The owners of a new candy store hope to put The Pie Hole out of business. And when one of the store's owners turns up dead, Ned is wrongfully charged with murder.The owners of a new candy store hope to put The Pie Hole out of business. And when one of the store's owners turns up dead, Ned is wrongfully charged with murder.The owners of a new candy store hope to put The Pie Hole out of business. And when one of the store's owners turns up dead, Ned is wrongfully charged with murder.
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- TriviaDilly's background story references Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds". She is dressed in the same outfit and has the same hairstyle as movie's heroine, played by Tippi Hedron. The movie takes place in Bodega Bay, and at the beginning, the heroine is attacked by seagulls on her way to the town via a speedboat.
- GoofsWhen young Ned jumps in the pile of dead leaves, the ones he touches become "alive" and green again. A leaf is dead the instant it detaches from the living tree it was once a part of, even if it is still green for a time, so touching a dead leaf would not bring it back to "life". Further, if this were cannon for Ned, everything that was ever part of a larger living organism that Ned touched would spring back to it's texture and state it bore when previously part of the whole: leather, meat in food items, literally anything that was once part of a living thing.
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Olive Snook: Can I ask you a question? If you loved me...
Alfredo Aldarisio: Yes?
Olive Snook: And we could never, ever, ever touch, wouldn't you eventually get over it and move on letting someone else have the slightest hope that you might move on to them?
Alfredo Aldarisio: If I loved you?
Olive Snook: Yeah.
Alfredo Aldarisio: Then I would love you in any way I could. And if we could not touch, then I would draw strength from your beauty. And if I went blind, then I would fill my soul with the sound of your voice and the contents of your thoughts until the last spark of my love for you lit the shabby darkness of my dying mind.
Olive Snook: Eh, forget it.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
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Written by James Dooley
The absence of Chuck's aunts is retrospectively notable, but Dilly Balsam, the competitive and somewhat evil co-owner of a sweets shop, takes the stage instead. Played by Molly Shannon, she is delightfully petty and very resourceful. The first part of the episode, spent with a man whose girlfriend is an inflatable doll, is quirky in the way the series so often is: mixture of insecurities, love, retro fabrics, and murder. More plot-driven than usual, 'Bitter Sweets' is a strong chapter in this colourful story.
A number of questions remain: what happens once the Truth has been revealed? How many floral shirts does P. I. Emerson Cod have in his wardrobe? Can taffy be bitter-sweet? What is the smallest car model with a boot large enough to contain Olive Snook? Should we expect more Hitchcock references? I hope so.
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