Pushing Daisies

Tomorrow night is Pushing Daisies’ Halloween special, as Emerson partners with Olive to track down a ghost in a horse race arena. It used to be a place familiar to Olive, as she was once a jockey.

The episode is written by Bryan Fuller and directed by Peter O’Fallon who has also directed episodes of Ghost Whisperer, Prison Break and House.

Below are a few previews for the episode, Girth. By this account, Emerson is really getting funnier! Watch for his reaction when Olive reveals a past career. I’m actually beginning to appreciate Emerson and Olive more than Ned and Chuck. And while the two (Ned and Chuck) have amazing chemistry, the supporting cast in this show is equally amazing. I find myself looking forward to more of Emerson and Olive than any other character in the series.

Girth kind of reminds you of Sleepy Hollow, doesn’t it? And if you head to the the official site, other scenes from this episode may be previewed, as well.  Plus if you are looking for some promo photos for this episode, you can head to this site where there is almost a dozen of those.

Episode Title: Girth
Episode Summary: When jockeys start turning up trampled to death, supposedly by the ghost of a long dead rider (guest star Hamish Linklater, “The New Adventures of Old Christine”) and his spooky horse. Olive — a jockey in her life before the Pie Hole — hires Ned and the team to investigate. Meanwhile, Ned finds himself haunted by the ghosts of his own past as Halloween nears.

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Ratings Update: Pushing Daisies experienced a considerable drop last Wednesday. But there there is no cause to worry as that may have been due to baseball’s World Series airings. Here’s the ranking for last week:

1. “World Series Game 1” (FOX) 16.87m
2. “Criminal Minds” (CBS) 14.93m
3. “CSI: NY” (CBS) 13.64m
4. “Private Practice” (ABC) 11.77m
5. “Pushing Daisies” (ABC) 9.45m
6. “Dirty Sexy Money” (ABC) 8.56m
7. “Phenomenon” (Series Debut) (NBC) 8.35m
8. “Kid Nation” (CBS) 8.03m
9. “Bionic Woman” (NBC) 7.78m
10. “Life” (NBC) 6.85m
11. “America’s Next Top Model” (CW) 4.72m
12. “Gossip Girl” (CW) 2.55m

Just for Fun: In the manner similar to Pushing Daisies…. would you like to know how long you’ve been alive, days, hours, minutes and seconds? Just for fun, why don’t you check this one out. I did! And my results showed that I am now 34 years, 1 month, 24 days, 5 seconds old, as of this writing.

Ned and Chuck kissed! Didn’t think it was ever going to happen for real, huh?

But then again, that took place at an event outside of the actual show. Although, real kissing may still happen on the show. They have not done a dream sequence yet, have they?

Via Pushing Daisies Insider

Reviews for Pigeon: This show has always been a critic favorite. Look at the amount of reviews you can read online:

EW - The Bird and the Bees
IGN - “Pigeon” Review
James Poniewozik (time Magazine) - Questions and Conclusions
Tapeworthy - Pushing Daisies - Birds of a Feather…
The Onion’s A.V. Club - Pigeon
TV Squad - Pushing Daisies: Pigeon
Zap2it - ‘Pushing Daisies’: Not to put too fine a point on it …

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Chuck: We can plant wild flowers on roof tops and be unorthodox urban honey pioneers!

Ned: I don’t do heartbeats.

Ned: She’s probab— probably not in pain but what do I know? I’m not a bird. 

Emerson: What is the reate of exchange in the life of a bird?
Ned: I’m more concerned for that squirrel.

Ned: It’s raining dead birds!

Emerson: Just because there’s vodka in the freezer, don’t mean I have to drink it….wait, it does!

Ned: Statistically, he’s fine. His day can only improve.

Coroner: You and the white boy have some kind of shifty going on? I don’t know what, but you’re shifty.

Aunt Vivian: A bird with gossip, how exciting!

Lily: Why would we go out for pie, when you just brought us one?

Ned: What’s that I smell?
Emerson: I thought it was your cologne
Ned: Who wears cologne?
Emerson: I wear cologne!

