Last week, we saw Chuck and Ned just about to dig up Chuck’s dead father. And we start this week with them doing the deed. NO, not that deed, the deed that was previously mentioned – digging up the dead dad.
They exhume him, and though it’s been 20 years, he doesn’t look bad. He tells them that Dwight Dixon is a bad guy, but if they give him the watch, it’ll all be okay. Ned leaves Chuck to have a few words wither her dearly departed daddy, and she pulls a fast one on him. Her dad puts on her glove, and when Ned touches him he doesn’t go back to being dead. They re-bury him, and Chuck comes back later to dig him up.
The next morning, Chuck wakes up and somehow quietly slides out of Ned’s plastic wrapped embrace. He senses something is up, but she won’t divulge anything until later in the day. He heads off to a cooking contest with Olive, and Chuck heads off to her childhood home. She’s keeping her dad there, and as she wraps him up in bandages, she tells him there are no consequences - but we know better.
Chuck knows better too, and she goes to Emerson’s to get some advice. He is of course, livid, but handles it fairly well. They realize someone in the cemetery must be lying there dead, and decide they’ve got to take care of it.
Chuck has visions of a little old lady who couldn’t sleep and was visiting her husband’s grave. Well, thankfully, that wasn’t the case. The dead body they do find is none other than, hold on to your hats, Dwight Dixon! I know, I couldn’t believe it either. It’s like a Christmas present, all wrapped up and waiting under the tree!
Emerson and Chuck work quickly to bury the evidence – though I guess there wasn’t any real crime. It was in fact a very fortunate event, because Dwight was there with a rifle aimed right at Chuck & Ned whilst they were digging up Charles Charles. So, by Chuck keeping her dad alive, she saved both her and Ned’s lives. No harm done, right? Well, that’s true, but poor Aunt Vivian is distraught over what she perceives as a slight from her sweetheart. She later finds out Lily threatened him, but neither of them know that Dwight is dead as a doornail.
Over at the Comfort Foods contest, Ned and Olive scope out the competition. The main competition consists of a Colonel Sanders wannabe and the Buffalo (an older lady who bakes muffins). The colonel ends up dead, and since he fell into the deep fryer, everyone assumes it’s a heart attack. Ned wakes him to get his secret recipe for the widow, but the dead guy tells Ned he was pushed. Ned and Olive finally get the chance to prove that they are just as integral to the regular crime solving activity.
After some investigating, they realize it was the new Comfort Food Coordinator – who gained an enormous amount of weight because he became addicted to the fried chicken cooked up at the Colonel Sanders wannabe’s restaurant.
But all is not lost for Ned and Olive, as Olive races the muffin lady to the judges table to get their chilled lemon pie on the table before time is up. The win first place, and Olive realizes she still loves Ned, and breaks into the Bangles Eternal Flame and she sounds freaking awesome.
Ned realizes Chuck is not at the Pie Hole like she should be, and races off to find her. He checks out her Aunt’s house and she’s nowhere to be found. He goes to her old house, expecting to find her being held by Dwight Dixon. He instead finds her with her supposedly dead daddy, but you’ve got to tune in next week to find out what is going to happen next!
