Pushing Daisies scene results in mass wincing
This week on Pushing Daisies, a small crop-duster flew into the side of a six-story apartment building. The sight of these shocking images, quite reminiscent of those resulting from the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001, caused many Americans to recoil in one giant collective cringe.
“Dude,” says area construction worker Dale Harrison, “Not cool.”
The situation worsened as the episode progressed, with the discovery that the plane had actually been hijacked, and then flown into the building. Though the incident was clearly portrayed on a much smaller scale and there were no fatalities, it still struck a chord with the a nation that possesses an apparently elephant-like memory.
“We had thought that the sight of an aircraft slamming right through the window of a high-rise would be really entertaining,” says Pushing Daisies producer Angela Scott. “I guess we sort of forgot about the whole death-of-3000-Americans thing. Nasty business, that.”
Marianne Twomey, who works in downtown Manhattan and witnessed the 9/11 attacks firsthand, has mixed feelings about the episode. “On the one hand, I do enjoy the colorful characters and whimsical nature of the show. The context in which the plane crashed turned out to be quite a charming story about redemption and the healing power of love,” she says. “But on the other hand, I guess I’m just not ready for the horrific death of over a dozen friends to be immortalized in a weekly comedic television series. Call me old-fashioned.”
Producers have since scrapped plans for an upcoming episode in which Ned revives victims of a nightclub fire while he and Chuck swap witty quips about faulty pyrotechnics.
~TVoD
Posted in Pushing Daisies on October 31st, 2007 | |