Chuck: He didn’t let me fall. It was actually a very affectionate gesture…in context.

Ned: A great big fibber whose hand you were holding, what’s that about?
Chuck: If you must know, I was pretending I was holding your hand.

Emerson: Maybe your finger needs a new battery.

Chuck: If you’re referring about the touching, I see this as an obstacle, not a problem.

Emerson: That one-armed bitch is fast.

For a recap to this episode, check this entry.
For quotes from previous episode check our Quotable Quotes section.

Something was quite off with Pushing Daisies’ episode this week. There were some story lines that took awhile to tie together so it fails to make sense to me. And while the background looks absolutely colorful and stunning, it is easy to tell that a lot of these were done through a green screen. I think this could be the weakest episode to date. But I am willing to overlook it because despite the muddle, Pushing Daisies is still the best new show on TV today.

Pigeon opens with another scene from Ned’s childhood….

After several months of staying in boarding school with nary a friend, Ned is reunited with his dog, Digby. (Ain’t Digby just the most adorable dog?) And while both were very glad to have found each other again, Ned and Digby knew they had to exercise restrain and avoid touching each other. Digby was the very reason Ned came to discover his unique gift, when a truck ran over him and died. And if Ned should touch his hairy best friend again, he would have lost him forever.

Fast forward to the present, and we find Chuck baking yet another batch of homeopathic pies for her aunts. In comes Ned who had a few bee sting marks on his face and Chuck wonders where he got it from. Ned brings her to the roof and there she saw the bee hives Ned set-up. Chuck was once was a bee-keeper and this special gesture from Ned made her extremely happy.

Downstairs….while Olive contemplated on how to expose her Chuck, who she thought actually faked her own death, a pigeon suddenly slams into The Pie Hole’s window and dies. Everyone rushes outside and, as Olive clutches the pigeon on her hand, Ned accidentally touches it and it is revived. Olive thinks it’s a miracle and Ned couldn’t find the timing to touch it again and it was almost one minute. In this scene, Digby is seen watching them from the window and I almost died when I saw that! I was holding my breath thinking death will come for Digby. But in place of the pigeon (which was allowed to live) another bird drops from the sky and dies. A small plane also immediately drops from the sky, seconds after this. It crashes onto an apartment building.

Ned, Chuck and Emerson decided to check the scene of the accident, thinking there might be something they could investigate. They arrive at Conrad Fitch’s apartment and saw that the pilot was dead. They also found debris all over the place, causing Chuck to miss a step and slip. Ned deliberately avoided catching her and Chuck lands on Conrad Fitch’s arm. Chuck seems smitten by him.

Emerson and Ned follow a lead to this case as soon as they learned of the pilot’s identity. Chuck, meanwhile, chose to remain with Conrad, in case he needed help in his apartment. This made Ned feel very, very uncomfortable and jealous.

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It is confirmed! Pushing Daisies has been ordered for a full season. I have been waiting for this news all week, and it’s great that it has become official. I’m so giddy, I’m thinking of enjoying some pie today!

Delivering and winning with key demographics in terms of ratings in the 8/7 Wednesday schedule in the last four weeks, the season pick-up for Pushing Daisies was an expected one. And aside from this show, its lead in series, Private Practice, the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, has also been given the go for a full season.

The confirmation of both Pushing Daisies and Private Practice make up the only four series, so far, from the new crop of shows this season with full season orders. Gossip Girl was the very first one, The Big Bang Theory was the very first sitcom approved. But other shows like Bionic Woman, Journeyman, Life, Cane, Moonlight, Carpoolers, Chuck and K-Ville have earned additional script orders.

This is great news, definitely…but don’t forget to tune to tonight’s show and continue supporting the series.

And there will be more of those deliciously whimsical and engaging storytelling ahead, as production prepares to do very, very well come November sweeps. One of the episodes we should look forward to involves Olive’s back story and the guest stints of Paul Reubens and Molly Shannon. 

What can I say? It looks like Pushing Daisies is going to satisfy a lot of my viewing cravings. Yum!

