Chuck! I knew it was something unladylike.

• Olive Snook : John Joseph, you look gruh-ate!

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : And you beat death! You're alive!

  Olive Snook , Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Yay!

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : So I guess you delivered some pies to my aunts.

  Olive Snook : Yeah, they're sweet. Probably would be a lot sweeter if they didn't think you were... murdered.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Did you tell them I was alive?

  Olive Snook : Kinda think that would make their little heads explode. What was that rhyme?

  [in a singsong tone] 

  Olive Snook : "I scream, you scream, we all scream 'cause you faked your death!"

• [Ned says ghosts don't exist] 

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : How do you know there's not a ghost somewhere right now telling his ghost friend, "You don't really think there's a guy who can touch dead people back to life, do you?"

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : What if he changes when his blood sugar drops?

  Olive Snook : Like a hypoglycemic werewolf!

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : You go and do whatever private, secret, alone thing you need to go and do by yourself. Alone.

• [Mamma Jacobs is after them and Chuck just fell] 

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Run! Save yourself!

  Olive Snook : No, no! She's after me, not you. Tell Ned I love... his pies!

  [Olive runs away to lure Mamma Jacobs her way to save Chuck] 

• Emerson Cod : You can't die of evilness.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Happens all the time you do something mean or hurtful to someone like tell a secret... Bang! You're dead.

  Olive Snook : Or Bang! You're not really dead you're just pretending to be dead while other people who think you're dead are heartbroken.

  Emerson Cod : Or Bang! You talk too much and you both go wait in the car

• Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : So, does Ned know what you think you know?

  Olive Snook : Not yet.

  Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles : Who does?

  Olive Snook : Who knows?