Given Pushing Daisies' highly elaborate narrative mechanics and fanciful storyworld, the omniscient narrator's storybook style, reinforced by the intertextual link to Harry Potter, functions both to manage memories and promote a self- conscious playful tone. .... Creators have devised a number of strategies for avoiding such recap spoilers. One option is the use of diegetic flashbacks to serve as embedded recaps for viewers in the moment of the surprise itself. ...