Additional reads:
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Breaking! Pushing Daisies Picked Up For Full Season

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Jayma Mays appears in tomorrow’s episode of Pushing Daisies, playing the character Elsa or Elsita, who lives in a windmill…which I’m guessing is located somewhere in Ned’s hometown, gathering from the photo previews. The actress is, of course, more familiar to TV viewers as “Charlie” in both the first seasons of Heroes and Ugly Betty (same name, different characters).

Based on her previous work and having seen her charm and charisma on TV myself, I would have to say that Jayma is, once again, another perfect choice for this show, along with an already amazing cast and guest appearances by Ruebens and  Esperza.

The people behind Pushing Daisies absolutely know how to make it work!

Tomorrow’s episode synopsis is as follows —
Episode Title: Pigeon
Episode Summary: A plane crash into an apartment building leaves the trio with a case - did the pilot commit suicide? - while Chuck finds herself drawn to the man who appears to be the sole survivor (guest star Dash Mihok), much to Ned’s distress. Meanwhile, Olive takes a wounded messenger pigeon to the Aunts for help.

Pigeon will be directed by Adam Kane, who has worked as cinematographer for Grey’s Anatomy.  (Source IMDb)

And here’s the preview of the Pigeons, as aired on ABC Television:

Close call for Chuck and Ned! Nyiikes!

Is it just me or do you also happen to hold your breath when you watch them in a scene together, for fear that they might accidentally brush each other? And that’s partly of the experience with watching this show….you almost feel the tension yourself. It sometimes kills me!

And here’s another preview, a scene from the cemetery and it’s amazing how this show has managed to make the place less scary:

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Ratings Update: The Fun In The Funeral, last week’s episode of Pushing Daisies, managed to pull itself some steady viewers in its key demo, even while over-all ratings continue to drop week after week. The drop isn’t so bad since the show is still a winner among adults, 18-49 years old.

Last week’s standing:

1. “Criminal Minds” (CBS) 14.87m
2. “CSI: NY” (CBS) 13.86m
3. “Deal or No Deal” (NBC) 12.29m
4. “Private Practice” (ABC) 11.81m
5. “Pushing Daisies” (ABC) 9.75m
6. “Dirty Sexy Money” (ABC) 8.83m
7. “Bionic Woman” (NBC) 8.52m
8. “Life” (NBC) 7.66m
9. “Kid Nation” (CBS) 7.41m
10. “Til Death” (FOX) 6.98m
11. “Back to You” (FOX) 6.91m
12. “Kitchen Nightmares” (FOX) 6.88m
13. “America’s Next Top Model” (CW) 4.97m
14. “Gossip Girl” (CW) 2.42m

Next week, Pushing Daisies will go up against NBC’s new show, Phenomenon, a reality TV show that will have a five-episode run. Will this somehow affect our favorite’s standing, for better or for worse?

Cast News: Did you catch E!Online’s Kristin Dos Santos in the last episode? She had a few seconds of screen time, playing a dead person that Ned accidentally touches and makes dead again. Kristin happens to be a big fan of this show. And she has an account of her set visit which includes a chat with Anna Friel and Kristin Chenoweth.

And what about Broadway star Raul Esparza? His character, Alfredo Aldarisio, is confirmed to reappear in another episode in November . I guess that song and dance I’m hoping (and it seems most everyone else is also hoping for) will finally happen. Here’s a sampling of what Raul can do with his singing voice.

Daisies in the Media: Speaking of Broadway stars,  Swoosie Kurtz, who plays Aunt Lily, has this to say about her character, in this interview.

“Lily is very isolated but very passionate, lusty and sexual,” she says, “but she has no way to release that in the life she’s living. She’s definitely a little dark, because she’s harbouring a lot of unresolved mental baggage. But I know a couple of big secrets about her that will be revealed later.”

TV Guide Magazine’s latest issue carry an article on Pushing Daisies,  and Spoiler TV shares the scan for it. You may also read excepts of that article here (spoiler alerts for upcoming episodes!)

