By Sonia Aurora
This week: Secrets revealed! Choices! Consequences! But first, I have to say I was super excited to see Raul Esperanza join the cast as (I am hoping) a series regular guest star. He’s done a TON of Broadway (I can only assume he and Kristen Chenoweth are BFF) and I did get to see him play Riff Raff in the Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and I just thought his character was adorable….and a love interest for Kristen’s Olive….yay!
But let’s get on with our regularly scheduled recap, shall we?
This week Chuck finds out that someone had to die in order for her to live. Conflict among our sweet lovebirds! As if it wasn’t tough enough that they can’t ever touch.
The funeral director who died in Chuck’s place, Larry Schatz, was pretty despicable, as he stole from the dead and kept all their jewels. Turns out his town brother Louie wants to know who killed Larry, and Emerson takes the job to ensure no one solves it (seeing as it was Ned who committed “accidental involuntary manslaughter”).
And then dear twin brother, who was actually in on the stealing scam, turns up dead and in Ned’s freezer. Someone’s trying to frame our Pie Maker, and this does not sit well with me..um, us. Turns out it was a bereaved and angry Wilfred Woodruff, whose family’s Civil War sword was stolen and sold on Ebay by the funeral grave-robbing brothers. A sword fight and Emerson stuck as Pooh Bear in a window later, and Ned comes away as a Prince Charming for Chuck, and all the stolen heirlooms get returned to the grieving and rightful beneficiaries.
In this episode we learned how Ned learned about the one minute mark of death (timing fireflies in jars from point of touch to point of death). Olive puts two and one together and believes that Chuck faked her own death, but is oblivious that Herbal Medicinal salesman Alfredo Aldarisio (Raul Esperanza) could very well be her own Prince Charming.
Again, I get lost in the little delightful details of this episode. Emerson tries to “rip off the band-aid” to tell Chuck about how she gets to live (Ned prefers peeling slowly from the corner and running the band-aid under warm water). When crying, Aunt Lily pulls at her eye patch and a torrent of water expels. Louie Schatz chokes on a piece of tongue (not his own, was actually eating cow tongue).
Chuck still blows hot and cold for me, as she is intrusive on Emerson’s and Ned’s cases (the Audrey Hepburn clad third wheel). Plus, I’d like to make a plea to the producers – can we stop trussing up Anna Friel with tawdry red lipstick? I say, lipgloss!
I have two favorite pieces of dialogue from the episode. One by Olive, who says this all run on and quite elated:
“Musing on the idea of setting someone on fire doesn’t mean that you really want to set them on fire, it’s just the thought that it makes you happy, but only for a second and then you feel bad but that second could be a lot of fun.” (who hasn’t fantasized this and been happy in doing so?)
In a sword fight at the end Ned seems surprisingly adept. As the dueling men stop, the bad guy says “I think you should know that I was thrice named alternate sword master at the Southern Area Regional Volunteer Infantry Reenactment Regiment.”
Ned considers this and replies “I wanted to be a Jedi.” (And how sexy he was in saying that, the nerd girl in me blushed).
Our lovebirds also find a pretty clever way to kiss – through plastic wrap. It’s forbidden and very very cute, especially when at the end of the episode Ned says he wants to go look for more plastic wrap so they can smooch again. (If I kissed Lee Pace through plastic wrap, would that be considered cheating??)
It’s obvious I still love the show, it’s color and light, it’s quirks. Plus with Raul on the radar for Kristen, I am bracing myself for the inevitable and gooey duet…perhaps “People Will Say We’re in Love”??? (it’s from Oklahoma…doesn’t seem as exotic as Couer de Couers….).
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Aspiring screenwriter and seamstress, Sonia's dream is to write life-tweaking films while product-placing her own line of handbags. In 1999, she wrote, co-directed and co-starred in the short film Dr. Lovestrange, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug, a satirical homage to Stanley Kubrick set amidst the panic of Y2K. She is working on her next short about the Mayan Calender that she hopes to finish before the end of the world. Ever the late bloomer, she finally started a blog chronicling her misadventures as one half of a long distance relationship (http://llddr.wordpress.com). She still struggles with which picture to kiss before bedtime: her boyfriend's or Bruce Campbell's. And, in the interest of time, she'd like to start thanking the Academy now. 
