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Context Recap / PushingDaisiesS2E8ComfortFood

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1	!The Past
2	Young Ned's pie-baking habit is discovered by Eugene and later on, the rest of the students, who all take solace in the homey comfort of hot pie. However, the nightly pie parties are soon discovered by the faculty and shut down.
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4	!The Present
5	Ned, despite his best intentions, sees no way to evaluate Dwight's character other than reviving Chuck's father. After he confirms that Dwight is indeed bad news, Ned allows Chuck the remaining 30 seconds to briefly catch up with her father. Through clever use of a leather glove, she tricks Ned into thinking he has re-deaded her father and spirits him away to Ned's childhood home later on.
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7	Ned and Olive enter the Papen County Comfort Food Cookoff, ready to face off against their nemesis, muffin baker Mary Ann Marie Beetle (a character from Creator/BryanFuller's previous series, ''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'')... but the cookoff is thrown into commotion when Colonel Likken of Colonel Likken's Fried Chicken is found dead.
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9	Meanwhile, Chuck asks Emerson to help her discover who was killed in exchange for Charles Charles' life.
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11	!Tropes
12	* BigNo: As [[spoiler:Mary Ann Marie Beetle barely misses the entry deadline.]]
13	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Colonel Likken is battered up and shoved into his own deep-fryer.
14	* DeadMansChest: Mary Ann hits Ned and Olive with frying pans and stuffs them into a trunk.
15	* [[DressHitsFloor Duvet Hits Floor]][=/=]ToplessnessFromTheBack
16	* ImagineSpot: Lily imagines shooting Dwight.
17	* ITasteDelicious: Right before Ned re-deads him, Colonel Likken tries to bite himself.
18	* JustAStupidAccent: The "Waffle Nazi" feigns a German accent.
19	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Dwight dies as a result of BalancingDeathsBooks just as he was about to snipe Chuck and Ned.]]
20	* LikeBrotherAndSister: Olive ''tries'' to write off her feelings for Ned as this while talking with Vivian.
21	* ManipulativeBitch: Mary Ann.
22	* {{Overcrank}}: Used to hilarious effect--complete with BigNo--as Olive and Mary Ann Marie Beetle race to deliver their entries to the judges table.
23	* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/ModernFamily Cameron Tucker]] is in charge of the contest.
24	* AStormIsComing: Literal and metaphorical storms brew up over the course of the episode. They'll break in "The Legend of Merle [=McQuoddy=]".
25	* ThatPoorCat: At the cemetery.
26	* ThatRemindsMeOfASong[=/=]IWantSong: Olive sings "Eternal Flame", by Music/TheBangles.

Context Recap / PushingDaisiesS2E8ComfortFood