Daisies has more imaginative curveballs in store. This week, sparks will fly between Chuck and a man with a prosthetic arm, while pint-size Pie Hole waitress Olive (Kristin Chenoweth) is revealed to be a former jockey in the upcoming Halloween episode. But there’s at least one development you’ll never see if Fuller has his way: an explanation of why or how exactly Ned got his life-and-death abilities. “I really would like not to,” the executive producer says of creating an elaborate mythology. “Then all the fun goes out the window.” And that’s one thing Daisies couldn’t grow without.

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Chuck: Which birthday should I celebrate? I’ve got two of them now. First day I was alive. First day I was alive again?
Ned: The one that requires less explanation.

Olive: Musing an idea of setting someone on fire doesn’t mean you really want to set someone on fire, it’s just the thought of it that makes you happy, but only for a second then you feel bad…but that second can be a lot of fun!

Emerson: That was the Truth Bus
Olive: That wasn’t the Truth Bus. That was the Bitchy Cross Town Express.

Ned: Chuck is private. Part of my private.

Coroner: I can write a book on hand moisturizer. Nobody wants the last thing they touch with to be ashy and dry.

Chuck: You won’t even know I’m here
Emerson: Cause you’re leaving?
Chuck: No…
Ned: C’mon it makes her happy….
Emerson: You remember what that happiness looks like.

Ned: Why are you still talking!
Emerson: I’m ripping off the band-aid!
Ned: I’m not a ripper, I pull up the corner a little a time and then I run it under warm water and then I pull up even more…it’s a process.
Emerson: Let it rip!

Alfredo: You seem decidedly unhappy
Olive: I didn’t “decided” that

Emerson: That was a business associate of mine, who do you think hooked us up with Corpse Bride?

Emerson: Whatever you say, Killer.

Ned: I’m sorry for what I did, it was mostly an accident, but partially on purpose.

Lawrence: Lonely tourist Charlotte Charles, are you part of my welcoming committee?
Chuck: More like a beneficiary in that I am still alive and you’re not.

Ned: It wasn’t personal. I didn’t pick you but it didn’t help that you were in the room.

Chuck: You stole that off my dead body?
Lawrence: Your dead body wasn’t doing anything with it.

Emerson: Anybody dead back there that shouldn’t be?
Ned: No
Emerson: Sweet.

Ned: Lewis Schaltz is a big fat liar. And I say fat in reference to his size as a liar and not as judgment to his physical appearance.

Emerson: I’m not a pirate, I’m just looking for treasure.

Olive: Beaver boy is a pie-maker? Who was Charlotte’s sweetheart…your niece? Lonely tourist Charlotte Charles? Who is dead? Presently?

Chuck: Mind over matter makes Pooh unfatter!
Emerson: I may be stuck, but I can still reach my gun.

Ned: I wanted to be a Jedi.

For a complete recap of the episode, The Fun In The Funeral, check this post.

Ooh, so much goodness! I can’t even begin to say what I liked best about last night’s episode. Pushing Daisies just keeps getting better, isn’t it?

This week, Ned is faced with the one thing he’s afraid Chuck would learn — that in order for Chuck to remain alive, someone else has to die and take her place. Inevitably though, as Chuck continues to seek answers, Ned has to own it up and tell her the truth. And this revelation was to take place in the funeral home where Chuck’s body was laid, right before Ned and Emerson found her.

The timing could have never been more wrong. Just as Chuck and Ned’s relationship begins to develop into something so close (that they would actually need a saran sheet for that!), Emerson arrives at The Pie Hole and propositions Ned with a new business. But it isn’t the type of murder investigation that would appease Ned. For the mystery surrounding the dead he is supposed to revive is something directly related to him.

Lawrence Schatz was someone Ned “accidentally and involuntarily” killed when he revived Chuck. His mysterious death was identified as a heart attack and only Ned and Emerson know what the real deal is. Now, Lawrence’s twin brother Lewis wants to know if the death was, in fact, murder, for fear that the killer may also be after him. Why is this so? Well, the brothers own a funeral home in Coeur de Coeur, and as it turns out, Lawrence was robbing the dead of whatever valuables they were wearing at the time. When the town folks got wind of this, the mails from bereaved relatives started pouring in and Lewis was at the receiving end of it, dealing with all their angry clients.

