My favorite new show of last year, Pushing Daisies, returns tonight. My friend promised she’d have a Pushing Daisies Premiere Party, complete with three different kinds of pie. I suggest you do the same. Not just watch the show, I mean, but find a friend that will bake you pies. This will be helpful to you in ways that have nothing to do with television.

Anyway, according to The Pie Maker, tonight’s episode finds Chuck going undercover in a honey-based cosmetics company. In the kooky world of Pushing Daisies, I expect that everyone working for said company will either be: a) wearing a beehive or, b) dressed up like the girl from the Blind Melon video. Either way, I can’t wait.

In keeping with the pie theme, and to get you all as excited as I am for the show’s return, I present to you the Pushing Daisies recipe for great TV:

2 parts adorable stars
Lee Pace and Anna Friel succeed in melting my heart every week. Add in Kristen Chenoweth and Chi McBride, and even Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene, and you have a cast that kind of makes me want to pinch their collective cheek.

3 parts pretty colors
Let’s face it: Most TV is…drab. Finally, this one offers up a little visual stimulation. The color palette is basically the show’s sixth star and helps create the ultra-cool half-reality, half-fantasy world that Pushing Daisies lives in. What would Coeur d’Coeurs be without all those bright sunflowers?

1 part brand new shiny Emmy
Barry Sonnenfeld won a directing Emmy for the show’s “pie-lette.” I personally watched the pilot about six times—forcing anyone within reach to watch it with me—so this really feels like a personal triumph.

1 dash of happiness, love
For some reason, most of my favorite shows try, at least a little, to make me sad. (I’m looking at you, The Office.) Even though Pushing Daisies is all about death, and some of the poor victims meet their ends gruesomely, I don’t think the show is out to depress me. I think the reaction they’re really going after is: “Aww.” And, every week, I’m more than happy to oblige.

That’s it, folks. Pushing Daisies is on tonight, 8:00, on ABC. Don’t forget the ice cream.

We’re going to State!

Y’ALL. Can you feel it? I can. I am so damn excited. Because Friday Night Lights is back tonight. Finally! After one of the most brilliant first seasons on television (up there with M*A*S*H, Veronica Mars, Sports Night, and Firefly, in my opinion) and a strike-shortened, ratings-begging, plot contrivance–laden second season, the most realistic depiction of teenage, small town, and family life ever put on television is back, thank the TV gods.

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