Wow! Two episodes in and Pushing Daisies still isn't canceled! I'm as speechless as a mime. Which is funny, since....

....we go to the circus this week! Where there are clowns, human cannonballs, and mimes! Dead mimes, but mimes nonetheless! Still counts!

Look at you, Mr Negative Pants! Why do you think this wonderful show is going to be canceled?

Because I used to love Wonderfalls. That show taught me a few hard lessons about what happens to wonderful, smart things that most people just don't get.

Oh, cheer up. So what's the big mystery this week?

A teenager has run off to join the circus. Which would be kinda cool, except that there are as many corpses there as there are creepy, one toothed guys running the rides.

How many people does Ned bring back to life this week?

Two. A mime, and a clown. Both are wearing facepaint, and both are irritating, but in different ways.

Is Olive back from the Nunnery? Please say yes.
 
No, Olive is still full of secrets up at the House of Nuns. She reveals one of her own secrets this week, which you think would balance things out in some weird karmic way and would allow her to return to the Pie Hole. But wishful Buddhism doesn't always work out that way.

Does she throw another world class tanty?

No, sadly. But she does give us the best line of the show.

What is the best line of the show?

Upon eating the porridge the nunnery slops out each morning, Olive comments--with her mouth full of said nutritional goodness:

"I could throw up in my mouth and not even notice."

What was the best joke you saw coming down Main Street but was still funny anyway? 

A small clown car is run off into a lake by this week's murderer. When the coroner opens the car, he starts pulling body after body after body out of the apparently extra-dimensional automobile. But then, it's a clown car. That's standard. If you want to cram in an elephant as well, you'll have to pay extra for that.

Does Emerson find his missing daughter?\

No, but he does look at his Lil Gumshoe pop-up book. Oh, and gives a lesson about family to an estranged mother and clown child.

What proof do we have this week that Pushing Daisies takes place in an alternate universe.

When Olive has an epiphany in the nunnery cafeteria, a golden glow appears behind her head. This must be a common occurrence in the nunnery, since no one really comments on it.

Do we see Digby?

Yes, lounging in Ned's apartment, where he seems upset that Ned and Emerson are having tea. We also see Pigby, who listens attentively to Olive explain a plotline.

Is anyone almost murdered by a human cannonball? 

That would be ridiculous. Come on. How could you even plan something like that...oh, wait. Yes, we do have this week.

And does Ned actually swear?

We don't know, but whatever he said made Emerson comment that he's never heard Ned say those words before. We can assume he swore -- or we can assume he said 'Transdimensional metahypertaxis paradigms oscillate between poodles of various colors, I've noticed."

Both work.

So what valuable life lessons did we learn this week? 

You can cut out a hole for your mickey in a Bible. And that the world can be divided into two things--people who work in circuses, and 'stubs'. (Those are the boring people who don't work in circuses and buy tickets to see those who do.) So what are you, gentle reader? Take a long hard look in the mirror, and decide!

So, over all, despite your pessimism for the show's future, how did you lik, "Circus Circus?"

Quite a bit. The over-explaining of  Daisies' premise last week dragged things a little bit, but this time we hit the quirky full throttle. If there's any concern, it would be just how long the Emerson's Lost Daughter storyline will last. And it would be good to have Olive back at the Pie Hole again, even if her nunnery scenes have been among the show's funniest.

But all in all, another success. Just enjoy it while you can.

Oh, just stop!