Seeing Lawrence inside the coffin made Ned very agitated that he refuses to wake him up. It was at this point that Chuck learned the truth of the circumstances surrounding her rebirth:

“I didn’t actively kill. I’m not an active killer. I’m not a killer. ”
“It wasn’t my fault. It’s a random proximity thing. There was no choice or decision making whatsoever. It just happened…I was incapacitated with not being able to think.”

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From the beginning, Bryan Fuller did not deny the fact that he was a fan of the movie, Amelie. In fact, in one interview with the NY Post, he mentions that it was his favorite film and it may have had a big influence in creating Pushing Daisies. For most people who have seen both the movie and this quirky TV series, the similarities are uncanny and cannot be ignored. But how much of the show is like Amelie, really…other thanthe delighful story-telling, the stunning visuals and the whimsical background music? Let us count the ways:

1. The similarities in these shots below, which leads to the manner in which these characters were introduced.  Both characters are holding something beside their faces, looking quite charming in front of the camera.

Image A vs. Image B

2. The similarities between Amelie and Pushing Daisies’ Chuck. Aside from the fact that both carry the same fashion style, Chuck and Amelie spent a chunk of their their childhood living in seclusion and caring for older, weirder relatives. Both depended on books to see through their education, of learning the world outside them. Both also long to be able to step away from isolation and travel to other places. Both also appear to be very child-like, or hardly jaded from the complications of life.

3. The similarities between Amelie and Pushing Daisies’ Ned. For one thing, both characters witnessed the death of their mother(s).  For another thing, both had an epiphany of sorts, which led them to situations that would forever change their lives. In Amelie’s case it was in finding a box that will eventually lead her to her soulmatel; while Ned is led to Chuck, his soulmate, by following the news of woman’s murder on television.   Additionally, both are working in a similar environment — Amelie is a waitress in a diner or pastry shop, while Ned runs a pastry shop himself - The Pie Maker. 

Can you spot other similarities between the two?

Although I enjoy both productions and find the similarities beneficial to Pushing Daisies, eventually, I am hoping Pushing Daisies to ease away from the comparisons and become its own original success.

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It would seem like Olive’s musical number from last week’s episode is really just the icing on the cake. If that particular scene brings a certain theater feel to the show, that may not be all you’ll see from Pushing Daisies. The show’s producers could be pushing for more of these “theatrics”. 

Here are the facts…(to borrow a line from Jim Dale)

Aside from Kristin Chenoweth (who plays Olive), there’s another theater actress among the cast members. One of Chuck’s odd aunties, Aunt Lily is played by Tony winner Swoosie Kurtz. Some viewers have missed her presence from last week but there will be more of her in the upcoming episodes.  And just recently, another theater actor, Raul Espera, is reported to be joining Pushing Daisies in a guest starring role.

Producers are not closing its doors on (another) musical episode. And even supporting cast like Chi McBride have expressed he would sing, if it’s needed.

Read the complete article here.

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Tomorrow’s third episode is written by Bryan Fuller and has a special guest star — it’s Kristin Dos Santos of Watch with Kristin, from E! She is, of course, a big, big fan of the show.

Episode Title: The Fun In The Funeral
Episode Summary: Another strange death at the Schatz Funeral Home leads Ned back to the scene where he brought Chuck back to life. Meanwhile, Olive unwittingly becomes the messenger in Chuck’s plan to bring a little sunshine into the lives of Aunts Lily and Vivian via some anti-depressant laced pies, on Pushing Daisies.

It would appear that Chuck still doesn’t know about the third rule to Ned’s powers, in that, when he fails to bring the dead person back to, well, being dead…another life is claimed to replace it. There goes the secret Ned is so afraid Chuck might find out. Eventually, Chuck could learn the truth about her father.

Here’s the video teaser for tomorrow night’s show:

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Ratings update: Last week’s episode, Dummy, earned about 10 Million viewers for Pushing Daisies. While the show experienced a 20% drop in viewership, it still leads in its key demographics, the 18-34 viewers. Here was the standing from last week:

1. “Criminal Minds” (CBS) 14.47m
2. “CSI: NY” (CBS) 13.31m
3. “Deal or No Deal” (NBC) 12.49m
4. “Private Practice” (ABC) 12.21m
5. “Bionic Woman” (NBC) 10.10m
6. “Pushing Daisies” (ABC) 10.07m
7. “Dirty Sexy Money” (ABC) 8.86m
8. “Life” (NBC) 8.14m
9. “Kid Nation” (CBS) 7.01m
10. “Back to You” (FOX) 6.55m
11. “Til Death” (FOX) 6.48m
12. “Kitchen Nightmares” (FOX) 6.45m
13. “America’s Next Top Model” (CW) 5.29m
14. “Gossip Girl” (CW) 2.87m

Reactions to the episode, Dummy:

• TV Squad is slightly worried for Pushing Daisies.
• G-News thinks it was a great episode.
• Give Me My Remote can’t begin to say where all the love is coming from.
• Jump The Shark did not like all the singing that much.
• EW still thinks the show is dandy.
• TV Guide’s Matt Roush, who I know to be one of the first TV critics pushing for the daisies, grows to love it more after the second episode.

Casting News: Some changes are taking place at Pushing Daisies. Broadway star Raul Esparza guest stars on Pushing Daisies to play the role of Alfredo Aldarisio, the travelling saleman. It was a role originally intended for Paul Reubens (PeeWee Herman) but reports now say, Reubens will  still be in the show and will play a different character who might be on to Chuck’s stinking secret.

Recaps from ABC: If you head on to the official Pushing Daisies site, you will see that recaps provided for the show are done via comic strips. Which is yet another different way of presenting the series. It so lives up to its quirkiness!

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Pushing Daises delivered another fantastic episode last Wednesday night. And as promised, here’s a rundown of some of the lines and dialogues from it, plus one lovely video clip with Olive, singing “Hopelessly Devoted To You” for Ned:

Chuck: How many people have you brought back to life?
Ned: It’s not like I walk around reviving childhood sweethearts.

Ned: Chuck, you’re the only human being I’ve ever made alive again to stay.
Narrator: He lied.

Olive: There’s a surprising lack of physical contact!

Emerson: I know nothing about her excpet she has soft lips when she was ten.

Chuck: So I really have to sit in the back from now on?
Ned: It’s for your own safety.
Chuck: You sound like my dad.
Ned: If my hand brushes yours, you’d be dead.
Chuck: He didn’t say that.

Chuck: Do you have any request, unfinished business from this life we could help you with?
Emerson: Don’t let her do this!
Bernard the dead: Is this heaven?
Chuck: It could be…
Emerson: No, it’s not.
Bernard the dead: Is that God?
Ned: No, it’s not.
Bernard the dead: Good, because I’m Buddhist!

Emerson: I’m not God but I was, I’d be an angry god.

Emerson: It’s a dead end, and not the kind of dead end you can undead and redead again.

Olive: Who is the funny girl stuck to Ned?
Emerson: Childhood sweetheart…
Olive: Still sweet? His heart?
Emerson: You wan’t the truth
[Olive thinks and nods]
Emerson: He digs her in a way that he definitely does not dig you.

Chuck to Ned: Don’t you have any hidden talents or hobbies, I mean regular ones?

Olive sings Hopelessly Devoted To You

For a complete recap of the episode, Dummy, check this post.

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Dummy opens with a flash back from when Ned was still a youngster in boarding school. This was after her mother’s death and at the time Ned was abandoned by his father. Here, Ned is slowly coming to understand the important things about his abilities. And these would be, as follows:

a. First touch life
b. Second touch death
c. Allowing someone else or something else to live for more than one minute, and someone else will take its place.

The power he possesses was both amusing and distressing for Ned.

This was also the time in his life when Ned didn’t have any close relationships and therefore, he had no one to tell his secrets to. But keeping secrets was never exactly a problem.

Until nineteen years later, when Ned is reunited with Chuck, his childhood sweetheart.

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